| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/53 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">NUM National Executive Council Members and other Coalfield Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Paynter, Will |
| Second South Wales Coalfield Project 1979-82 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Will Paynter, former NUM General Secretary, of his early life and career. Mainly includes his political activities, and those of Arthur Horner, during the 1940's and 1950's. Included are setting up of various coalfield committees; negotiations; nationalisation; staydown strikes; loyalty to the new Labour government of 1945; and militancy in the coalfield</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Horner</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Arthur & Roberts</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>NUM General Secretary </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & National Union of Mineworkers & Labour Party & Trades Union Congress & NUM National Executive Council & Communist Party & South Wales Miners Federation & Miners Federation of Great Britain & National Joint Negotiating Committee & National Coal Board & Park and Dare Lodge & Pit Production Committees & Consultative Committees & Cambrian Combine Committee & Shakespeare Hotel Group</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedwas</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Fernhill Pits</emph><emph altrender="county">Fernhill</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Rhondda</emph><emph altrender="county">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">Shakespeare Hotel</emph><emph altrender="county">Neath</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Monmouthshire</emph><emph altrender="county">Wales</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Nationalisation, Vesting Day 1947</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">price lists </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conscientious objectors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housecoal </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">agreements </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wage agreements </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">coal owners </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">absenteeism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">miners agents </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Parliamentary Acts </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>National Minimum Wage Agreements 1944 (?)</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Divisional Coalfield Agreement 1947</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Five Day Week Agreement 1947</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Day Wage Structure Agreement 1955-56</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1910 = 1960 (c) |
| 1979 = 1982 |
| 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 |