Tonypandy dispute

A Dictionary of World History | 2000 | 529 words | Copyright

Tonypandy dispute (1910) A violent dispute over pay rates for miners in the former mining town in South Wales. Miners interfered with pit machinery and there was looting and disorder in the town. The local police requested government help and the Home Secretary, Winston CHURCHILL, sent 300 extra police from London and placed military detachments on stand-by. In a subsequent incident in Llanelli a year later troops mobilized by Churchill opened fire on strikers, killing four. Trade union hostility to Churchill was intense.

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