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	Members (date)
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

Presidents

1886: Enoch Edwards

1912: Samuel Finney

1930s: F. J. Hancock

1950s: Arthur Badderley

1963: Jack Lally

1983:

Secretaries

1886: Samuel Henry Whitehouse

1888: Benjamin Dean

1890: Albert Stanley

1915: John Baker?

1930s: G. H. Jones

1948: J. H. Southall

1963: A. M. Jones

1983: Jim Colgan

1990s: Joe Wills

References

1. Robin Page Arnot, The Miners, vol.1, p.105
2. Robin Page Arnot, The Miners, vol.1, p.251
3. Roy Gregory, The Miners and British Politics 1906-1914, p.168