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After its foundation, the Labour Party supported non-revolutionary social and agrarian reform. In the Constituent Assembly it was influential in composing the radical land reform and the 1920 constitution. Socialist during its early years, the party gradually moved towards the political centre. It
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elections later in the year, and together made up the second largest faction in the Assembly. In November 1917, the Labourites received 21% of the votes in the
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The party drew its support from artisans, civil servants, intellectuals, small landowners and the non-socialist working class.
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coup d'état in Estonia, Labourites were the first to publicly demand independence for Estonia. By the
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In January 1932, the party merged with the United Nationalists Party (an October 1931 merger of the
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After Estonia declared independence on 24 February 1918, the Labourites were part of the
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and acting Minister of Commerce, Industry, Labour and Roads
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The two parties formally merged in 1919, and won a quarter of the seats in the
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State Elder, Minister of War and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Court
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Minister of Commerce and Industry and acting Minister of Labour
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Minister of Finance and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and acting Minister of Roads
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It finished third in the 1604: 1439:Independent Royalist Party 1223:Estonian United Left Party 1070:XX sajandi kroonika, I osa 863:1 April 1924 – 14 May 1924 1527:List of political parties 1517: 1001: 988: 925: 883: 870: 619: 553: 390: 303: 300: 297: 294: 131: 1449:Liberal Democratic Party 1356:Socialist Workers' Party 1346:Social Travaillist Party 1321:Radical Democratic Party 1246:Christian People's Party 1107:Luuakse Eesti Tööerakond 1029:Vincent E McHale (1983) 739:Minister of Agriculture 731:Minister of Agriculture 649:Minister of Agriculture 263:Christian People's Party 190:Social Travaillist Party 1419:Democratic Labour Party 1361:Swedish People's League 1326:Radical Socialist Party 1167:Social Democratic Party 259:Estonian People's Party 106:Political position 1409:Communist Party (CPSU) 1331:Russian National Union 1306:National Liberal Party 997:Minister of Education 934:Minister of Education 892:Minister of Nutrition 879:Minister of Education 165: 1301:National Centre Party 1187:Estonian Centre Party 1162:Estonian Reform Party 927:Aleksander Veidermann 634:Otto August Strandman 267:National Centre Party 174:National Centre Party 158:Estonian Labour Party 75:National Centre Party 35:Estonian Labour Party 990:Alfred Julius Mõttus 866:Minister of Finance 850:Minister of Finance 681:Minister of Finance 591:Minister of Finance 1532:Politics of Estonia 1281:German-Baltic Party 1276:Farmers' Assemblies 539: 285:Heads of government 136:Politics of Estonia 1434:Independence Party 1414:Constitution Party 1394:Biodiversity Party 1385:Historical parties 1237:Historical parties 976:Minister of Court 968:Minister of Court 829:Minister of Court 710:Minister of Roads 702:Minister of Roads 628:Minister of Roads 621:Ferdinand Peterson 537: 512:ETE–ARVK–PK–KRE–ER 381:5th Prime Minister 332:1st Prime Minister 1540: 1539: 1494:Res Publica Party 1014: 1013: 843:Karl August Baars 530: 529: 526: 513: 503:12 February 1931 497: 477: 454:21 November 1922 451: 430:20 December 1920 427: 409: 398: 388:20 December 1920 382: 363: 353: 339:18 November 1919 333: 154: 153: 141:Political parties 87:Social liberalism 71:Succeeded by 16:(Redirected from 1595: 1489:Republican Party 1484:Pro Patria Union 1311:Patriotic League 1296:Landlords' Party 1266:Democratic Party 1139: 1132: 1125: 1116: 1109: 1104: 1098: 1097: 1095: 1094: 1085:. 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Index

Eesti Tööerakond
Jüri Vilms
National Centre Party
Ideology
Social liberalism
Social democracy
Centrism
Agrarianism
Political position
Centre
centre-left
Politics of Estonia
Political parties
Elections
Estonian
Estonia
National Centre Party
Estonian Radical Socialist Party
Social Travaillist Party
Estonian Provincial Assembly
Russian Constituent Assembly elections
Bolshevik
1918 Estonian Constituent Assembly election
Estonian Provisional Government
Otto Strandman
Juhan Kukk
Theodor Pool
1919 Constituent Assembly elections
1920 parliamentary elections
Riigikogu

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