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.

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
 * 1983: Jim Colgan
 * 1990s: Joe Wills