[1] During the UK general strike of 1926, Jones distributed the British Worker, the Trade Union Congress' bulletin, and he drove busses into obscure streets in order that strikebreakers would struggle to locate them.
By the 1930s, Jones had joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Rank and File Movement of London busworkers, becoming its secretary in 1935.
Bevin ended the strike, against their wishes, and then expelled Jones and other leading figures in the Rank and File Movement - including Bert Papworth - when they did not immediately return to work.
While he remained a member of the CPGB and served on its London District Committee, in practice all his time was devoted to trade union activity.
[2] In 1965, Jones as well as other London transport workers drove a number 11 bus to Prague and to visit the composer Jaromír Vejvoda.