North Wales Quarrymen's Union

North Wales Quarrymen's Union
Founded 27 April 1874
Date dissolved 1923
Merged into Transport and General Workers' Union
Country United Kingdom

The North Wales Quarrymen's Union (NWQU) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It was founded on 27 April 1874 at the Queen's Hotel, Caernarfon after a month of discussions between quarrymen from Dinorwic and other supporters.[1] Initially the union was not led by miners but radical Liberals who later became supporters of David Lloyd George's Cymru Fydd[2] It affiliated with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1923, but maintained a separate identity until 1960.[3]

General Secretaries

1874: William John Parry
1876: W. J. Williams
1897: J. E. Williams
1898: William H. Williams
1908: Robert Thomas Jones

Presidents

1874: Morgan Richards
1874: John Lloyd Jones
1876: William John Parry
1880: Robert Parry of Ceunant
1884: William John Parry
1890s: W. W. Jones
1903:

References

  1. ↑ Jones, R. M. "The North Wales Quarrymen 1874" (1982) Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp.108-9
  2. ↑ Dalton, I. "Nid Oes Bradwr Yn Y Ty Hwn: The Great North Wales Quarry Strikes" (2009) Bangor: Bangor Socialist Party, pg.5
  3. ↑ Annual Report of the 1960 Trades Union Congress, p.108

See also

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