| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/150 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Members of the South Wales Area of the NUM Executive Council and Full-Time Officers Study</title> |
| Interview of Pritchard, Edward George |
| 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 George Pritchard, Celynen North. Includes Graig Fawr Colliery; differences of Celynen North and South Collieries; working practices when first worked underground; local leaders of the union in the area during the war; opposition to mechanisation; Lodge district meetings; effect of power loading; his appointment as Lodge Secretary and its effect on his life; organisation during the 1972 strike; relationship between workers and management after strikes; integration of men from closed collieries; future of the coal industry; and the decline in trade union consciousness</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Pritchard</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Edward George & Cleaver</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & NUM Executive Council Member (National) & Lodge Secretary </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & Partridge Jones and John Paten Company & Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & Celynen North Lodge & South Wales Miners Federation & NUM National Executive Council & Labour Party & National Association of Colliery Overmen Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS)</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Celynen North Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Newbridge</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Graig Fawr Housecoal Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Newbridge</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Crumlin</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Oakdale Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Oakdale</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Rogerstone Power Station</emph><emph altrender="county">Newport</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</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">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">silicosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housecoal </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">redundancy </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </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">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">licensed mines </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </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><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">amalgamations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Porter Award 1944</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>National Power Loading Agreement 1966</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Productivity Deal 1978</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1940 = 1980 (c) |
| 10.3.1980 |
| 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 |