| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/329 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Local Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Abrahams, Phil |
| 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 Phil Abrahams, Nantyglo. Includes the method of recruitment of volunteers for the International Brigades; his imprisonment after a riot in 1935, and the personal effect of this imprisonment; his involvement in the Communist Party; the effect of his religious upbringing on his morals; attitude of the Government to hunger marches; fascism in Ebbw Vale; and his change in political outlook to the Labour Party</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Abrahams</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Phil & Paynter</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Lodge Chairman</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">International Brigades & Communist Party & National Unemployed Workers Movement & Publication - Weekly Worker & Publication - Daily Worker & Workers Freedom Group (Tredegar) & Local Party Committee (Communist Party) & Labour Party & Transport and General Workers Union & South Wales Miners Federation &</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cardiff</emph><emph altrender="county">South Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ebbw Vale</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Nantyglo</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwent</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><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">Demonstration, Blaina 1935</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">March, Hunger 1934</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Spanish Civil War </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">communism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">fascism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nystagmus </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1930 = 1974 (c) |
| 14.1.1974 |
| 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 |