| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/334 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Local Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Thomas, Ivor |
| 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 Ivor Thomas, Bridgend. Includes his family background; underground working systems in Pembrokeshire Collieries; payment of collier boys by the company; his involvement in trade unionism and local government; conditions in the Pembrokeshire mines; his involvement with the National Unemployed Workers Movement; his role as a representative in tribunals; his persecution and consequent unemployment; poaching when unemployed; differences between Pembrokshire and Ogmore Vale; the structure and role of the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation in the South Wales Area; and the closure of institutes in the area</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Thomas</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Ivor & Horner</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Colliers & Lodge Chairman & CISWO Officers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Unemployed Workers Movement & National Union of Mineworkers & Communist Party & Broom Lodge & NUM National Executive Council (South Wales Division) & Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation (CISWO) & National Coal Board & Tredegar Institute</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bonvilles Court Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Saundersfoot</emph><emph altrender="parish">Pembroke</emph><emph altrender="township">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Hooks West Park Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Hook</emph><emph altrender="parish">Pembroke</emph><emph altrender="township">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Sylen Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Pontyates</emph><emph altrender="parish">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Loveston Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Pembroke</emph><emph altrender="parish">Dyfed</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Wyndham Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Nantymoel</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ogmore Vale</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cynheidre Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Llanelli</emph><emph altrender="parish">Dyfed</emph></geogname></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">Strike, Boys 1942-43</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </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">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">coal owners </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">means testing </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">holidays </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">welfare </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">legal proceedings </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Porter Award 1944</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1907 = 1974 (c) |
| 21.5.1974 |
| 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 : 2 |
| Language | English |