| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/125 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Lodge Officers Study</title> |
| Interview of Hartwell, Dane Miners |
| 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 Dane Hartwell, Blaengwrach Lodge Secretary. Includes his reasons for entering the mines; social activites in Glynneath; visiting colleries as part of training; reaction of National Union of Mineworkers leadership to pit closures; closure of Rhigos and Pentreclwydau collieries; mobile gang of electricians; experience of Tower Colliery; organisation of pickets during the 1972 strike; relationships between management and workers after the strikes; difference between Tower and Blaengwrach Colleries; and the lack of government planning and investment in South Wales Coalfield</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Hartwell</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Dane Miners & Evans</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Electricians & Lodge Secretary</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & Blaengwrach Lodge & National Coal Board & NUM National Executive Council & Communist Party & Transport and General Workers Union & British Petroleum Corporation & West Glamorgan Youth Orchestra & Rhigos Lodge & Cambrian Combine Committee & Vale of Neath Lodge & Tower Lodge</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Blaengwrach</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmgwrach</emph><emph altrender="parish">Neath</emph><emph altrender="township">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tower Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Hirwaun</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Penrhiwceiber Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Mountain Ash</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Baglan Bay</emph><emph altrender="county">Port Talbot</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abernant Colliery Training Centre</emph><emph altrender="county">South Wales</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Rhigos Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Aberpergwm Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Glynneath</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Pentreclwydau Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Glynneath</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</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">Conference, Youth </emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">retirement </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">agreements </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">incentive bonus scheme </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dramatic society </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">cinemas </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">contractors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">culture </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </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 | 1950 = 1980 (c) |
| 18.3.1980 = 6.1.1981 |
| 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 : 4 |
| Language | English |