Coal Mining Career
Williams was born in Tairgwaith in the Amman Valley to a South Wales family and went only to elementary school, leaving to work as a coal miner. Active in the South Wales Miners' Federation, he was eventually promoted to the job of checkweighman, away from the coal face. In 1924 he wrote a Book as a result of his studies at Ruskin College in Oxford, which denouncing mine owners and the development of their combines in swallowing up the coal industry. The book was published by the Labour Publishing Company under the title "Capitalist Combination in the Coal Industry". H.Francis & D Smith, The Fed, A History Of The South Wales Miners In The Twentieth Century, Cardiff University Press,1998.
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