Mr. Ramsay Macdonald's Career Mr. James Ramsay Macdonald, who attains the, proud position of being Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, was born at Lossiemouth, "Scotland, in 1866 educated at a board school. He early threw himself into the Socialist movement, and became before long, as organizer and writer, an important personality in it. Ho was appointed secretary of the Labour party in 1900 and held the position for 11 years; and became editor of the "Sockalist Library" in 1905. He na turally turned to public life, and served on the London County Chuneil from 1601 to 1904.
In 1906, according to the biography in the Encyclopaedia Britantica, he was elected to Par-Wiament as Labour member For Leicester, and held the seat for
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.