Record

Ref NoSWCC/AUD/88
Title<title linktype="simple">Local Leaders Study</title>
Interview of Williams, Jack and Mrs
First South Wales Coalfield Project 1972-74
Description<list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list>
<p>Atgofion Mr a Mrs Jack Williams, yn ymdrin yn bennaf a tad Mrs Williams, Gwilym Richards, gan gynnwys ei ran mewn materion lleol o ddiweithdra, iawndaliadau, ac erledigaeth; effaith ei weithgareddau ar y teulu; amgylchiadau yn ystod Streic Fawr 1926; a amodau gwaith yn y pyllau glo. Recorded memoirs of Mr and Mrs Jack Williams, mainly regarding Mrs Williams father, Gwilym Richards. Included are his involvements in local issues of unemployment, compensation and persecution; the effects on the family of his activities; conditions during the General Strike 1926; working conditions in the pits</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Williams</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Jack &amp; Williams</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet">?</emph></persname><occupation>Checkweighers &amp; Hauliers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Labour Party &amp; South Wales Miners Federation</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Crown Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Burry Port</emph><emph altrender="parish">Dyfed</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">Ynysbwl Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Ynysbwl</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Burry Port</emph><emph altrender="county">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Hirwaun</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></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">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">silicosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list>
Date1920 = 1940 (c)
5.6.1973
Related Material<archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref>
Physical Descriptiongood
Extentno of tapes : 1
LanguageWelsh
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