I CREDITED World's Press News with being the first to
report that during the ink dispute the national newspapers were allowed by the unions to get their ink from abroad—though the unions would not allow periodicals to be printed abroad, declaring them `black' if they did so. I now find that the Manchester Guardian gave the news earlier, with the additional information that Mr. Briginshaw, of NATSOPA, had gone to France to make the necessary arrangements himself. But this item of news, which I would have thought to be of some significance, was tucked away towards the end of a story on the printing dispute; and the Manchester Guardian did not, 1 think, make any editorial comment. The other national newspapers, so far as I know, made no reference to the facts at all. I would still be interested to know why.
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