Founded 1886 | Date dissolved 1945 | |
Merged into National Union of Mineworkers 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 Edwards1912: Samuel Finney1930s: F. J. Hancock1950s: Arthur Badderley1963: Jack Lally1983:Secretaries
1886: Samuel Henry Whitehouse1888: Benjamin Dean1890: Albert Stanley1915: John Baker?1930s: G. H. Jones1948: J. H. Southall1963: A. M. Jones1983: Jim Colgan1990s: Joe WillsReferences
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