| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/217 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Local Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Edwards, O |
| First South Wales Coalfield Project 1972-74 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of O Edwards, Markham. Includes jobs undertaken as a boy, and beginning work in the colliery at fourteen; differences between Markham and Cwmbran Collieries; training as a painter and decorator under a Ministry of Labour scheme; his involvement in trade unions; the Labour Party and it's development; impact of nationalisation on various collieries; and differences between the Forest of Dean and the South Wales coalfields</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Edwards</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">O & Finch</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Repairers & Lodge Secretary & Lodge Secretary (Recording) & Lodge Compensation Secretary </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & Labour Party & Welfare Association</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Pontnewydd</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmbran</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmbran Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmbran</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Markhams Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Markham</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1921</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">Explosion, Six Bells Colliery 1960</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">horses </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">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </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">means testing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">explosions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disasters </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Industrial Relations Act 1948</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1903 = 1973 (c) |
| 12.11.1973 |
| 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 : 1 |
| Language | English |