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1926 MINERS STRIKE

  THE GENERAL STRIKE OF  1926,     THE  RHONDDA VALLEY,  GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES.     For those of you that know very little about this time, I will start by summarising the events before the Dorset Constabulary were dispatched to the area.    The coal industry had declined in production after the enormous output before …

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