Nottinghamshire Miners' Association

The Nottinghamshire Miners' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1881 to represent coal miners in Nottinghamshire.

During the UK General Strike of 1926, General Secretary George Alfred Spencer negotiated a return to work for some members, against the wishes of the union, and he was expelled.^[1] He founded the Nottinghamshire Miners' Industrial Union, a split supported by most of the mine owners. The two organisations reunited in 1937,^[2] as the Nottinghamshire Miners' Federated Union.

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: W. 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: W. Kay

1884: Aaron Stewart

1887: William Bailey

1893: John George Hancock

1897: Aaron Stewart

1910: Charles Bunfield

1914:

1918: George Alfred Spencer

1926: William Carter

1932: Val Coleman

Len Martin

1981: Henry Richardson

References

1. ^ Hester Barron, The 1926 Miners' Lockout, p.3
2. ^ J. E. Williams, The Derbyshire Miners, p.763