| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/320 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">National Union of Mineworkers, National and Area Officials Study</title> |
| Interview of Arthur, 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 Arthur, Neath. Includes attitudes to World War II; communism; the contrasting attitudes in Vale of Neath and Dulais Valley; the cosmopolitan community of Glynneath; the grade seniority rule in the anthracite; issue of absenteeism and its connection with industrial diseases; and the certification of sufferers of pneumoconiosis</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Arthur</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Will & Griffiths</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Lodge Secretary & Boys, Collier & Colliers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & Communist Party & Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries Limited & South Wales Miners Federation & Amalgamated Anthracite Combine Committee</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Seven Sisters Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Seven Sisters</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Empire Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmgwrach</emph><emph altrender="parish">Glynneath</emph><emph altrender="township">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Stay-Down 1935 (Fernhill)</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Fair, Neath</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">World War II </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><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">seniority rule </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">absenteeism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pneumoconiosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">anthracite </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Schiller Award 1931</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1935 = 1973 (c) |
| 31.5.1973 |
| 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 |