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1926, 1975
James Griffiths, first Secretary of State for Wales, recalls the events of 1926 In 1926, Jim Griffiths was a miners' agent and first-hand witness to the events which led to the General Strike. It was an explosive time: the mines had expanded ferociously in the years before the Great War, and profits from coal had become more important than the safety of the men who worked it. Griffiths (1890 to 1975) was the son of a blacksmith in Betws near Ammanford, where the chapel forged his socialist ideal of dignity for the working man. Later, as Secretary of State for Wales, he would be the architect of the Welsh Office under Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
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From Bread & Roses first broadcast 08/08/1975
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