Thomas Ellis Naylor (5 March 1868 – 24 December 1958) was a Labour Party politician in the

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A compositor, as his father had been, Naylor was educated at a London Board School and Working Men's College. He became a journalist. In 1906 Naylor succeeded

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as secretary of the

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. Naylor advocated the launch of a daily newspaper that supported the Labour Party. He told the

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in 1907 that the Liberal Party-supporting press, which had been supportive, would not prove adequate to future labour conflicts. During the London printers' strike 1911, he produced the first editions under the ''

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'' title. In producing the ''Daily Herald'' as a newspaper rather than a strike sheet, Naylor is considered the paper's founder jointly with

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, both being

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sympathisers, and having the backing of trade union militants. He also supported the separate existence, from 1912, of the '' Daily Citizen''. In 1915 Naylor became chairman of the

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, holding the position to 1928. In 1921 he was elected as Member of Parliament for . He lost the seat the following year but regained it, sitting 1923–1931 and 1935–1950. He did not stand for re-election in 1950, and was succeeded in the new seat by the Labour member for Southwark North,

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. In an letter to the '' South London Press'' of August 1936, Naylor was strongly critical of remarks by Peter Amigo, his local Catholic bishop. They supported the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, and the Francoist uprising in Spain.

Works

Naylor published: *''Rules and Conduct of Debate'' *''A Compositor in Canada'' (1921), reportage on union and left-wing activities; Naylor was a delegate at the 1920 Imperial Press Conference in

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. *''Principles and Practice of Newspaper Make-up'' From 1906 to 1938 he edited the ''London Typographical Journal''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Naylor, Thomas Ellis 1868 births 1958 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies General Secretaries of the London Typographical Association London Society of Compositors-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950

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