He worked as the election agent for Robert Climie, Labour candidate for Kilmarnock on several occasions, and as a result, he lost his job.
He spent several months unemployed in 1926, but then found work as a co-operative insurance agent, and moved to Ayr.
The Labour Party would only support those ILP candidates who signed a declaration of loyalty, which Pollock refused to do.
In 1946, Jimmy Maxton, the leading personality in the ILP, died, and Pollock decided to defect to the Labour Party.
[1] Pollock was active in the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers until his death, in 1955.