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Manitoba Labour Party
The Manitoba Labour Party was a reformist labour party. It was formed to contest the Manitoba provincial election of 1910.
The party's platform called for workers to receive "the full product of [their] toil". This ambiguous statement was ridiculed by the more radical Socialist Party of Canada, which called for collective ownership.
After the SPC had already announced candidates for Winnipeg North and Winnipeg West, the MLP (seeking to avoid a confrontation) decided to field only one candidate: Fred Dixon in Winnipeg Centre. Dixon was a centrist who supported the single-tax movement of Henry George and campaigned in an alliance with the provincial Liberal Party. He was bitterly opposed by the SPC, which belatedly nominated W.S. Cummings in the riding as a spoiler. Conservative Thomas Taylor defeated Dixon by 2012 votes to 1939; Cummings's 99 votes may have been the difference in Dixon's defeat.
The party dissolved after the election.
See also: Canadian political parties
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