| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/143 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">NUM National Executive Council Members and other Coalfield Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Scargill, Arthur |
| 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 Arthur Scargill, Yorkshire. Includes the role of the National Union of Mineworkers; relationship between the Labour Party and the leadership of the NUM in Yorkshire; his persecution from the National Coal Board and colliery lodge; opinions of the NUM National Executive Council on his election; reasons for the strikes of the 1970's; relationships with leaders in other coalfields; centralised leadership in Yorkshire different to other coalfields; education program for young members of the trade union; threat of the area Incentive Bonus Scheme to unity of the NUM; the NUM National Executice Council and its representation, role of its President, and opinions of its leadership</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Scargill</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Arthur & Machin</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & NUM National Executive Council & Young Communist League & Labour Party & Amalgamated Engineering Union & Transport and General Workers Union & National Coal Board & Barnsley Miners Forum & Unofficial Strike Committees & Yorkshire Miners Forum</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Barnsley</emph><emph altrender="county">South Yorkshire</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Mountain Ash</emph><emph altrender="county">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></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, Surfacemen 1969</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">shift working </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">incentive bonus scheme </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1950 = 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 |