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Labour Party

Great Britain · Politics / Independent Labour Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1899–1900Date range
2Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1899

Thomas Steels1899

Doncaster · Politics / Independent Labour Party

A Doncaster member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants proposes that the Trade Union Congress call a special conference to bring together all the left-wing organisations into a single body

1900

James Keir Hardie1900

London · Politics / Independent Labour Party

129 Trades Unions delegates pass Hardie's motion to establish "a distinct Labour group in Parliament"

James Keir Hardie1900

London · Politics / Independent Labour Party

Helps create an association called the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) to coordinate attempts to support MPs sponsored by trade unions and represent the working-class population

Names involved

James Keir HardieThomas Steels

Provenance

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