| 词条 | Jan Lakeman |
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John "Jan". Lakeman (April 6, 1887 – November 7, 1956) was a mid 20th century Labour rights activist, perennial election candidate and leader of the provincial Communist Party in Alberta, Canada. Political careerBorn in the Netherlands, he came to Canada in 1910, eventually finding work in Edmonton with the Canadian National Railway. He became active in his railway workers union, the One Big Union, the Canadian Labour Party and the Communist Party of Canada. He was the first leader of the Alberta Communist Party after its founding in 1921/1922. Communists were accepted in the Labour Party in the early 1920s and Lakeman was elected president of the Edmonton association for the Canadian Labour Party Alberta branch.[1] He ran as a CLP candidate in 1926.[2] After a visit to Moscow in 1929, he was expelled from his union and from the Labour Party and lost his job. He then led fights by unemployed for improved treatment. Lakeman ran in numerous provincial and federal elections. He ran as a Communist in elections in the 1930s and during World War II after the CPC was renamed the Labor-Progressive Party. References1. ^{{cite news|title=Woodsworth Explains His Statement|publisher=The Lethbridge Herald|page=2|date=August 18, 1926|work=Vol XIX No. 210}} 2. ^Monto, Tom. Protest and Progress, Three Labour Radicals in Early Edmonton, Crang Publishing/Alhambra Books, Edmonton, p. 93 External links{{S-start}}{{S-ppo}}{{Succession box|before=New party| title=Leader of the Communist Party (Alberta)| years=1930–?| after=James A. MacPherson}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lakeman, Jan}}{{Alberta-politician-stub}} 8 : Independent candidates in Alberta provincial elections|Communist Party – Alberta candidates in Alberta provincial elections|Dominion Labor Party (Alberta) candidates in Alberta provincial elections|Labor-Progressive Party candidates in the 1945 Canadian federal election|Candidates in the 1930 Canadian federal election|Candidates in the 1926 Canadian federal election|1887 births|1956 deaths |
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