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Definition of Labor party
1. Noun. A left-of-center political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people.
Generic synonyms: Party, Political Party
Specialized synonyms: Australian Labor Party, British Labour Party, Labor, Labour, Labour Party
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labor Party
Literary usage of Labor party
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"The Socialist labor party cast 7000 votes in Chicago in 1877. Similar independent
labor tickets were quite largely supported in Cincinnati, Cleveland, ..."
2. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"129) 221p tables N 1 '19 No time for experimenting with "labor party" theories.
... Birth of the American communist labor party. social order, p 185-224 '19 ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"A Conservative newspaper correspondent and a Left-wing Labor MP engage in a not
entirely good-tempered debate on the question why the British labor party is ..."
4. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"Course of reading on socialism: recommended by the Literary agency of the Socialist
labor party. О. 12р. pa. NY labor news CO Criticism. ..."
5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"See Trade unions labor party (Canada) Labour movement in Canada- New Statesman
13:65-6 Ap 19 '19 labor party (Great Britain) Agricultural impasse and a way ..."
6. The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism by Paul Frederick Brissenden (1919)
"The Socialist labor party was organized in 1877. It was a merger of the National
Labor Union, the North American Federation of the International ..."
7. An Introduction to the Study of Organized Labor in America by George Gorham Groat (1916)
"Whether or not a labor party will ever take a place among our political parties
is a practical question, even if unanswerable. The Lesson of History. ..."