| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/137 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">NUM National Executive Council Members and other Coalfield Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of McGahey, Michael |
| 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 Michael McGahey, Scottish leader. Includes unions before unity of the National Union of Mineworkers; strikes during the war; the Piece Working System; his relationship with leaders in other coalfields; effect of a Labour Government in 1945; Horner's support for the French Miners strike; investment and planning of the coal industry; his opinion of the National Coal Board's performance of running the coal industry; and his opinion of proportional voting in the NUM National Executive Council</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">McGahey</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Michael & Pearson</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & NUM National Executive Council & Catholic Church & Communist Party & Young Communist League & United Mineworkers of Scotland & League of St Barbara & Home Guard & Fife Coal Company & National Coal Board & Norton and Bidolph Coal Company & Miners Federation of Great Britain</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Gateside Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cambrigslang</emph><emph altrender="parish">Lanarkshire</emph><emph altrender="township">Scotland</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Burley Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Lothian</emph><emph altrender="parish">Scotland</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cafdown Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Lothian</emph><emph altrender="parish">Scotland</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Llandudno</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwynedd</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Gateside Colliery 1939</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Day Wage Workers 1949</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, French Miners 1949</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">Conference, Coal Llandudno 1949</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">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Grindthorpe 1948</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1972</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steel industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </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">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">amalgamations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">fascism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">shift working </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wage agreements </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Parliamentary Acts </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">development </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Extended Hours Agreement</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Five Day Week Agreement 1947</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Porter Award 1944</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Greene Award 1942</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Read Report 1945</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1926 = 1980 (c) |
| 1979 = 1982 |
| 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 |