2-649-858 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Runciman, and Mr. Henderson at Park Hotel, Cardiff', 1915. On 15 July 1915 about 200,000 coalminers in south Wales went on strike. The strike was serious because the war effort depended on coal to fuel the navy and for the production of armaments. On behalf of the government Lloyd George imposed the terms of the Munitions of War Act on the coalfield. British politicians after their interview of the coalowners, David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863-1945), British Liberal politician. Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1870-1949), Liberal and later National Liberal politician. Arthur Henderson (1863-1935), Labour politician. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War Vol. III - 1915.. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1915]