LONDON STRIKE PAPERS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4993, 28 June 1926, Page 3

LONDON STRIKE PAPERS

JOURNALISTIC CURIOSITIES.

DAILY MAIL A TYPED LEAFLET.

By the English mail that arrived on Monday copies of London’s “striketime” papers came to hand. These issues are curiosities in the history of journalism, for there are few happenings in the world which prevent a daily newspaper of established reputation from being published with the regularity of the rising and setting of the sun.

One of the most interesting of the collection is the “Daily Ma.il” of May 6, a single sheet 20in by 14in, printed in typewriter type on both sides. This records the progress of the strike, incidents in the city (including riots in the East End a.nd oh the East India Dock Road), stock and share market reports, and a few telegraphed messages.

The “Daily Telegraph,” usually a 24 to 32-page. paper, appeared on May 7 as a one-sheet lea.flet Bin square.

On May 14 the “Daily Mail” was still a one-sheet journal, but it was neatly set and well printed on good paper. The issue contained a column of opinions from the various countries of the. world, including overseas Dominions, on the strike. Of historic interest is “The British Gazette,” a large faur-page paper "Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office.” The title is flanked on each side by the British coat-of-arms, and is surmounted by the. catch-line “Please Pass On the Copy or Display it.” It consists a.lmost wholly of strike news, relieved with ,a limited amount of foreign news. On May 11 it boasted a circulation of a million, contained no advertisements, and was sold for one penny.