| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/308 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">South Wales Miners Federation Founder Members Study</title> |
| Interview of Brookes, Jake |
| 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 Jake Brookes, Cwmbran. Includes his first day working underground; his career in the army; being a representative on the Lodge; visits to Russia, with a singing group as a result of winning a singing competition, and also as part of a delegation of the South Wales Miners Federation visiting some collieries; his involvement in trade unionism and with the Communist Party; his memories of A J Cook; riots in the Blaina area during the 1930's; his opinions of nationalisation and the post-war Labour Government; and his role as a miners agent</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Brookes</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Jake & Abrahams</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Lodge Youth Representatives & Lodge Secretary </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Miners Federation & Communist Party & Lady Slessors Save the Children Fund & National Unemployed Workers Movement & NUM National Executive Council & National Union of Mineworkers & National Coal Board</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Rose Heyworth Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abertillery</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Hafodyrynys Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Hafodyrynys</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Russia</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Blaina</emph><emph altrender="county">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">Riot, Abertillery 1935</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">army </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">price lists </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">holidays </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">miners agents </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">choirs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1900 = 1973 (c) |
| 13.9.1973 |
| 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 |