The great upheaval in Canadian politics at the end of the First World War is at the same time the most startling example of the power of class politics in this country, and the most extraordinary example of t~e ability of the pragmatist school to. [...] The sudden reversion of Ontario farmers back to traditional two-party poli tics by the mid-1920s, Social Credit in Alberta, the conservatism of the United Farmers government in Manitoba, the Tory po pulism of John Diefenbaker on the prairies in the 1950s and 1960s, all demonstrate the ambiguity of the farmers' perception of politics, the curious oscillation' of views from left to right, the Janu [...] Coming as it did only a year after the stunning victory of the United Farmers of Ontario in that province's genetal election, and on the eve of the Alberta victory, followe~ by a farmer government in Manitoba in 1922, and just before the displace ment of the Conservatives as the second largest grouping in the House of Commons by the farmer-based Progressive party in the 1921 national election, Th [...] The obsession of the analysis with political forms, to the exclusion of any probing of the economic structures, meant that most of the radical energy of the move ment was to be directed toward the attack on the party system and the establishment of group government. [...] W09(isworth ("I wish to state", Irvine cheerfully informed the House, "that the honorable member for, Centre Winnipeg is the leader of the Labour group-and I am the group"26) formed the "Ginger group" with the more advanced Progressive members, a group which became the nucleus of the CCF party in the 19305.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 2
- Table Of Contents 52
- The Carleton Library 3
- FOREWORD 44
- PART I. THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER IN PERSPECTIVE 54
- CHAPTER I.-THE PROCESS OF READJUSTMENT 56
- PREFACE 48
- Section I.-The New Social Ethics 56
- Section 2.-Business and Service 65
- Section 3.-Education and Life 77
- Section 4.-The Modern Religious Appeal 89
- Section 5.-Moral Degeneration of the Party System 94
- Section 6.-Hypocrisy 108
- Section 7.-Party System Obsolete 114
- CHAPTER II.-THE OUTLOOK OF THE NEW LEADERSHIP 125
- section 1. Progress by Attraction 125
- Section 2. The New Leaders 137
- PART II. THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED FARMERS' MOVEMENT 142
- CHAPTER I. ECONOMIC NECESSITY 144
- section 1. Why the Farmers Organized 144
- Section 2. The United Farm Women 157
- CHAPTER II. DEMOCRACY AND THE GROUP 174
- section 1. The Chain of Social Progress 174
- Section 2. Beginnings 187
- Section 3. Groups Based on Ideas 200
- Section 4. Group Politics 212
- Section 5. Class Legislation 231
- Section 6. Farmers' Platform not Class Law 252
- Section 7. The Alternative 262
- Section 8. Group Government 272