ABSTRACT
By the year 1914 the members of the South Wales Miners’ Federation could look back on fifteen years of existence of their organisation. The condition of the workmen was in some ways considerably worse than that of their fellow miners in other coalfields. From 1908 there began a rapid change in the conditions of the South Wales miners and also within the union. In the year 1914 the Executive Committee of the Miners’ Federation, empowered by a resolution from South Wales, set about in earnest the task of assembling a larger body of workers for the struggles which they all believed would mature in the near future. The prospect of greater struggles opening out within Britain was clear to many of the South Wales miners. The prospect of greater struggles opening out within Britain was clear to many of the South Wales miners.
