[1] Born in Beaufort, Davies began working as a coal miner when he was twelve years old.
[2] Davies was a supporter of the Labour Party, for which he was returned unopposed as a Member of Parliament at the 1920 Ebbw Vale by-election.
In March 1927, Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, visited his constituency to express sympathy for miners killed in a pit explosion, and was received with hostility because of his actions during the General Strike.
[3] The local supporters of Aneurin Bevan successfully sought Davies's deselection, and he was obliged to stand down in 1929.
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