1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Neath Constituency – Biography of Thomas

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Neath

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Thomas, West Wales organizer of the Communist Party, went to America in 1912 when he was five, and was educated there and in Canada. Returning in 1924, he took an engineering course at Swansea University. While working in the mines, he won a scholarship to London Labour College, and was one of nine expelled for their political views. ?e joined the Communists and oiganized three ” hunger ” marches to London.

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