| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/257 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">National Union of Mineworkers, National and Area Officials Study</title> |
| Interview of Williams, Glyn |
| 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 Glyn Williams, Bridgend. Includes his family moving down from North Wales to the pits; working in Ynyscorrwg colliery, its closure, and the 1926 General Strike; unemployment and losing benefits, soup kitchens and seeking poor relief; early political and trade union influences, his father being a lodge officer; his part in the Cymmer riots, and in the persecution of blacklegs; working experiences in the pits, and becoming active on the lodge committee and in local elections; the coalfield during World War II and the Porter Award strike</p><p></p><list><item><persname role="coal owner"><emph altrender="surname">Gibb</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Robert</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">Glyn & Mainwaring</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>NUM President (South Wales) & Prime Ministers & Hauliers </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Welsh Maine Colliery Company & Glyncorrwg Colliery Company Limited & D R Llewellyn and Sons Limited & South Wales Miners Federation & Unemployment Tribunal & Ocean Welfare Scheme & Labour Party & Independent Labour Party & Communist Party & Young Communist Party & Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries Limited & Homeguard & Glamorgan Education Authority & Athan Thirty-One Boys Club & Strike Committee & Gibbs Colliery Company & Amalgamated Anthracite Combine Committee & South Pit Lodge & National Union of Mineworkers & NUM National Executive Council</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Glyncorrwg</emph><emph altrender="county">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Nantewlaeth Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cymmer</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Aberavon</emph><emph altrender="county">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">South Pit</emph><emph altrender="county">Glyncorrwg</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Rhigos Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ynyscorrwg Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Glyncorrwg</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Glynneath</emph><emph altrender="county">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cymmer</emph><emph altrender="county">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Glyncwmmer Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Glyncorrwg</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname><note type="note"><p>also known as the Goodie Colliery</p></note></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Goodie Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Glyncorrwg</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></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">Riot, Cymmer 1926</emph></subject></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">World War II 1939-45</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Porter Award 1944</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </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">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">lock out </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">welfare </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">show cards </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">miners agents </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1900 = 1945 (c) |
| 21.5.1974 |
| 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 |