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Alberta’s labour movement and allied progressive 1935, it was wiped out in the Social Credit frenzy that movements were overjoyed with the results of the May swept the province. By that time, the CLP had committed 5, 2015 provincial election in Alberta. A majority NDP to joining the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a government after 43 years of large Tory majorities national organization of democratic socialists formed in was unexpected and augurs well for working people in 1932 and dedicated to ending the Great Depression while Alberta. Kudos to , her team of candidates ensuring that the political and economic conditions that and organizers for making it happen. had created it never returned.

But the election of a social democratic government in While the CCF, led by printer Elmer Roper, won a Alberta did not happen overnight. The labour movement quarter of all votes cast in the 1944 provincial election, was the chief instigator of almost nine decades of the electoral system turned that huge vote into a mere organizing labour-friendly, social democratic parties in two legislative seats. The party gradually lost support Alberta. It has been involved in both legislative and extra- as a combination of post-war prosperity and the Cold parliamentary movements to create social justice and a War lulled many into believing that the capitalist system better distribution of wealth and power in Alberta and had self-corrected. The labour movement took greater beyond. ownership over social democratic politics by taking the lead in creating the in 1961, a The province’s social democratic history began with somewhat more moderate version of the CCF. In Alberta, the creation of Labour Representation Committees in oil workers’ trade union leader became the Calgary and in 1917, followed by the creation NDP’s first leader. of an Alberta branch of the Canadian Labour Party (CLP) in 1921, a party launched by the Trades and Labour Growth in electoral support for the NDP proved gradual Congress of . The CLP called for greater state and discontinuous. Though the party won 16 seats in direction of the economy, the introduction of social 1986 and 1989 and formed the Official Opposition, it won insurance programs, and protection of workers’ rights no seats in 1993 and had to gradually rebuild. Labour- to organize. Labour elected four members in 1921, and supported organizations like Public Interest Alberta and one member, Alex Ross, was included by the victorious Friends of Medicare which fought the right-wing Tory United Farmers of Alberta in their Cabinet after that agenda helped to create the atmosphere that allowed New election. Labour went on to win six seats in 1926 but in Democrats to form a government in 2015. Alberta rovincial Arc ives dmonton labour candidates elected to re resent t e Canadian abour arty Origins of Social Democracy in Alberta Social democratic parties everywhere have their origins in the oppose conscription during World War One. labour movement. The establishment of a variety of unions After the war, Roper and other union leaders decided to in Alberta before World War One and the creation of labour create a province-wide Canadian Labour Party which advocated councils in the cities and then the Alberta Federation of the gradual nationalization of industry, the introduction Labour in 1912 provided the groundwork for the emergence of of minimum wages, and improved access to workers’ labour political organizations. These included revolutionary compensation along with higher payments, among other organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) reforms. Though Alberta was still primarily an agricultural and the Communist Party. But most Alberta labour leaders province and the division of seats discriminated heavily against favoured participation within the existing parliamentary system urban residents, four Labour members were elected in 1921: over the revolutionary overthrow of political and economic rule Alex Ross and Fred White in Calgary, William Johnston in capitalists. n 191, printer lmer oper persaded first the Medicine Hat, and Philip Christophers in Rocky Mountain. The Calgary Labour Council and then its Edmonton counterpart first three represented moderate elements in the trade nion to found Labour Representation Leagues that supported movement while Christophers was a radical miner who had independent labour involvement in politics, particularly to been active in the IWW. SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT December 2015 February 2016 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 New Year’s Day 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1905 Industrial 27 28 29 30 31 28 29 1966 The Canadian Pension Plan comes Workers of the World into effect founded in Chicago 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1906 Founding meeting of the Edmonton Trades and Labour Council 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1962 Alberta New Democrats founding provincial convention 24 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 1946 Rand Formula introduced Alberta rovincial Arc ives A illiam Irvine c one o t e ounders o t e Coo erative Commonwealt ederation Labour’s first participation in government in Alberta When the United Farmers of Alberta formed government in cooperation with the UFA in the legislature and urged party lerta in 191, Premier erert reenfield appointed one of representatives to take a more aggressive stance in favour of the four elected Labour members, stonemason Alex Ross, as policies of nationalization, social programs, and more extensive Minister of Public Works. The UFA and Labour had agreed public works. In the 1926 election, Ross ran as part of a informally during the election not to run in the same seats. aor slate in alar, which was a fiememer seat. hile While the UFA was not especially sensitive to labour’s needs, Fred White placed fourth and socialist Independent Labour its party philosophy called for the inclusion of representatives candidate oert Parn placed fifth, oss placed eihth. of dierent ocations in oernment. oss persaded the Though Labour won 6 seats in 1926 and 4 in 1930, the UFA UFA government to expand access to workers’ compensation, did not include a Labour representative in Cabinet after 1926. implement a female minimum wage, and favour unionized Federally, Alberta Labour elected two representatives in 1921, labour in government construction contracts. one of whom, preacher William Irvine, would play a major role But a large faction within the Labour Party opposed direct in social democratic politics for the next four decades.

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 2002 Alberta’s largest 1906 Lethbridge Trades teachers’ strike begins and Labour Council granted charter 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Family Day Valentine’s Day 1944 PC 1003, federal government recognizes collective bargaining rights for Canadian workers 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

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SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT February 2016 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 International Women’s Day 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Daylight Savings St. Patrick’s Day 1918 Government of 1919 Civil Service 1919 Western Labour Alberta passes Association of Alberta Conference in Calgary workers’ compensation (CSA), precursor to forms One Big Union legislation AUPE, formed 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Spring Equinox Good Friday

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Artist unknown s election ad or t e Alberta wing o t e Coo erative Commonwealt ederation Rebuilding the CCF After the debacle of the 1935 provincial election, both the reat difficlt conincin worers that the shold aandon Labour Party and the UFA gradually withdrew from provincial Social Credit for a social democratic party. politics. The CCF built a grassroots organization in which labour The CCF’s second leader, printer Elmer Roper, was a long- actiists plaed a maor role. he part’s first proincial leader, time official of the lerta ederation of aor. oper edited , who lead the party from 1939 to 1942, had a the weel lerta aor News from 1919 to 19, the official background as a farmer, teacher, and missionary. He later be- newspaper of the AFL. Afterwards he edited People’s Weekly, came a famos anadian diplomat who made a maor eort to which ecame the official newspaper of the . illiam rine, get the Americans to withdraw their invading forces in Vietnam. the ’s first lerta president, coedited People’s eel with The CCF won 11 percent of the vote in the provincial election in Roper for a few years. The newspaper continued to publish until 1940 but no seats. In that election, the Liberals and Conserva- 1953. Roper led the party from 1942 to 1955 and later became tives formed a coalition to defeat Social Credit. The CCF had mayor of Edmonton.

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17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1956 Canadian Labour Congress is formed 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 International Day of Mourning Alberta rovincial Arc ives nc- - olice block marc ers route ust rior to c arging crowd during dmonton unger arc Wartime Successes and Disappointments lmer oper won the first seat for the in lerta in a, Calgary teacher Aylmer Liesemer joined him in the legislature. 1942. Assuming the party’s leadership, he used his labour and Interestingly the Communists won 5 percent of the vote and no farm contacts to build a party membership of 12,000 by the seats, running on a platform similar to the CCF’s. The province time of the 1944 provincial election. Ernest Manning’s Social had a single transferable vote system at the time that could have Credit Party had only 8000 paid-up members at the time. elected 6 CCF members and one Communist had the two parties But Manning had won over the business community to sup- not viciously attacked each other and asked their voters not to port of his part as the est means of fendin o the socialist give their second choices to the other party. hordes.” Roper promised a democratic and gradual transition oper and iesemer were eectie memers of the leislatre to socialism through the introduction of social programs and in defending labour’s interests. But the membership was quite nationalization of resource industries and big companies. His discouraged by the poor showing in 1944 and within a few years, party won 25 percent of the vote in the 1944 provincial election. the party membership had dropped by two thirds. That translated into only two seats. Roper retained his seat and

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 International 1886 Workers demonstrating Workers’ Day in Chicago for 8 hour day attacked by police on Haymarket Square 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Mother's Day 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 1919 General Strike begins 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Victoria Day 1905 Calgary Trades 1919 Alberta workers and Labour Council strike in solidarity with granted charter Winnipeg General Strike

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eel ibrary niversity o Alberta This Liberal party flyer was typical of the red baiting of the C.C.F. during the 1940s Decimation of the Alberta CCF The Alberta CCF, like its federal counterpart, struggled to stay advocates to advocates for workers’ rights to organize and to alive in the postwar period. The federal CCF had topped the na- strike was labelled a foreign agent. The unions were pushed to tional polls for part of World War Two and the party formed the purge Communists and other left-wingers and to stay out of po- government in Saskatchewan in 1944. Shortly afterwards, pro- litical and social policy debates. Worried for their reputations, incial worers in asatchewan ecame the first in anada to many unionists obliged. Advocates of peaceful resolution of receive the right to unrestricted collective bargaining. The old- American-Soviet tensions like former Labour MP William Irvine line parties responded with a carrot and a stick. The carrot was were easy targets for Premier Manning who regarded virtually to adopt some CCF social and economic policies that ushered in all reformers as part of a worldwide socialist conspiracy. a period of relative economic prosperity that dimmed radical- The Alberta CCF vote dropped in every election after 1945 and ism. The stick was to accuse the CCF and the labour movement in 1959, they reached rock bottom with no seats and only four of being agents of the Soviet Union. The Cold War between the percent of the popular vote. West and the Soviet Union raged and everyone from daycare

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT May 2016 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1 2 3 4 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1986 UFCW strikes at Gainers 29 30 31 and Fletchers begin 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1935 On-to-Ottawa Trek reaches Calgary 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1912 Alberta Federa- tion of Labour formed 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Father's Day Summer Solstice National St. Jean-Baptiste Day Aboriginal Day July 2016 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 26 27 28 29 30 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1926 Six Labour members win 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 seats in Alberta election 31 oto courtesy eimer amily lbertas rst ew eocratic arty leader eil eier and Toy ouglas at CLC conention Labour and the Formation of the NDP As the CCF collapsed, the Canadian Labour Congress and some for a provincial medicare program along the lines of Saskatch- affiliate nions wored with memers to create a new part ewan’s pioneer program, for better labour legislation, for that wold allow affiliation of trade nions, nlie the . occupational health and safety legislation, and for an end to The result was the New Democratic Party that formed in 1961 the corruption that marked the Social Credit regime. But only with asatchewan Premier omm Dolas ecomin its first a fraction of the province’s unions were willing to challenge leader. The fortunes of the new social democratic party were the proince’s ocial redit domination with a direct affilia- aided not only by labour support but by a recession in the West- tion to the NDP. The NDP won a by-election in Pincher Creek- ern economies that lasted from late 1958 to 1963. Crowsnest in 1966, aided by the votes of retired miners. In the In Alberta, Neil Reimer, Canadian director of the Oil Chemical 1967 provincial election, though the party won a respectable 16 and Atomic Workers union, and longstanding CCF supporter, percent of the vote, it won no seats. ecame the first proincial leader of the NDP. e campained

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17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1921 United Farmers 1933 First national of Alberta government convention of the CCF elected; includes four adopts the Regina Labour members Manifesto 24 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 Alberta rovincial Arc ives ew Democratic arty leader Grant otley on t e Alberta legislature ste s Years Neil Reimer stepped down as Alberta NDP leader in 1968 and only a limited audience. That changed as a deep recession began schoolteacher and NDP activist Grant Notley won the leadership in 1982. The NDP vote jumped to 19 percent in the provincial race. Notley managed to win the Spirit River-Fairview seat from election that year and teacher won Edmonton-Nor- Social Credit in the 1971 provincial election, an amazing feat given wood. he NDP ecame the Official Opposition. rowin laor that most of the province was turning from Social Credit to Peter militancy during the recession caused more working people Lougheed’s Progressive Conservatives. Labour played an impor- to reject the Tories and their free-market policies in favour of tant role in sustaining the NDP during the Notley years which the labour-friendly NDP. Many worried that the passing of the lasted until his untimely death in a plane crash in October, 1984. well-respected Grant Notley would harm the NDP’s electoral Notle was an eectie spoesman for economic plannin and prospects but Ray Martin picked up the torch from Notley and for a better distribution of wealth in Alberta during a huge oil continued to hammer the Tories in the legislature for their fail- boom from 1973 to 1982. But while oil prices were high, he found ure to meet the needs of working people in the province.

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 Heritage Day 1932 The CCF is founded in Calgary 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1940 The Unemployment Insurance Act receives royal assent 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1905 Formation of the first Medicine Hat Trades and Labour Council 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

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SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT October 2016 August 2016 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 2 3 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 29 30 31 30 31 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Labour Day 1886 Alberta’s first union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers, is founded in Medicine Hat 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1956 Alberta Federation of Labour and the Industrial Federation of Labour of Alberta merge 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Fall Equinox 1963 Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is formed 25 26 27 28 29 30 Glenbow Arc ives m- - Calgary erald olitical cartoonist comments on ongoing o osition aced by al lein s goverment during t e s Labour’s Response to the “Klein Revolution” In 1993 the new leader of the Progressive Conservatives won underfund the system as a whole. Labour supported a broader the proincial election with a promise to eect massie cts to research agenda for a positive role for government by contrib- provincial government programs. His chief opponent, Liberal uting generously to the -based Parkland leader awrence Decore, promised rtal cts. he NDP, de- Institute, founded in 1996. And then labour took the lead in fending government programs, lost all 16 of its seats. The party establishing Public Interest Alberta in 2005, an organization fell into a period of declining membership and resources. that was dedicated to public campaigns to preserve and extend he eort to reie social democratic perspecties in lerta the role of government as a protector of social rights and greater fell to the labour movement as the major organized expression equality among citizens. of social justice. The labour movement played the largest role in he campains of these oraniations helped to oset the the creation of riends of edicare in 199 to fiht etraillin ongoing business propaganda for governments to be little more by physicians. Though it became dormant after that campaign than agents of big corporations. In turn, this helped to revive was won, it was reied in the 199s to fiht the lein oern- the NDP while also causing the provincial Liberals to partially ment’s eorts to priatie parts of the medicare sstem and reject their anti-government philosophy of the Decore period. SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT September 2016 November 2016 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 25 26 27 28 29 30 27 28 29 30 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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23 24 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 Halloween (31) 1995 Federal Government workers win 16 year battle for pay equity oto courtesy David Climen aga e Alberta D caucus attend t e Alberta ederation o abour s Centennial celebration Rebuilding the NDP The NDP slowly rebuilt after the debacle of 1993, gaining Wildrose party focused on issues of the integrity of PC Cabinet strength for its social objectives from labour organizations and members and MLAs but only rarely opposed the right-wing civil society organizations where labour was a strong participant. policies of the government. They did join with the NDP in op- Labour activists provided many NDP candidates in provincial posing Bill 46 which allowed the government to impose a collec- elections. , who became the party leader in 2004 tive bargaining agreement. But Wildrose’s determination to cut and remained leader until 2014, was a former bus driver who taxes and reduce the government labour force made it clear that served on Edmonton city council from 1989 to 2000, when he they were no friend to labour. was elected to the legislature. In October, 2014, Rachel Notley succeeded Brian Mason as Election results were generally disappointing before 2015. The NDP leader. Notley, the daughter of Grant Notley, had worked party won just short of 10 percent of the vote in 2011 and won for a variety of unions in BC and Alberta in the areas of workers’ only four seats. But the four-member caucus was viewed even by compensation, occupational health and safety, and labour rela- its opponents on the right as punching well above its weight and tions. At the time of her election to the legislature in 2008, she serving as the real opposition in the legislature. The right-wing was laor relations officer for the nited Nrses of lerta.

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT October 2016 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Daylight Savings Remembrance Day Time Ends 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1995 Calgary hospital workers stage illegal strike to stop contracting out 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

December 2016 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 27 28 29 30 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 oto Courtesy en em ers Alberta D caucus a tter istoric election victory Election of the NDP By the time PC Premier Jim Prentice called an election in early the funds of the Tories. But it had people power and a leader April, 2015, there was much discontent in Alberta. Oil prices whom most Albertans could identify with along with an attrac- had been in free fall for months, and people asked: what had tive set of moderate but progressive proposals. These included the government saved during the good times so that health, a province-wide daycare program to ensure a maximum rate education, and social programs could continue in bad times? of $25 per day per child, an increase in the minimum wage The answer was nothing. The Tories had focused on keeping from $10.20 to $15 per hour by 2018, a 20 percent increase in corporate taxes and taxes on high-income earners as well as corporate taes, an end to the at ta for incomes, a reiew of energy royalties impossibly low; now the cupboard was bare. royalties, and restoration of funds cut in Prentice’s budget to The Tories’ solution was to cut programs further and increase health and education. On May 5, the people of Alberta gave the taxes on everyone but corporations. Prentice took special aim NDP 54 seats in the 83-seat legislature. Many of those elected at government workers and their unions, promising to achieve had labour movement backgrounds. Rachel Notley was sworn in lower spendin cttin waes and enefits. as premier on May 24, 2015, and her government began imple- he NDP went into the election with onl aot a fifth of menting many of its election promises within weeks.

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