| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/116 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Lodge Officers Study</title> |
| Interview of Shellard, Benjamin |
| 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 Ben Shellard, Blaengwrach Lodge Secretary. Includes his first impressions of the pit; opinion of Powell Duffryn as an employer; experiences within the army; future of Cwmgwrach Colliery and the coal mining industry; pit closures in order to staff Blaengwrach Colliery; joint lodges in the area; effect of power loading on productivity; organisation of pickets during the 1972 and 1974 strikes; relationship between workers and management; delegation to Russia in 1972</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Shellard</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Benjamin & Leech</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 & Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & Labour Party & Young Mens Christian Association & Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries Limited & South Wales Miners Federation & Glynneath Welfare Institute & National Coal Board & NUM National Executive Council & Blaengwrach Lodge</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Blaengwrach</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmgwrach</emph><emph altrender="parish">Neath</emph><emph altrender="township">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Fforchamman Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmaman</emph><emph altrender="parish">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Aberdare Hospital</emph><emph altrender="county">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmgwrach Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmgwrach</emph><emph altrender="parish">Glynneath</emph><emph altrender="township">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Gadlys Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Nantmelyn Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Russia</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, General 1926</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Nationalisation, Vesting Day 1947</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Fair, Neath</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Surfacemen 1969</emph></subject></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">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War II 1939-45</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">army </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disasters </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pneumoconiosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">anthracite </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recession </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">retirement </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>National Power Loading Agreement 1966</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Wilberforce Report 1972</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1930 = 1982 (c) |
| 8.5.1980 |
| 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 : 4 |
| Language | English |