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...Prisoner. Together with a red-haired Welsh miner called Charlie Jones, he organized the miners of Maerdy. When the police got after Horner again, he fled to Ireland, and under the name Jack O'Brien served in the Irish Republican Army. When he heard that his wife had borne him a son, he returned to Britain. The minute he came ashore, the police arrested him. During his term at Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, he was the most obstreperous prisoner the wardens ever knew...
...uniform; a tall Welsh Guardsman, who was to escort him back to Wales, ordered him to shoulder his pack. Homer refused. The deadlock continued till a crowd gathered. Finally a grey-haired little man stepped forward, quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under the eyes of everyone there." Old Jim Horner has a topper...
...great strike of 1921, Horner even forced the safety crew to walk out of the Maerdy mines. Without the safety men, the mines were flooded. Arthur Horner was jailed again. It was not until seven years later that some of the Maerdy mines were reopened, but they ran at a loss and had to be sold. The owners were beaten, but so was Maerdy. Today it is a silent town in which not a pit wheel turns...
...Devil. While his adopted town was decaying, Horner forged ahead, became one of the first members of Britain's Communist Party, visited Russia, helped build up his union into one of Britain's strongest. He achieved genuine betterment of the British miners' lot, and they loved...
...last week's National Union of Mine Workers' conference at Rothesay, in Scotland, Horner gave a demonstration of his tactics and his might. On the platform he sat between grim, green-eyed Manny Shinwell and buck-toothed Lord Hyndley, chairman of the National Coal Board. Horner got from both of them exactly what he wanted. He asked for the closed shop, shorter hours, more social security...