1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rhondda East Constituency – Biography of Pollitt

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rhondda East

CANDIDATE : Pollitt

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Harry Pollitt, leader of the Communist Party, was born in 18S0, and fought the seat in 1935 and 1945. He went to work at 12 in a Lancashire cotton mill, and was later a boilermaker. After leading many dock and shipyard movements for better conditions for the workers, he was sentenced to 12 months’imprisonment in 1925 for sedition, and, with Tom Mann, was arrested in Cardiff in 1934 but was released. During the Spanish Civil War he organized the British battalion of the International Brigade, and visited Spain several times.

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