{{Unreferenced, date=October 2007 The Winnipeg Labour Party was a reformist organization in

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, Canada, representing labour interests. Founded in 1896, it was based on an earlier Winnipeg organization known as the

Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse working-class candidates ...

(which was influenced by the British party of the same name, but was not formally connected to any other group). The party initially received support from both socialists and conservative trade unionists, and succeeded in electing

Arthur Puttee Arthur W. Puttee (August 25, 1868 – October 21, 1957) was a British-Canadian printer and politician. Puttee was the first Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada, sitting as Winnipeg MP from 1900 to 1904. Puttee ...

to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1900 federal election. The WLP was hostile to radical militancy in the labour movement, however, and lost the support of many socialists in the years which followed. The WLP nominated two candidates for the provincial election of 1903: William Scott in

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and Robert Thoms in

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. Both finished well behind their

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and

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opponents. Puttee was defeated in the 1904 election, but he continued to promote labour causes in his newspaper, ''The Voice''. In 1906, his organization was absorbed into another group calling itself the

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