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301: 313: 22: 325: 209:. Strictly speaking, not all of these figures were elected as Dominion Labour Party candidates: Smith, though a member of the DLP, campaigned under the banner of the "Brandon Labour Party". The DLP, however, provided the basic framework around which the provincial campaign was based. Dixon was the unquestioned leader of the labour group in the legislature. 181:
of 1919 radicalized labour politics in Manitoba, and the DLP soon emerged as a much stronger force than the province's earlier labour parties had been. In the provincial election of 1920, the party formed an electoral alliance with the
174:. In the years after its formation, the DLP would set up other branches in cities throughout the Canadian prairies. It never had a strong central organization, and was more of a network than an organized movement. 145:
and members of the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Congress (TLC) created the first branch of the Dominion Labour Party in Canada. The DLP was an ideological successor to various other reformist labour groups in
224:. Dixon, who had previously been neutral, was the leader of the late 1920 walkout. Most other labour parliamentarians also left the DLP for the ILP, with Smith as the only prominent exception. 345: 39: 370: 355: 221: 220:. When AFL supporters nominated an opponent of the General Strike as a DLP municipal candidate in Winnipeg, many others walked out and formed the rival 375: 240: 277: 246: 86: 350: 58: 167: 65: 365: 360: 187: 155: 105: 72: 43: 54: 291: 213: 159: 194:, and eight other Labour MLAs were elected throughout the province (along with one Socialist and one Social Democrat). 32: 206: 183: 178: 171: 79: 217: 228: 227:
The ILP subsequently became the dominant labour party in Manitoba. The DLP aligned itself with the new
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and a party representing returning ex-soldiers. Dixon easily topped the polled in
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Late in 1920, the DLP split between followers of the
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