Founded 1881 Affiliation MFGB | Members 20,000 | |
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The Yorkshire Miners' Association was a British trade union.
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The union was founded in 1881 with the merger of the South Yorkshire Miners' Association, and the West Yorkshire Miners' Association, agreed only because both organisations were weakened by unsuccessful disputes. In order to save money, it moved away from its predecessors' focus on paying benefits to members who were unable to work, and instead aimed to improve working conditions. This proved immediately successful, as the union obtained a 10% rise in wages in 1882, and membership grew to over 20,000.
General Secretaries
1881: Benjamin Pickard1904: William Parrott1906: John Wadsworth1923: Samuel Roebuck1924: Joseph Jones1939: Ernest Jones1954: Fred Collindridge1964: Sid Schofield1973: Owen Briscoe1986: Sammy Thompson1988: Kenneth Homer1994:Presidents
1881: Edward Cowey1904: John Wadsworth1906: Herbert Smith1938: Joe Hall1952: Alwyn Machen1960: Sam Bullough1973: Arthur Scargill1982: Jack Taylor1990: Frank Cave?1990s: Steve Kemp2007: Chris KitchenVice Presidents
1881: George Cragg1889: John Wadsworth1904: Herbert Smith1906: John Guest1919: Edward Hough1945: Fred Collindridge1954: Sam Bullough1961: Jack Leigh1978: Jack Taylor1982: Sammy Thompson1986:1990s: Ken CapstickReferences
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