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When a national strike was declared in 1984, the majority of NUM members in South Wales voted against striking. Williams accepted this result, but the strike nevertheless rapidly took hold, and within a week, almost all miners in the region were on strike; 93% of them remained on strike until its end, in March 1985. [1]
Chris Williams estimates that, while reliable figures are unavailable, it appears that no more than 18% of the workforce in the South Wales Coalfield were union members between 1892 and 1897. This was well below the British average of 39% and significantly lower than Scotland (25%), Yorkshire (58%) and the north-east of England (59%).
Emlyn Williams included this story in his early autobiography George covering the years 1905-1927 and published in 1961. [10] A sequel, Emlyn, covering the years 1927–1935, was published in 1973. Emlyn Williams's autobiographical light comedy, The Druid's Rest, was first performed at the St Martin's Theatre, London, in 1944.
After the mine closed, the miners retreated to the club in Penywaun and agreed to O’Sullivan's suggestion for the buyout of the mine. The deal was secured when 239 miners each paid £8,000 from their redundancy payouts to buy shares in Goitre Tower Anthracite Ltd, the vehicle which then borrowed an additional £2million to buy the pit from ...
Local branches agreed to deals with local steel plants on the amounts to be delivered. In June 1984, the NUM area leader for South Wales, Emlyn Williams, defied orders from Scargill to stop deliveries of coal by rail to steel plants, but he capitulated after a vote by the national executive to end dispensations. [21]: 105
Miners' Strike: A Frontline Story is an 88-minute BBC Two documentary film about the 1984 UK miners' strike including the Battle of Orgreave.The film splices archive footage of the strikes, with stories from 15 individuals who were directly involved on the both sides of the events, including the miners and the police force.
More arrests are expected in the alleged sex trafficking of Long Island teen Emmarae Gervasi, The Post has learned. “There’s a few more people” Suffolk County police are looking into, said a ...
Real del Monte silver miners' strike of 1766: Kingdom of Spain Hidalgo: 1766 South Africa miners' strike of 2007: South Africa Nationwide 2007 South Wales miners' strike (1910) [citation needed] Wales South Wales: 1910 United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919: United States Nationwide 1919 United Mine Workers of America