But like many young West Indians of his time, he migrated to Aruba and worked there for a year with the Largo Oil and Transport Company.
He stepped up the efforts to secure a more democratic mode of representation and in 1950, he and his father James Charles were among the key personalities involved in the organization of the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP).
He and his party had a moderate socialist agenda, emphasizing workers' rights and more autonomy, or independence, for Saint Lucia - then an overseas colony of the United Kingdom.
Sir George's first resolution as an elected member was for legal recognition of the right to paid leave, which was rejected by the Colonial Authorities.
The struggle that Sir George led resulted in a series of constitutional reforms, obtaining a responsible ministerial government system.