Scottish Workers' Representation Committee

Scottish Workers' Representation Committee

Scottish Workers' Representation Committee was the parliamentary outfit of the Scottish Trades Union Congress 1899-1909. It was known as the Scottish Workers Parliamentary Elections Committee until 1903. In contrast to the Labour Representation Committee in England, SWRC was able to maintain organisational unity between different strands of ideological tendencies in Scotland, ranging from Marxist, Catholic and Fabian socialists.

SWPEC contested the 1900 parliamentary elections. It got 3,107 votes and won no seats.

In the 1906 parliamentary elections SWRC stood with five candidates. The candidates got 14,877 votes, but again failed to win a seat.

In 1909 SWRC was dissolved and merged with the Labour Party. In 1915 a Scottish Council was formed within the Labour Party.


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