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William Mellor (1888–1942) was a left-wing British journalist. Mellor joined the Daily Herald in 1913 as a journalist and was imprisoned during the First World War as a conscientious objector returning to the Herald on his release. A Guild Socialist during the 1910s he worked closely with G. D. H. Cole founding the National Guilds League with him in 1915. He was a founder-member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920 but resigned in 1924.