19 MARCH 1927, Page 3

• At a meeting of the Institute of Journalists and

the National Union of Journalists at Manchester last Saturday protests were made against the constant amalgamation of newspaper companies and the conse- quent dismissal of staffs. It was proposed that the Institute and the National Union should consider the advisability of joining forces, so that they might put up a common 'resistance 'instead of often disagreeing on less important matters as they do now. If resistance is to be successful, the matter must be looked at from the point of view of the 'public, and not solely from that of the threatened journalist. What is happening now is that policy is dictated to a great number of newspapers by Men who arc more eminent as financiers than as politicians or writers.