| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/287 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">National Union of Mineworkers, National and Area Officials Study</title> |
| Interview of Paynter, Will |
| 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 Will Paynter, London. Includes his recollections and the influence, of David and Gwen Ray Evans; his activities as a Communist Party member, and prison experiences; the expulsion of Mardy Lodge from the South Wales Miners Federation; WP's opinion of Arthur Horner and his activities; his personal experiences in the Lenin School in Moscow, and general involvement in adult education; unemployment and being a "professional revolutionary"; election onto the South Wales Miners Executive Council; campaigning during the Spanish Civil War; being a miners agent in the Rhymney and Tredegar valleys; effects of the depression on the community and the Communist Party; and religious influences</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Paynter</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Will & Evans</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Checkweighers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & South Wales Miners Federation & Labour Party & Communist Party & Unofficial Reform Committee & National Council Of Labour Colleges & Mardy Lodge & Miners Minority Movement & Workers Educational Association & Ocean Combine & Amalgamated Anthracite Combine Committee & Powell Duffryn Combine Committee & Cymmer Lodge & South Wales Miners Industrial Union;</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cymmer Library</emph><emph altrender="county">Cymmer</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tonypandy</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Lenin School</emph><emph altrender="county">Moscow</emph><emph altrender="parish">Russia</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedlinog</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Rhymney Valley</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar Valley</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Day, Empire (1930)</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Election, General 1929</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">March, Hunger 1936</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">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">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">lock out </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </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">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">miners agents </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Schiller Award 1931</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1926 = 1940 (c) |
| 6.3.1973 |
| 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 : 2 |
| Language | English |