 After leaving the CPGB , the Braddocks continued their socialist activism in Liverpool . Jack 's role in the Merseyside Council of Action ( an impromptu militant action group ) during the 1926 General Strike made employers even less willing to engage him . He was rescued by the action of Sir Benjamin Johnson , a liberal @-@ minded industrialist , who lent him the money to purchase a Co @-@ operative Insurance Society agency . Jack and Bessie were now determined to pursue their political aims by democratic methods , and in 1926 they joined the Fairfeld ward of the Liverpool Labour Party . In the 1929 Liverpool council elections , Jack was returned unopposed as the Labour councillor for the Everton ward . A year later Bessie joined him , elected in the St Anne 's ward . 
