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  Labour candidates and parties in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first Labour Member of Parliament (MP) was Arthur Puttee who founded the Winnipeg Labour Party, and was elected to the House of Commons from Winnipeg, Manitoba in a 1900 by-election and kept his seat at the 1900 federal election held later the same year.
Thomas Uphill was the Labour MLA for Fernie in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly from 1920 until 1960.
Smith was a Dominion Labour Party MLA in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1920 to 1922.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labour_Party_(Canada)   (1514 words)

  
 Manitoba History: Labour in Brandon Civic Politics: A Long View   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Labour’s intervention in the municipal elections of 1917 and 1918 was a manifestation of intensified class antagonisms.
Labour achieved a breakthrough in the provincial election of 29 June 1920, when Reverend A. Smith, candidate of the Brandon Labour Party, won the Brandon seat in a campaign planned and organized under the leadership of local unions.
The history of labour and social democratic party involvement in civic elections in Brandon suggests that the political culture of the working class in Brandon was never sufficiently developed to generate the sustained efforts required to wrest control of city hall away from the city’s ruling elites.
www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/mb_history/23/brandonlabour.shtml   (10806 words)

  
 List of political parties in Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names.
The below political parties are believed to possess an extant national organization of some extent and have indicated they plan to gather signatures for the purposes of registration.
From approximately 1898 to 1905, political parties were active, however, legislative government was eliminated when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of the heavily populated area of NWT.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_political_parties_in_Canada   (886 words)

  
 publicpower :: The Ontario NDP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
His people's party was based on what he called Broadening Out - an appeal to all citizens, regardless of class, occupation, or political stripe, who were seen to share the farmer's desire for a more humane, moral, and progressive society.
With them, as a fourth party, was a two-member Labour group led by James Shaver Woodsworth, a former Methodist minister and pacifist from Winnipeg.
These farmer and labour MPs eventually formed the Ginger Group (after martyred activist Ginger Goodwin http://www.carpentersunionbc.com/Pages/gingergoodwin.html) a loose parliamentary grouping which was directly instrumental in the later formation of the CCF.
www.publicpower.ca /the_party/history.htm   (1632 words)

  
 Liberal Party (UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties from the early 19th century the 1920s and a third party of strength and importance up to 1988 when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which become known as the Liberal Democrats.
In the after Grey's retirement the party was led by Lord Melbourne a fairly traditional Whig and then Lord John Russell the son of an Earl but crusading radical and Lord Palmerston a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative although capable radical gestures.
In 1885 this party won the balance of in the House of Commons and demanded Irish Home Rule (that is the status of a Dominion for Ireland) as the price of for a continued Gladstone ministry.
www.freeglossary.com /Liberal_Party_(UK)   (3055 words)

  
 Manitoba History: Brandon, 1919: Labour and Industrial Relations in the Wheat City in the Year of the General Strike   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The failure of the strike left Brandon’s labour movement resigned to the futility of the general strike weapon in the face of the power of the state, yet unrepentant in the defence of the principles of organized labour.
The Sympathetic Strike in Brandon was the climactic event in a period of increasing labour aggressiveness dating from the reconstitution of the Trades and Labour Council in the spring of 1917.
The labour crisis of 1919 was an important event both in shaping the evolution of Brandon’s organized labour movement and in galvanizing the commitment of the city’s working people to direct participation in Brandon’s political life.
www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/mb_history/17/brandon1919strike.shtml   (7154 words)

  
 A short history of New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The conservative National Party, a merger of the Reform Party and the United Party, and the social democratic Labour Party dominate New Zealand political life since a Labour government comes to power in 1935.
During 14 years in office, the Labour Party under Michael Joseph Savage (1935-1940) and Peter Fraser (1940-1949) implements a broad array of social and economic legislation, including comprehensive social security, a largescale public works program, a 40-hour work week, a minimum basic wage, and compulsory unionism.
Labour forms a coalition, minority government with the small Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition and it relies on support from the centrist United Future Party to pass legislation.
www.electionworld.org /history/newzealand.htm   (643 words)

  
 Dominion in the world
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Governed by the Republican Party, the more dominion-oriented of the major US parties, which controls all branches of the federal government, and is now backed by an electoral majority, though its recent election victories at the presidential level have both been severely tainted.
This party, led by the former president’s brother رضا خاتمى Redā Xātamī, is the central organization of moderate reform.
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 Political Parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) successfully campaigned for Jamaica’s withdrawal from the Federation of the West Indies, which was decided in a referendum held in September 1961.
The party won 18 of the 32 seats in the House, and this number was increased after they won the by-election in February 1956.
A split in the Jamaica Labour Party led to the formation of the National Democratic Movement which was established in November 1995 by Bruce Golding former chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party.
www.jnht.com /jamaica/political_par.html   (700 words)

  
 Why the labour movement supports the New Democrats
The Dominion Labour Party, the Canadian Labor Party, the Workingmen’s Party and the People’s Political Party were all early attempts by Canadian workers to create a political vehicle for working people.
If you add the various progressive political parties whose aim was to advance the rights of working people, like the Canadian Socialist Party and Social Democratic Party, you can see how prevalent the idea of a workers’ party actually has been in Canada.
The NDP is basically a formal union between the Canadian Labour Congress and the old CCF.
www3.telus.net /public/afl/LabourNews/mar01-11.html   (644 words)

  
 Socialism Today - A quiet political earthquake?
The nationalist party, Plaid Cymru/The Party of Wales, took nearly 30% of the votes, only 7-8% behind Labour, to become the second largest party with seventeen seats, as compared with the Tories nine seats and the Liberal Democrats six.
The Welsh Labour leaders hostility to nationalism ranged the spectrum from Bevan's belief that Welsh workers were best served as part of a democratic socialist Britain to the fawning worship of British royalty, personified by George Thomas (later Viscount Tonypandy).
This was coupled with the imposition by Labour's Westminster HQ of an 'electoral college; system to select the Labour leader in the new assembly.
www.socialismtoday.org /46/wales.html   (2891 words)

  
 The Ross Dowson Resource Archives speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There is no question that the BLP is a reformist party, not a revolutionary party, but a party which encompasses the class, and quite accurately - but by no means precisely - reflects the level of the consciousness and combativity of the class as a whole, if one can define a thing like that.
A party of workers who can, and who aspire to be leaders in their own right through the disciplined, centralized and coordinated action of their party, (who) will be leaders of the class.
And it was in 1906, the year of the big breakthrough for the British Labour Party, that there was a resolution that came on the floor of the Victoria Trades and Labour Congress meeting in Victoria (B.C.) The Victoria TLC submitted a resolution to this congress in 1906.
www.rossdowson.com /speeches/rdspeechLP1.html   (9804 words)

  
 The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 2
In the light of the Nationalist Party's subsequent history, of course, the two parties may seem to have been strange bedfellows, but at the time there were many points of contact between their respective policies.
At the Cape Congress of the Nationalist Party in 1923, Dr Malan said that the Nationalist and Labour Parties were both 'squarely opposed to capitalistic and monopolistic domination and exploitation of the people.
In retrospect, the participation of the Labour Party in the coalition marked the beginning of the downfall of the Labour Party and the ascendancy of the Nationalists over the White (mainly Afrikaner) workers.
www.anc.org.za /books/reich2.html   (3801 words)

  
 Dangerous Knowledge: Canadian Workers' Education in the Decades of Discord
For my purposes, the boundaries of workers' education ought to be drawn such that we can study both the "schools of labour" and "labour's schools." Simply defined, the schools of labor are the socially organized work places, embedded in networks of economic, social, and political control.
Perhaps the most significant development in Winnipeg in September 1919 was the Labour Church and OBU's call for the formation of a Labour College for Winnipeg after the bitter defeat of the General Strike of May and June.
From the beginning, the educational classes of the OBU were considered to be preliminary to the establishment of a Labour College in Winnipeg.
www-distance.syr.edu /welton.html   (6533 words)

  
 New Zealand Government Information
Executive authority is vested in a cabinet led by the prime minister, who is the leader of the political party or coalition of parties holding the majority of seats in parliament.
During 14 years in office, the Labour Party implemented a broad array of social and economic legislation, including comprehensive social security, a large-scale public works program, a 40-hour workweek, a minimum basic wage, and compulsory unionism.
The National Party won control of the government in 1949 and adopted many welfare measures instituted by the Labour Party.
www.traveldocs.com /nz/govern.htm   (820 words)

  
 Dominion of Sanfranchez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
States may leave the Dominion after a 60% vote of the populace in their state, followed by a 2-year transition dialogue period between the transition state government and that of the Dominion.
The Dominion House is a nine member (one from each state) legislative body that votes on the federal budget and matters of national security.
Legislation may be routed to the Dominion House, as opposed to one of the lesser houses on the jursidiction of the Major President.
www.ishouldstudymore.net /sanfranchez   (1379 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Helen Clark, the Leader of Labour and Prime Minister, defamed Police Commissioner Peter Doone with fabricated leaks back in 2000 because she was interested to install a political puppet in his position.
Britainistan: The Labour party is nursing a viper.
Chris Smith, 53, the governing Labour party's former culture secretary, said he was responding to the former South African president's call earlier this month for more publicity about AIDS to fight the stigma attached to the disease.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=labourparty   (5505 words)

  
 Free Dominion :: View topic - The GOP's silent legions (That good 'ol silent majority)
Republicans took 52.8% of the aggregate two party vote in governors' races, 52.2% in Senate races and 53.4% in races for the House of Representatives.
In other words, through conservative media sources, and pundits, American conservatives and the Republican party are laying claim to their own ideas, and effectively communicating this fact to the American general public.
Opinions posted on Free Dominion are those of the individual posters and are not necessarily the opinion of Free Dominion or its operators.
www.freedominion.ca /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7656   (2178 words)

  
 Sir Humphrey's: Labour Party Hacks anyone?
The Labour party does not keep ideological control over its membership, there is no brainwashing.
We all recognise a letter from a minister (well, not with the 40+ ministers this Labour government has), but many people not in the know do indeed not recognise a letter written by someone clearly affiliated with a certain party and position.
I'll accept that its pathetic for party affiliated people to go to lengths to appear as the public, as long as you accept that your bloody beloved National and ACT are as guilty as anyone in that regard.
sirhumphreys.blogspot.com /2005/05/labour-party-hacks-anyone.html   (3268 words)

  
 Scoop: Labour's shame on child support collection
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins is urging Labour to confirm that it is looking at a National Party policy that would see child support defaulters stopped at the border.
Answers provided by the Revenue Minister to parliamentary questions show that of the 65,319 liable parents assessed to pay $14 per week towards the upkeep of their children, 44,339 are not even managing to sustain this and are in debt to IRD.
This is the legacy of Labour's softly-softly approach which lets parents who leave New Zealand off the hook.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0610/S00120.htm   (860 words)

  
 The Dominion Post: local, national & world news from Wellington's daily newspaper
That philosophy is shared by many Pakeha, and that is why there is disquiet over the way the Government is handling the future of huge tracts of land in the South Island, including some of the most beautiful sites in the country.
On October 21, 1987, for example, just one day after that year's sharemarket crash, MPs voted themselves what was seen as perhaps the world's most generous superannuation scheme in just seven minutes – and in the dead of night.
He is being proven right again in Parliament this week, The Dominion Post writes in an editorial.
www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,0a6483,00.html   (170 words)

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