Civil Defence in Wartime
Morris was chosen as an Alderman of Swansea and became a Justice of the Peace on the local bench in 1939. As chairman of Swansea A.R.P. committee in 1941, he was presented to the King and Queen when they visited Swansea. At the end of July he was appointed Deputy Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence in the Wales Region. He was also made President of the Railway Clerk's Association in 1943 (a post he held for ten years, including after the merger in which it became the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association), and served as Deputy Mayor of Swansea from 1944 to 1945.
As the war came to an end, Morris resigned his Civil Defence post, in order to fight for election in Swansea West in the 1945 general election. Although reports during the campaign suggested that the sitting member felt his campaign was successful, on polling day Morris was returned with a majority of 5,009.
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