In the half decade after the end of the First World War, the size and the militancy of the trade union movement was at its height and the largest union was the Miner’s Federation of Great Britain. The appalling treatment of miners by pit owners was exacerbated by the decline in the industry’s fortunes after the war, leading to strike action by the 900,000 miners in Britain.

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