1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Withington Constituency – Biography of Wright

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Withington

CANDIDATE : Wright

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. T. Wright, cotton trade union official and president of the Amalgamated Weavers’ Association, is 46, and was a member of Ashton-under-Lyne Borough Council for 12 years. He has visited the Continent with various missions and went to the United States in 1947 with the party which investigated time study methods of trade unions and employers in industry there. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the cotton industry.

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