At Nottingham on Monday the Co-operative Congress carried, by 2,008
votes to 1,456, a resolution in favour of starting a Co-operative daily paper. An alternative proposal was that the Co-operative movement should give all its support to the Daily Herald. Mr. W. R. Rae, of the Central Board, said that he regarded the Daily Herald as "the mouthpiece of the fighting side of the workers' movement," and he would help it so far as he possibly could, but he felt that "the mouthpiece of the construc- tive side must be a different paper," and accordingly he thought that the Co-operators should have their own paper. The implied criticism of the Daily Herald as not a constructive paper was evidently felt to be deserved. The Co-operative Congress has in previous years carried a motion in favour of having its own newspaper, but this time we hope that something will really be done. The Co-operative movement is now a great force, and it would be all to the good that there should be a new daily news- paper which would be a wholesome competitor of the syndicated Press, and in which the aims of the Co-operator: —now too often suffering from a certain obscurity— should be freely discussed.
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