| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/144 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Members of the South Wales Area of the NUM Executive Council and Full-Time Officers Study</title> |
| Interview of Davies, Clifford Eric James |
| 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 Eric Davies, Brynlliw. Includes his first impressions of going underground; closure of Garngoch Colliery; differences between Garngoch and Brynlliw Collieries; attitude of Lodge leadership; impact of the National Power Loading Agreement; transferral of workforce from 14 pits to Brynlliw Colliery; run-down of the coalfield and the effect on the workforce; organisation during the 1972 and 1974 strikes; relationship between workers and management after the strikes; investment required at Brynlliw Colliery in order to keep the colliery open; economic issues of the coal industry; the political self-education of miners; need for trade union education; and lodge involvement</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Davies</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Clifford Eric James & Shilling</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Surface Workers & Lodge Officers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & Garngoch Lodge & National Coal Board & National Association of Colliery Overmen Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS) & Brynlliw Lodge & Labour Party & NUM National Executive Council & Aman Valley Group of Lodges & Trades Union Congress</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Brynlliw Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Swansea</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Garngoch Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Gorseinon</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Matcarduke (?) Training Centre</emph><emph altrender="county">Gorseinon</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></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">apprenticeships </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </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">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">price lists </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recession </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">ballots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">incentive bonus scheme </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">shift working </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strike pay </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steel industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </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 | 1945 = 1980 (c) |
| 7.5.1980 |
| 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 |