Edgar Evans (Bedlinog)

Material relating to Bedlinog Council of Action including minute-book and member's card 1926-1929; copy depositions taken at Merthyr: Rex v. Thomas Thomas and others on charge of unlawful and riotous assembly 1923; personal correspondence, undated (c1928) and 1936; Material relating to Bedlinog Workmen's Hall and Institute including rules, undated (c1935) and membership certificate 1953; poems and verses, undated (?early-mid 20th century) and 1936; notes on company unions, undated (c1971); election addresses for Communist Party candidates at local elections 1948 and undated (c.1955).

Edgar Evans was born in 1900 and was an ironmonger in Bedlinog. He joined the Communist Party in 1926 and was Branch Secretary at Bedlinog 1926-1943 and also sat on the Welsh Committee of the Communist Party 1933-1957. In 1934 he was elected to a seat on the Gelligaer Urban District Council. However, he was imprisoned in 1936 for 9 months charged with 'incitement to riot' due to his heavy involvement in the 1934 Taff-Merthyr Dispute. As a consequence of this prison sentence he was deprived of his Civil Liberties for 10 years and only regained his seat on the council in 1947.

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