| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/300 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">South Wales Miners Federation Founder Members Study</title> |
| Interview of Matthews, P J |
| 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 P J Matthews, Pontypool. Includes his family background; working experiences in the pit as a boy; an industrial accident in which the horses were injured; the effect of the 1904 Religous Revival on PJM; working conditions in Penygraig; reasons for explosions in different collieries; choirs in the community; the scab union in Bedwas during 1920-30's, including attacks on the blacklegs train, and its impact on the community; PJM's accident underground; and his children</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Matthews</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">P J & Gough</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Miners Federation & Thomas Williams and Son & Abertillery Male Voice Choir & South Wales Miners Industrial Union</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Penrhiwceiber Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Mountain Ash</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Penygraig Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Penygraig</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Wattstown Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Wattstown</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmtillery Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abertillery</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Grovesend Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Gorseinon</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Six Bells Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Six Bells</emph><emph altrender="parish">Abertillery</emph><emph altrender="township">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Universal Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Senghenydd</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedwas Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Bedwas</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1898</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">Explosion, Wattstown 1905</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Disaster, Senghenydd 1913</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">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">horses </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">explosions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">rugby </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sliding scale </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">choirs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </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">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </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">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pneumoconiosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1898 = 1973 (c) |
| 7.1973 |
| 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 |