| Description | This file contains annotated transcripts of recorded interviews from a range of people. These include workers in the Coneygre Foundry, Smethwick, the MEM factory in Tyseley [the Midland Electrical Manufacturing Co. Ltd] and other industrial locations in Birmingham and the Black Country. References are made to industral processes, and also to industrial relations within these factories. However, the transcripts concentrate on personal experiences of racism, and also attitudes of white workers to black colleagues. Such experiences and attitudes are not limited to factory life, with wider issues such as housing policy and rent strikes against black Council tenants being included.
Changing trade union attitudes towards, and methods of countering racism are discussed. Differences in approach and outlook towards these issues between trades unions are commented on. Observations about Bill Morris and Avtar Jouhl as trades union officials are made.
This file also contains transcripts of interviews with Bill Morris [Jamaican born official of the T & GWU] and Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist MP for South Down and renowned for holding right wing views on immigration and multi-culturalism within the UK.
Within this file is an extract from an election address for Andrew Brons, the National Front candidate at the Stechford By-election of 31/03/1977. |