Labor-Progressive Party
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Labor-Progressive Party Parti ouvrier-progressiste | |
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Former federal party | |
Abbreviation | LPP |
Leader | Tim Buck |
Founder | Tim Buck |
Founded | 1943 |
Dissolved | 1959 |
Preceded by | Communist Party of Canada |
Succeeded by | Communist Party of Canada |
Youth wing | National Federation of Labor Youth |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
National affiliation | Communist Party of Canada |
The Labor-Progressive Party (French: Parti ouvrier-progressiste) was the legal front of the Communist Party of Canada and several provincial wings of the party from 1943 to 1959.
Origins and initial success
In the 1940 federal election, the Communist Party led a popular front in several constituencies in Saskatchewan and Alberta under the name Unity, United Progressive or United Reform and elected two MPs, one of whom, Dorise Nielsen, was secretly a member of the Communist Party.
After the Communist Party of Canada was banned in 1940, under the wartime Defence of Canada Regulations, it established the Labor-Progressive Party (LPP) as a front organization in 1943 after the release of Communist Party leaders from internment. Nielsen declared her affiliation to the LPP when it was founded in August 1943. She was defeated in the 1945 election when she ran for re-election as an LPP candidate.[1][2][3][4]
Only one LPP
The leader of the party was
Provincial campaigns
In
The
The party also ran candidates in
Municipal strength
The LPP had strong pockets of support in working-class neighbourhoods of Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg as well as in the Crowsnest Pass mining region of Alberta and British Columbia[1] elected a number of its members to local city councils and school boards. In Winnipeg,
From
Dr. Harry Paikin was elected a school trustee on the Hamilton Board of Education in 1944 and remained in office for three decades, until his death in 1985,[15] including ten years as chair.[16][17]
World War II
Following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the Canadian Communist Party reversed its earlier position urging Canadian neutrality in World War II and instead urged full support for the Soviet, not Canadian, war effort. The party formed the "Tim Buck Plebiscite Committees" urging support for conscription in the 1942 referendum. After the vote the committees were renamed the
Cold War
The LPP faced repression during the
1956–1957 crisis
An almost fatal blow for the party was the crisis that enveloped it following
Decline
The LPP last ran a federal candidate in a December 1958 by-election and ran nine candidates in the 1959 Ontario election. Shortly thereafter, it renamed itself the Communist Party of Canada once again.
The LPP had a youth wing, the National Federation of Labour Youth which had formerly been known as the
See also
- Labor-Progressive Party (Quebec)
- Association of United Ukrainian Canadians
- Federation of Russian Canadians
- United Jewish Peoples' Order
References
- ^ "Dorise Nielson: Saskatchewan's Communist MP". nextyearcountrynews.blogspot.ca. May 3, 2010. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
- ^ "History of Federal Ridings since 1867". www.parl.gc.ca. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
- ^ Francis et al. Destinies: Canadian History Since Confederation, 5th Ed. Thomson/Nelson Canada Ltd., 2004. pg 287.
- ^ "History of Federal Ridings since 1867". www.parl.gc.ca. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
- ^ "Parent Quits Liberal Party", Globe and Mail, 14 January 1946: 8
- ^ "Breaks With Liberals", Toronto Daily Star, 2 February 1946: 6
- ^ Canadian Press (June 5, 1945). "How Ontario Electors Voted in all 90 Ridings". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. p. 5.
- ^ Canadian Press (June 8, 1948). "How Ontario Electors Voted in all 90 Ridings". The Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. p. 24.
- ^ Canadian Press (November 22, 1951). "Complete Ontario Vote". The Montreal Gazette. Montreal. p. 4.
- ^ "William Arthur Kardash (1912-1997)". Memorable Manitobans. Manitoba Historical Society.
- ^ "MLA Biographies – Deceased". Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014.
- ^ Controller Henderson Heads Field With Anderson Second," Hamilton Spectator, Dec. 10, 1946, News.
- ^ "Swing To Right Defeats Helen Anderson For Controller," Hamilton Spectator, Dec. 4, 1947, News.
- ^ "Mayor Jackson Coasts To Win Over Coulson," Hamilton Spectator, December 7, 1950, News.
- ^ "Dr. Harry Paikin Award of Merit". www.opsba.org. Archived from the original on April 18, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
- ^ Books, Brick. "Week 36 – Harry Paikin presented by Steve Paikin – Brick Books". www.brickbooks.ca. Archived from the original on December 8, 2017. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
- ^ "Transcript: Lunch Bucket Lives – Jun 08, 2016 – TVO.org". tvo.org. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
- ^ Gerald Tulchinsky, Family Quarrel: Joe Salsberg, the 'Jewish' Question, and Canadian Communism Archived February 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Labour/Le Travail, 56 (Fall 2005)