| <p>Recorded memoirs of Len Jeffreys, Cardiff, mainly concerning events, attitudes and political understandings and consciousness after 1926. Includes persecution of Communists; a seamen's dispute at Cardiff docks and LJ's arrest; attitudes and relations with the police; political activities and support of the Yorkshire woollen workers; his impressions and recollections concerning Arthur Horner; his working experiences in Russia; the demise of the Miners Minority Movement; the role of the Trades Councils and the National Unemployed Workers Movement; the effect of the hunger marches of the late 1920's; the role and policies of the Communist Party; his part in the International Class War Prisoners Aid Association, and imprisonment after a demonstration in Cardiff 1931, and other prison experiences, including sharing a sell with the petty officer who sank the Titanic</p><p></p><list><item><persname role="chief constable"><emph altrender="surname">Wilson</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Jimmy</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Jeffreys</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Len & Horner</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet">?</emph></persname><occupation>Seamen</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Miners Federation & Communist Party & Mardy Lodge & Miners Minority Movement & Labour Party & Trades and Labour Council & National Unemployed Workers Movement & National Council Of Labour Colleges & International Class War Prisoners Aid Association</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cardiff</emph><emph altrender="county">South Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Yorkshire</emph><emph altrender="county">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Russia</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ruskin Labour College</emph><emph altrender="county">Oxford</emph><emph altrender="parish">Oxfordshire</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Central Labour College</emph><emph altrender="county">London</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cardiff Prison</emph><emph altrender="county">Cardiff</emph><emph altrender="parish">South Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Wakefield Prison</emph><emph altrender="county">Wakefield</emph><emph altrender="parish">Yorkshire</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Yorkshire Wool 1930</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">March, Hunger</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Riot, Cardiff 1931</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Disaster, Sinking of the Titanic</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">football </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">rugby </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">legal proceedings </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">welfare </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">communism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Trade Union Act 1927</item></defitem></list> |