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Labour-Progressive Party (Canada) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (373 words) |
 | Only one LPP Member of Parliament (MP) was elected under that banner, Fred Rose, who was elected in a 1943 by-election in Montreal and sat in the House of Commons. |
 | Dorise Nielson was elected to the House of Commons in the 1940 federal election from Saskatchewan as a "Progressive Unity" MP, but was defeated in the 1945 election when she ran for re-election as an LPP candidate. |
 | The LPP had a youth wing, the National Federation of Labour Youth which had formerly been known as the Young Communist League. |
| Labour party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (1220 words) |
 | The Labour party was founded in 1900 after several generations of preparatory trade union politics made possible by the Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884, which enfranchised urban workers. |
 | In 1918, Labour withdrew completely from the coalition, and in 1922 it became the second largest party in the House of Commons and thus the official opposition. |
 | The reversal of the partys position on Britains entry into the European Community (now the European Union), after having earlier supported it, and a renewed call for further nationalization of industry were indications of a greater left-wing militancy within the party. |