'Continuing scandal' of

Workers Press no. 818, 15 July 1972 · scan page 4

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Press exclusion from press INDUSTRIAL reporter of the Communist Party's 'Morning Star', Mick Costello, bears a major responsibility for the 'continuing scandal' of David Maude's exclusion from the Industrial Correspondents' Group.

us is stated by Royston Bull, the industrial correspondent of the 'Scotsman', in a letter in this week's 'New Statesman' Mr Bull is also chairman of the Central London branch of the National Union of Journalists.

s letter to the 'New Statesman' marks a further round in the drawn-out history of the correspondent's fight for membership of the group.

VO weeks ago the deputy editor of the 'New Statesman' Peter Paterson remarked in his column that the 'Morning Star' reporter 'helps keep him (David Maudel. out of the This drew an indignant letter from Mr Costello in which he claimed he was not obstructing the application.

Now Mr Bull has written a detailed account of Costello's role in the group over David Maude's proposed membership. He writes: "The letter from the "Morning Star's" industrial correspondent, Mick Costello, does not tell the whole truth, and what is left out is crucial. At no David Maude stage has Costello proposed in the committee, of which he is deputy chairman, that David Maude, the Workers Press correspondent, be admitted to the Labour and Industrial Correspondents' Group.

And in the absence of any posiive proposal, the committee as been able to spin this matter out in the most shameful way. 'As one of the few members of the committee with any claim to enlightened political views, Costello must bear a major responsibility for this continuing scandal, which has gone on now for nearly three years Since Maude's first application' do de wanware -WORKING CLASS = Come on lads. Gee up Ned