| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/194 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Maerdy Community Study</title> |
| Interview of Picton, Will |
| 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 Will Picton, Maerdy. Includes the procedures at the Court of Referees; conditions of payment of unemployment benefit; establishment of the United Front Committees; demonstrations during 1937-38; the influence of Lewis Jones; influence of politics on WP, including Arthur Horner and the Schiller Award; rent evictions in Maerdy, and the imprisonment of Horner; unemployment and population movement, and its effect on the community; attitudes to alcohol; and prostitution during the wars</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Picton</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Will & Ike</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Lodge Representatives (for Unemployed on Tribunal Boards) & Lodge Representatives (for Court of Referees) </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Independent Labour Party & Unemployment Assistance Board & United Front Committees & National Unemployed Workers Movement & Communist Party & Labour Party & Conservative Party & Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Maerdy</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</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">Maerdy Institute</emph><emph altrender="county">Maerdy</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">means testing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">legal proceedings </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">welfare </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1910 = 1973 (c) |
| 18.5.1973 |
| 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 : 1 |
| Language | English |