The 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… members and the Labour Party turned a blind eye. Instead, one of the party’s main concerns was to avoid discord between … the club, but they were fired upon by the armed Dragoons. One bystander, who had served in the war, said he had ‘never … an industrial conflict’. More than 20 people were killed. One young miner, Labuschagne, was the first to die. Miners …