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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.
Notable supporters of Social Credit or "monetary reform" in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s included aircraft manufacturer A. V. Roe, scientist Frederick Soddy, author Henry Williamson, [citation needed] military historian J. F. C. Fuller [7] and Sir Oswald Mosley, in 1928-30 a member of the Labour Government but later the leader of the British Union of Fascists.
The name Social Credit Party has been used by a number of political parties. In Canada: ... Canadian social credit movement This page was last edited on 7 ...
At the end of World War I, Douglas retired from engineering to promote his reform ideas full-time, which he would do for the rest of his life. His ideas inspired the Canadian social credit movement (which obtained control of Alberta's provincial government in 1935), the short-lived Douglas Credit Party in Australia and the longer-lasting Social ...
In the 1930s and 1940s, the social credit movement in British Columbia was largely fractious, and made up of various small groups, the largest of which being the Social Credit League. The British Columbian movement was largely at odds with the Albertan wing and sought to distance itself from William Aberhart's religious preaching.
The Canadian social credit movement was largely an out-growth of the Alberta Social Credit Party, and the Social Credit Party of Canada was strongest in Alberta during this period. In 1932, Baptist evangelist William Aberhart used his radio program to preach the values of social credit throughout the province. [ 4 ]
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 ...
This article lists Wikipedia articles about members of the Social Credit Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada 1935 17 MPs elected (15 Alberta, 2 Saskatchewan) John Horne Blackmore - Lethbridge, Alberta, party leader (1935–1944) elected 1935-1940 re-elected as New Democracy , re-elected as SC 1945-1949-1953-1957, def 1958