Record

Ref NoSWCC/AUD/126
Title<title linktype="simple">NUM National Executive Council Members and other Coalfield Leaders Study</title>
Interview of Moyle, Johnnie
Interview of Collins, Jack
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 Jack Collins and Johnnie Moyle, Kent leaders. Includes reasons for becoming a miner; descriptions of the most militant pits; union problems within Kent area; position of Kent coalfield in relation to the British Coalfield; Kent miners in relation to the National Union of Mineworkers; markets for Kent coal; investment in the Kent coal industry at the expense of job losses; and the proposed closure of Snowdown Colliery</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Moyle</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Johnnie &amp; Collins</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers &amp; Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company &amp; Roman Catholic Church &amp; Labour Party &amp; Communist Party &amp; NUM National Executive Council &amp; National Association of Colliery Overmen Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS) &amp; British Association of Colliery Management (BACM) &amp; National Coal Board</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Aylesham</emph><emph altrender="county">Kent</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Hersden</emph><emph altrender="county">Canterbury</emph><emph altrender="parish">Kent</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Chislet Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Canterbury</emph><emph altrender="parish">Kent</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Betteshanger Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Deal</emph><emph altrender="parish">Kent</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Snowdown Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Aylesham</emph><emph altrender="parish">Kent</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1981</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">redundancy </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list>
Date1929 = 1981 (c)
4.12.1981
Related Material<archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref>
Physical Descriptiongood
Extentno of tapes : 2
LanguageEnglish
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