It is associated Collaboration with the coal mining heritage ( and particularly that of miners ' trade unionism ) of the Durham Coalfield , which stretched Body_movement throughout the traditional County of Durham .

this strike , along with the 1934 west coast longshore strike and the 1934 toledo auto-lite strike led by the american workers party , were also important catalysts for the rise of industrial unionism in the 1930s , much of which was organized through the congress of industrial organizations .