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A military deployment in the Rhondda, 1910-11 was authorised by home secretary Winston Churchill at the request of coalmine owners and local authorities facing violent industrial strike action over pay and conditions in the mines of the Rhondda Valley, south Wales. The specific disputation, involving pay and conditions at collieries of the Cambrian Combine,[1] lasted a year (August 1910–August 1911) but the involvement of troops became an issue on the evening of Monday 7 November 1910 when, as reported by Churchill to King George V, "...400 Cavalry and Infantry...were sent for by the Chief Constable [of Glamorgan]..."[2]: p.374