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The ''Western Clarion'' was a newspaper launched in January 1903 that became the official organ of the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC). At one time it was the leading left-wing newspaper in Canada. It lost influence after 1910–11 when various groups broke away from the SPC. The editors were unsympathetic to women's demands for the vote and the right to work for pay. During World War I (1914–14) the ''Western Clarion'' was internationalist and denounced a war in which workers fought while others profited. Following the Russian Revolution it adopted a pro-Bolshevik stance, The paper was banned in 1918, but allowed to resume publication in 1920. Its circulation dwindled as SPC membership dwindled, and the last issue appeared in 1925. ==Origins== In 1902 Richard Parmater Pettipiece, who had been publishing the ''Lardeau Eagle'', a miners' journal that supported the Socialist League, bought an interest in George Weston Wrigley's ''Citizen and Country''. Starting in July 1902 the journal began appearing in Vancouver with Wrigley's help as the ''Canadian Socialist''. The newspaper was aligned with the Canadian Socialist League. In October 1902 Pettipiece renamed the paper the ''Western Socialist''. The paper merged with the ''Clarion'' of Nanaimo and the ''Strike Bulletin'' of the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees (UBRE) and appeared as the ''Western Clarion'' on 8 May 1903. The paper was named after the ''Clarion'' published by Robert Blatchford in England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Western Clarion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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