1945 Local elections - Communist Party

Daily Worker November 3rd 1945

He knocked out Mayor

In Wolverhampton a communist candidate, Mr Kaye Brutton, knocked out the Conservative Mayor in a straight fight, polling 673 to the Tory's 595

Other Communist Councillors ELECTED November 1945

WESTMINISTER (Covent Garden)
Gabriel "Bill" Carritt
Joan Carritt
Joyce Alergant

STEPNEY
Phil Piratin
Rampling
Kirby
Shapiro
Levitas
Wineberg
Carver
Goldberg
Rosen
Sokoloff

FINSBURY (Old street)
Kay Beauchamp

HACKNEY (Ridley)
Blaston

MAIDSTONE
Hobday

SURBITON (Tolworth South)

WOLVERHAPTON
Kaye Brutton
Lewis

PORTSMOUTH
Russell

HEMEL HAMPSTEAD
Weller

ANDOVER
Brown

NEATH
Jarman

MERTHYR
Williams

WEST HAM
Benton

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COMMUNIST PARTY CANDIDATES
NOT ELECTED

Birmingham candidates
Mrs Jessie Eden 2,887
Mr S Blackwell 1,968
Dr M barrow 1,796

William Rust (Editor of Daily Worker missed by 36 votes in Hackney

Finsbury lost second seat by 3 votes

Betty Mathews missed by 40 votes in Luton

B. Moore polled 1,196 votes in Leamington West

St Albans three Communist candidates secured 4,172 votes (more than Communists in sheffield)

Abe Lazarus polled 2,184 in Oxford

Mrs E. Bramley lost 100 votes in Acton

NOTE

Labour made major gains on almost every council
except Bermondsey where it lost 3 seats

Robert Blatchford - Clarion

"Labour is the only hope of Socialism;
but Socialism is the only hope of Labour".

Robert Blatchford Editor of the Clarion

Hold on Russia - Arms from London are Coming

HOLD ON, RUSSIA !
ARMS FROM LONDON ARE COMING !

Guns, tanks, planes made now in London

Room at once for 8,000 more women to work on them

Can take job today

London women would - will if necessary- man London's barricades as Moscow women man theirs.

It is not likely to come to that so long as Russia holds out.

Just because we know Russians battles are not only their own but ours also, we long to help them !

And the chance to do it is here ! here on the very door step of London where the great factories are turning out tanks and planes ! there is room in these factories NOW for 8,000 women.

How about you being one of that number this week.

Wage rates vary but in practice your pay packet is never lower than £2.5.0 and averages around £3. A few women make £5.15.0. Some factories work two shifts, some three. All factories are near bus routes. there are canteens where you can get a good meals. you have a week's paid holiday a year

See Munitions Being Made Exhibition

Wembley Town Hall, Forty Lane
99 Broadway, West Ealing
147 High Road, Wembley
154 High Street, Acton
Western House, Broadway, Ealing
1a the Broadway, Hanwell

Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service
advert Circa late 1941