The Labour Standard

The Labour Standard was a newspaper set up as the organ of trade unionism in London in 1881. George Shipton, Secretary of the London Trades Council, was its initial editor.[1]

The paper was published every Saturday and sold for one penny. Each edition consisted of eight pages.[2]

Frederick Engels was initially a contributor to the paper, but after Shipton complained that an article by Karl Kautsky was "too strong" Engels remarked that as some of articles would be even stronger it would be best if he withdrew from submitting further articles.[3]

The Labour Standard online

References

  1. "Articles by Engels in Labour Standard, 1881". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  2. Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. ISBN 9789038213408.
  3. Henderson, W. O. (2013). Friedrich Engels. Routledge. p. 742. ISBN 9781136275562. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
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