LABOUR PAPERS.

Grey River Argus, 12 July 1922, Page 8

LABOUR PAPERS.

AUSTRALIAN ENTERPRISE. ADELAIDE, July 1. Throughout Australia Labour is now working for a line of Labour daily papers. Here, for some lime, mainly owing to the apathy of Labour supporters, who support everything but their own paper, the Adelaide “Daily Herald," the Labour morning daily in the South Australian capital, has been having a hard spin. Workers did not help as well as they might. Lately an office advisory committee, formed by members of the various departments has been established to give the paper a helping hand along the rocking, uneven path, that stretches before it. This committee has issued a manifesto to the unionists of the State, appealing to them io give their own paper the assistance that it deserves. The committee announces that it was elected, with the consent of the board of directors, by all the \yorkers of the establishment. Its objective is to help the board tide over a severe crisis m the paper’s affairs, and to formulate plans for the reconstruction of “ The Daily Herald." “The committee is," declares the manifesto, “a group of workers who are endeavouring to show that the employees in an industry are capable of running that industry along business lines. It is a new departure, in line with modern Labour thought, but fraught with tremendous possibilities for the future of the workers.” The manifesto impresses upon unionists the need that they should deal only ■with firms and people who advertised in its columns. “You coinplain,” it rebukes the unionists, “that the ‘Daily Herald’ does not give you the same amount of news as the capitalist papers do. If that is so (although we claim that the news in the ‘.Herald’ is ot more value to workers than that in the capitalist press) it is entirely your own fault. It is in yoivjkower to make dr mar your own ]lapeiiJH If you had done your duty by it—i u had bought it —it would have becfi in a position to employ a full staff, and to obtain the best State and intcr-State news services." - AIDING THE ENEMY. The manifesto continues that the average unionist would scorn to take another’s job if that other were on strike, but he is prone to forget that, by buying a capitalist paper, when a a..-vbour one is available, he is aiahi.-, and abetting his enemies. “A Labour paper is terribly handicapped in a capitalist state of society. The manifesto adds: As it must champion the workers in season and out, its policy must at times run counter to its advertisers. There is one, and only one, way of meeting this contingency, and that is by enlarging circulation. A largo circulation moans big advertising revenue, and revenue is the life blood of a newspaper. It •enables large staffs to be employed, and this is essential in producing an up-to-date journal. The signatories to the manifesto are F. L. Mcllwraith (chairman), literary and reading staffs; E. Sullivan, commercial; J. G. Lowe, composing; JPlunkett, jobbing; H. R. Hochuli, publishing; and C. Hampton, printing and stereo.