George Dallas (politician, 1878)

George Dallas (born August 6, 1878 in Glasgow , † January 4, 1961 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire) was a British politician (Labor).

Life and activity

In his youth, Dallas worked as a miner. Around 1894 he joined the Socialist League. He later moved to London, where he worked as a coal trader. He later returned to Glasgow, where he was finally appointed Secretary of the Independent Labor Party in Scotland in 1908. He stayed that way until 1912.

In 1912, Dallas took the position of organizer of the National Federation of WOmen Workers in London. He then became an official of the Workers' Union.

In 1917, Dallas was appointed a member of the Agricultural Wages Board, a body responsible for determining the salaries of farm workers.

In the British general elections of 1929, Dallas succeeded as a candidate for the LABOR Party in the Wellingborough constituency in Northamptonshire in the House of Commons to be elected to the British Parliament. He had previously run unsuccessfully for the House of Commons in the 1918 and 1922 elections in the Maldon constituency in Essex and in the 1923 election in the Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency. On the occasion of the general election in 1931, Dallas lost its seat again: As a result of the split in the Labor Party at the beginning of the 1930s, the number of votes cast for him fell so sharply that he was defeated by the conservative opponent, Archibald James . In the general election of 1935 he tried to recapture his seat, but lost just under 372 votes.

In the 1930s, Dallas served on various government committees that dealt with agricultural and water issues. In 1937 he was finally appointed chairman of the Labor Party's National Executive Committee.

In 1956, Dallas founded Friends of China to support the Taiwanese state.

Fonts

• What Labor has done for Agriculture , 1934.
• Foreword to Josef Belina: Czechoslovak Labor Fights On , 1943.