| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/340 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Adult Education Study</title> |
| Interview of Thomas, John (Dr) |
| 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 Dr John Thomas. Includes his role as secretary of the Workers Educational Association for South Wales, and his non-political stance whilst involved with the WEA; his pacifist attitude to World War I; conditions of Pembrokeshire miners, and in the anthracite coalfield; open cast mining in Lancashire; events of the Ammanford dispute; impact of the seniority rule; career backgrounds of miners agents in the coalfield; his opinion of the National Council of Labour Colleges; and difficulties of the district organisation of the South Wales Miners Federation</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Thomas</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">John [Dr] & Morgan</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>WEA Secretary (South Wales) & SWMF Executive Member & Checkweighers & Labourers </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Workers Educational Association & Labour Party & South Wales Miners Federation & Publication - Economics of Coal & Publication - The Stuggle Between The Miners and The Mine Owners & National Council of Labour Colleges & Independent Labour Party & No Conscription Fellowship & Society of Friends & Co-operative Society & National Coal Board</emph></corpname></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">Singleton Abbey Farm</emph><emph altrender="county">Swansea</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Seven Sisters Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Seven Sisters</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Diamond Anthracite Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Crynant</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ammanford</emph><emph altrender="county">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Lancashire</emph><emph altrender="county">England</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, Anthracite 1925</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">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conscientious objectors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">anthracite </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">open cast </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">seniority rule </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit-head baths </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">miners agents </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1900 = 1974 (c) |
| 9.5.1974 |
| 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 : 1 |
| Language | English |