Tag: Penrhyn

• The Great Penrhyn Strike 1900-1903 and celebrating the Quarrymen today.

  The fight of the Quarrymen of Bethesda at the beginning of the 20th Century was a struggle of the working class of North Wales against one of the most powerful landowners, not only in Wales, but in the whole of Britain. The strike came after series of clashes between the quarrymen and the owners. These…

  Class Consciousness Project

  2nd Jul 2026

  Trade union

  Bethesda, Penrhyn, Quarrymen, Strike, Trade union, Wales, Welsh, Welsh history

• There is no Traitor in this House

  A sign in a window, in Bethesda, “There is no traitor in this house”,A community split along painful fractures, strikers and traitors. It all began, as these things do,With the greedy bosses,They break the workers, with iron fist,And then cry over losses. The management of the quarry refused,To collect the workers trade union dues,A further…

  Class Consciousness Project

  29th Jun 2026

  Poetry

  Trade unionism, Capitalism, Trade union, Socialism, Strikes, Quarrymen, Penrhyn