Nottinghamshire Miners' Association

Nottinghamshire Miners' Association
Founded	1881
Date dissolved	1945
Merged into	National Union of Mineworkers
Country	United Kingdom

The Nottinghamshire Miners' Association was a trade union representing coal miners in Nottinghamshire, in England.

A Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Miners' Union was founded in 1863 or 1864, but this became moribund during the 1870s. However, some branches at local mines remained active, including trade unionists such as Samuel Smith, Aaron Stewart and William Hardy. In 1881, they constituted a new Nottingham Miners' Federation based on the rules of the old union, and by the start of 1884, membership had risen to more than 2,000. That year, two unsuccessful strikes took place and membership halved. In response, the union elected new officials and adopted a new name, the "Nottinghamshire Miners' Association", and constitution.^[1] In 1889, the Association was a founder member of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.^[2]

In 1926, at the height of the General Strike, General Secretary George Alfred Spencer on behalf of the Nottinghamshire Miners Association, negotiated a deal with the local mine owners at the request of miners from the Digby pit near Eastwood, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire. However, this brought him into conflict with the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, who wished to see the strike continue. Unhappy with the influence of the MFGB, Spencer led a breakaway from the NMA, supported by moderates such as John Hancock, setting up the Nottinghamshire and District Miners' Industrial Union (NMIU) based mostly in The Dukeries. The NMIU lasted for eleven years separate from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. In 1937, an agreement was reached between the NMA and the NMIU and they merged to form the Nottinghamshire Miners' Federated Union, with Spencer becoming the President.^[3]

In 1945, the union became the Nottinghamshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers. During the 1984-1985 miners' strike, the majority of the members broke away to form the Union of Democratic Mineworkers.

Presidents

1881: Joseph Allen

1883: Joseph Hopkin

1884: Charles West

1888: Aaron Stewart

1897: William Hardy

1899: John E. Whyatt

1907: Charles Bunfield

1909: William Carter

1910: John E. Whyatt

1912: George Alfred Spencer

1918: Frank Varley

1930: Val Coleman

1932: Bernard Taylor

1937: George Alfred Spencer

1945: Bill Bayliss

Len Clarke

1982: Ray Chadburn

Keith Stanley

General Secretaries

1881: William Kay

1884: Aaron Stewart

1887: William Bailey

1893: John Hancock

1897: Aaron Stewart

1910: Charles Bunfield

1914:

1918: George Alfred Spencer

1926: William Carter

1932: Val Coleman

Len Martin

1970s: J. Whelan

1981: Henry Richardson

References

↑ Alan R. Griffin, A History of the Nottinghamshire Miners, Part I, pp.11-39
↑ Alan R. Griffin, A History of the Nottinghamshire Miners, Part I, p.64
↑ http://www.nottinghamshireexminer.com/Nottinghamshire-NUM-Area-History

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 Cumberland Derbyshire Durham Forest of Dean Kent Lancashire and Cheshire Leicestershire Midland Counties Northumberland North Wales Nottinghamshire Scotland (Ayrshire Fife and Kinross Lanarkshire) Somerset South Derbyshire South Wales Yorkshire

Strikes	1893 1912 1926 1969 1972 1974 1984–1985

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