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At its meeting in Swansea in May 1917 the Co-operative Congress voted by an overwhelming majority to seek ‘direct representation in Parliament and on all local administrative bodies’. By October of that year a National Emergency Conference had enthusiastically endorsed this decision and had set up machinery to implement it. The Co-operative Representation Committee (later prefixed ‘National’) fought its first by-election in January 1918, opposing the official coalition candidate, and at the coupon election it fielded ten candidates, of whom one, A. E. Waterson, was successful. By 1919 the N.C.R.C. had become the Co-operative Party.
Research on which this paper is based was made possible by a grant from the Knoop Fund of the University of Sheffield. I am most grateful for the kind attention by the following Librarians: Mrs. I. Wagner of the Labour Party, Mr. Desmond Flanagan of the Co-operative Union and Mr. Brian Reith of the Co-operative Party.
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Rhodes, op. cit. p. 15; Margaret Llewellyn Davies, A. Honora Enfield and Lilian Harris, Co-operation and Labour Unrest (Manchester, 1919); J. Young, in Co-operative Congress Report (1913), pp. 495–6.
F. M. Eddie, Co-operation and Labour Uprisings (Women’s Guild, Hull, 1912); also Joint Builders. How Co-operators and Trade Unionists should Work Together (Pamphlet, Women’s Guild, n.d. but 1912 or 1913).
E.M.H. Lloyd, Experiments in State Control. At the War Office and the Ministry of Food (Oxford, 1924), pp. 156 ff., 231 ff.; Beveridge, Food Control, pp. 91 ff., 123 ff., 134 ff.; Arthur Marwick, The Deluge (1965), pp. 206–9.
Cole, op. cit. p. 319; Barbara Smith and Geoffrey Ostergaard, Constitutional Relations between the Labour and Co-operative Parties (Hansard Society, ?1960), p. 5.
Webb, op. cit. pp. 269–70; W. H. Watkins, The Co-operative Party: Its Aim and Work (Manchester, 1921).
For a competent account, see Paul W. Kellogg and Arthur Gleason, British Labor and the War (New York, 1919), and M, A. Hamilton, Arthur Henderson (1938), pp. 168 ff.
The best account will be found in Webb, op. cit. pp. 275 ff. See also F. Hall and W. P. Watkins, Co-operation (Manchester, 1934), pp. 345–6; Emergency Conference Report, pp. 70 ff.; Barnes, op. cit. pp. 43–4.
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Pollard, S. (1971). The Foundation of the Co-Operative Party. In: Briggs, A., Saville, J. (eds) Essays in Labour History 1886–1923. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00755-4_8
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