| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/61 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Members of the South Wales Area of the NUM Executive Council and Full-Time Officers Study</title> |
| Interview of Lawrence, Raymond Arthur |
| 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 Ray Lawrence, Celynen South. Included are attitudes to local leadership; strikes and picketing; militancy; wage schemes; investment in the coalfield; and closures</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Lawrence</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Raymond Arthur & Cross</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet">Rhondda</emph></persname><occupation>Electricians & Surfacemen & NUM Executive Council Member (South Wales) </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Celynen South Lodge & National Union of Mineworkers & Labour Party & Communist Party & National Association of Colliery Overmen Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS) & NUM Executive Council South Wales Area & National Coal Board & Trades Union Congress</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Celynen South Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abercarn</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Celynen North Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Newbridge</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Surfacemen 1969</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1972</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1974</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Steel Workers (year ?)</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">amalgamations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">apprenticeships </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">absenteeism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">incentive bonus scheme </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steel industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Threshold Agreement (year ?)</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1960 = 1981 (c) |
| 4.6.1981 |
| 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 |