(When the Liberal leader Lloyd George was asked a question about the Herald he declared 'That paper is the limit.') Lansbury and Lapworth formed a new company, the Limit Printing and Publishing Company. In June 1913, the Daily Herald company was forced into liquidation. Sheridan Jones and finally Charles Lapworth held the position. After Seed was removed as editor, Rowland Kenney, the brother of Annie Kenney C. His brother Cecil and Hilaire Belloc were occasional contributors. Vance Palmer's poems were used on the front page. The editor of the Women's Page was Margaret Travers-Symons, and Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote for it. Ryan, Langdon Everard and George Slocombe. Early issues dealt with the loss of the RMS Titanic, emphasising the disproportionate loss of life among crew members and poor third-class passengers, and demonstrating the distinct perspective of the new paper. It also gave strong support to suffragettes and to anti-colonial struggles, especially in Ireland. Its politics were broadly syndicalist: it gave unconditional support to strikers and argued for a socialist revolution based on workers' self-organisation in trade unions. A key feature was Dyson's cartoons, which made a contribution to the paper's political tone. The first issue appeared on 15 April 1912, edited by William H. Readers and supporters formed local branches of the Daily Herald League, through which they had their say in the running of the paper. Retaining the strike sheet name they formed a Daily Herald company. Naylor of the LSC, George Lansbury, socialist politician, Robert Williams of the Transport Workers, W. The initial organising group included Tillett, T. At its peak it had daily sales of 25,000.īen Tillett, the dockers' leader, and other radical trade unionists were inspired to raise funds for a permanent labour movement daily, to compete with the newspapers that championed the two main political parties, the Liberals and Conservatives, but independent of the official Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress, which were planning a daily of their own (launched as the Daily Citizen in October 1912). From 25 January 1911 it was renamed the Daily Herald and was published until the end of the strike in April 1911. Will Dyson, an Australian artist in London, contributed a cartoon. In December 1910 the printers' union, the London Society of Compositors (LSC), became engaged in an industrial struggle to establish a 48-hour workweek and started a daily strike bulletin called The World. It underwent several changes of management before ceasing publication in 1964, when it was relaunched as The Sun, in its pre- Murdoch form. It was published in the interest of the labour movement and supported the Labour Party.

The Daily Herald was a British daily newspaper, published daily in London from 1912 to 1964 (although it was weekly during the First World War). The cover of the Daily Herald detailing the start of the Second World War

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