| <p>Recorded memoirs of Dick Cook, Ystradgynlais. Includes his childhood; his fathers' injury at work which resulted in blindness; work as a gentlemans boot boy; his first day underground; a description of the different jobs in the tin works, and the lack of a trade union; women working in the tin works; his transferral to Onllwyn Colliery, and a comparison of the tin works and the colliery; an industrial injury which resulted in the temporary loss of his sight; the life of Albino Gasio; working as the Lodge Compensation Secretary after regaining his eyesight; difference between Onllwyn and Abercrave Collieries; and how he learnt Welsh</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Cook</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Dick & Smith</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Domestic Servants & Tin Works, Behinders & Tin Works, Risers & Tin Works, Rollermen & Farm Labourers & Tin Works, Furnace Men & Tin Works, Doublers & Lodge Chairman & Colliers & Lodge Compensation Secretary </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Miners Federation & Onllwyn Lodge & Iron and Steel Conferation & Welsh Artisans, Transport and General Workers Union & Ynysoedwyn Tin Plate Company & National Coal Board & Tycoch Boxing Club</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abercraf</emph><emph altrender="county">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ystradgynlais</emph><emph altrender="county">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ynyscedwyn Tin Works</emph><emph altrender="county">Ynyscedwyn</emph><emph altrender="parish">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ystradfawr Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Ystrad</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ystelfera</emph><emph altrender="county">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">International Anthracite Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Ystradgynlais</emph><emph altrender="parish">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Onllwyn Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Onllwyn</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Blaenant Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Crynant</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abercrave Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abercraf</emph><emph altrender="parish">Ystradgynlais</emph><emph altrender="township">Powys</emph></geogname></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, Anthracite 1925</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">shift working </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sickness </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pensions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steel industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">absenteeism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">rugby </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit-head baths </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">apprenticeships </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">tin industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Welsh language </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |