Yrjö Esalas Emanuel Mäkelin (1 June 1875, Tampere

Tampere

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 – September 18, 1923), a shoemaker

Shoemaking

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, was Finnish

Finland

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 Left-Socialist, journalist, Member of Parliament 1908–1910, 1913–1917.

Mäkelin was editor in Kansan Lehti (People's Magazine), later in Oikeus (Justice) he founded in Helsinki

Helsinki

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 and Kansan Tahto (People's Will) in Oulu

Oulu

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Mäkelin wrote several important texts: Finnish Labour Party's 1903 Forssa Declaration on Universal Suffrage; the Red Declaration during 1905 general strike that demanded dissolution of Senate of Finland

Senate of Finland

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 and universal suffrage, political freedoms, and abolition of censorship. July 18 1917 Socialist-majority Parliament accepted (pro 135, against 55) a law crafted by his committee to transfer the ultimate political power in Finland to Parliament of Finland

Parliament of Finland

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. The Russian Provisional Government

Russian Provisional Government

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 chose to ignore the law and dissolved the Parliament of Finland.

After the Finnish Civil War

Finnish Civil War

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he was captured by the Whites and sentenced to death, later converted to life sentence. A general pardon was granted 1922 and Mäkelin was released. After division of Finnish Social Democratic Party, he chose the Communist side. Due this he was again arrested in August 1923 and committed suicide in prison in September 1923.

6000-7000 people took part in his funeral in Oulu. A street was later named after him.