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Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed in the 1920s and 1930s by C. H. Douglas.Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them.
The organisation was led by John Hargrave, who gradually turned the movement into a paramilitary movement for social credit.With its supporters wearing a political uniform of green shirts, in 1932 it became known as the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit and in 1935 it took its final name, the Social Credit Party. [1]
Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, MIMechE, MIEE (20 January 1879 – 29 September 1952), [1] was a British engineer, economist and pioneer of the social credit economic reform movement. Education and engineering career
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In the 1940 federal election many Social Credit Party MPs ran for re-election under the New Democracy party led by former Conservative William Duncan Herridge as part of a joint effort. All 3 New Democracy candidates elected were Social Credit incumbents, Social Credit leader John Horne Blackmore and MPs Walter Frederick Kuhl and Robert Fair ...
The Social Credit Party of Canada (French: Parti Crédit social du Canada), colloquially known as the Socreds, [3] was a populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform. It was the federal wing of the Canadian social credit movement.
The Irish Social Credit Party was a political party active in the Irish Free State. Founded as the Financial Freedom Federation in 1932, it was renamed in 1935 ...
At this election, Social Credit won an outright majority. Although the party was ostensibly the British Columbia wing of the Canadian social credit movement, Bennett jettisoned the old ideology, remembering that the Alberta Socreds had tried and failed to implement it soon after winning their first term in government. Instead, he converted it ...