Wilfred Wellock was a socialist Gandhian and sometime Labour

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 politician and MP

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.

He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector

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 in the First World War.

He was elected at Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Stourbridge

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 at a by-election in February 1927, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1923

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 and 1924

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. He was re-elected in 1929

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, but at the 1931 general election

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 he was defeated by the Conservative Party

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 candidate. Wellock stood again at the 1935 election

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, but did not regain his seat.

He was a prolific pamphleteer.

Publications

• Wellock, Wilfred (1917). A Modern Idealist. [A novel.] (London : C. W. Daniel)
• Wellock, Wilfred (1921). Christian Communism, etc. (pp. 43. National Labour Press: Manchester)
• Wellock, Wilfred (1922). India's Awakening, its national and world-wide significance. (pp. 69. Labour Publishing Co.: London)
• Wellock, Wilfred (1938). Destruction or Construction-Which? An open letter to members of the Labour Party, (pp. 11. Peace Pledge Union: London])
• Wellock, Wilfred (1943). A Mechanistic or a Human Society?. (pp. 32. Wilfred Wellock: Quinton)
• Wellock, Wilfred (1950). Gandhi as a social revolutionary (Birmingham : W. Wellock)
• Wellock, Wilfred (1951). The Challenge of our Times. Annihilation or creative revolution? (pp. 15. London)
• Wellock, Wilfred (1955). Not by Bread alone. A study of America's expanding economy. [(pp. 16. Housmans: London)
• Wellock, Wilfred (1961). Off the beaten track : adventures in the art of living.
• Wellock, Wilfred (c. 1961). The crisis in our civilisation : reorganisation by industry a key to world peace, (London : Society for Democratic Integration in Industry)
• Wellock, Wilfred. Youth and adventure: on which side shall I enlist?
• Wellock, Wilfred. Power or peace western industrialism and world leadership
• Wellock, Wilfred. Rebuilding Britain. A new peace orientation. (pp. 47. Hallmark Books: London)

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