S. O. Davies
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Stephen Owen Davies, generally known as S. O. Davies, was a Welsh miner, trade union official and Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil from 1950 to 1972,
Davies in 1955
A street near Davies's birthplace in Abercwmboi
The spoil tips above Aberfan, photographed two years after the disaster
The Miners' Federation of Great Britain was established after a meeting of local mining trade unions in Newport, Wales in 1888. The federation was formed to represent and co-ordinate the affairs of lo
S. O. Davies
…policy, Davies advocated workers' control rather than the nationalisation of the mining industry. In 1921, he unsuccessfully advocated affiliation of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB, precursor of the National Union of Mineworkers or NUM) with the Red International of Labour Unions (RILU). The following year, he was a delegate…
Miners outside Tyldesley Miners Hall during the 1926 General Strike