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nousands workers telecommunications industry the march in London on Monday National strike action organised by Electrical, Electronic, communicanons and Union won the support of engineerine Traitor a General orkers Transport inev were orotes no acainstine unreatened loss of anytning up to 20,000 jobs in the industry cutbacks in Post Office orders to the industry.
Action against job loss will in the tuture naveto contront ine milliar. support of Frank Chapple Contract by demanding ICIE Plumoine ELECTRICAL Workers 'Against LETP STOP PRESS BRANCH ON 17 FEBRUARY the TUC is hold- Ism ino a conterence on trace union anathe medie to ciscuss means o improving coverage on union and has come about as a result of a resolution initiated by the IMG and •carried vears Union of Journalists denied. called for a labour comerence on freedom. Needless to sav. the TUC mean meeting of union executives and officials, together with industrial press freedom.
In spite of this, the hostility that • mecia aral levels of the movement can be expected to surface at the conference powers. But it is not enough to deplore the voumansts unarter and the IMG are therefore handing out the following leaflet at the TUC press freedom in Britain presently exists as anything other than the The NUJ fiefdom of media's proprietors, managers and editorial standpoint cised in the a narrow political trades media bosses are expected determined to maintain the status encouraged, quo. They exercise their 'freedom' and wherever possible fairly derail any policies or actions that could mean a shift towards socialThat the proprietors, managers and editors consider that their press freedom is less than secure is for wider access to the mass evidenced by their alarm over the media, the dictates of capitalis journalists' post-entry closed shop, financing now threaten even the and the action taken Dy print workers when their right of reply is We believe that certain positive stead being used to axe jobs in steps can be taken now to break the stranglehold of the media bosses, and begin to establish real The National Union of Jour nalists' Code of Conduct provides ValuaDe standaros Tor DreSS frCO dom, and is backed by disciplinary indictment of much that appears in the mass media. and NUJ mem bers are now beginning to insist that it is collectively implemented relation to will need the full support of the labour movement if this is to be achieved. The Code should therefore be widely publimovement, so that OYCI UNIONISE KHOV Wild them of journalists, and are de -TO examole. mand a right of reply when un SUCH Councils should be en couraged to hold meetings with journalists to discuss the Code and its implementation.
While there is a growing demand present limited range of products. New technology, which can potenSauv ennance orecuedon - order to boost pronts The labour movement should demand and fight for full protecTion tortoos and condons I luc media industry, and the creation of new publications for use by the movement and the community. A mass labour movement daily paper is a priority. Any company which requirements should be nationalised compensation and placed under workers control.
The fourth TV channel should be placed at the full disposal of the All legal resMaDour movemenE trictions on establishing radio and TV stations should be immediately abolished. In Italy, for example, hundred local radio LWU stations are in operation, many of jointly by organisations with mass audiences.
British against air "piracy serve only to enforce the existing rigid monopoly and con trol of the mass media.
A socialist conception of press freedom holds as central the use of the media as a forum for debate. Trade union journalists should provide a model for this. COITOTS of these journals should regularly elected so that -COLEON policies are not constrained by any bureaucratic interests."
STEMSONUS CODC OF * A joumalist shall at all times defend the principle of the freedom or ine Press ane oiner mecia in relation to une conection or inorator and the expression of criticism.
OH, TOWS censor A journalist shall strive to ensur information he/she nates is fair and accurate, avoid the ex established fact and fasification b any harmful inaccuracies, receiv * A journalist shall not lend himself/ herselt to the distorion or suppression or the truin because or aavenising o orner considerations journalist originate material which encourages discrimina
The Arbitration, Conciliation and Advisory Service The whole trade union movement knows that workers
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