sentences:  This was followed by a period as a stenographer with the Municipal Council of Amsterdam and then between 1907 and 1919 with the States General of the Netherlands.In 1904 he joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party, which later was absorbed into the Labour Party in 1946.From 1910 to 1931 he was chairman of The Hague branch of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and between 1913 and 1941 a member of the municipal council of The Hague.