Tuesday, 3 July 2018
1958 James Walton
Constituency : Don Valley 1918-22 ( National Democratic Party ), 1922
Like Charles Stanton, James was a former miner. He was educated at Broomhill Board Schools. He joined the Yorkshire Miners Association in 1881. He was always a Liberal rather than Labour supporter and tried to contract out of paying the political levy. He publicly opposed strike action while the war was in progress. He stood at Don Valley for the NDP defeating Labour and the Liberal Mp Hastings Lees-Smith who'd moved across from Northampton. In 1919 he again called on the union not to strike and in 1920 was expelled from the YMA. he was reinstated by a court judgement in his favour the following year. His legal action was funded by his supporters in parliament.
James' maiden speech supported the establishment of a Ministry of Mines in 1920. His final speech supported a stiffening of the rules on contracting out of the political levy.
In 1922 James was defeated by a Labour man. He came second and the combined Liberal vote was greater than Labour's total.
He died in 1924 aged 56.
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