Lawrence Worsnop Labour 1931General Election

Lawrence Worsnop 1931 General Election



Mr L.W. Worsnop was selected as the Perspective Labour Candidate for the Uxbridge Division (which included Hayes, Southall and Uxbridge on 13th December 1930 at Hayes Labour hall

He was selected from three nominations and Mr Worsnop
was the nomination of the Uxbridge Labour Party and the Uxbridge TGWU Electric branch

Lawrence Worsnop was born in Yorkshire and 20 years prior (circa 1920) had joined the Independent Labour Party and had become a member of the Yorkshire ILP Divisional Council later he moved to Portsmouth in the South of England and was the President of Portsmouth Trades & Labour Council

Worsnop was a resident student at Ruskin College, Oxford 1913-1914 Presently he is an official of a Trade Union, serving in London He is also a member of the Small holders Committee of Middlesex County Council and has a keen intrest in small holdings and allotments

At the last general election Mr Lawrence Worsnop was the Labour Parliamentary candidate for Guildford, Surrey

Mr P Gardner was his election agent for the 1931 General Election

Labour Central Committee rooms for the election where at Hayes Labour hall, Pump Lane, Hayes with committee rooms at Co-operative hall, Southall; B(R)onney's market Uxbridge; 31 High Street, Northwood; 1 Manor way, Ruislip and 28 High Street, Harefield

NOTE

The oppostion included "The Workers candidate" is Mr Reginal Bridgeman (is the former Labour Candidate at the previous General Election, removed by the Labour Party headquarters because of his work within the League Against Imperialism (and its perceived links with the Communist Party)


Mr Bridgman's Agent is Mr Tom Morris of 61a Townholme Crescent, Southall and the committee Room was at 1 Cambridge Road, Southall

Mr Bridgeman lived at Waxwell Farm Cottage, Pinner

Robert Small - Workers Union

Robert Small
Labour Parliamentary Candiate 1923

Robert Small was selected as Uxbridge Division (including Hayes) Labour Party Parliamentary candidate for the 1923 General election. (other nominations included Dr Sommerville-Hastings and John Beckett of the ILP).

Robert Small was a Scotsman and since the age of twenty had been involved in the Labour Movement.

From 1912 he devoted his energies as a full time worker, becoming the Glasgow and Clyde Workers Union Organiser and Scottish Organiser for the General Federation of Trades Unions. Secretary of Glasgow Labour Party and Scottish Independent Labour Party (ILP) Executive Committee member, member of the ILP's Agricultural Committee, (member 16 years of ILP by 1923). Member of Middlesex Agricultural Concilliation Committee and Middlesex, Hertfordshire & Essex Joint Industrial Council. He was a prominent member of the Agricultral Wages Board.

Later he became the local, London and Southern Counties Workers Union Organiser. It was because of his local negotiations that he had become known, though it was he who had helped lay the foundations for the Labour Party victories on the Clyde at the general Election.

It was stated that he was a personal friend of all the present Glasgow members of Parliament Robert Small had the best wishes of Labour leader Ramasey MacDonald and George Dallas (Dollas) Divisonal Organiser of the Workers Union.

It must have been Robert Small's Workers Union (later TGWU) links at Hayes, as it was stated he "was well known in the consituency" that secured him the nomination as Labour Candiate. He was supported during the election campaign by Miss Saward, Workers Union Women's Organiser and local Workers Union, Hayes Branch Secretary, Labour Councillor Douglas Page.