The Labour Standard
Appearance
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
- "A Fair Day's Wages for a Fair Day's Work" Fredrick Engels No. 1 7 May 1881
- "The Wages System" Fredrick Engels No. 3, 21 May, 1881
- "Trades Unions, part 1 & part 2" Fredrick Engels No. 4, 28 May, & No. 5, 4 June 1881
- "The French Commercial Treaty" Fredrick Engels No. 7, 18 June 1881
- "Two Model Town Councils" Fredrick Engels No. 8, 25 June 1881
- "American Food and the Land Question" Fredrick Engels No. 9, 2 July 1881
- "The Wages Theory of the Anti-Corn Law League" Fredrick Engels No. 10, 9 July 1881
- "A Working Men's Party" Fredrick Engels No. 12, 23 July 1881
- "Bismarck and the German Working Men's Party" Fredrick Engels No. 12, 23 July 1881
- "Cotton and Iron" Fredrick Engels No. 13, 30 July 1881
- "Social Classes — Necessary and Superfluous No. 14, 6 August 1881
References
- ^ "Articles by Engels in Labour Standard, 1881". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. ISBN 9789038213408.
- ^ Henderson, W. O. (2013). Friedrich Engels. Routledge. p. 742. ISBN 9781136275562. Retrieved 7 May 2018.