| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/286 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Adult Education Study</title> |
| Interview of Thomas, George |
| 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 George Thomas, Treherbert, concerning his trade union and political activities during the 1920's and 1930's. Includes his role in the Clerks Union, and persecution for his trade union activities in the Clerical Workers strike in 1920, and consequent periods of unemployment; influence and persecution of the coal owners; his work as a lodge official; his education at, and expulsion from the Central Labour College; role as a tutor/lecturer in the National Council Of Labour Colleges, and working for the Daily Worker and Left Book Club; election as a Communist Councillor; and working in the Ministry of Labour</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Thomas</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">George & Lewis</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Clerks & Lodge Officers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Clerks Union & Clerical and Administrative Workers Guild & South Wales Coal Owners Association & National Union of Clerks & United National Coal Company & Bute Merthyr Lodge & National Council Of Labour Colleges & Communist Party & Publication - Daily Worker & Ocean Combine Committee & Left Book Club & Ministry of Labour & International Brigades</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Treherbert</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bute Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Treherbert</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Rhondda</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Nixons (?) Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Mountain Ash</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Central Labour College</emph><emph altrender="county">London</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</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><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, Clerical Workers 1920</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">Spanish Civil War 1936-39</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wage agreements </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">legal proceedings </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">coal owners </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">welfare </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Spanish Civil War </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">communism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1910 = 1960 (c) |
| 5.11.1973 |
| 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 |