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The South Wales Miners’ Federation (SWMF) nicknamed The Fed was a trade union for miners in South Wales.The union was founded on 24 October 1898 following the defeat of the South Wales miners’ strike of 1898. It affiliated to the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) in 1899.In the early twentieth century a layer of activists in the union were radicalised by such events as the Cambrian Combine Dispute and Tonypandy Riot of 1910 and the hunger marches during the Depression.