Tuesday, 29 November 2011

1926 GENERAL STRIKE - Welsh Miners Continued The Struggle Afterc TUC Surrender!


  1. Links Thanks To Google:

    Ymgyrchu! - Labour Struggles - The Miners' Next Step and the 1926 ...

    www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Llafur/1926/index-e.htm 
    The Miners' Next Step and the General Strike of 1926 ... The number of miners in SouthWales fell from 218000 in 1926 to 194000 the following year. 

    BBC Wales - History - The General Strike 1926

    www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/.../h_twentieth_general_strike.shtml 
    The General Strike 1926. ... Jim Griffiths remembers the 1926 general strike in Ammanford. ... Look at the early history of broadcasting in Wales.

    Britain 1926 General Strike: On the Verge of Revolution

    www.marxist.com/History-old/british_gen_strike_1926.html
    The 1926 General Strike did not fall from a clear blue sky. During .... Troop reinforcements were dispatched to Scotland, South Wales, London and Lancashire. 

    General Strike, Britain 1926: The revolution that might have been ...

    www.workersliberty.org/.../general-strike-britain-1926-revolution-mi... 
    25 Jan 2011 – Thus is the image of the British General Strike of 70 years ago this .....readings were also well supported, while in the south Wales mining 

    1926: British general strike | libcom.org

    libcom.org/history/1926-british-general-strike 
    10 Sep 2006 – The 1926 General Strike was the climax of increasing class struggle in... cancelled and reinforcements were sent to Scotland, South Wales


    Idris Davies - Chronicle - Your Place in History

    www.caerphilly.gov.uk/chronicle/english/.../idrisdavies.htm
    The colliery was closed following the 1926 General Strike and Davies trained as ...focused on the impact of the inter-war depression on his native south Wales...

    Labour Struggles - The Miners' Next Step and the 1926 General Strike

    www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Llafur/1926/index-e.htm
    The Miners' Next Step, the Great Unrest and the General Strike. ... the term used to describe the years between 1908 and 1914 when Wales, and indeed Britain, ...
  2. BBC - Wales On Air - The General Strike

    www.bbc.co.uk/wales/walesonair/database/griffiths.shtml
    James Griffiths, first Secretary of State for Wales, recalls the events of 1926. ... miners' agent and first-hand witness to the events which led to the General Strike. ...
  3. The General Strike

    www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUgeneral.htm
    A. J. Cook went on to secure the official South Wales nomination and subsequently won the national .... The General Strike of 1926 was an unmitigated disaster. ...
  4. Checklist of General Strike Newspapers of 1926

    Checklist of General Strike Newspapers of 1926. The following British Isles ..... The Celtic News and West Wales General Advertiser: Strike Edition.[1926]: 400. ..
  5. 1926 in Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_in_Wales
    This article is about the particular significance of the year 1926 to Wales and its ... of mineworkers leads to the declaration of the UK General Strike of 1926. ...
  6. The 1926 General Strike: Nine Days That Shook Britain

    histomatist.blogspot.com/.../1926-general-strike-nine-days-that.html
    3 May 2006 – Today marks the 80th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike in Britain,... There was certainly good community spirit in south Wales - people ...
  7. General Strike

    www.agor.org.uk › Cwm › Themes › Events
    Between 1921 and 1936, 241 mines closed in South Wales, and the number of ... A Royal Commission was set up and in 1926, it concluded that the industry ...
  8. Analysis: Do we face a Second General Strike? - Wales News ...

    www.walesonline.co.uk/.../wales.../analysis-do-we-face-a-second-gen...
    21 Jun 2011 – ... streets in the biggest wave of industrial action since the General Strike of 1926. ... PCS Wales secretary Peter Harris is not concerned about a ...
  9. Ynysybwl boot repairing co-operative during 1926 General Strike

    www.gtj.org.uk/en/small/item/GTJ69060/
    Although the General Strike of May 1926 lasted only nine days, the miners of southWales remained locked out of the collieries for a further nine months. During ...
  10. Llanelli & West Wales Socialist Party: 1926 General Strike ...

    www.socialistparty.org.uk/.../llanelli-amp-west-wales-socialist-party-1...
    5 Oct 2010 – Llanelli & West Wales Socialist Party: 1926 General Strike - lessons for the anti-cuts movement.

    Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, Wales (1926) - YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOal1HYlRag9 Feb 2008 - 47 sec - Uploaded by BFIfilms
    Miners and their families in the mining towns of the Welsh valleys just before the General Strike of May .
    ..