By Patrick Spilling

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work. For some reason not immediately apparent, the historic meeting of the Newspaper Publishers Association.

There with our friends and colleagues who publish the other daily purveyors of information, we took a solemn and binding promise that we would stand together until the end.

All for one and one for all.

Principle It is a fundamental principle of being a newspaper owner that in the name of free competition we all stand together. And fight together. An injury to one is an injury to all. We also planned what action to take against other It is true those other unions are not directly involved. But in this game you have got to get your retaliation in first. We decided that if the NGA would not sign our fair and reasonable terms, we would have no option but to sack all union members.

Suggestions that this is secondary action on the part of the employers are mischievous and misleading.

At 4.00pm this afternoon, with our historic agreement in our pockets we proprietors prepared to face up to the wreckers.

We called in the NGẠ ials. We showed them terms.

The father of the composing room chapel replied to our reason with verbal violence. He offered to insert our statement into one of our bodily orifices.

WE DID NOT GIVE IN TO SUCH THREATS!

We told the NGA men that since they had not signed, they were sacked.

At 5.30pm, as we were watering the Judas plant in the corner of our seventh storey suite of offices, a ghastly message greeted us.

The Daily Mail was to print.

Glum news

At 5.35pm more messages of similar glum news. The Telegraph was rolling. The Financial Times was preparing to print.

Messengers were sent out. Their return confirmed our worst fears.

THEY HAD GIVEN IN TO BLACKMAIL.

This newspaper was prepared to stand alone. Then our advertising manager appeared in my office. He said that a rep from the Mail had asked him to send over all our ads scheduled for the edition, since all the firms had transferred to the competition.

In this game there optional form of words.

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