Midland Counties Miners' Federation

Midland Counties Miners' Federation
Founded	1886
Date dissolved	1945
Merged into	National Union of Mineworkers
Affiliation	Miners' Federation of Great Britain
Key people	Enoch Edwards (President), Albert Stanley (Secretary)
Country	United Kingdom

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

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.^[1] It affiliated to the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.^[2] The Warwickshire Miners' Association affiliated later.^[3]

In 1945, the union became the Midland Area of the National Union of Mineworkers.

Members

Name	Founded	Joined
Cannock Chase Miners', Enginemen's and Surfacemen's Association	1876	1886
North Stafford Miners' Association	1869	1886
Old Hill and Highley District Miners, Enginemen and Surfacemen's Association	1883	1886
Pelsall District Miners' Association	1887	1887
Shropshire Miners' Association	1886	1886
South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Amalgamated Miners	1863	1886
Warwickshire Miners' Association	1885	1890s
West Bromwich District Miners	1869	1886

1930s: F. J. Hancock

1950s: Arthur Badderley

1963: Jack Lally

1983:

1915: John Baker?

1930s: G. H. Jones

1948: J. H. Southall

1963: A. M. Jones

1983: Jim Colgan

1990s: Joe Wills

Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)

Presidents	1889 Pickard 1904 Enoch Edwards 1912 Smillie 1922 Smith 1929 Richards 1931 Ebby Edwards 1932 Lee 1934 J. Jones 1939 Lawther 1954 Ernest Jones 1960 Machen 1960 Ford 1971 Gormley 1982 Scargill 2002 Lavery 2012 Wilson

Vice-Presidents	1889 Woods 1909 Smillie 1912 Harvey 1914 House 1917 Smith 1922 Walsh 1924 Richards 1929 Ebby Edwards 1931 Lee 1932 J. Jones 1933 Davies 1934 Lawther 1939 Bowman 1950 Ernest Jones 1954 Edward Jones 1960 Collindridge 1963 Bullough 1969 Schofield 1973 McGahey 1987 Thompson 1989 Vacant 1992 Cave 2002 Stanley 2010 Wilson 2012 Thomas

General Secretaries	1889 Ashton 1919 Hodges 1924 Cook 1932 Ebby Edwards 1946 Horner 1959 Paynter 1968 Daly 1984 Heathfield 1992 Scargill 1992 Vacant? 2002 Kemp 2007 Kitchen

Treasurers	1889 Enoch Edwards 1904 Abraham 1918 Robson 1921 Richardson

MFGB affiliates	Bristol Cleveland Cokemen Cumberland Derbyshire Durham Forest of Dean Kent Lancashire and Cheshire Leicestershire Midland Counties Northumberland North Wales Nottinghamshire Scotland (Ayrshire Fife and Kinross Lanarkshire Mid and East Lothian Mid and West Lothian Stirling) Somerset South Derbyshire South Wales Yorkshire

Strikes	1893 1912 1926 1969 1972 1974 1984–1985

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