The most important item of business transacted at the. Congress was its acquisition Of the "Daily Herald." This Labour newspaper has had a_ very chequered history and during those periods in which it was not being heavily subsidized by the suffragettes, or the Egyptian Nationalists, or some other body, it had had great difficulties in keeping afloat. Its latest subsidy will be on a very generous scale for the Congress has decided to increase its annual affiliation fee from one penny per member, to threepence, and use the surplus—about £50,000 per year—to keep the "Herald" going.
To make it more popular its price has been reduced from twopence ta a penny, and that brilliant journalist, Mr. Hamilton Fyffe, has been engaged to edit: it. Mr. Fyffe is the latest convert to the Labour movement. For many years he was on the "Times'' staff, and until the end of the war was one of the most brilliant contributors to the Northcliffe group of papers. It is said that he saw fighting on more fronts than any other correspondent during the war, He has recently described
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