THE EMPIRE'S PRESS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 74, 30 March 1910, Page 4

THE EMPIRE'S PRESS.

A UNION KSTABLISHED. Ono -solid result of lust year's Imperial Press Conference is the establishment of a permanent federation designed to keen the principal newspaper units of the Empire in close, sympathetic touch with one another. The delegates gave much time and thought to the framing of a constitution, and now th^ Kmpire Press Union is in definite existence, "signed, sealed, nnd delivered"' to the world at larj^e. The chief objects are: -~(a) The promotion of the interests of the newspaper press and those connected with tho publication of .news and newspapers, and to represent, <evcpress, and give effect to the opinions ot tie members of the union on all questions which affect the newspaper p.Ta» throughout the British Kmpire. (b) To promote the holding of confer* encei of members of the union, (c) To facility* the exchange of experiences and of tnions amongst newspapers within the .Kmpire with a view to the general imf\*ovement and efficiency of telegraphic <\->mmunication and news supplies, and} the cheapening of the rates for earryi*V? nnt * distributing such information «id generally in every way to promote, .support, or oppose legislative or other .measures nffectiiiK or likely to affect tl.* aforesaid interests." A member a&y be a person, incorporated firm, or company, but no incorporated linn or .^.-sociation is permitted, to be n member U' its associated char- 1 acter. 'he inrn^srship is nominally limited to propriettV*< out they have the option of nominal f -ing a representative to net for them. The management i% vested in the present .treasurer, and honorary secretary of th« union, and a council consisting «"f Jot fewer than six nor more than t\ 7 enty elected mcmbeis and -iot more ts,' in » twenty deputy members. The execuv ' v^ officers for the present pre : — PresidA 't. Lord Burnhnm (Daily Telegraph) ; treasurer, Lord Xorthciiffe ; secretary, Mr. Harry K. Hrittnin ; council, Kir Jobn Arnott, Sir George Riddell, the H»»H. L. W. Lawaon, Jlcssis. C An hur Pearson (chairman), Moberly Fk'H. Robert Donnld, Kennedy Jones, ('. 1^Leng, Erneat Parke, C. *P. Scott, J. J>, Spender. Members of the union resident out of Europe may be authorised to form themselves into sections, elect commit- ' tees, and nominate not more than twenty members to be deputy members of the i council. Questions at general meetings aro to i bo determined by a majority of tho 1 member* present, unless a poll of the union is demanded by une-fourth of 1 those present in person or by proxy, j The poll will be taken by means of I vaiing papers bent by post to all mem- ; bcrs entitled to voto.