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The Canadian Labour Party was an early, unsuccessful attempt at creating a national labour party in Canada. Although it ran candidates in the federal elections of 1917, 1921, 1925 and 1926, it never succeeded in its goal of providing a national forum for the Canadian labour movement. In most provinces, the CLP ceased to exist after 1928-29. The Canadian parliament after the 1917 election The 1917 Canadian federal election (sometimes referred to as the khaki election) was held on December 17, 1917, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...
The Canadian parliament after the 1921 election The Canadian federal election of 1921 was held on December 6, 1921 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...
The Canadian parliament after the 1925 election The Canadian federal election of 1925 was held to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...
The Canadian parliament after the 1926 election The Canadian federal election of 1926 was held to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...
1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The CLP was founded in 1917, on the initiative of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC). It was intended to be the Canadian equivalent of the British Labour Party, and endorsed a variety of reformist labour initiatives. In this sense, it was ideologically closer to A.W. Puttee's original Winnipeg Labour Party than to the revolutionary Socialist Party of Canada. 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
The Trades and Labour Congress of Canada was a Canada-wide central federation of trade unions from 1883 to 1956. ...
The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
Arthur W. Puttee (August 25, 1868 - October 21, 1957) was the first Labour MP in the Canadian House of Commons. ...
The Winnipeg Labour Party was a reformist organization representing labour interests. ...
The Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) was formed in 1904 when the Socialist Party of British Columbia merged with the Canadian Socialist League. ...
The CLP endorsed a number of candidates in the 1917 election, although none were elected. In 1918, the Canadian TLC leaders adopted a "non-partisan" policy advocated by the American Federation of Labour, and the CLP was largely abandoned. 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations of United States. ...
The party was revived in 1921 by James Simpson. It again espoused a reformist platform, including the nationalization of banks and public utilities, major extensions in social and labour legislation, and lower taxes on the working-class. 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
The name James Simpson can refer to: Sir James Young Simpson, pioneer in use of choloform as anaesthetic and doctor to Queen Victoria James Simpson, Canadian trade unionist This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The CLP was intended to be an "umbrella" organization for the various regional labour parties within Canada. Its primary failure on this front was its inability to convince the leaders of Manitoba's Independent Labour Party to affiliate. Initially, this was due to a local split in the Winnipeg labour movement -- the regional Dominion Labour Party had been taken over by rightist elements, and the parliamentary labour caucus had retaliated by creating a separate ILP organization. When the DLP affiliated with the CLP, the ILP refused to do the same. ILP leaders such as J.S. Woodsworth and A.A. Heaps remained outside the CLP network throughout the 1920s. Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Latin: Glorious and free) Official languages English (some French services are provided, but French does not have official status at the provincial level) Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 14 6 Area Total...
Before 1920, there were a number of groups in Winnipeg which called themselves the Independent Labour Party. For information on these groups, see Independent Labour Party (in Manitoba) (I). ...
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In March 1918, Alfred Puttee and members of the Winnipeg TLC created the first branch of the Dominion Labour Party in Canada. ...
J.S. Woodsworth James Shaver Woodsworth (July 29, 1874 – March 21, 1942) was a pioneer in the Canadian social democratic movement. ...
1930 election leaflet Abraham Albert Heaps (December 24, 1885 _ April 4, 1954) was a Canadian politician and labour leader. ...
In other regions, the CLP was more successful. The Alberta DLP did not fall into the hands of rightist labourites, and there was no controversy when this party became part of the CLP. The Federated Labour Party of British Columbia also joined the CLP, and many other reformist labour organizations throughout the country had some connections to the larger organization. Motto: Fortis et Liber (Latin: Strong and free) Official languages English Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant-Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 28 6 Area Total • Land • Water (% of total) Ranked 6th (provinces and territories) 661,848 km² 642,317 km² 19...
Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages none stated in law; English is de facto Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 36 6 Area Total • Land • Water (% of total) Ranked 5th 944,735...
In spite of this, the CLP never became a coherent national party. Most provincial labour parties remained focused on their own local concerns, and the national party organization was comparatively weak (though it was usually successful in preventing vote-splitting among its affiliated groups). The national CLP was also weakened by controversies concerning the role of Communists within the party. This article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. ...
In its earliest years, the Communist Party of Canada supported a united front against the capitalist class. Its provincial organizations joined the CLP in various stages between 1922 and 1924, and the leaders of the Communist Party believed that they would eventually be able to shift CLP policy to reflect their own policies. By the late 1920s, Communist groups had come to dominate the CLP in some regions of the country. (It may be noted that the Communist Party seems to have accepted the CLP's ban on electoral competition between affiliated groups, even to the point of endorsing some rightist labour candidates in whom they had little confidence.) The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. ...
1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Communist presence did not always provoke internal dissension (several Communist delegates were greeted with cheers at CLP conventions), but it did prevent some moderate social democrats from joining. In 1927, social democrats in the Ontario CLP withdrew from the organization to create their own Independent Labour Party. In the same year, J.S. Woodsworth accused the CLP of being controlled by Communist interests, and called for a new national alliance of Independent Labour Parties to take its place. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The CLP's alliance with the Communist Party ended in 1928-29, following a shift in Comintern policy away from the "united front" strategy. The provincial Communist parties either left the CLP during this period, or were expelled. 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
In most parts of the country, the resulting loss in membership was enough to bring about the effective demise of the CLP. The one exception to this rule appears to have been in Alberta, where the local CLP survived long enough to merge with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1935. It maintained a semi-autonomous existence until 1942. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups as well as the League for Social Reconstruction. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Judged by its own goals and ambitions, the CLP was a failure. It never succeeded in electing a candidate to the Canadian House of Commons, and was unable to provide a coherent framework for the various labour organizations throughout the country. The party may, however, be regarded as a prototype for later pan-Canadian labour parties such as the CCF and the New Democratic Party. The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ...
The New Democratic Party (NDP) is a political party in Canada with a social democratic philosophy and moderate democratic socialist tendencies. ...
Also of note is the fact that the CLP maintained a formal alliance with labour organizations throughout its existence, like the later NDP organization (but unlike the CCF).
For a history of the CLP in relation to other early Canadian labour parties, see Labour candidates and parties in Canada. There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s. ...
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