James Ramsey MacDonald27 February 1900
The Labour Represention Committee is founded at a Conference in London
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The Labour Represention Committee is founded at a Conference in London
During the "Khaki election" the new Labour Party has only £33 expenses and wins just 62,698 votes
Attends the 1900 conference that formes the Labour Representation Committee which became the Labour Party
129 Trades Unions delegates pass Hardie's motion to establish "a distinct Labour group in Parliament"
Helps create the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), meant to coordinate attempts to support MPs, MPs sponsored by trade unions and representing the working-class population
Helps create the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), meant to coordinate attempts to support MPs, MPs sponsored by trade unions and representing the working-class population
The Independent Labour Party nominee Ramsay MacDonald is elected as Secretary of the Labour Representation Committee
Appointed Chairman of the LRC
Appointed Chairman of the LRC
Support for the LRC is boosted by the Taff Vale Case, a dispute between strikers and a railway company that ended with the union being ordered to pay £23,000 damages for a strike
The acquiescence to the Taff Vale Case of the Conservative Government to business interests (traditional allies of the Liberal Party in opposition to the Conservative's landed interests) intensified support for the LRC against a government that appeared to have little concern for workers
Appointed Chairman of the LRC
Appointed Chairman of the LRC
Appointed Chairman of the LRC
Appointed Chairman of the LRC
The LRC ins 29 seats, helped by a secret Gladstone¿MacDonald pact in 1903 between Ramsay MacDonald and Liberal Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone to avoid splitting the opposition vote between Labour and Liberal candidates
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