In its early years, Bob Stewart acted as the party's full-time organiser.
[1] In 1908, Stewart and Edwin Scrymgeour were elected to Dundee Town Council.
From the 1908 by-election onwards, Scrymgeour stood for the party in the Dundee constituency.
[1] Scrymgeour was finally elected as an MP for Dundee in the 1922 general election, when he and the Labour candidate E. D. Morel defeated the National Liberal candidates, one of which was future Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
[2] In Parliament, on issues other than prohibition, he generally supported the Labour Party.