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Ref NoSWCC/AUD/27
Title<title linktype="simple">Lodge Officers Study</title>
Interview of Murphy, Daniel
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 Daniel Murphy, retired Ty Mawr Lodge Chairman. Includes working relations; the 1926 General Strike and lockout; Naval Colliery working methods; nationalisation; production committees; joint lodges; explosion at Lewis Merthyr pit; pit closures and redundancies; impact of the National Insurance Act; trade union leadership; comparison of Rhondda lodges with other lodges in the coalfield; social changes in the area; and community opinion of appeals after disasters</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Murphy</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Daniel &amp; John</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet">?</emph></persname></item><item><persname role="president of the SWMF"><emph altrender="surname">Horner</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Arthur</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Lodge Chairman</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Labour Party &amp; Cambrian Combine Committee &amp; Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company &amp; Shakespeare Hotel Group &amp; Communist Party &amp; Conservative Party &amp; Ty Mawr Lodge &amp; South Wales Miners Federation</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Naval Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhondda</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ely Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Penygraig</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tonypandy</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Maritime Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Pontypridd</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ty Mawr Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War II 1939-45</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, General 1926</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </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">jazz bands </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dancing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">allowances </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">explosions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">redundancy </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disasters </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">childrens games </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">lock out </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">amalgamations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Parliamentary Acts </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>National Insurance Act 1948</item></defitem></list>
Date1922 = 1980 (c)
18.3.1980
Related Material<archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref>
Physical Descriptiongood
Extentno of tapes : 2
LanguageEnglish
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