Editing Manitoba Labour Representation Committee

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The '''Labour Representation Committee''' was a reformist labour organization in [[Manitoba]], Canada, and was the ideological successor to groups such as the [[Winnipeg Labour Party]], the [[Independent Labour Party (Manitoba) (I)|Independent Labour Party]] and the [[Manitoba Labour Party]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Heron |first=Craig |date=1984 |title=Labourism and the Canadian Working Class |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/llt/1984-v13-llt_13/llt13art03/ |journal=Labour/Le Travail |language=en |volume=13 |pages=45–76 |issn=0700-3862}}</ref> It was founded in late 1912, and was based on a [[British Labour Party|British organization of the same name]].

The LRC cooperated with the [[Social Democratic Party of Canada]] in the municipal elections of 1913, and the two parties did not compete against each other in the 1914 provincial election.  This was a marked contrast to the hostility which had previously existed between reformist labour groups and the [[Socialist Party of Canada]] (from which the SDPC had split).

The party's candidates in 1914 were W.J. Bartlett ([[Assiniboia (provincial electoral district)|Assiniboia]]) and R.S. Ward ([[Elmwood (electoral district)|Elmwood]]). All of these candidates placed third, behind their [[Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba|Conservative]] and [[Manitoba Liberal Party|Liberal]] opponents. [[Fred Dixon (politician)|Fred Dixon]] was not a candidate of the LRC in 1914, but sympathized with most of its goals and was from the same reformist tradition.  Unofficially supported by many in the LRC, Dixon was elected as an independent candidate in a Winnipeg constituency.

For the provincial election of 1915, the LRC supported the two SDPC candidates in [[Winnipeg North]] (one of whom was successful), and also nominated [[William Bayley]] in Assiniboia.  Bayley finished ahead of [[John Thomas Haig]], the riding's Tory incumbent, and came within 55 votes of defeating Liberal John Wilton.  Dixon again ran as an independent.

The candidates nominated by the LRC in 1914-15 officially ran as "Independent Labour".

This organization dissolved after the election of 1915.  Three years later, some of its supporters (including Dixon and [[Arthur Puttee]]) started the [[Dominion Labour Party (in Manitoba)|Dominion Labour Party]] in [[Winnipeg]].

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[[Category:Provincial political parties in Manitoba]]
[[Category:Socialist parties in Canada]]
[[Category:Defunct political parties in Canada]]
[[Category:1912 establishments in Manitoba]]
[[Category:Socialism in Manitoba]]