| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/203 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Local Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Lewis, Jack Alfred |
| 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 Jack Lewis, Merthyr. Includes his family background; education in Merthyr; awareness of social conditions while living in London, and interest in socialism; opposition to World War I, including his arrest and trial, and imprisonment in Warwick prison with six months hard labour; discusses the prison conditions, the effect of solitary confinement, and the attitude of wardens to political prisioners; his Independent Labour Party political education; and memories of ILP political personalities</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Lewis</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Jack Alfred & Hardie</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Teachers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Islington Training College & Labour Party & Merthyr Education Committee & Independent Labour Party & No Conscription Fellowship & Merthyr Conscientious Objection Movement & South Wales Miners Federation</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Merthyr Tydfil</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Warwick Prison</emph><emph altrender="county">Warwick</emph><emph altrender="parish">Warwickshire</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cardiff Prison</emph><emph altrender="county">Cardiff</emph><emph altrender="parish">South Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Wormwood Scrubs</emph><emph altrender="county">London</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War I 1914-18</emph></subject></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">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conscientious objectors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1900 = 1973 (c) |
| 1972 (?) |
| 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 |