| <p>Recorded memoirs of Len Jeffreys, Cardiff. Includes his family background; working conditions in the pits, and miners attitudes to their work; his education, especially in Sunday school; the effect of the 1904 religious revival; labour movement activities; his decision to work in the pits rather than become a scholar; joining the South Wales Miners Federation, and becoming involved in union and lodge activities; effect of World War I on the mining community, and his personal experiences in the army; political attitudes and propaganda, and activities of the local Independent Labour Party and night-class education; strikes in the pits; experiences as a navvie and the development of his interest in trade unionism; joining the Communist party and becoming their organiser in Cardiff; and his impressions of other local leaders</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Jeffreys</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Len & Woodward</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet">?</emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Newspaper & Boys, Door & Safety Men & Seamen</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Miners Federation & Watts and Watts Coal Company & Great Western Railway Company & Independent Labour Party & National Council Of Labour Colleges & Suffragettes & Liberal Party & Conservative Party & British Socialist Party & Communist Party & Miners Minority Movement & Tredegar Combine Committee & Ocean Coal Company</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Crosskeys</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Risca Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Crosskeys</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cross Keys Workmens Hall</emph><emph altrender="county">Crosskeys</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</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">Pontymister Secondary School</emph><emph altrender="county"></emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cardiff</emph><emph altrender="county">South Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Day, Mabons</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War I 1914-18</emph></subject></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">Revival, Religious 1904</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Welsh language </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">sickness </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">holidays </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">culture </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </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">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">clothing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">army </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">fatal accidents </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conferences </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">crime </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">legal proceedings </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Eight Hours Act 1908</item></defitem><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Minimum Wage Act 1912</item></defitem></list> |