Clement Bundock
Clement James Bundock (20 January 1892 – 8 August 1961) was a British trade union leader, newspaper editor and political activist.
Born in Wood Green in London, Bundock trained as a journalist with the Christian Commonwealth.[1] He then moved to Manchester to work for the Independent Labour Party's (ILP) Labour Leader and joined the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).[2] A supporter of the ILP and particularly of Fenner Brockway, Bundock regularly spoke on behalf of the party, and during World War I contributed to its pamphlet, "Why I Am A Conscientious Objector: Being Answers to the Tribunal Catechism".[3] He spent some time in London as the paper's Parliamentary correspondent, before in 1919 becoming editor of the Leicester Pioneer.[2][3]
From 1920 to 1922, Bundock served as the Midlands representative on the
Bundock was elected as general secretary of the NUJ in 1937, holding the post until 1952.[1][2] That year, the International Federation of Journalists was re-established, and Bundock became its president. In retirement, he wrote a history of the NUJ, and also one of the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers.[2]