Hayes Urban District Council 1929 Election

HAYES
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL 1929

LABOUR CANDIDATES

Election Saturday 23rd March 1929



EAST WARD
Douglas Page, 40 Central Avenue, Hayes (Beltman Engineer) (ELECTED)
Edward George Hartley, 23 West Walk, Hayes (Railway Foreman) (ELECTED)


SOUTH WARD
George Marshall, 9 Hunters Grove (Railway Supervisor) (ELECTED)
Charles Harvey Kelf, 27 Drenon Square (Carpenter & Joiner) (ELECTED)

WEST WARD
Anna Begitta Greenhead, 7 Second Avenue, Hayes (Married Women)

Election Saturday 23rd March 1929

* George Marshall was the Chairman of Hayes UDC 1928-1929 (photo April 20th 1928 Advertiser & Gazette)


YIEWSLEY
LABOUR CANDIDATES 1929

Samuel Thorn, 12, Horton Road (Insurance Agent) (ELECTED)
Hubert Beaumont, "Crows Nest" Garden City (Lecturer)
George Varley, 18 St Stephen's Road (Railway Clerk)


NOTE
YIEWSLEY

Samuel Thorn was one of the pioneer's of the Labour Party in Yiewsley and Captain Hubert Beaumont would later be elected in 1934 as a Labour Councillor and Member of Parliament for Batley & Morley (and in 1929 Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Harrow, He had stood at Aldershot for Labour 1924 )

George Varley of 18 St Stephen's Road, Yiewsley was a well known Yiewsley Labour councillor elected in 1932, born in London, He was employed as railway clerk on the Great Western Railway. He came to Yiewsley in 1921 and was one of the youngest ever Justices of the Peace aged under 40. A Keen supporter of Allotments and Swimming

UXBRIDGE 1929
LABOUR CANDIDATES

HILLINGDON WEST
Mrs Sarah Ann Dubberley, 9, Waterloo Road, Uxbridge (Married Women) (ELECTED)
Richard Thomas Dubberley, 9 Waterloo Road, Uxbridge (Railway Foreman)
Cecil Robert Bond, 36 Cowley Mill Road (Electrician)
Stanley Walter Morgan, "Somercot" Harefield Road (Clerk)
Charles Oughton, Manor Waye Uxbridge (Stores Clerk)
Charles James Peer, Elmdene, Milton Road, Ickenham (Journalist)



NOTES
* Mrs Sarah Ann Dubberley was the first Labour councillor on the new Uxbridge Urban District Council (Mrs Dubberley had been elected as an Uxbridge Board of Guardian's in 1925)

The local Advertsier & Gazette stated "Labour was only successful in getting one member returned - Mrs Dubberley who now earns her reward for much brave perseverance, for Hillingdon West."


* Cecil Bond is "Dickie" Bond and according to the Advertise & Gazette was standing as a Labour candidate

*Charles Peer (Journalist) of Ickenham, had previously lived at Harrow Weald and had along with Ramsay MacDonald (later Prime Minister) been the founder of Harrow Independent lLbour Party (ILP) branch in the late 1890's. The meeting was held over tea at Hillcrest, Harrow View at the invitation of Mr Harry Phillips who was the endeavouring to establish a branch of the Independent Labour Party in Harrow.

HILLINGDON EAST

Frederick William Carter, "Willow Vale" Hillingdon Heath (Secretary)
William Henry Catherwood, 1 Mirabella Cottages, Gutteridge Street, (Process Engineer)
Eileen Muriel Courtenay Vulliamy, Elm Tree Cottage, Sweetcroft Lane, (Married Woman)

UXBRIDGE WARD
Ethel Morgan "Somercot" Harefield Road, Uxbridge (Married Woman)
Albert Edwin Taylor, 10 Montague Road, Uxbridge (Railwayman)
Frederick Waite, 47 Manor Way Uxbridge (Printer)

COWLEY WARD
Thomas House, Myrtle Cottage, High Street, Cowley (Railwayman)
Frank Tomlinson, School house, High Street Cowley (Printer)

ICKENHAM WARD
Edgar Hawkins Davey, Milton Cottage, High Street, Ickenham (Electrical worker)
James William Hall, 11 Glebe Avenue, Ickenham (Railway Booking Clerk)


RUISLIP 1929
LABOUR CANDIDATES

RUISLIP WARD
Harry King, 20 Manor Way, Ruislip (Insurance Agent)

*Mr Haley was Ruislip Labour Party Chairman and Mr F.W. Roques Ruislip Labour Party Secretary

*Mr Catford, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers (ASW) organiser was prominent member of Ruislip Labour Party- This was period of soaring unemployment, especially amongst those in the building trade.



A NEW LABOUR NEWSLETTER 1929

A Labour organ for the Uxbridge Division

A monthly journal has been published by the Uxbridge Divisional Labour party at one penny per copy.

In the March 1929 issue there appeared an articles by Reginald Bridgeman the Prospective Labour candidate and by Councillor Ernest Hamblin of Southall on the Housing problem and notes and news from the districts in the constituency. Messages of success printed from Mr Ben Tillett and Mr Ramsay MacDonald

Ramsay MacDonald wrote :-
"I am glad to hear that good work is being done in the Uxbridge on behalf of the Labour party and its principles.

Your neighbourhood will not be an easy one to move, but a combination of labour experience and intellectual keenness in everything that concerns the honour and well being of the country cannot be always resisted even by London outskirts.

The Labour appeals to all sorts and conditions of people who really feel that the community is of importance and that only in so far as it is active and intellectual can there be individual liberty, enterprise or well being.

The appeal that the Tory party makes is that whoever happens to have ought to have a chance of having more, and that the great masses should be perfectly well content at the end of their days they have managed to keep body and soul together.

I wish the Labour party well in Uxbridge and hope that your new venture in journalism will be thoroughly successful"

Uxbridge Divisonal Labour Party Newsletter March 1929

HARMONDSWORTH LABOUR PARTY ESTABLISHED 1927

Harmondsworth branch of the Labour Party was established in 1927 as party of the Spelthorne Divisional Labour Party with Mr L.M. Benen-Stock as Secretary who stated "Felt sure that the new party (Harmondsworth) would soon rank as one of the finest in the Spethorne Division"

Mr John Guild, Spelthorne Labour Party Divisional Chairman and Mr Lovett was Divisional Secretary. Local councillor's stated that it was the view of many local Labour councillor's that "a great obstacle in the area ti the election of labour members was the fact that such councils held their meetings during the day time, therefore, debarring the ordinary worker from attending".

1977: L.M. Benen-Stock OBE, BSc made Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Spelthorne.

NORTHWOOD LABOUR PARTY 1928

Fenner Brockway, Independent Labour Party (ILP) spoke in April 1928 to Northwood branch of the Labour Party the meeting held at Brewsters rooms, Northwood.

Secretary of Harrow Trades Union Council 1928 was Mr G. Hales

Mr F.G. Temple of the National Union of Railwayman (NUR) (Labour candidate for Mid Bucks)

George Belt - Daily Herald

SLOUGH 1926
LABOUR CANDIDATES

Kate Lydia Mapstone, 32 Montague Road (Married Woman)
Edith Liza Mitchel,l 15 Stoke Poges Lane (Married woman)
Lillian Maud Wailey, 76 Montague Road (Teacher)
William James Templeman, 40 Ragstone Road (Sanitary Engineer)
Henry Pierce Dodds, 14 Herachel Street (Fish Store proprietor)
Arthur John Frenchum, 32 Gilbert Road (Railway Clerk0

*William Templeman was already a sitting Labour councillor in Slough
*Kate Mapstone husband William Mapstone had been elected as a Labour Councillor in 1924


WEST MIDDLESEX BOARD OF GUARDIANS COMMITTEE 1930
ALL MEMBERS - PARTY NOT KNOWN

Acton
Mr R.J. Hewitt; Mr J.H. Brown; Mr A.G. Keen; Mr R. Yarwood

Ealing -
Mr H. M. Sayers, 44 Warwick Road, Ealing
Mrs Taylor, Hilcrest, Grove Ave, Hanwell
Mr C.R. Davies, 12 Kings Ave, Greenford
Mr W.J. Skinner Cox, 27 Sutherland Rd, Ealing
Mr J. Smith, 7 Golden Manor, Hanwell
Mr H. Talfer, Wilcox, Oldfield, Greenford

Hayes
Mr C. Kelf, 27 Drenon Square, Hayes

Ruislip & Northwood
Mrs G. Smedley, Avon Grange Church, St Ruislip

Southall - Norwood
Mrs I. M. Waddington, 26 Osterley Park Road, Southall

Southall
Mr W. Garrod, 18 Stratford Rd, Southall

Uxbridge
Mr G.J. Crook, 62 High St, Uxbridge
Mrs N.B. Hinkley, 133 High Street, Uxbridge

Yiewsley & West Drayton
Mr T. Hancock, 81 (or 31) Otterfield Rd, Yiewsley

also appointed from Middx County Council
Mrs Anna Begitta Greenhead, 7, Second Avenue, Hayes
and others




YIEWSLEY & WEST DRAYTON LABOUR HEADQUARTERS 1937

In 1937 it was reported in the local newspaper that Yiewsley & West Drayton Labour Party had established a fund to secure a new home as the present one was under threat by the widening of Colham Bridge - It was reported that "It seems land has already been acquired for this purpose"

Hayes Labour & Trades 1923

Hayes Trades Council & Labour Party 1923

held at Hayes Restaurant April 1923

Officers

Mr Robert Joseph Leach Chairman
Mr Ensor Secretary (re-elected)
Mr George A. Manley Treasurer

Mr Douglas Page Vice Chairman
Mr J. Hayden Vice Chairman


Hayes Labour Hall Committee received £3 from Uxbridge Divisional Labour Party for the erection of a Labour hall


In late May 1923 Mr Hamblin Secretary and the President of Southall Labour Hall gave advice to Hayes "on ways adopted in Southall in obtaining their Hall"

Southall Mayor Ernest Bartlett Hamblin

Ernest Bartlett Hamblin

mayor of Southall 1937

shortlisted for Labour Party perspective parliamentary candidate


Railwayman

Hayes Labour Fete 1936

Hayes Labour Fete 1936
August 1936

Held at Wood Green Recreation Ground, Hayes,

In addition to the fair which had been engaged there was a large number of stalls and side shows to amuse and intrest visitors

Skittles by Southall ASLEF (Train Drivers Union)
Hoopla by Southall Co-Operative Political committee
Coconuts by Ruislip Labour Party
Football by Southall Youth Movement
Around Uxbridge by Mr & Mrs Bancroft
Sweets & Minerals by Southall Womens Labour Party section
Stake you claim by Southall youth Movement
Touch em by Souhall Labour Party
Refreshments by Hayes Labour Party womens section

In Charge of sports were Mrs Anna B. Greenhead, Mr Grentham, Mr A.F. Scott, Dr Douglas Page,, Mr Ernest Bartlett Hamblin and Mr A. Roberts


Sports Results

Flat Races
Girls 11-14 1st B Green 2nd M Parfitt 3rd Bowman
Boys 11-14 D. Bevan W.Poole F. Talbort
Girls 7-11 J.Parfitt H.Parfitt P.Morris
Boys 7-11 C. Page W.Evans F.Cann
Open 5-7 F.Ellis I.Barber E.Bonner
Toddlers J.Foster I.Bonner B.Raisey
Dolls Pram P'de D.Luty B.Day
Slow Bicycle R.Lowe
Slow Bicycle all L.Hunt A.Cook
Egg & spoon Mrs joy M.Parfitt M.Smith
3 Legged Evans & Foreman
ankle Mrs Simpson I Thomas


Fancy dress 1- P. Morris (little dutch Girl) 2-D.Luty (Dresden China) 3-B. Day (little dutch boy) 4-P.Evan (Pearly king)

Those chiefly responsible for the organisation of the fete were: Mr F Gardner (Secretary) Mrs Anna Greenhead, Mr A. Dane, Mr H.Harris and Mr Douglas Page .


The fete brought to a conclusion with fireworks

Walter Ayles MP

AYLES, Walter Henry

Born at 26 Thorne Street, Wandsworth Road, Lambeth, London on 24th March 1879, Walter H Ayles was one of the five children of a railway porter Percy Walter Ayles and his wife Elizabeth (nee Little), whose wages were 18’s week. At the age of 13, having passed the seventh standard, he went o work at a cardboard-box factory, but was afterwards apprenticed at the engineering works of the London & South-Western Railway. When the men were locked out, young Ayles, then 18, being unwilling to blackleg, put in his notice.

After six months' unemployment, he got a job in a newsagent's shop, and in March1899 went to Birmingham and resumed his trade as an Engineer. He was for three years Birmingham district secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (AEU), and afterwards, when living at Bristol, was treasurer until 1921 of four local branches of that union. His AEU officership lasted 17 years

.

In 1904 he joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and as a Labour candidate was elected to the Birmingham Board of Guardians (Aston) 1904-1907,

In 1910 Ayles moved to Bristol to become Bristol ILP branch full time General Secretary

During the first 18 months from his appointment the branch quadrupled its activities and greatly increased its membership.

In 1912 he was elected for Easton ward of Bristol City Council, a seat he retained until 1922. In his first year on the council he wrote a pamphlet "Bristols Next Step" and in 1923 (relected 1923-, Ayles wrote an ILP booklet on “What a Socialist Town Council Would Do”

Ayles elected to the National Council of the I.L.P 1912-1927. He has also been for the last nine years chairman of the Bristol Labour Party.

Walter Ayles persistently and energetically opposed the World War One as he had the Boer War. Arrested as a conscientious objector, he remained in the hands of the military and prison authorities for two-and-a-half years, and was confined in seven different jails. He held office in the No-Conscription Fellowship and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. In 1920 he helped found the No More War Movement (NMWM)

He was a local preacher for 20 years among the Methodists and Congregationalists, but after the war he joined the Society of Friends (Quakers). He has been for many years an active Rechabite.

Ayles stood for the parliamentary seat of Bristol East in 1918 but did not stand as he was in Prison and the ILP was short of funds. He stood for Bristol North in 1922 and was elected as Member of Parliament for Bristol North in 1923. Mr. Ayles was reputed the most effective speaker in the West of England. Election meetings at Bristol North have been described as occasions of an almost religious fervour. On the morning of polling day an ex-soldier slipped into the candidate's pocket a horseshoe which he had carried in his knapsack all through the war—and he had never received a scratch. When the numbers went up the soldier swore the horseshoe had done it. " No," said the new M.P., " it was the huge crowd of ex-Service men who worked for me."

He was Labour Member of Parliament for Bristol North 1923-1924 and 1929 1931

He fought Bristol North for a sventh time in 1935 and after defeat accepted that it was time to move on

He moved to Orpington near London and was soon elected as a Urban District Councillor in 1937

Elected 1945 for the parliamentary seat of Southall (which included Hayes) during a campaign which included attacks on Winston Churchill pre War record and calling for wide scale nationalisation.

Member of Parliament for Hayes & Harlington 1950- 1953

He retired to his house in Southall but planned to move to Scotland

His son was killed on active service during World War 2 (1943)

his first wife was Bertha Winifred Batt (m 1904) a Bristol ILP and Womens Freedom League member
His second wife was Jean Ogilvie Middleton (m1944)

Died 6 July 1953 at his home Kingussie, Invernesshire,Scotland


NOTE
Walter Ayles was selected as the Uxbridge Divisional Labour candidate in April 1937 beating Humbert Beaumont (nominated by Hayes Labour Party), Ernest Hamblin (ASLEF) and James Eldridge (an Engineer). Beaumont went on to be MP for Sunderland. Ayles was nominated by Uxbridge Labour Party