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Started by: mswigan (inactive)
peawapp
For your information, Geoffrey Shryhane, who works for the Wigan Observer, has scoured every newspaper at the time of the strike in 1926 and nowhere can he find any mention of Wiganers going back to the pits before anyone else.
But even if they had, it would have been because their kids were starving. There were no Benefits then.
Replied: 17th Dec 2010 at 14:47