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James MacDonald (trade unionist)

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In 1898, MacDonald organised merger talks between the SDF and ILP, but these proved unsuccessful, the ILP withdrawing. Increasingly radical, in 1900 he proposed a motion that the ILP should be an organisation of
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in 1901, editing it until 1913. Initially publishing it personally, it became the official journal of the London Trades Council in 1903.
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and in 1893 successfully proposed an amendment requiring it to support only those Labour candidates who accepted the principle of
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as an ILP candidate, failing to win a seat. He also spent some time on the Parliamentary Committee of the
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They Saw it Happen: An Anthology of Eye-witnesses' Accounts of Events in British History, 1897-1940
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was elected Secretary of the LRC in part because he was confused with James, although
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In 1905, he left the Amalgamated Society of Tailors to found the
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In 1891, MacDonald was elected to the executive of the
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Index

trade unionist
Edinburgh
tailor
London
Central Marylebone Democratic Association
Manhood Suffrage League
Friedrich Engels
Labour Standard
socialism
Social Democratic Federation
Socialist Union
Lewis Lyons
East End
West End
Amalgamated Society of Tailors
Journeyman
Independent Labour Party
London Trades Council
Dundee
Trades Union Congress
collective ownership
class war
Labour Representation Committee
Ramsay MacDonald
Arthur Henderson
London Society of Tailors and Tailoresses
Australia


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