| <p>Recorded memoirs of Claude Stanfield, Merthyr. Includes his childhood and early working life; conditions after World War I; the organisation and structure of the Independent Labour Party in Merthyr; his involvement within the trade unions; coal owners, insurance and doctors; being persecuted while working in Plymouth Colliery; his involvement within the ILP; reactions of the men returning from fighting in the War to conscientious objectors and members of the ILP; the disaffiliation of the ILP; hunger marches to London, including women, and public assistance</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Stanfield</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Claude & Cook</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Checkweighers & Doctors</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Independent Labour Party & Communist Party & National Union of Mineworkers & South Wales Miners Federation & Dowlias and District of Miners & Merthyr District of Miners & Taff and Cynon District of Miners & Minority Movement & Welsh Amalgamated Collieries & Merthyr Tydfil Unemployed Workers Movement & National Unemployed Workers Movement & Independent Labour Party Dramatic Society (Local) & Bedwas Lodge & Adelphi Group & May Economy Committee</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Merthyr Tydfil</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Nine Mile Point Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmfelinfach</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Castle Pit</emph><emph altrender="county">Merthyr Tydfil</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Troedyrhiw</emph><emph altrender="county">New Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Independent Labour Party Hall</emph><emph altrender="county">Troedyrhiw</emph><emph altrender="parish">New Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="township">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Plymouth Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Merthyr Tydfil</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1921</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, General 1926</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Schiller Award 1931</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">March, Hunger 1934 (NUWM)</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Election, Local 1935</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </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">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conscientious objectors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">football </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">theatre </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">insurance </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">means testing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">coal owners </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">health </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sickness </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">welfare </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |