| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/115 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Lodge Officers Study</title> |
| Interview of Williams, David Ronald |
| Second South Wales Coalfield Project 1979-82 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Ron Williams, Abernant Lodge Secretary. Includes his social life and activities; his fathers injury in the mine; discipline within Steer Pit; left mining industry in 1955 for army service in Malaya and Sarawak; worked as a fitter on the surface and underground; his opinion that retreat mining should have been employed in Abernant Colliery; changes in Abernant Colliery due to influx of outsiders; support during the 1972 and 1974 strikes; relations between union and management; his appointment as Lodge Secretary; NUM regional meetings; and the lack of support for the steel workers</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Williams</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">David Ronald & Harry</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet">?</emph></persname><occupation>Lodge Secretary</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & National Coal Board & Steer Pit Lodge & South Wales Borderers Battalion & Southern Welding & Abernant Lodge & NUM National Executive Council</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abernant Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Pontardawe</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmgorse Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwaun Cae Gurwen</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Steer Pit</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwaun Cae Gurwen</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmgwili Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Crosshands</emph><emph altrender="parish">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Lindsay Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmgwili</emph><emph altrender="parish">Crosshands</emph><emph altrender="township">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1972</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1974</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dancing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">army </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">communism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housecoal </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disasters </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">contractors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">clothing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">anthracite </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">redundancy </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">retirement </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">incentive bonus scheme </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pneumoconiosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steel industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1940 = 1980 (c) |
| 28.1.1981 |
| Related Material | <archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref> |
| Physical Description | good |
| Extent | no of tapes : 3 |
| Language | English |