25 JANUARY 1975, Page 5

Scottish Daily News

Tne Scottish Daily News has joined the old Fischer Bendix plant in Liverpool in getting a grant from Mr Tony Benn's Department of Industry to start a workers' co-operative. They iLave taken over what was the old Scottish act,11Y Express which was losing heavily. °°ert Maxwell has promised them E100,000 —

though I am ready to go double or quits with the c-) he owes on a bet lost last February

When he failed to be returned for Buckingham, 11 the Scottish Daily News say they have received his E100,000 by the end of 1975. This Department of Industry aid will, of course, be utterly wasted, and blame will be ,aPPortioned in every direction except the right — the lifting of the necessity for a really

een sense of economy. Provided the subven LI i ,Ons n each case are no more than the amount

,°,1 the tab that would have been picked up by tTe state in unemployment relief, the failure of an exPeriments should at least show that they ould not be tried again becaue they restrain Tarket correctives. Meanwhile consumer ilitrable makers might consider sub-contract

l their press work to Liverpool — eY "should get a nice deal from a business whose chief objective does not appear to be profit.