Beatrice Green

Beatrice Green (née Dykes; 1 October 1894 – 19 October 1927) was a Welsh labour activist who was a key figure in the 1926 United Kingdom general strike and the subsequent miners' lockout. A highly regarded orator and writer, she became a leader in the labour movement in South Wales and was a prominent member of the Labour Party in Monmouthshire.

Born into a mining family in Abertillery, Green initially worked as a teacher before being forced to leave due to the marriage bar upon her marriage in 1916. She became actively involved in labour politics in the early 1920s, advocating for women's rights and birth control. During the 1926 miners' lockout, Green played a crucial role in relief efforts, operating soup kitchens that fed up to 1,600 people daily and helping to foster 2,500 vulnerable children from mining communities. As president of the Monmouthshire Labour Women's Advisory Council, she became a prominent fundraiser and speaker for the Women's Committee for the Relief of Miners' Wives and Children.

In 1926, Green was selected as part of a nineteen-member delegation from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain to visit the Soviet Union, where she studied working conditions and women's rights. Her subsequent reports in Labour Woman magazine praised Soviet achievements in gender equality, though historians later described her assessments as "somewhat naïve". Despite her brief political career, cut short by her death at age 33 in 1927, Green established herself as an influential voice in the Welsh labour movement and was considered to have had significant potential for future political leadership.