Mmmmmh ! Striped Naked ? Well Tarring and Feathering was not unkown.

Slight thread drift, but on the same theme. Picture the little village of Cwmfelinfach, in the Sirhowy Valley, in the hinterland between Cardiff and Newport. The local Colliery was the infamous 'Nine Mile Point' It was there in the mid 1930's that the South Wales Miners Federation, made a stand over recognition between the "Fed", and the company Union that had been recognised post 1926 (UK Catters will recognise that date. Non Brits PM Me)

A dispute was engineered, by the 'Fed'. Without going into to much detail it was bloody, even by South Wales standards, though possibly not by Harlen County Standards (Bloody Harlen USA).- Nine Mile Point was where they invented the stay down strike.

Blacklegs suffered civic death. If a blackleg , or his familly, entered a shop, the shop closed rather than serve them, if a 'leg got on a bus, the bus stopped.

It got violent, tarring and feathering happened, and a number of the lads were convicted and went to jail.

And the company Union was broken in the Sirhowey Valley.

What happened pst 1983/4 is another story.

Gareth