Harrison, J

Harrison, J, Regent St, Belle Vue, Wakefield, bus conductor for West Riding Automobile Company – making profits for them against his wishes, would have nothing to do with armed forces & wanted Soviet Republic to do away with private interests & dividends leaving wages only, miner father Ethelbert remembered ‘murder gang turned on us at Featherstone 1892’, LE 30/10/39 rejected, BO 31/10/39 p3, LM 31/10 p2; LAT 23/12/39 appeal refused, now c/o 25 Smyth St, Westgate, Wakefield, would not become part of govt ‘murder machine’ or sham of national service, would go to prison rather than army, would help provide fish for population but not work for capitalists owning trawlers, father anti-militarist in Boer War &  WWI, father EB Harrison testified that he trained his son & then railed against ‘the filth & scum of the British Empire’, the chairman commented that he was not helping his son, after refusal the father said he would have the case raised in the Commons by his ‘friend Lowther’, BO 23/12/39 p3, YP 23/12 p8; Smythe St, Westgate, Wakefield, Socialist, alternativist CO, registered as CO 2/2/39 (PPU records)