| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/307 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Local Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Nelmes, G C |
| 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 G C Nelmes, Aberbargoed. Includes his family background, and their move from the Forest of Dean to Bargoed; the influence of religion on GCN; his involvement in politics and trade unionism; the rise and impact of Company Unions after the 1926 General Strike; the Surfacemens Lodge at Bargoed, and problems during the establishment of the Lodge; the effect of nationalisation on the relationship between management and workers; and his involvement with the international interests of the South Wales Miners Federation</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Nelmes</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">G C & Hall</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Lodge Secretary & Surfacemen</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Methodist Church & Methodist Guild & Labour Party & South Wales Miners Federation & Communist Party & NUM National Executive Council & Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & Bargoed Surfacemens Lodge & South Wales Miners Industrial Union</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bargoed</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bargoed Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Bargoed</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Lydice</emph><emph altrender="county">Czechoslovakia</emph></geogname></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">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </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">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Porter Award 1944</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1898 = 1973 (c) |
| 13.9.1973 |
| 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 |