1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bermondsey Constituency – Biography of Mellish

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bermondsey

CANDIDATE : Mellish

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. Mellish, aged 37, entered Parliament in 1946, as member for Rotherhithe. Appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty in 1947, he, with others, was required to resign in June, 1949, for his vote on the Ireland Bill. He served in the Royal Engineers (Dock Section) during the war, and was demobilized as a captain. An official of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. On the direction of Mr. Attlee 30,000 copies of a speech by Mr. Mellish in Parliament on Communist influences in the London dock strike in 1949 were distributed among dockers.

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