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1859-1940. British Labour politician, leader
in the Commons 1931-35. In 1921, while mayor
of the London borough of Poplar, he went to
prison with most of the council rather than
modify their policy of more generous
unemployment relief. He was a member of
Parliament 1910-12 and 1922-40; he was leader
of the parliamentary Labour party 1931-35,
but resigned (as a pacifist) in opposition to
the party's militant response to the Italian
invasion of Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia).
He was editor of the Daily Herald 1912,
carried it on as a weekly through World War
I, and again as a daily until 1922.