South Yorkshire Times, July 15th, 1944
New Dearne Councillor
Is Youngest Member
The new member appointed at last week’s meeting of the Dearne Urban Council to succeed County Councillor A. Fouchard J.P. whose resignation was accepted in May, is Mr. William Sadler, of 28, Furlong Road, Bolton-on-Dearne.
At 34 he will be the youngest member of the Council. Under the political truce he was put forward by Dearne District Labour Party as representative for the South Ward. His first candidature was in 1937, when he stood as labour nominee for the newly formed Dearne U.D.C., but was unsuccessful.
Elder son of Mr. Frederick Sadler, 10, Lincoln Gardens, Goldthorpe, and the late Mrs. Sadler, Mr. Sandler is Secretary of the Building Trades Workers’ Union at Mexborough, and delegate to the Building Trades Federation.
At Messrs. Baker and Bessemer’s, Kilnhurst, where he is employed as a bricklayer, he is joint Secretary of the Works Production Committee and Secretary of the Clothing Committee. Early in the war he was elected a member of the local employment committee at Goldthorpe.
Since entering actively into the work of the Dearne District Labour Party in 1935, Mr. Sadler has been Secretary from 1937 to 1938 and delegate to the Wentworth Divisional Labour Party.