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The Third Force in Canada: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, 1932-1948

by Dean E. Mchenry. 351 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Dean E. Mchenry

Publisher:

   University of California Press

Place of Publication:

  Berkeley, CA  

Publication Year:

  1950
Subjects:   Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Table of contents
Contents
I. LOOKING BACKWARD 1
Agrarian Ferment , . 4
Rise of the Labor Movement , . 17
Birth of the CCF , 23
II. NATIONAL PARTY ORGANIZATION 31
The National Convention , . 32
The National Council , . 39
The National Office , . 41
Affiliations to the CCF , . 45
National Party Finance , . 51
Financial Problems , . 54
The CCF in Commonwealth and International Groups , 59
III. PROVINCIAL ORGANIZATION 62
Evolution of CCF Provincial Structure , . 62
Constitutions and Conventions , . 72
Councils, Executives, and Secretaries , . 76
Relations with the Legislative Group , . 80
Members and Affiliates , . 83
Local Organization , . 85
Provincial CCF Finances , . 89
The Provincial CCF Press , . 92
Selection of Candidates , . 94
Educational and Youth Activities , 96
IV. FRIENDS AND FOES OF THE CCF 99
The Trade Union Movement , . 99
Agricultural Groups , . 106
The Cooperative Movement , . 107
Conservative Rebirth , . 111
The Liberal Flanking Move , . 115
Communist Overtures , . 119
The Big-Business Offensive , . 124
Social Credit , . 126
Relations with the Roman Church , 131
V. ELECTIONS AND PROSPECTS 134
National Elections , . 134
British Columbia , . 138
Alberta . 144
Saskatchewan , . 152
Manitoba , . 153
Ontario , . 162
Quebec , . 167
The Maritimes , . 172
Electoral Prospects , 178
VI. THE CCF IN PARLIAMENT 181
Beginning of the Parliamentary Caucus , . 181
The Parliamentary Group, 1945 Model , . 184
Caucus Relations
VI. THE CCF IN PARLIAMENT (Continued)
to the National Party , . 187
Leadership , . 189
Parliamentary Committees , . 193
Procedure on the Floor , . 194
Prospective Prime Minister , . 195
CCF Parliamentary Personnel, 1945-1949 , . 198
Parliamentary Opposition , . 200
Techniques of Opposition , 203
VII. SASKATCHEWAN UNDER CCF RULE 206
Economic and Political Background , . 206
The CCF in Power , . 229
Socialized Enterprises , . 237
Health and Welfare Services , . 249
Other Problems , 258
VIII. PARTY POLICY 265
The Regina Manifesto , . 265
A Planned Economy , . 266
Of Social Significance , . 277
Government and Man , . 281
External Affairs , . 288
The United Nations , . 298
The British Commonwealth , 299
IX. LOOKING FORWARD 301
Significance of the Movement , . 301
Assets , . 307
Liabilities , . 311
Impact , . 315
Future of the CCF , . 318
BIBLIOGRAPHY 327
INDEX 335
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The Third Force in Canada: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, 1932-1948
Book by Dean E. McHenry; University of California Press, 1950
Subjects: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
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Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan, a Study in Political Sociology
Book by S. M. Lipset; University of California Press, 1950
Subjects: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (Saskatchewan), Saskatchewan--Politics and government, Socialism--Saskatchewan
...AGRARIAN SOCIALISM THE COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH FEDERATION IN SASKATCHEWAN...this is written, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation as a national party...prospects of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation than he explicitly...
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Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan : a Study in Political Sociology
Book by S. M. Lipset; University of California Press, 1971
Subjects: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Saskatchewan--Politics and government, Socialism--Saskatchewan
...SOCIALISM THE COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH FEDERATION IN SASKATCHEWAN...socialist party, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, was winning elections...call itself the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, Saskatchewan Section...
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Walking in Indian Moccasins: The Native Policies of Tommy Douglas and the CCF
Book by F. Laurie Barron; University of British Columbia Press, 1997
Subjects: Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation, Douglas, Tommy, Indians Of North America--Saskatchewan--Government Relations
...Natives should receive such treatment in a province noted for cooperatives and community-based assistance, it should be remembered that...near and dear to the farm community -- returning soldiers, cooperative farming, farm debt legislation, the nationalization of electric...
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Commonwealth Perspectives
Book by Nicholas Mansergh, Robert R. Wilson, Joseph J. Spengler, James L. Godfrey, B. U. Ratchford, Brinley Thomas; Duke University Press, 1958
Subjects: Commonwealth Of Nations, Imperial Federation
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Cooperative Commonwealth: Co-ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939
Journal article by Michael Magliari; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 26, 2000
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Cooperative Commonwealth: Co-ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939 (Book)
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Beginning to Restructure the Institutional Church: Canadian Social Catholics and the CCF, 1931-1944
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Can't Wait for the Sequel: Australian Federation as Unfinished Business
Journal article by A.J. Brown; Melbourne Journal of Politics, 2000
Subjects: Australia--Politics and government, Federalism--Analysis
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No Cold War Two the United States and the Russian Federation
Journal article by Walter Russell Mead; World Policy Journal, Vol. 11, 1994
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Cyrus S. Ching: Pioneer in Industrial Peacemaking; as a Manager, and Later as a Government Executive, Ching Pointed the Way to a Cooperative System of Labor Relations by Showing That Differences Are Much More Easily Resolved When Reason, Rather Than Rancor, Prevails
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...pointed the way to a cooperative system of labor...The American Commonwealth. On October 31...but the American Federation of Labor and its...reforms by the federation establishment...because of the cooperative tradition he had...and that the federations focus on craft...
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The Collapse of Canada's N.D.P.; a Deficit of Imagination
Magazine article by Doug Saunders, Carl Wilson; The Nation, Vol. 257, November 29, 1993
Subjects: Canada--Elections, New Democratic Party (Canada)--Political activity
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...occasional genuflection toward the cooperative commonwealth," he wrote, "it was difficult...affiliated with the American Federation of Labor whose president...and to build an industrial commonwealth in which the equal rights...
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Networking Nation-States the Coming Info-National Order
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Focus on Healthcare: A Handbook for Journalists
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Nebiolo Left Trailing in the Dash for Cash
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World Markets Stabilize
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Virginia GOP Heals Differences
Newspaper article by Rex Bowman; The Washington Times, December 8, 1996
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We Must Do All to Ensure Stability; (Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebrations Launching at the House of Representatives, Quezon City, June 7, 2007.)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 8, 2007
Subjects: United States. Congress. House
...begin to transcend partisan interests-in a collective and cooperative effort to make both our country and ourselves better. For...seeing everywhere in the world regional movements toward federation and community. In closing, let me say that, like the first...


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encyclopedia articles on: (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation)  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Macphail, Agnes Campbell
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...She later became a member of the Ontario legislature (1943 45; 1948 51). On the formation (1933) of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, she became a leading member of this party. See biography by M. Stewart and D. French (1959...
2.
Saskatchewan , Province, Canada
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Saskatchewan was governed (1944 82) by the socialist New Democratic party (NDP, until 1961 called the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation). Among the NDPs achievements was the enactment of compulsory hospital and medical insurance. The Progressive...
3.
United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...discredited by the Haymarket Square riot , was succeeded in prominence by the less divisive American Federation of Labor (see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations ). Massachusetts led the way (1874) with the first...


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