''Tarian y Gweithiwr'' (The Worker's Shield) was a weekly Welsh-language newspaper published in Aberdare between 1875 and 1934, initially by the firm of Mills, Lynch, and Davies. The paper achieved a peak circulation of around 15,000 copies a week. A supporter of radical principles, ''Tarian y Gweithiwr'' emphasised workers' rights in its coverage of political news as well as in opinion pieces, making it popular with the miners and other industrial workers of South Wales.

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has digitised 1,645 issues of ''Tariany Y Gweithiwr'' (1875–1910) from among the newspaper holdings of

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Associated titles

''Y Darian'' (1914–1934)

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{{reflist Newspapers published in Wales