Yorkshire Miners' Association

The Yorkshire Miners' Association was a British trade union. It is now an integral part of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).

Yorkshire Miners' Association

Merged into	National Union of Mineworkers
Founded	1881
Dissolved	1994
Headquarters	Barnsley
Location	United Kingdom
Members	79,052 (1907[1])
Publication	Yorkshire Miner[2]
Affiliations	MFGB
Website	www.num.org.uk/page/NUMYorkshireArea

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

History

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.^[3] This proved immediately successful, as the union obtained a 10% rise in wages in 1882, and membership grew to over 20,000.^[4]

In 1994, the union's members were transferred to the national body, the NUM.^[5]

Officials

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

2002: Steve Kemp

2007: Chris Kitchen

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

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