TONYPANDY RIOTS

That this House commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Tonypandy riots, which started with a skirmish between striking miners and local police at the Glamorgan Colliery in Llwynypia on7 November 1910 and led to the then Liberal Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, drafting hundreds of cavalry troops and metropolitan officers into the Rhondda; notes the important contribution that the Cambrian Lodge of the South Wales Miners Federation played in the fight for improved working conditions for miners and a national minimum wage in the early part of the 20th century; pays tribute to those who were injured and prosecuted as well as the one miner, Sam Rhys, who was killed in the dispute; further notes the importance of these events as a milestone in the history of the state's overbearing response to industrial action; and welcomes the many commemorative events that will be taking place throughout the Rhondda and South Wales to mark the anniversary over the coming year.