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question of telling other managements what to do.

The managements of national newspapers are second to none for their own aggressive attacks on working class militancy and organisations.

In America, Rupert Murdoch-owner of the News of the World and the Sun-is in the forefront of the New York proprietors' bid to break the journalists' and print unions.

In Britain, the Times newspaper management is threatening to stop production and shut down from November 30 if the union leadership has not re-established control over the militant chapels of production workers.

This threat of an indefinite lockout is not aimed at any particular current Rather it is a promise to close down unless the chapels stop fighting on any issue.

This situation has been coming to head ever since the union leadership accepted and the union membership rejected management Rhodesia, and now head of the Fleet Street employers' organisation, was reported in the Daily Mail as saying:

"a British institution was in danger because management had rightly decided that they could not continue to publish in the anarchic jungle which Fleet Street had become."

The report-clearly published for its special message to print workers rather than its 'interest' for readers-continued:

"Sir Richard said that he had no doubt that the Times management was not threatening and had every intention of closing both their newspapers unless employees work normally."

Sir Denis Hamilton, chairman of Times Newspapers-speaking appropriately enough to the notorious scab organisation the Institute of Journalistssaid he was confident 'his' papers would soon be in 'sparkling profitable form".

«But if the majority allow the minority to continue the insanity that goes on virtually every night, the verdict of the court and coroner must be one of suicide."

Even if it is Sir Denis who will be pulling the trigger.

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For Fleet Street, class warfare is never just a