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1969
The South Wales miners' leader Paynter was born in Cardiff in 1903, and started work as a collier's assistant at the age of 14. At 18 he was a coal-face worker and had a 'place of his own' at the Cymer Colliery. Seeing that unemployment led not only to poverty but also to a lack of dignity, he joined the Communist Party and had a key role in the National Unemployed Workers' Union. In 1937 he joined the International Brigade and travelled to Spain to serve in the Spanish Civil War. He was President of the South Wales NUM from 1951 to 1959 and General Secretary from 1959 to 1969. He died in 1984.
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From Week In Week Out first broadcast 13/06/1969
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