Yorkshire Miners' Association

Yorkshire Miners' Association
Founded	1881
Members	20,000
Affiliation	MFGB
Office location	Barnsley
Country	United Kingdom

Former offices of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, in Barnsley.

The Yorkshire Miners' Association was a British trade union.

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.^[1] This proved immediately successful, as the union obtained a 10% rise in wages in 1882, and membership grew to over 20,000.^[2]

General Secretaries

1881: Benjamin Pickard

1904: William Parrott

1906: John Wadsworth

1923: Samuel Roebuck

1924: Joseph Jones

1939: Ernest Jones

1954: Fred Collindridge

1964: Sid Schofield

1973: Owen Briscoe

1986: Sammy Thompson

1988: Kenneth Homer

1994:

Presidents

1881: Edward Cowey

1904: John Wadsworth

1906: Herbert Smith

1938: Joe Hall

1952: Alwyn Machen

1960: Sam Bullough

1973: Arthur Scargill

1982: Jack Taylor

1990: Frank Cave?

1990s: Steve Kemp

2007: Chris Kitchen

Vice Presidents

1881: George Cragg

1889: John Wadsworth

1904: Herbert Smith

1906: John Guest

1919: Edward Hough

1945: Fred Collindridge

1954: Sam Bullough

1961: Jack Leigh

1978: Jack Taylor

1982: Sammy Thompson

1986:

1990s: Ken Capstick

References

↑ Carolyn Baylies, The History of the Yorkshire Miners, 1881-1918, pp.61-62
↑ Carolyn Louise Baylies, The History of the Yorkshire Miners, 1881-1918, pp.74-75

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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