London's Labor Daily.

NZ Truth, Issue 352, 23 March 1912, Page 8

London's Labor Daily.

Plans have been practically completed to start a Labor daily newspaper ■ m London. I heard on excellent authority this week that it will be a halfpenny paper, with .the title of the "Daily Citizen." Ramsay Mac Donald will be chairman. of directors. „ ' The . new ijaper .will . be launched under :ho i ' auspices of a joint committee of Jio • Labor Party and ' the Independent. : Labor Party, and the capital of " the. 'company will' he £156, i ;0.0O m £1 ; shares, payable by easy Instalments. The "Citizen" -will be a general, newspaper,, dealing not only with " Labor propaganda, but with every other ! n- j terest. If will have its foreign corres-. j pondents, who will concern.. themselves • specially. , with the democratic move l ments.. abnoad — so Australasia will at least have a chance .of contradicting Tthe ■■•<•:.' - '"" '.'" ! DREADFUL TORY LIES • i that- appear -m. "the: London press as: /"Australasian, news." The new veniture. ought to succeed now that English Laborites have at last begun to | awaken' to their potentialities, for j there, are nearly thr.ee million - trade I unionists in' 'England,. 'who should fu.- } j r.ish. a sufficient public for the paper | i trom the start. At present most, of i the British, workers take the "Daily j '.Mail," .which is hopelessly out -of touch 'with the Labor movement here.- 1 Blatchford moans that the British | worker won't support- a Labor paper, but .'the' "Clarion's"' weekly- effort can 'hardly 'be- classed as : a -Labor T paper. J.t. i is a special effort toT provide weak ! "CULTURE" FOR" THE MASSES," by linen svho know very' --little of the ; journalistic 'or ' 'writing trade. The "Citizen" .will be a nevvspaper m every . sense of the word, and ' England badly wants 'a' democratic newspaper. • Germany has 74 and Denmark 33 Labor i and Socialist organs." "