Free press
Sir: Your readers may like to know that the option on the printing works which was the subject of our double-spread advertisement in your pages last week has been taken up.
Sufficient funds have been received from your readers and from a direct mail campaign to enable the freehold, works and newspaper printing plant to be purchased. We have not yet received enough money to carry out our plan in full, which includes publication of a regular newspaper, but we are well on our way.
This means that we are already in a position to print and distribute 100,000 copies a day of a news-sheet in the event of a lockout or strike in Fleet Street. Within three months the daily total can be raised to over two million.
The Spectator is the only publication which has so far had the courage to risk the wrath of the unions by printing our advertisement. Our list of rejections reads like a directory of the national press. Ross Mc Whirter Chairman, Current Affairs Press, 21 Montagu Street, London W I
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