| <p>Recorded memoirs of Jim Evans, Abercraf. Includes jobs undertaken while still at school, including being a telegram boy during World War I; Powell Duffryn as employers; training to become a collier; A J Cook's attack on the buttie system in Nottingham during the 1926 General Strike; comparison between Midlands and South Wales workforce, especially concerning trade union consciousness; personal memories of the 1921 strike; his career as a boxer; the work involved as a member of the Lodge Committee; effect of the National Council of Labour Colleges on the trade union movement in Abercraf; attending Nun Nicholas' lectures; community reaction to the threat of pit closures; expulsion of Abercrave Lodge South Wales Miners Federation; and the Spanish Community in Abercrave</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Evans</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Jim & Brindle</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Colliers & Boys, Telegram & Lodge Secretary</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & South Wales Miners Industrial Union & South Wales Miners Federation & National Union of Mineworkers & Grimethorpe Lodge & National Council of Labour Colleges & Welsh Education Authority & Henderson Group of the Welsh Anthracite & Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries Limited & Abercraf Lodge & Amalgamated Anthracite Combine Committee & National Unemployed Workers Movement & NUM National Executive Council</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abercraf</emph><emph altrender="county">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">New Tredegar Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">New Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhymney Valley</emph><emph altrender="township">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">Charity Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Bedworth</emph><emph altrender="parish">Nuneaton</emph><emph altrender="township">Warwickshire</emph><emph altrender="street">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Summit Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Kirkby</emph><emph altrender="parish">Ashfield</emph><emph altrender="township">Nottingham</emph><emph altrender="street">Nottinghamshire</emph><emph altrender="">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Grimethorpe Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Grimethorpe</emph><emph altrender="parish">Barnsley</emph><emph altrender="township">Yorkshire</emph><emph altrender="street">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">International Anthracite Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Ystradgynlais</emph><emph altrender="parish">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abercrave Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abercraf</emph><emph altrender="parish">Ystradgynlais</emph><emph altrender="township">Powys</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">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">price lists </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steam </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">ventilation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">show cards </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">boxing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">rugby </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">seniority rule </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |