      the daily herald was a british daily newspaper, published in london from 1912 to 1964 (although it was weekly during the first world war). it ceased publication when it was relaunched as the sun in its original and brief pre-murdoch form. == origins == in december 1910 the printers' union, the london society of compositors (lsc), became engaged in an industrial struggle to establish a 48-hour week and started a daily strike bulletin called the world. will dyson, an australian artist in london, contributed a cartoon. from 25 january 1911 it was renamed the daily herald and was published until the end of the strike in april 1911. at its peak it had daily sales of 25,000. ben 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). the initial organising group included tillett, t. e. naylor of the lsc, george lansbury, socialist politician, robert williams of the transport workers, w. n. ewer and francis meynell. retaining the strike sheet name they formed a daily herald company. readers and supporters formed local branches of the daily herald league, through which they had their say in the running of the paper. == syndicalist period 1912â1913 == the first issue appeared on 15 april 1912, edited by william h. seed. a key feature was dysonâs cartoons, which made a contribution to the paperâs political tone. 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. it also gave strong support to suffragettes and to anticolonial struggles, especially in ireland. early issues dealt with the loss of the rms titanic, emphasizing the disproportionate loss of life among crew members and poor third class passengers and demonstrating the distinct perspective of the new paper. staff writers included w. p. ryan, langdon everard and george slocombe. g. k. chesterton was a frequent contributor. his brother cecil and hilaire belloc were occasional contributors. after seed was removed as editor,
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