of Glasgow, with the printing handed over to an outside commercial printer because the Albion Street presses were no longer running. A small group of employees stood outside factories and stores at five o'clock every morning shaking tin cans and asking for donations, a situation that continued for six months until, needing to earn a living, workers began to leave, putting an end to Scotland's experiment in worker-controlled news production. Elder wrote on her Scottish National Party webpage: For six months, we held that building – technically, illegally. The old black glass Express building was worth millions. We were the first newspaper workers' co-operative and we worked for free for six months in the freezing and abandoned Albion Street plant, producing a rebel paper we wrote and sold ourselves on the streets. Throughout, I dreaded the day the phone would ring to tell us the police would be sent in to re-claim the building (then part owned by the Labour government and with a council interest also). A call came one day from the Lord Provost, Peter McCann, who was also chief magistrate. "Oh please don't send in the police. We can't risk violence. This is a peaceful work-in," I said before he had a chance to speak. "Police? We could – but we won't," replied McCann. "Councillors wouldn't do that to Glasgow folk who are protesting peacefully. I was just phoning to say I guess your work-in must be hungry since your canteen closed. So you've all to come round to the Corporation canteen, get a cheap dinner and say I sent you if there's any bother". Albion Street building The category-A listed building at 195 Albion Street was later used by the Glasgow Evening Times and, from July 1980, by The Glasgow Herald, whereupon it became known as the Herald building. The nine-storey building, built by Beaverbrook in 1937 and extended in 1955, was refurbished in 2004 at a cost of £25 million and turned into an apartment block housing 149 apartments. See also List of newspapers in Scotland Sources McKay, Ron & Barr, Brian. The Story of the Scottish Daily News. Canongate 1976, Slattery, Jon. "May 1975: Scotland daily launched", Press Gazette, 26 May 2005 Former SNP webpage of Dorothy-Grace Elder, cached by Google 23 January 2005, retrieved 27 March 2006. "The Herald Building: Flats could be front page news", Evening News, 23 November 2004 "The Herald