Liberal-Labour (UK) - Citizendia

"Lib-Lab(s)" redirects here. See Lib-Lab pact for UK Liberal Party-Labour Party agreements and LibLab for the Norwegian think-tank. The Lib-Lab pact has been a working arrangement between the UK 's political parties of the Liberals (later Liberal Democrats) and the Labour Party See also Lib-Lab and Lib-Lab pact for the historic British political groupings

The Liberal-Labour movement refers to the practice of local Liberal associations accepting and supporting candidates who were financially maintained by Trade unions. The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s and a third party A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming These candidates stood for the British Parliament with the aim of representing the working classes, while remaining supportive of the Liberal Party in general. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types

The first Lib-Lab candidates, Alexander MacDonald and Thomas Burt, both members of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB), were elected in the 1874 UK general election. Thomas Burt ( 12 November 1837 &ndash 12 April 1922) was a British Trade unionist and one of the first working-class See also the National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa. Template talkInfobox Union Results |} Total votes cast 2466037 "Others" include the Catholic Union. In 1880, they were joined by Henry Broadhurst of the Stonemasons' Union and the movement reached its peak in 1885, with twelve MPs elected. Results |} Total votes cast 3359416 Voting summary Seats summary See also Harry Broadhurst Henry Broadhurst ( 13 April 1840 &ndash 11 October 1911) was a prominent Results |} Total votes cast 4638235 All parties shown Voting summary Seats summary See also

The candidates generally stood with the support of the Liberal Party, the Labour Representation League and one or more trade unions. The Labour Representation League, organised in 1869 was a forerunner of the British Labour Party. A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming After 1885, decline set in. Disillusion grew from the defeat of the Manningham Mills Strike, a series of decisions restricting the activity of unions, culminating in the Taff Vale Case and largely unchallenged by the Liberal Party, and the foundation of the Independent Labour Party in 1892 followed by its turn towards trade unionism. Taff Vale Railway Co v Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants 1901 AC 426 commonly known as the Taff Vale case was a suit brought by the Taff Vale Railway Company See Independent Labor Party for the Political party in Burundi, Independent Labour Group for the Irish party and Labour candidates Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year

The formation of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 followed by the Labour Party in 1906 and its subsequent success in general elections led most trade unions to switch support, and the terminal decline of the Lib-Lab group. Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The MFGB affiliated to the Labour Party in 1909, and their MPs joined Labour after the January 1910 UK general election. Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The United Kingdom general election of January 1910 was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. The movement finally died out at the 1918 UK general election, when Thomas Burt (by then Father of the House) and Arthur Richardson stood down. The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom Father of the House is a term that has by tradition been unofficially bestowed on certain members of some national Legislatures most notably the House of Commons in