17 DECEMBER 1921, Page 3

The Labour Party won a seat at South-East Southwark in

the by-election on Wednesday. Mr. T. E. Naylor, the secretary of the London Society of Compositors, was returned by 6,561

votes. Mr. Jacobsen, the Coalition Liberal, polled 2,636 votes, and Mr. Boot, the Independent Conservative, who took strong exception to the surrender to Sinn Fein, polled 2,307 votes. Mr. Naylor is known as a trade unionist of moderate views, who has nothing in common with the middle-class revolutionaries.