JNF-The-Working-Class-Struggle-of-Half-a-Century

President wrote, The issues are too grave and there is too much at stake
for the community’s welfare for us to allow any misrepresentation of the
particulars of that evidence.
From the Labour section of the press, that paper was described
A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The labour paper commented, The behaviour
of our contemporary almost took our breath away and we are
ashamed of its connection as a section of the Presidency’s Press.
After it was run to earth, the wolf discontinued its misleading coverage
of the League’s interview. It was in a tight corner. The next day it
made the following excuse for stopping the report, In the first place it
(the Report) is much too long and in the second place very little information
of value was elicited from the questions asked. But the reading
public was not long confused nor indeed discouraged. The play and
counter-play revealed in the hodge-podge of words gave fresh stimulus
to a careful analysis of the material one read in the newspapers. The
power of the press increased as individual and public issues were
brought into sharp conflict; as policies were attacked and defended; and
as people got a clearer picture of the bold steps and sacrifices necessary
for the advancement of the national interests. In the local sphere the
press warfare of past years was waged between the St. Kitts-Nevis Daily
Bulletin which ran from 1914 to 1967 and the labour paper The Union
Messenger which was published during the period 1921 to 1961.
The Royal Commission in their report included guidelines
which hold good for all times, it is clear that the influence of the press
is an important potential factor for good or evil in any community and
that therefore a heavy responsibility falls upon the editors of various
newspapers.. It is all the more important therefore that the value of restraint
and moderation should be fully appreciated by those responsible
for the conduct of the Press in all these territories, both large and small
alike.
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