Извне set for What is certain, however, assurances ana protestations by management that the Daily Mirror's traditional support for the movement will be maintained The Stock Exchange is no respecter of such empty promises.
Many of those inside the labour movement do not think much of the Mirror's brand of support as it 1s. Nonetheless, if the Mirror goes the way of the Sun, Express, Mail etc., ( Labour Party will find the next general election even harder to fight. The Mirror's commitment to socialism has, in recent years, worn a bit thin, but it was EAN SWEEP is that important politically.
Reed Society laid by press freedom will not benefit. the casting Freedom's challenge the myth that Never. partly CUsIs, PARTLY BECAUSE of the immense variety of its products and because of its geographical spread, printing is an extremely diverse industry. All but the smallest community in Britain has a printer of some sort to service its needs.
At the same time, specialised sectors of the trade - tradititionally based in the larger cities - have found improved freight transport and other communications, as well as rising city property and labour an important impetus to move out.
Since the war, a large section of printing production has steadily moved away from central London in parwhile new centres of printing have grown throughout the rest of the country. Nowadays, there are specialised magazine printers in Inverness and Carlisle, book printers in Worcester and Exeter, colour printers in Norwich and typesetters in Elgin - all of whom can run an office in London, an express freight service and can benefit from substantially lower wage rates than the metropolitan centres.
Despite its diversity, however, the wide printing industry remains dominated by a relatively small number of large groups and companies. large, manufacturing printers which account for the lion's share of turnover, output and employment.
Over 50 per cent of companies still have less than although they make up a large part of what most people would recognise as the printing trade, they in fact only employ per covered by the Printing and Publishing Industries Training Board.
The 80 largest establishments, the other hand, employ nearly one third of the entire industry workforce. The vast number of small printshops is therefore dwarfed manufacturing printers who specialise in cornflake packets, colour magazines. The Sunday Times colour supplement and the TV Times, for example, are printed by the British Printing and poration in half a dozen plants spread around the country together worth £17 million a year.
And it is the employees, but cent of all workers . On by the huge paperbacks or Communications CorMarshall's Published *The printin changing giants' is from Alan the Word by Comedia, Street. London W1. (£3.50).
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