The pamphlet consists of a discussion on the role of wages and the price of coal in relation to the events of the 1921 lock-out. The narrative describes in detail how the Government and Coal Owners’ plan would impact different coal producing areas and individual collieries. An emphasis is placed upon the question of why these two organisations were so adverse to treating the coal industry as a single homogenous unit.
Recorded memoirs of Ben Davies. Includes his recollections of the 1921 lockout in Ferndale, the fine weather during the strike and the lack of financial support available.
Recorded memoirs of Ben Davies. Includes his recollections of the 1921 lockout in Ferndale, the fine weather during the strike and the lack of financial support available.
Welsh Trial cap presented to Swansea forward Fred Scrine in 1900. Burgundy red. P.O.W. feathers on front and 'TRIAL' beneath. '1900' on brim. Gold tassels.
Recorded memoirs of William Henry Williams. Discusses his activities as secretary of the Canteen Committee in Porthcawl during the 1921 lockout and the support provided by local businesses.
Recorded memoirs of William Henry Williams. Discusses his activities as secretary of the Canteen Committee in Porthcawl during the 1921 lockout and the support provided by local businesses.
Watercolour of 'Marino', the house built for Edward King and his wife, Jane Morris in 1784 by William Jarnegan (1750/1-1836). The original structure the Abbey Building at Swansea University is based on.
Fig. 3: Swansea Physicists outside the department in the late 1950s. Professor G.P. Thomson (visiting Nobel Laureate) is seated, second from the left, and on his left is Professor Frank Llewellyn Jones. Professor (then Dr.) Colyn Grey Morgan is standing behind, and slightly to the left of Thomson.
Slogan: Peace, Progress, Prosperity (both sides)
A picture of a miner looking at a colliery plan. He is standing in front of that colliery and the surrounding countryside
Lantern slide. Showing the a djed pillar at the temple of Sety I at Abydos. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'The Rod of Stability in Column form'.
Lantern slide. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. His notes read 'Cavalry pits made by the Turks for the defence of Tell Fara in the Wadi Ghuzzi near Gaza'.
Lantern slide. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. His notes read 'Church of the Nativity at Bethlemhem. The only enterance is through the small door in the wall near the ground'.
Recorded memoirs of Henry Lewis. Remembers people pulling together during the 1921 lockout and 1926 strike, double rent imposed on company-owned houses at the end of the lockout in an attempt to pull back lost rent, the legacy of debt and how the lockout was an equaliser of people.
Recorded memoirs of Henry Lewis. Remembers people pulling together during the 1921 lockout and 1926 strike, double rent imposed on company-owned houses at the end of the lockout in an attempt to pull back lost rent, the legacy of debt and how the lockout was an equaliser of people.
Slogan: Workers of the World Unite for Peace and Socialism
In the foreground is a picture of a white miner (left) and a coloured miner (right) holding a miner's lamp between them. The background depicts a yellow and red globe (both sides).
