LabouristLaboristadj.n.

1880 Liverpool Mercury 1 Mar. 6/1 The dangerous excitement raised in San Francisco by the agitation of the Labourist party.

1908 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 5 June The funeral today of one of the men killed in the fight between strikers and gendarmes on Tuesday last, was made the occasion of violent laborist demonstrations.

1920 H. H. Henson Jrnl. 26 July in Retrospect (1943) II. i. 14 The Report and resolutions were, of course, strongly ‘Labourist’.

1985 New Statesman 27 Sept. 12/2 It is not only organisations with a Labourist tradition and manual background that have gladdened hearts at Walworth Road.

2000 Feminist Econ. (Nexis) Nov. 143 [He] is critical of current ‘laborist’ solutions.., such as minimum-wage policies, employment subsidies, wage subsidies, and earned income tax credits.

1884 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 21 Aug. 1/5 It is announced this morning that the painters' assembly, Knights of Labor, will issue circulars this week calling upon trades laborists to boycott the Pittsburg opera house.

1903 Handy Notes for Unionist Workers Aug. 3 The Labourists in Parliament..number over a dozen.

1927 Observer 5 June 12/3 Six months ago the five seats concerned were represented by two Conservatives, two Labourists, and one Liberal.

1969 Guardian 23 June 4/2 An ideological struggle [in the United States] between the Labourists, who favour Maoism..and the new Leftists.

2002 J. Hannan & K. Hunt Socialist Women 6 Socialists remained distinct from labourists, for whom the representation of working men..in parliament was an end in itself rather than a means to fundamental social change.

1911 A. C. Veatch Mining Laws Austral. & N.Z. iv. 71 The socialistic or ‘laboristic’ doctrines which had found expression in continental Australia.

1932 H. R. Spencer Govt. & Politics Italy xxiii. 261 This Chamber of Deputies..had turned out to be..much more Fascist than laboristic.

2003 Washington Times (Nexis) 7 May a14 The floundering laboristic economies of Germany and France.