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Walker, John Craig Cllr
John Craig Walker Born in 1880, In 1919 Craig Walker was elected as a Labour councillor for the North East Ward of Leeds City Council. He lost in 1922 and was unsuccessful in different wards […]
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O’Hare Dan Cllr (and the Vale of Leven)
Dan O’Hare One of the outstanding figures during the 20th century in the Vale of Leven (see below for more detail on the Vale) was Dan O’Hare. He was a man of many parts: […]
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Barbour James Cllr
James Barbour James Barbour was born around 1893 and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. He was first elected as a Communist Councillor in Perth, Scotland, in 1928. Having […]
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Thomas George Cllr
Councillor George Thomas A Treherbert trade union and political activist during the 1920s and 1930s. He was active in the Clerks Union and found himself persecuted in the clerical workers strike of 1920. A consequentially long […]
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Kane Johnny Cllr
Councillor Johnny Kane Johnny Kane was a Communist County councillor for Renton, in the Vale of Leven, from the 1940s until his death in the late 1950s. Described by local history sources as “one […]
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Elliott Bob Cllr
Cllr Bob Elliott Robert S. Elliot was an unemployed miner and prominent member of the National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM). Along with Charlie Woods (see separate entry), he marched in the Tyneside contingent of the […]
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Jones Walter (Cllr)
Walter Jones (Cllr) Walter Jones won a seat as a councillor as a Communist Party candidate in Risca, a small town that is today part of the Newport conurbation, lying at the south-eastern edge of […]
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Clarke Willie Cllr
Councillor Willie Clarke’s represented Ballingry and Lochore on Fife County Council for many decades. He first took up public office in 1973 as a Communist councillor with Fife County Council and went on to be […]
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McGaw Rhoda Cllr
Rhoda McGaw Rhoda McGaw was an elected Communist Party councillor for Woking Urban District Council in the 1940s and early 50s. Surprisingly, she was not the only local councillor elected as a Communist. A member of […]
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Walters Bill Cllr
Councillor Bill Walters William Walters was an elected as a Communist Party councillor in Llantarnam, a then a small village between Cwmbran and Newport, South Wales. He was repeatedly re-elected from at least […]