and allowed Black to run for the Yukon seat in the 1940 election. In the 1945 election the Liberal riding association was concerned that Communist union organizer Tom McEwen of the Labor-Progressive Party could win the election and opted not to run a candidate in Yukon riding and instead supported Black against the Communists and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. The local unions supported McEwen and the LPP's platform of support for collective bargaining, family allowance, old age pensions, workers’ compensation and equality for "Indians and Eskimos." Black campaigned on a more left wing platform, promising collective bargaining, minimum wages, maximum-hour and minimum-age laws, paid holidays, unemployment insurance and labour representation on government boards and defeated McEwan by a margin of 162 votes. He remained in Parliament until the 1949 election, which he did not contest. He attempted to recapture his seat in the 1953 election but was unsuccessful. References 1873 births 1965 deaths Speakers of the House of Commons of Canada People of the Klondike Gold Rush 20th-century Canadian lawyers Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Yukon Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs Commissioners of Yukon People from Dawson City People from Woodstock, New Brunswick Members of the Yukon Territorial Council