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Jim Slaughter's Narrative History: Bevan Boys
"Actually, during the War, when I went away, mining was a reserved occupation. You couldn't get out the mines. Just
before I went away, I was kind of lucky, in a way, going away, because they tried to force these lads who were
working on the surface. I was on the surface at the time. They tried to force them down the pit.
Now if they had just left them alone, most of them would have gone down the pit at eighteen. But the idea that they
were going to force them down the pit, everybody refused and there was two sent to jail. Aye, they were fourteen days
in Durham jail for refusing. And that was the start of the Bevan Boys, when every…I think it was one in ten when I
went away, when they were called up during the War. I think it was one in ten, were forced into the mines. We had
some lads from down South in the mines. Some of them were OK but some didn't like it! Bevan Boys."
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