title: Midland Counties Miners' Federation
text: # Midland Counties Miners' Federation
  
  The Midland Counties Miners' Federation was a trade union, representing coal miners in the West Midlands region of England.
  
  ## History
  
  The union was founded in 1886. It initially had seven affiliates, including 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, and the West Bromwich District Miners. It affiliated to the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.
  
  By 1893, the federation's affiliates also included the Bristol Miners' Association, Forest of Dean Miners' Association, Somerset Miners' Association, and Warwickshire Miners' Association. The first three of these accepted reductions in wages which went against federation policy, and therefore left in 1894, recombining as the South-Western Federation.
  
  In 1945, the union became the Midland Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, with less autonomy than before. It dissolved in 2011.
  
  ## Affiliates
  
  | Name | Founded | Joined | Members (1907) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Cannock Chase Miners', Enginemen's and Surfacemen's Association | 1876 | 1886 | 7,500 |
  | North Stafford Miners' Association | 1869 | 1886 | 16,709 |
  | Old Hill and Highley District Miners', Enginemen's and Surfacemen's Association | 1870 | 1886 | 1,116 |
  | Pelsall District Miners' Association | 1887 | 1887 | 6,120 |
  | Shropshire Miners' Association | 1886 | 1886 | 1,600 |
  | Warwickshire Miners' Association | 1885 | 1890s | 9,000 |
  | West Bromwich Miners' Association | 1869 | 1886 | 2,300 |
  
  ## Leadership
  
  ### Presidents
  
      1886: Enoch Edwards
      1912: Samuel Finney
      1930s: F. J. Hancock
      1941: John Blakemore?
      1950s: Arthur Baddeley
      1963: Jack Lally
      1983: John Connon
  
  ### Secretaries
  
      1886: Samuel Henry Whitehouse
      1888: Benjamin Dean
      1890: Albert Stanley
      1915: John Baker?
      1930s: George Henry Jones
      1948: J. H. Southall
      1963: A. M. Jones
      1983: Jim Colgan
      1990s: Joe Wills
  