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agenda of slow, incremental social legislation — a modest programme characterised by one historian as "pure reformist labourism." In one
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defeated Dixon by 73 votes. The SPC was blamed for Dixon's loss, and became marginalized in
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were assisting his campaign, and historian Ross McCormack has indicated there may have been some truth to this charge. Cummings finished a distant third with 99 votes (2.44%). Conservative candidate
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political party launched in 1902 in the Canadian province of
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