Journalists in the North-East have exposed a case of press censorslip Tania recently spoke at a public meeting in South Shiels on the confron THOU ECLACCAC MINCES ARETTE SAI crument. He drew an audience of 40-a reascinable attendance for u Saturday afternoon, particularly as the local heanch of the National Union of MineWorkeEs occico to boycot te meetng In his address, Tariy mentioned the bias of the capitatist press, and his words A reporter covered the meeting for the Shields Gazette, the local evening paper. For the Monday adition he wrote a TUTE SEOUL COUT HALES Bat Gazette editor Janses Senton was shown the story, and he decided that it This did not come to light until the shortened report appeared in the paper.
Shields branch of the National Union of Journalists took prompt action, Ata branch meeting, mensbers unanimously carried a motion condemning the hand Incedom, and insisting that nows should not be suppressed for purely political Sinton was turious wben he roocived the hranch's letter of protest. His toply said, among other things, that be thought that he would not allow the Steids Gazerte to be used as a platform for either revalutionaries ar rocists. The Shieids Gazette has sinen dovoled considurably more than three paragraphs to the election campeign of the National Front candidate for South Shields The NUJ branch neets apan this week, and will be deciding what further The Shields journalists have struck an important blow against anil-socialist bias in Lhe press, Socialist journalists every where must fight and expost similar cases or olas partoulans m carinals taey could do worse than Tollow the example of' a group of NUf memhers on the Newcossle Joumal, who have dissocialed tbomsclees in the Journal'y letter page from a series of miners-bashing oditorisd in the paper.