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14-410: (Redirected from Dominion Labor Party ) Dominion Labour Party may refer to: Dominion Labor Party (Alberta) Dominion Labour Party (Manitoba) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dominion Labour Party . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

28-589: The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1942. The party was founded at a convention held in the Labor temple in Calgary on March 29, 1919. Holmes Jowett was named provisional president. The party was founded to contest elections in federal Alberta ridings and on the provincial level. The party consolidated the former Alberta Labor Representation League and was joined by Centre Calgary Member of

42-568: The Dominion Labor Party (Alberta) . In the 1921 Alberta election after Calgary Centre was abolished he ran in the reconstituted Calgary riding and won the top spot in a 5-member block vote. In that election the United Farmers of Alberta defeated the Liberals in the rural part of the province, and formed the government. The United Farmers did not run any candidates in Calgary and Ross

56-598: The Alberta Legislature from 1917 to 1926 and as a cabinet minister in the United Farmers of Alberta government from 1921 to 1926. He was born in Premnoy, Scotland. Ross was elected in the 1917 Alberta election defeating Conservative Thomas Tweedie . He was elected as the first and only member of the Labor Representation League to sit in the assembly. The Labor Representation League later merged with

70-795: The DLP was founded in Calgary in March 1919 as the Federated Labor Party and was renamed the Dominion Labor Party that same year. The Edmonton area locals renamed themselves locals of the Canadian Labour Party in the early 1920s, but southern Alberta locals such as the one at Lethbridge continued under the Dominion name. Both district organizations were the largest sections of each of their parties, so

84-593: The Legislative Assembly Alex Ross . The first executive of the party included former MLA Donald McNabb as First Vice President. The Labour Party contested the 1921 Alberta general election . The party ran 10 candidates. In addition to its natural opponents, the Liberals and Conservatives, it competed with the Independent Labor Party, which fielded candidates in the election. Holmes Jowett

98-637: The Rocky Mountain constituency. Alex Ross was invited to join the United Farmers cabinet and served as Minister of Public Works. In the federal election that same year, two Labour candidates were elected in Calgary, William Irvine and Joseph Shaw. (All the other Alberta ridings elected UFA MPs.) In 1922, The Dominion Labour Party was by then only active in Alberta – Labour activities in Manitoba being done under

112-774: The legislature until the 1926 Alberta general election . He was nominated by the Canadian Labor Party to run in Calgary, however the Calgary Herald reported that he did not appear to be enthusiastic to run, but would accept his nomination anyway. Calgary elected its MLAs in a single multi-member district through Single transferable vote in 1926. It elected five MLAs. Ross placed sixth in the First Count ahead of five others including fellow Labour candidate Fred White. White gradually accumulated more votes than Ross through vote transfers as others were eliminated under STV rules. Ross

126-404: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dominion_Labour_Party&oldid=788332044 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dominion Labor Party (Alberta) A branch of

140-807: The name Independent Labour Party; in BC under the name Socialist Party of Canada. A new labour body, the Canadian Labour Party, was founded and the Edmonton area branch of the Dominion Labour Party began operating under the new name. The DLP organization in Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat carried on under the old Dominion Labor name. In the 1926 provincial election, five Labour MLAs were elected, including Lionel Gibbs in Edmonton and Fred White (Calgary) and Philip Christophers (Rocky Mountain constituency) who were re-elected. Four of them were re-elected in 1930. In

154-643: The next few years, the Dominion Labour Party and the Canadian Labour Party joined with the UFA and other groups to form the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Soon, the DLP was disbanded; in 1942, the Edmonton CLP was disbanded. Alex Ross (politician) Alexander Ross (15 January 1880 – 17 July 1953) was a stonemason, trade unionist and politician in Alberta , Canada. He served as an MLA in

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168-413: The terms CLP and Alberta CLP, DLP and Alberta DLP, were almost equivalent. Alberta, having strong radical working-class communities centred around coal mining and other heavy industries, elected a number of Labour MLAs in 1921 and 1926 and two Labour MPs in 1921. This ended with the massive election of the bank-reformist Social Credit government of William Aberhart in 1935. It was disbanded in favour of

182-487: Was asked to serve as Minister of Public Works despite being a member of the opposition. Ross was acclaimed in a ministerial by-election on December 9, 1921. In 1922 Ross helped found the Canadian Labor Party and served on its executive with other prominent labor politicians of the era, such as Elmer Ernest Roper and Alf Farmilo . Ross served out the rest of his second term as a minister, and his third term for

196-632: Was party leader. He did not contest a seat in the Legislature, instead spent his time helping his party's candidates. The party worked in close co-operation with the United Farmers of Alberta – the two parties largely avoiding running candidates against each other. Four Dominion Labor Party members were elected to the Legislative Assembly – Fred White and Alex Ross in Calgary, William Johnston in Medicine Hat. Philip Christophers (a Communist) in

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