| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/446 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">National Union of Mineworkers, National and Area Officials Study</title> |
| Interview of Paynter, 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 Paynter beginning with his family background, and political and religious influences; beginning work in the pits, and his early political activities with the Communist Party, Cymmer Lodge and the National Unemployment Workers Movement, especially during the 1926 and 1931 strikes and the later hunger marches; an account of his arrest and imprisonment; and his involvement with the South Wales Miners Federation</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Paynter</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Will & Bryan</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Checkweighers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Miners Federation & Labour Party & Communist Party & United Front & National Unemployment Workers Movement & Cymmer Lodge & South Wales United Action Committee</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Trebanog</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Porth</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Coedely Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Coedely</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cymmer Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Porth</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cymmer Library</emph><emph altrender="county">Porth</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</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, 1931</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y"></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">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">communism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">means testing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Checkweighers Act</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1920 = 1940 (c) |
| 18.4.1969 |
| 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 |