| Old forms of working-class action - "White shirting". |
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| ‘White shirting’ processions (often associated with women) were witnessed in a number of coalfield communities. In these processions, blackleg or non-unionist miners were forced to wear a white shirt before being frog-marched through the streets, or paraded in a wheelbarrow. This happened in Maesteg in 1906, where a crowd of women prepared white shirts and buckets of whitewash for the men who had broken a strike by going to work. |
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