| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/134 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Members of the South Wales Area of the NUM Executive Council and Full-Time Officers Study</title> |
| Interview of Matthews, Haydn |
| 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 Haydn Matthews, Maerdy and Area Compensation Secretary. Includes his childhood; the relationship between workers and management; integration of Bwllfa and Maerdy collieries; closures meetings in Cambrian Club; attitude of National Union of Mineworkers leadership to closures; disillusionment of the miners; attitude to the Labour Party during the run-down of the coal industry; support from other lodges; organisation during the 1972 strike; relationship between police and pickets; unity of the union; and the future of the coal industry</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Matthews</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Haydn & Davies</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Lodge Compensation Secretary</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & NUM National Executive Council & National Coal Board & Ferndale Lodge & Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & Mardy Lodge & Shakespeare Hotel Group (Neath) & Bwllfa Lodge & Cambrian Club & Labour Party & Communist Party & Pit Strike Committees & National Association of Colliery Overmen Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS)</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ferndale Pits</emph><emph altrender="county">Tylorstown</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fach</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Mardy Colleries</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhondda Fach</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Saltley</emph><emph altrender="county">Midlands</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></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">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">Strike, Steel Workers</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pneumoconiosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">price lists </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">incentive bonus scheme </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steel industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">amalgamations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a"></emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>National Power Loading Agreement 1966</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1936 = 1980 (c) |
| 22.10.1980 |
| 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 : 2 |
| Language | English |