I wonder how many of the misfits and generally lazy types, whose class background had afforded them literacy and punctuation skills, knew that their attempt to establish fixed rates of minimum pay & guarantee same would in less than a hundred years have given rise to a legion of specialised private colleges, university departments, newspaper traineeships for those who don't belong to the wrong political association, exclusive membership cards &c.

When you cut and pasted the introduction Tony, did you forget to remove the words "where you are now" which seem to suggest the reader of indymedia is in fact on the website of the NUJ? Or was that your idea of a joke? I suppose with asperity that journalism is not the worst of the dismal professions nor the NUJ the most scurrilous of trade unions. Equity and the guild of actors must surely rate worse. Afterall Equity never boycotted Israeli goods nor gave up its boycott after accusations of theatrical bias.