| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/104 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">"Rank and File" 1979-82 Study</title> |
| Interview of Stratton, Harry |
| 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 Harry Stratton, Swansea taxi-driver. Includes experiences in the army; his involvement with a war newspaper; relationships between officers and soldiers; Swansea after World War II; squatters and the homeless; his reaction to the election of the Attlee Government; sales of the Daily Worker; public meetings of the Communist Party and its membership in Swansea; reaction to the first Soviet ship to come to Britain after the war; relationship with the Labour Party; and his role in the Castlemartin Campaign (no German troops in Wales)</p><p></p><list><item><persname role="taxi-driver"><emph altrender="surname">Stratton</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Harry</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">David</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Jim & Francis</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Taxi-driver</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Army Bureau for Current Affairs & Communist Party & International Brigades & Labour Party & West Wales Area Committee of the Communist Party & Trades Union Congress & Trades Council & Parliament for Wales Movement & Publication - Daily Worker</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Swansea</emph><emph altrender="county">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Singleton Park Camp</emph><emph altrender="county">Swansea</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Merton</emph><emph altrender="county">Gower</emph><emph altrender="parish">Swansea</emph><emph altrender="township">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Castlemartin</emph><emph altrender="county">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Demonstration, May Day</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Demonstration, Castlemartin 1961</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War II 1939-45</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Spanish Civil War 1936-39</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">army </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Spanish Civil War </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">fascism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">communism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1930 = 1965 (c) |
| 17.11.1981 = 1.12.1981 |
| 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 |