Midland Counties Miners' Federation

Midland Counties Miners' Federation
Founded 1886
Date dissolved 30 June 2011
Members 35,600 (1907[1])
Affiliation Miners' Federation of Great Britain
Key people Enoch Edwards (President)
Albert Stanley (Secretary)
Office location Hednesford, Staffordshire
Country United Kingdom

The Midland Counties Miners' Federation was a British trade union.

History

The union was founded in 1886 to represent coal miners in the West Midlands region of England. It initially had seven affiliates: the North Stafford Miners' Association, the Old Hill and Highley District Miners, Enginemen and Surfacemen's Association, the Pelsall District Miners, the Shropshire Miners' Association, the South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Amalgamated Miners, and the West Bromwich District Miners.[2] It affiliated to the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.[3] The Warwickshire Miners' Association affiliated later.[4]

In 1945, the union became the Midland Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, with less autonomy than before. It dissolved in 2011.[5]

Members

NameFoundedJoinedMembers (1907)
Cannock Chase Miners', Enginemen's and Surfacemen's Association187618867,500[6]
North Stafford Miners' Association1869188616,709[6]
Old Hill and Highley District Miners, Enginemen and Surfacemen's Association188318861,116[7]
Pelsall District Miners' Association188718876,120[6]
Shropshire Miners' Association188618861,600[6]
South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Amalgamated Miners186318862,300[6]
Warwickshire Miners' Association18851890s9,000[6]
West Bromwich District Miners18691886

Presidents

1886: Enoch Edwards
1912: Samuel Finney
1930s: F. J. Hancock
1950s: Arthur Baddeley
1963: Jack Lally
1983:

Secretaries

1886: Samuel Henry Whitehouse
1888: Benjamin Dean
1890: Albert Stanley
1915: John Baker?
1930s: George Henry Jones
1948: J. H. Southall
1963: A. M. Jones
1983: Jim Colgan
1990s: Joe Wills

References

  1. ↑ Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907. London: Board of Trade. 1909. p. 121-124.
  2. ↑ Robin Page Arnot, The Miners, vol.1, p.105
  3. ↑ Robin Page Arnot, The Miners, vol.1, p.251
  4. ↑ Roy Gregory, The Miners and British Politics 1906-1914, p.168
  5. ↑ Trade Union Certification Officer, "Annual Return for a Trade Union: National Union of Mineworkers (Midlands Area): 2010"
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907. London: Board of Trade. 1909. p. 10-11.
  7. ↑ Gregory, Roy (1968). The Miners and British Politics 1906-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 168. Figure is for 1910.
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