Founded 1886 Country United Kingdom | Date dissolved 1945 | |
Merged into National Union of Mineworkers Affiliation Miners' Federation of Great Britain Key people Enoch Edwards (President), Albert Stanley (Secretary) | ||
The Midland Counties Miners' Federation was a British trade union.
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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. It affiliated to the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. The Warwickshire Miners' Association affiliated later.
In 1945, the union became the Midland Area of the National Union of Mineworkers.
Presidents
1886: Enoch Edwards 1912: Samuel Finney 1930s: F. J. Hancock 1950s: Arthur Badderley 1963: Jack Lally 1983:Secretaries
1886: Samuel Henry Whitehouse 1888: Benjamin Dean 1890: Albert Stanley 1915: John Baker? 1930s: G. H. Jones 1948: J. H. Southall 1963: A. M. Jones 1983: Jim Colgan 1990s: Joe WillsReferences
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