Dominion Labor Party | |
|---|---|
| Former provincial party | |
| Leader | Holmes Jowett |
| Founded | March 29, 1919 |
| Dissolved | 1942 |
| Preceded by | Alberta Labor Representation League |
| Merged into | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Canadian Labour Party |
The Dominion Labor Party (Alberta) was a minor political party. It was founded on June 11, 1918 when Edmonton's Labour Representation League renamed itself the Alberta wing of the DLP.[1] Its executive included Mr. Marshall, Mr. Mercer, Mr. Dan Knott, later mayor of the city, White (later Labour MLA), Findlay and Farmilo (both later to be aldermen), and Elmer Roper, later mayor Edmonton.
A branch of the DLP was founded in Calgary in March 1919 as the Federated Labor Party and was renamed the Dominion Labor Party that same year.
The Edmonton area locals renamed themselves locals of the Canadian Labour Party in the early 1920s, but southern Alberta locals such as the one at Lethbridge continued under the Dominion name. Both district organizations were the largest sections of each of their parties, so the terms CLP and Alberta CLP, DLP and Alberta DLP, were almost equivalent. Alberta, having strong radical working-class communities centred around coal mining and other heavy industries, elected a number of Labour MLAs in 1921 and 1926 and two Labour MPs in 1921. This ended with the massive election of the bank-reformist Social Credit government of William Aberhart in 1935.
It was disbanded in favour of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1942.