They came back to Winnipeg in late 1918, in time for Douglas to witness the Winnipeg General Strike.

The book had been banned in Canada since February 1918 for what a Winnipeg newspaper described as " seditious and antiwar statements " and described by Attorney General Gregory as dangerous propaganda.

The campaign attracted the attention of governments and on February 12, 1918 the book was banned by the Canadian government for what a Winnipeg newspaper described as " seditious and antiwar statements " On February 24 in Los Angeles Rutherford gave a talk entitled " The World Has Ended — Millions Now Living May Never Die " ( subsequent talks in the series were renamed, " Millions Now Living Will Never Die ") in which he attacked the clergy, declaring: " As a class, according to the Scriptures, the clergymen are the most reprehensible men on earth for the great war that is now afflicting mankind.

Steele died during the 1918 flu pandemic just after his 71st birthday and was later buried in Winnipeg.

In March 1918, Arthur Puttee and members of the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Congress ( TLC ) created the first branch of the Dominion Labour Party in Canada.

In March 1918, Dixon helped to found the first branch of the Dominion Labour Party in Winnipeg.

He helped found the local trade union council, the Winnipeg Labour Party ( WLP ) and a left-wing newspaper called The Voice, which he edited from 1899 until 1918.

Other commissions included murals for the Great Hall of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, London ( 1901 – 1909 ), the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 ( now in the Herbst Theatre, Veteran's Building Auditorium, San Francisco ), a Lunette for Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio ( 1911 – 1915 ), the Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg ( 1918 – 1921 ), the Chapel, Christ's Hospital School, Horsham ( 1912 – 1923 ), and the Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City ( 1915 – 1925 ).

Between 1918 and 1924 the Hungarian clubs in Winnipeg were very active.

Ruttan returned to Canada in 1918, playing one further game for the Winnipeg Somme, but did not continue a competitive ice hockey career.

Jacob was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in a by-election, held on January 15, 1918 in the Winnipeg North " B " constituency following the resignation of Social Democrat Richard Rigg.

Tipping was elected to the Winnipeg trades council during this period, and helped to form in the Dominion Labour Party in 1918.

On June 21, 1918, at their regular meeting at Geneva Hall in New York City, the Scenic Artists voted to accept a charter as United Scenic Artists of America ( hence the USAA still seen today in the union ’ s “ bug ”) being Local 829, an autonomous local of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers of America ( later to become IBPAT, the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades ).

In the 1918 general election Lloyd George, " the Man Who Won the War ", led his coalition into another khaki election, and won a sweeping victory over the Asquithian Liberals and the newly emerging Labour Party.

In February 1918, the third Inter-Allied Labour and Socialist Conference ( representing delegates from Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy ) issued its report, advocating an international labour rights body, an end to secret diplomacy, and other goals.

A passionate orator, he was Labour leader at the 1983 general election when the party received its lowest share of the vote since 1918.

The torch is also a symbol used by political parties, for instance by both Labour ( from 1918 to 1980 ) and the Conservatives ( from 1983 to 2006 ) in the UK, and the Malta Labour Party.

Yeovil's Liberal candidate had been placed second in February 1974 and third in the October 1974 general election, and Ashdown's objective was to " squeeze " the local Labour vote to enable him to defeat the Conservatives, who had held the seat since its creation in 1918.

Initially, therefore, the CPGB attempted to work within the Labour Party, which at this time operated mainly as a federation of left-wing bodies, only having allowed individual membership since 1918.

He also joined the Norwegian Labour Party, and was elected to the national board in 1918, when an opposition of revolutionaries assumed power in the party.

In 1923 the revolutionary wing that had assumed power in the Labour Party in 1918 had split into two wings, one for and one against Comintern membership.

In 1918, Maxton was elected to the National Council of the Labour Party.

He and Ramsay MacDonald were responsible for moving the motion at the Labour Party's National Executive Committee which dictated that Labour members of the wartime coalition government resign from it in preparation for the 1918 general election.

Maxton stood for parliament in the 1918 general election as a Labour Party candidate but was defeated in this first effort.

The Labour Party, led by Thomas Johnson from 1917, as successor to such organisations as D. D. Sheehan's ( independent Labour MPs ) Irish Land and Labour Association, declined to contest the 1918 general election, in order to allow the election to take the form of a plebiscite on Ireland's constitutional status ( although some candidates did run in Belfast constituencies under the Labour banner against Unionist candidates ).

Brendan Corish ( 19 November 1918 – 17 February 1990 ) was an Irish Labour Party politician, and leader of his party from 1960 to 1977.

In 1918, it became a Labour hold who have held it since, except for between 1931 to 1935 when it held by the National Unionists.

The Independent Labour Party's May Day Manifesto of 1918 makes this very clear in calling for A Living Wage for all and Justice for our Soldiers and their Dependants.

A member of the Reichstag, Bauer entered Prince Max of Baden's government in October 1918 as Minister of Labour, a role which he continued to hold in the government of Philipp Scheidemann after the war.

The CPNZ was founded in March 1921, five years after the New Zealand Labour Party, and it consisted mainly of some dozens of former members of the New Zealand Marxian Association ( established in 1918 ) and the old Socialist Party.

Labour suffered their worst election defeat since 1918 with eight and a half million votes, over three million votes down on the previous general election.

KKE was founded on 4 November 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece.

ΚΚΕ was founded on 4 November 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece ( Greek:, Sosialistikó Ergatikó Kómma Elládas ; acronym: ΣΕΚΕ, SEKE ) by Avraam Benaroya, a Sephardic Jewish teacher and Socialist Workers ' Federation leader in Thessaloniki.

* 1918 – The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.

At the meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on January 31, 1918, a merger of VCheKa and the Commission of Bonch-Bruyevich was proposed.

On July 16, 1918, the Council of People's Commissars formed the Extraordinary Commission for combating counterrevolution at the Czechoslovak ( Eastern ) Front, led by M. I. Latsis.

The title of Emperor of Austria and the associated Empire were both abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918, when German Austria became a republic and the other kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council established their independence or adhesion to other states.

* 1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.

* 1918 – The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14 ( NS )

He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council ( led by Leon Trotsky ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 defense of Tsaritsyn.

The Council of People's Commissars decided to form the Red Army on 28 January 1918.

On 6 September 1918, the Bolshevik militias consolidated under the supreme command of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic ( Revvoyensoviet, Revolyutsionny Voyenny Sovyet ), People's Commissar for War ( 1918 – 24 ), Leon Trotsky, Chairman, and Jukums Vācietis, Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army.

Following the dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Empire in the aftermath of the World War I, a National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs took power in Zagreb on 6 October 1918.

Following the Silesian Uprisings ( 1918 – 21 ) Katowice became part of the Second Polish Republic with a certain level of autonomy ( Silesian Parliament as a constituency and Silesian Voivodeship Council as the executive body ).

In 1918, Kamenev became chairman of the Moscow Soviet and soon thereafter Lenin's Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars ( government ) and the Council of Labor and Defense.

After the First World War had ended in 1918, the Workers ' and Soldiers ' Council took power briefly in Bayreuth.

On October 31, 1918, local military and political elites establish the " Banat National Council ", together with representatives of the region's main ethnic groups: Hungarians, Romanians, Serbs and Germans.

On October 12, 1918, Rzeszów ’ s mayor, together with Town Council, sent a message to Warsaw, announcing loyalty to the independent Polish government.

* 1918 October 3-Eighteen months after United States Congress declares war on Germany, the Mason County Council of Defense draws up resolution to abandon the use of the German language in the county.

There was the Greensboro Area Council ( 1918 ), Winston-Salem Council ( 1919 ), Raleigh Council, and Durham Council.

Founded in 1918, it changed its name to Northern Litchfield Council in 1929.

* New London Council of Girl Scouts ( 1918 – 1964 ) merged to form Connecticut Trails Council.