TOO NO, YOURNALISTS | IMGpapers 1976

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DAVID ROSS wields some power in the National Union of Journalists. A former father of the chapel at the Daily Express, he was recently elected chairperson of the union's Central adon branch, embracing practicall Fleet Street journalists. In the Street of Shame's bution to the upsurge in racism year, Ross paid a visit to a i of Book branch, in which ints are relatively as numerous right-wingers among Ross's La not a courtesy call. On the agenda proposed code of conduct comagainst Michael Cummings. His a viciously racist cartoon that had ed in the Sunday Express. Ross happens to be a contributor to The advised the branch, al executive will eventuals unhoes other of them. If the member is meetings. Country Hwers private fiefdoms of editorial control. The trade union journals, which do reach crude outhpieces for the bureaucracies, which such bikers democracy as open debates an fundamental absent. As it bappens the NUT B one of 3403UUA the few unions to regularly elect the editor or ill bourbal whose is achievemen was to secure the right to report executive Neither the TUC not the leaderships of the print unions have any stomach for rank and file action to deal with press lies distortion, or suppression. Such acbon t print workers on a dozen occasions in recent years has understandably petrified the press barons, who have demonstrated their love for press freedom by stoppin presses rather than allow a right o Neodless to say, print wockers are unde immense pressure to refrain from editorial intervention, and can he fined by their union for acting in breach of an agreement signed in the aftermath of th Geocral Strike. The strike had been super