Nationalist Party

NATIONALIST PARTY, BC's first labour political party, was organized early in 1894 to prepare for the forthcoming provincial election. Its platform called for WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE, an end to property qualifications for candidates, a system of RECALL, the 8-hour workday, a single tax on land values and public ownership of transport, utilities and banks. The party's candidate, Robert Macpherson, a carpenter by trade, won election to the legislature in 1894 and again in 1898, though he turned out to be...

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