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Midland Miners Federation

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Unissued membership certificate / poster circa 1904, an early example of chromolithography, colour printing.

The Midland Counties Miners' Federation was founded in 1886. It initially had seven affiliates: 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, the South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Amalgamated Miners, and the West Bromwich District Miners.

 

It affiliated to the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. The Warwickshire Miners' Association affiliated later.

 

In 1945, the union became the Midland Area of the National Union of Mineworkers.

 

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