23 September 2010

WALES & SPANISH CIVIL WAR: THE THREE JONES - David 'Potato' Jones of Swansea, Tom Jones of Rhosllanerchrurog & Jack Jones of Blaenclydach.


Thanks to the Comrade who reminded me of the the Three Spanish Civil War 'Brigaders' named Jones, see information below. I am mindful that Dennis Coslett FWA Commandant first told me of 'Potato Jones' who if I remember correctly was related to Denis's Wife Averil. I will also point out that Denis wrote a number of poems on Socialist/Workers interest, they are as follow; The Dole, Civil War, Homeless, Vagrants and The Blood of Riot', the latter being about the Llanelli Riots of 1911. These poems will be found in Dennis's two published poetry books: 'Rebel Heart' also 'Patriots and Scoundrels', both I believe are still available but I doubt if they will be distributed by the Welsh Books Council. I know there is a Spanish Civil War memorial in Cardiff but how many of the Welsh Volunteers have memorials in their own towns? As far as David 'Potato' Jones is concerned floral tributes may be placed in his memory at the Swansea Seamans Memorial in down in SA1:

City and County of Swansea - Press Releases

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See Below, did Leanne succeed with this Initiative?
if not why not try again with next year in mind.

Leanne Wood AM/AC: Spanish Civil War anniversary- Wales' contribution

31 Mar 2009 ... However, the Welsh and other international contingents' participation in theSpanish Civil War is an underlooked part of history, ...
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THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR:

  1. The Spanish Civil War - Archives Hub

    A view of the history of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, ... In 1938 Jones volunteered for the British Battalion of the International Brigade, .... on the Spanish Revolution edited byDavid Porter (2006) Records on Copac ... Welsh Blockade Runners in the Spanish Civil War by P. M. Heaton (1985) Records on Copac ...archiveshub.ac.uk/features/spanishcivilwar.shtml - Cached

  2. Cwmardy & We Live by Lewis Jones from the library of wales ...


    ... in union politics, and to his decision to leave and fight in the Spanish Civil War. ... Black Parade by Jack Jones; click on the cover image for more ...
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    Welsh Miners and the Spanish Civil War

    by H Francis - 1970 - Cited by 5 - Related articles
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    1. Wales and the Spanish Civil War

      Several chapters are devoted to the volunteers who went from Wales to fight ... “It is probably true that the Welsh response to the Spanish Civil War was a ...
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    2. THE THREE 'BRIGADERS' NAMED JONES:

  3. Foreign News: Welsh Basques - TIME

    Potato Jones put out to sea to run the blockade unprotected, to find himself hailed as a hero by British sentimentalists (TIME, April 26). ...www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,931579,00.html - Similar

  4. Ammanford and the Spanish Civil War

    Jump to The Blockade Runners and 'Potato' Jones‎: David 'Potato' Jones was one of three Welsh sea-captains who ran goods – and guns – to ...
    Introduction - Ammanford's five volunteers - Letters Home
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  5. Ymgyrchu! - War and Peace - The Spanish Civil War

    Captain David John Jones from Swansea tried to break through the blockade with a ship full of potatoes and he thus became know as 'Potato Jones'. ...
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  6. WalesOnline - News - Wales News - Wales's unsung sea captains are ...

    30 Jun 2008 ... Potato Jones, born in 1871, always dreamed of being a sailor and would cycle to Mumbles Head to watch sailing ships from all over the world ...
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  7. BBC - WW2 People's War - Dick Turner's Wartime memories - Part 1 ...

    One of the merchant Captains, known to the men in Hood as "Potato Jones", ... Sure enough there was an incident as "Potato Jones" approached the port of ...
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    1. Tom Jones of Rhosllannerchrugog during the Spanish Civil War, 1937

      Tom Jones of Rhosllannerchrugog during the Spanish Civil War, 1937 Tom Jones (1908-90) was born in Lancashire but was raised in the coal-mining village of ...
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    2. Twm Sbaen - Memorial to Tom Jones, a Spanish Civil War hero ...


    3. 5 posts - 4 authors - Last post: 26 Feb 2008
      1936 saw hundreds of men leave Wales to fight in the Spanish Civil War - the battle between fascism and democracy that was a rehearsal ...
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      GENUKI: The Fed

      - 2 visits - 20 Sep
      30 May 2004 ... Blaenclydach, Charmborough, Cynon, Erskine, Llanerch, Llanmarch, North Rhondda ..... Jones, Rev, D, M,, 67; Jones, Griff, 260, 301; Jones, Jack .... (see also InternationalBrigades, Spanish Civil War andWorld War Two), ...
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21 September 2010

WALES 1935 A REVOLUTIONARY YEAR FORGOTTEN?: STAY DOWN STRIKES, BENEFIT REVOLT and a BUS STRIKE 75th Anniversaries 2010.


INTRODUCTION.


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Have the Welsh Left gone and missed out on the anniversaries of these important events which most certainly speak to us from the past to the present, given circumstances of the moment and years ahead there is much to be learnt. I say missed because myself only recently realised that 2010 was the 75th Anniversary of major Welsh Socialist events in our history but, searching out on web for and present day recognition I draw a blank. If you are aware of otherwise do inform me, if not surly some 'left body' could put the matter right in any number of ways from Commemorations to Conferences with History Workshops. This would be in area of Llafur and Bevan Foundation or even Radical Wales, I myself am far from in position to do very much than this 'Red Cofiwn' blog work which unfortunatly has to remain more theory than practical.

Llafur Welsh People's History Society

- 2 visits - 20 Sep
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  1. Home - The Bevan Foundation Website

    The Bevan Foundation is the social justice think tank for Wales. It carries out research, publishes reports and articles, and organises discussions and ...
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The Stay Down Strikes 1935 - 75th Anniversary. Much Information on the 1935 Stay Down Strikes is scatterd accross the web, so I will have to gather material together and do a seperate post some time. Neither can I find any ref to any 75th Anniversary Commemorations in this connection, pretty bad if there is none? I have a family connection here, my grandfather was involved and took part in the Stay Down strikes, my Mam was a young teenager at this time and tells me her father would take her for walks around Merthyr to listen to 'Soap Box' orators. At time of the Stay down strikes she remembers her own Mam being worried and attending 'Back Up' protest meetings and collectiing food for the 'Stay Downers'. She remembers also photos in Merthyr Paper of the 'Stay Downers' on ending their protest and coming to the surface, unfortunatly my grandfather was killed in a colliery accident in early 50's, so being very young myself I never had chance when older of talking with him about these events.

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    1. This was the age of the 'Great Depression' this drove some in the greater family to America and Canada also one Uncle went to work on Tramp Steamers, then ended up as a stoker on the Queen Mary and died of pneumonia in New York. Hard times of which Mam has told me of but I wish I had taken more time to ask much more and record her family history, do not under estimate what this generation, now very old and many in care homes have to say. Listen, learn and most important record what they have to say, sadly must add 'Before it might be too late'. This reminds me that I really got to get down to my family history, not least I have photos and postcards handed down going back at least, near enough to 1900's and few thought of writting names, place and dates on back of photos, do you with your photos today? Mam is now in care and has 'Dementia' so it is really very difficult for her to remember much at all, I now wish the 'Arrogance of Youth' and not made me so self centred. If only I had made more effort regards an interest in family history while her and my fathers memory was relativelly fresh. A terrible admission from someone who has spent most of his later adult life being a 'Welsh/Red Remembrancer', really does make me consider what is more important for me to be doing now, yes! it's got to be family history soon before I slip away and much then will be lost. So note, come November I am closing down on many of my blogging concerns, make most of them as between then and 2015/16 much will be coming down and archived away or put into publication for posterity, for what it's worth?

THE STAY DOWN STRIKES OF 1935

Lack of 75th Anniversary Commemoration could be put right in October, as in that month in 1935 there took place one of the major Stay Down Protests, taking place at Nine Mile Point Colliery when 162 miners 'Stayed Down' for 177 hours. Otherwise search web and your local history journals as there's not a fulsome account on the web of this area of Welsh History other than the South Wales Miners Library in the main see link below:

  1. GENUKI: The Fed

    - 2 visits - 20 Sep
    30 May 2004 ... a history of the South Wales Miners in the twentieth century ...Native Welsh themselves, both from the South Wales mining area, ..... 1934, 227; NCLC, 248; Means Test, 1935, 257; 'stay-down' strikes, 280-98 passim; MP, ...
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  2. 1935 in Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    - 5 visits - 20 Sep
    1935 in Wales Flag of Wales.svg. Other years ... in Cwmfelinfach [1], 164 minerstake part in a "stay-down" strike action lasting 177 hours. ... Y Chwarelwr, the firstWelsh language film; Pink Shirts, an amateur film made by the ...
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  3. Welcome to the CWM website

    - 2 visits - 20 Sep
    1934, Height of conflict between South Wales Miners' Federation (SWMF) and company unionism. 1935, Stay-down strikes at South Wales collieries. 1936,Welsh ...
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    1. Local History Timeline @ Crosskeys,Gwent,South Wales

      - 20 Sep
      29 Jun 2002 ... 1900, 154571 employed in South Wales Coal Mines ... 1935, "Stay down strike" at Nine Mile Point Colliery and the North Risca Colliery near Cross keys. 186 miners stage a stay down strike at the "Risca Pit" for 72hrs. ...
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THE BENEFITS REVOLT - Public Assistence Disturbences 1935.

    1. by F Miller - 1979 - Cited by 5 - Related articles
    1. Committee on Unemployment Assistance Board, Memorandum, 1 April. 1935, CAB27/576 (Cabinet Papers at Public Records Office). 10. Burns, op. cit., 140. ...
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    1. THE BLAINA RIOTS OF 1935 - Welcome to Abertillery online - Croeso ...

      In January 1935 a rally at Merthyr, which had beforehand been dismissed by SO Davies ....Park on 1st February 1935 in protest at the UAB rates of benefit. ...
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    2. WalesOnline - Business - Business News - Recession 'bottoming out ...

      15 Apr 2009 ... “In February 1935, 300000 people took to the streets to protest against cuts that were to be made in unemployment benefits. ... Jobs in Swansea · Jobs in Newport · Jobs in Bridgend · Jobs in Merthyr Tydfil ...
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      1. GENUKI: Coal Society

        3 Jun 2004 ... Souvenir Report of the Merthyr Tydfil Strike Committee, 1926 ... The Depression: Resistance, Protest and Despair ... Blaina against cuts in unemploymentbenefits and 18 being charged with causing a riot. The Daily Workers, 6 March 1935; S.313P Poster calling for first Hunger March on London in 1927. ...
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        THE AMMANFORD BUS STRIKE 1935 - Certainly Not On The Buses!

          1. by R Davies - 1984
          1. in South West Wales as illustrated by the 1935 Bus Strike' ... illustrated the enormousadvantages of motor transport over the inflexible rail network. .... In the Dulais Valley in 1938, 98 men from Merthyr Tydfil travelled 12 miles to ...
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        Information on Welsh Socialist History.

        RED REMEMBRANCER: Welsh Popular Struggles and Strikes post 1797.

        - 5 visits - 20 Sep
        RED REMEMBRANCER. A Welsh Radical PLatform: containing information on history of peoples .... Llanelli Railway Workers Revolt and Cardiff Dock Strike. ...
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        1. Rebellions, Uprisings, Strikes... in Wales

          - 7 visits - 20 Sep
  2. Rebellions, Uprisings and Strikes in Wales. 1740 Armed miners riot in Rhuddlan over low wages. ... This followed on from the run-down of the copper works at Parys Mountain. .... 1896 One year stoppage in the North Wales slate quarries. ... 1935On the 3. February, a reduction in unemployment benefit is announced, ...
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    What's your favourite Welsh riot? [Archive] - urban75 forums

    2 Aug 2006 ... It can be historical; political; youth cultural; football related; .... Another goodriot was at Bedlinog (1935) during a mining strike. ...
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  3. Great unrest in a Welsh town / Features / Home - Morning Star

    16 Aug 2010 ... These were rank-and-file rebellions in which a more timid and remote ... of the strike and put it in its rightful place in the history of ...
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