The National Union of Journalists has finally begun to come to grips with press freedom. he longest applause at the union's annual conference last month was for a delegate trom barnsley, where the local branch has been subjected to the venom or the mass meana for requesting trade unionists not to speak to non-union journalists.
While Journalists Charter, the ISdominated rank-and-file grouping in the NUJ. has been at pains to argue that the battle for a closed shop has nothing whatever to do with press treedom, dele gates were left in no doubt that any journalist appealing to the labour movement for assistance has to reckon with ine contempt in waica murants nold the media. Council, while a number or delegates argued for the total abolition of the Council.
was also narrowiv carried on a card vote The urgent need for the issue of the the response of the conference to a red-baiting report of its proceedings in the Daily Telegraph. Ovation for Barnsley delegate Phil Williams after his denunciation of media bias A resolution originally put forward by IMG members, instructing the NUJ executive to initiate a labour movement conference on press freedom within six months, tortion.
ownership, control, and access to the mass media to be brought into the broad arena of the working class was demonstrated by mass media.
The executive was told to demand a