Industrial Socialist Labor Party

The Industrial Socialist Labor Party ( German: Industrial Socialist Workers' Party ) was a short-lived Socialist Party in the late 1910s and early 1920s in Australia. Founded as the socialist party of members of the industrial wing of the Australian Labor Party (ALP ), the ( OBE) at the time by forces of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW) and the movement of One Big Union ( German: One Big Union ) dominated.

Policy

This party was founded were nominated at a conference in August 1919, on the candidates for the national elections in Australia in 1919. These candidates were campaigning against the candidates of the ALP election and received 10 % of the primary vote. The Socialist Party won only one seat in parliament in 1920 by Percy Brookfield in the constituency of Sturt in New South Wales in the parliamentary elections in New South Wales. Brookfield won with his votes award majorities in Parliament: One year after this election he fell victim to a murderer. Michael Considine, a member of the ALP in the constituency Barrier in the Australian House of Representatives from 1917 changed in 1920 in the Industrial Socialist Labor Party and after he was excluded in 1920, he ran unsuccessfully in 1922 for the ALP in Darling constituency Barrier. Donald Grant, one of twelve Australian IWW members who stood as a candidate in the constituency Sturt in 1922 and reached only 2.8 % of the primary vote. He was successfully elected later than ALP member to parliament. Other members of the Socialist Party, which are known in Australia, were John Garden and Jack Baddeley.

Resolution

The support of the Socialist Party declined as the ALP in 1921 took over the required so-called Socialist Objective of her. The term was then understood Socialist Objective in the Australian labor movement in the wake of the Russian October Revolution, the social radicalization of political platforms and programs and unity of the labor movement. On the All- Australian Trades Union Congress from June / July 1921, the national leadership of the ALP were to understand that it would be better focused on the trade unions and the union and accepted the following resolution text:

" (A ) That the Australian Labor Party Proposes collective ownership for the purpose of Preventing exploitation and to whatever extent 'may be Necessary for purpose did.

That wherever private ownership is a Means of exploitation it is Opposed by the party, but

( c ) did the party does not seek to abolish private ownership even of any instrument of production where instruments are examined utilised by their owners in a socially useful manner and without exploitation ".

Following this decision, many members of the Industrial Socialist Labor Party either changed in the ALP or the Communist Party of Australia and the party broke up.