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Northumberland Miners' Association

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Founded
  
1864

Country
  
United Kingdom

Date dissolved
  
1945

Northumberland Miners' Association

Merged into
  
National Union of Mineworkers

Affiliation
  
Miners' Federation of Great Britain

The Northumberland Miners' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

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The union was founded in 1864 to represent coal miners in Northumberland, following the collapse of a short-lived union covering both Northumberland and Durham miners. Originally named the Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association, it aimed for respectability, requiring high subscriptions and avoiding strikes. It did not affiliate to the national body, the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, until 1907. In 1945, this became the National Union of Mineworkers, and the association became its Northumberland Area.

General Secretaries

1864: William Crawford 1865: Thomas Burt 1913: William Straker 1935: Jim Bowman 1950: Robert Main 1975: Sammy Scott 1985: 1992: Ian Lavery 2010: Denis Murphy

Presidents

John Nixon 1872: William Grieves John Bryson John Nixon 1896: Hugh Boyle 1907: Joseph English J. Hall Scott 1910: 1914: William Weir 1927: William Golightly 1940: 1960s: Tom Holliday 1977: 1980s: Denis Murphy

Financial Secretaries

1906: John Cairns 1918: Ebby Edwards 1929: John Carr 1939: Jack Besford

References

Northumberland Miners' Association Wikipedia