Labour Party
As a labour politician, he was elected a Toronto school board trustee (1905–10) and was elected to Toronto's Board of Control in 1914 with the highest vote total ever given a candidate up to that time and sat on the Board of Control again from 1930 to 1934. He was one of the co-leaders of the Ontario Labour Party (Ontario section of the Canadian Labour Party) in the 1920s and a Labour candidate for the Canadian House of Commons on several occasions that decade but was unable to win election to Parliament. Simpson played a leading role in opposing Communists in the Labour Party. After the Communists convinced the party to withdraw its nomination of Simpson as its candidate for Toronto city council's Board of Control in 1927, Simpson and his supporters quit the party leading to its collapse. They then formed the Toronto Labour Party which explicitly excluded Communists from membership.
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