"JIMMY SIMPSON"
James Simpson; who will speak at the Opera House tomorrow evening, is a man of many parts. Born m Lindal-ln-Furness, Lancashire, England, m 1873, James Simpson has been Municipal Editor of the Toronto Daily Star and Managing Director, of the Industrial Banner, Ontario's leading Labor paper. First VJce-President of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and secretary of the Ontario section of the Canadian Labor Party, Simpson was Canadian Labor delegate to the World's Congress of Labor men to consider peace terms at the end of the war, and also Canadian Labor Fraternal Delegate to Birmingham Convention British Trades Union Congress, 1916, and Boston Convention American Federation of Labor, ' 1903, Labor's representative on Canada's Royal Commission on Industrial Training and Technical Education, 1910-11, member Toronto Group of Canada's Committee on Reconstruction after the War, member of Joint Qommittee of one hundred ;that made Ontario "dry." Recently returned from two months' Prohibition campaign m England and Wales, having addressed Labor members of Parliament m British House of Commons, Simpson's credentials as a bona fide Labor man are beyond reproach.*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14738, 18 October 1918, Page 3
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