| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/90 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Labour Party Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Griffiths, James (MP) |
| 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 James Griffiths (MP). Included are his observations of the changes in the South Wales coal industry and society; development and influences of Labour Colleges, and personal experiences at the Central Labour College; attitudes towards syndicalism, and capitalism; religious influences; holding his own industrial history classes; impact of the Miners Next Step; the anthracite areas, and the 1925 strike, and 1926 General strike and their consquences; hunger marches; and the future of industry in South Wales</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Griffiths</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">James & Hartshorn</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet">MP</emph></persname></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Independent Labour Party & Labour Party & Welsh Education Authority & Kodak Film Company & Ammanford Workers Forum & National Council Of Labour Colleges & Plebs League & South Wales Miners Federation & National Union of Mineworkers & National Union of Railwaymen & Minority Movement & Publication - Llais Llafur & Conciliation Board & Conservative Party & Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) & Publication - Miners Next Step & Unemployment Assistance Board</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ammanford</emph><emph altrender="county">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ammanford Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Amman Valley</emph><emph altrender="parish">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">White House</emph><emph altrender="county">Ammanford</emph><emph altrender="parish">Dyfed</emph></geogname></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">Emlyn Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Penygroes</emph><emph altrender="parish">Ammanford</emph><emph altrender="township">Dyfed</emph></geogname></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">event</emph><emph altrender="y">March, Hunger</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Riot, Battle of the Rock Colliery 1925</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conscientious objectors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </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">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">anthracite </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">means testing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">absenteeism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">culture </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Wilberforce Report 1972</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1908 = 1972 (c) |
| 20.11.1972 |
| 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 |