| <p>Recorded memoirs of Jim Minton, Abergavenny. Includes his family background; first working underground at twelve years old; involvement in politics and trade unions; influence of the 1904 Religious Revival; opinion and memories of S O Davies and Ted Gill; being a representative on a delegation to Durham to gain strike support and funds; his participation in a hunger march to London in 1922; moving to Canada in 1923, sailing from Liverpool to Halifax in Nova Scotia, where he worked in the collieries and on the land; a comparison of collieries in Canada and South Wales; bootlegging in Alberta; strikes in Canada; his arrest; the local election of Tom Garland (?); returning to Blaina in 1925; working in Devon with his son, and being injured while working on the tram lines</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Minton</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Jim & Minton</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Door & Colliers & Boys, Collier & Lodge Chairman & Labourers </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Independent Labour Party & Rosedale Lodge & South Wales Miners Federation</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Blaina Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Blaina</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Maerdy Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Maerdy</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fach</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Griffin Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Blaina</emph><emph altrender="parish">Abertillery</emph><emph altrender="township">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Moody Mine</emph><emph altrender="county">Crows Nest Pass</emph><emph altrender="parish">Canada</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Rosedale Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Drumella</emph><emph altrender="parish">Alberta</emph><emph altrender="township">Canada</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Durham</emph><emph altrender="county">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">London</emph><emph altrender="county">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Canada</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, Hauliers 1903</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1912</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1914</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">March, Hunger 1922</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Canada 1925</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">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">silicosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">horses </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sickness </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">galas </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">boxing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |