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Fred Barton (1917–17 December 1963) was a British socialist politician. Barton joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and was elected chairman of the Stretford Trades Council.〔"I.L.P. Candidate for Ormskirk", ''Manchester Guardian'', 22 March 1951〕 By 1944, he was the chairman of the Manchester Federation of the ILP, and was the party's second choice to contest the Manchester Rusholme by-election after Fenner Brockway, but neither accepted the opportunity, and Robert Edwards stood instead.〔"Rusholme Contest", ''Manchester Guardian'', 5 June 1944〕 At the 1950 UK general election, Barton stood for the party in Newcastle upon Tyne〔"Four I.L.P. candidates", ''Manchester Guardian'', 15 November 1949〕 He then stood for the party at the Ormskirk by-election, 1951〔 Barton was elected as chairman of the ILP in March 1951.〔"Fred Barton", ''Manchester Guardian'', 18 December 1963〕 While chairman, he campaigned against apartheid in South Africa〔"Trade union colour bar denounced", ''Manchester Guardian'', 22 September 1952〕 and the Korean War.〔"I.L.P. view of trade depression", ''Manchester Guardian'', 14 April 1952〕 In April 1954, Barton was succeeded as chairman by Annie Maxton.〔(LSE Library Archives Catalogue: Independent Labour Party )〕 Later in the year, he resigned from the ILP and joined the Labour Party. At the 1955 UK general election, he was the unsuccessful Labour candidate in Stretford, taking 39.1% of the vote, and in 1959, he took 40.4% in Middleton and Prestwich. He became the Liverpool district organiser of the Tobacco Workers' Union. In the run-up to the 1964 UK general election, he was the Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Liverpool Kirkdale, but he died suddenly in late 1963 of a thrombosis.〔 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fred Barton (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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