Lewis Jones (1897-1939) was a Welsh mining trades unionist, a Communist Party councillor in Glamorgan, an activist on behalf of the unemployed and the author of two novels,
Cwmardy(1937) and
We Live(1939), in addition to a small number of short stories.
Born in Clydach Vale to working-class Welsh parents, Jones became a miner in his early teens and endured the rapid cycles of boom and bust in the early twentieth-century colliery industry. He was educated at the Central Labour College between 1923-25 and there joined the newly-formed Communist Party of Great Britain. He was imprisoned for three months in 1926 for sedition following his activism during the General Strike. Following his release, he became a check-weigher, an elected post designed to ensure that miners were being paid for
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