\u201cWe will eat the grass off the field rather than submit to 8 hours\u201d declared William Hoare at a mass meeting of Forest of Dean miners on July 3, 1926. This is the story of those miners during the dramatic events surrounding that year\u2019s general strike and the nine-month miners\u2019 lockout.<\/p>\n
In 1922, John Williams, who began working in a South Wales pit at age just thirteen, became the full-time trade union official for the Forest\u2019s miners. Inspired by syndicalism, he believed that determined struggle could pave the way for a classless society free from exploitation.<\/p>\n
In this detailed account, Ian Wright follows John Williams and the Forest of Dean Miners\u2019 Association through the turbulent period of the 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe will eat the grass off the field rather than submit to 8 hours\u201d declared William Hoare at a mass meeting of Forest of Dean miners on July 3, 1926. This is the story of those miners during the dramatic events surrounding that year\u2019s general strike and the nine-month miners\u2019 lockout. In 1922, John Williams, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[294,1362],"class_list":["post-23654","pamphlets","type-pamphlets","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workers-organisations-strikes","tag-forest-of-dean","tag-forest-of-dean-miners-association","pub_range-bristol-radical-pamphleteer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n