Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/19/200/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date26 August 1974
Description(Tracks 1 - 8) A socialist discusses Trade Unionist relationships with the mining community, and its engagement with their labour issues. He discusses Nationalisation and its effects nationally, as well as specifically on the mining community.

Track 1: Unknown male discusses and critiques 'Yorkshire Resolution' 2.52 mins
Track 2: Discussion continues on problematic Trade Union relationships with corporate powers and government 3.56 mins
Track 3: Issues of individualism amongst workers and socialist movement
2.48 mins
Track 4: Attacking representatives of the Working Class and defence methods of the capitalist system against campaigns such as Nationalisation 3.15 mins
Track 5: Armed forces training 3.08 mins
Track 6: Problems with mining shifts 3.01 mins
Track 7: Recognition of miners' issues by Trade Unions 3.29 mins
Track 8: Demanding pay rises and keeping of the organisation in control
2.19 mins

(Tracks 9 - 15) Tina Docherty, wife of miner Jim Docherty, of Keresley, Sterlingshire, Scotland talks about the experience of mining, from the perspective of the wife and family.

Track 9: Tina talks about the worries of a miner's wife 3.27 mins
Track 10: Accident in the pit and death of a miner in the village 2.28 mins
Track 11: Supporting the miners' cause for better pay and quality of life 3.58 mins
Track 12: Miners' attachment to the pit 3.51 mins
Track 13: Women's trip down to the mining pit 3.16 mins
Track 14: Conditions down in the mine for miners, and quality of living for miners' families 3.51 mins
Track 15: Sick pay conditions and compensation for mining accidents and injuries, managing little money and pay, and the overtime ban 3.44 mins

Total: 49.25 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLAKF565D1006380
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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