| <p>Recorded memoirs of Wilfred Miron, National Coal Board Chairman Midlands and South Wales, of his early career as an assistant solicitor, and of his cases concerning industrial diseases; his work as a solicitor for a group of colliery companies in Nottingham, and whilst working for the NCB. Includes a comparison of Nottingham and other coalfields with the South Wales coalfield; communist leadership in the Midlands and South Wales; nationalisation and the transition of the coal industry; NCB divisional structures; changes in the energy industry; industrial relations in the South Wales coalfield; NCB constraints; future of the coal industry; environmental issues; joining the Common Market and the ensuing effect on the coal industry</p><p></p><list><item><persname role="chairman national coal board midlands and south wales"><emph altrender="surname">Miron</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Wilfred Lyonel</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Williams</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Watkin & Cane</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>NCB Chairman (Midlands and South Wales)</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Mutual Indemnity Company & ? Amalgamated Anthracite Coal Company & Shipley Colleries Limited & Manners Lodge & Mitchell Mail Colliery Company Limited & National Union of Mineworkers & National Coal Board</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Avon Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abergwynfi</emph><emph altrender="parish">Afan Valley</emph><emph altrender="township">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedwas Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Bedwas</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ogilvie Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Deri</emph><emph altrender="parish">Bargoed</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Penrhiwceiber Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Mountain Ash</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></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, General 1926</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Disaster, Creswell</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Disaster, Easington 1952</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Disaster, Aberfan 1966</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Surfacemen 1969</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </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">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">coal owners </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">holidays </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">overtime </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disasters </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">inquiries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">incentive bonus scheme </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">contractors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">development </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">communism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </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> |