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6 - The Aftermath

Stanley Williamson
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The news of the disaster at Gresford broke too late for the national press to do much about it on Saturday 22 September beyond rushing out single-page news-sheets for limited circulation in London, and most people in other parts of the country probably first learned about the accident from local evening papers or from wireless bulletins. By Sunday it was front page news, temporarily displacing the forthcoming wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina, the warrant for the extradition from New York to New Jersey of Bernard Hauptmann, charged with the murder of the Lindbergh baby, the typhoon in the Far East which had caused 20,000 deaths, and the dispute in the South Wales coalfield which if not resolved by the following weekend would bring 137,000 men out on strike.

The leader writers, anxious to articulate the nation's sympathy and condolences, slipped easily into gear. ‘Coal-mining’, said the Sunday Times,

is a trade in which danger is ever present. In a sense the men at the coal face are on constant active service, as soldiers are in time of war. Moreover, like soldiers … they are directly serving their country … To the miners who daily risk their lives to provide us with this precious ‘black gold’ the whole community owes a profound debt of gratitude.

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Gresford
The Anatomy of a Disaster
 , pp. 47 - 60
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 1999

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