| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/124 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">NUM National Executive Council Members and other Coalfield Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Callan, Tom |
| Interview of Mitchell, Harold |
| 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 Harold Mitchell and Tom Callan, Durham leaders. Includes HM's first job in the mines on the surface screens, and the conditions when he first went underground; involvement within the union; description of the job as President of the lodge, and as check weighman; opposition to pit closures; organisation and attitudes during the 1972 strike; the controversy and opposition to Seaton Carew Power Station; effect of the National Power Loading Agreement on the self-respect of the miners; opinion of the NUM National Executive Council, and its organisation; and the future of the Durham coalfield</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Mitchell</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Harold & Dafety</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Lodge President & Checkweighers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & Labour Party & NUM National Executive Council & National Coal Board</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Seaton Carew</emph><emph altrender="county">Billingham</emph><emph altrender="parish">Middlesborough</emph><emph altrender="township">Cleveland</emph><emph altrender="street">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Seam Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Durham</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1972</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">horses </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steel industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nuclear energy </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </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">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">allowances </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>National Power Loading Agreement 1966</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1920 = 1980 (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 |