The ''Daily Citizen'' was a short-lived early 20th century British newspaper from October 1912 to June 1915. It was an official organ of the nascent Labour Party and published in

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with a simultaneous edition in

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. Tom Webster was brought from

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to be the paper's political cartoonist, and a young

Neville Cardus Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (2 April 188828 February 1975) was an English writer and critic. From an impoverished home background, and mainly self-educated, he became ''The Manchester Gua ...

was briefly a music critic for the paper in 1913.Howat, Gerald. "Cardus, Sir (John Frederick) Neville".

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, Online edition. Retrieved 3 January 2012. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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