Labour Party Breakthrough 1906
- Created by: Katie-Louise Griffin
- Created on: 14-04-14 15:52
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- Labour Party 1906
- Long Term Move to Labour
- Industrial Revolution
- Rapid City growth
- social tension rises
- overcrowding
- Dieseases
- Poor sanitation
- poor working conditions
- Cost of living
- Socialist aims
- Represent working class in parliament and improve workers lives
- 2 seats 1900 29 Seats 1906
- Trade Unions
- Voice to anger
- Taff Vale Case
- Ramsay McDonald wrote to all TU's
- Need for Labour in Parliment
- Surge in TU support
- 168 Unions affiliated to Labour
- Improvment in finacnes
- Ramsay McDonald wrote to all TU's
- Lib Lab Pact
- Support each others candidates
- Liberals not challenge Labour in 30 areas
- Helped establish Labour
- Political Breakthrough
- Trade Disputes Act
- Small improvments Workments compensation act
- Very little influence on Government
- Dependent on Liberals
- Voting restricted
- Growth of Party wasn't inevitable
- Coukd only win in constituencies where there were no Liberal candidate
- Long Term Move to Labour
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