South Derbyshire Miners' Association

United Kingdom

Parent organization

Miners' Federation of Great Britain (1888–1944)
National Union of Mineworkers (1945–1985)

The South Derbyshire Miners' Association was a trade union representing coal miners in the Derbyshire area of England.

The union was founded in 1888, and was originally known as the South Derbyshire Amalgamated Miners' Association.^[1] By the following year, it had 2,140 members, although this fell to only 1,408 in 1898. Thereafter, it gradually rebuilt membership, which peaked at more than 6,000 in the 1920s.^[2]

In 1889, the union was a founder constituent of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.^[3] In 1945, this became the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), and the union became its South Derbyshire Area, with less autonomy than before.^[2]

In 1985, the South Derbyshire Area split away from the NUM, to become a founder constituent of the new Union of Democratic Mineworkers.^[2]

General Secretaries

1888: William Buckley

1923: William Knight Smith

1928: Herbert Buck

c.1950: Harry Wileman

1965: Ken Toon

References

^ Page Arnot, Robin (1949). The Miners. Allen & Unwin.
^ ^a ^b ^c Smethurst, John B.; Carter, Peter (June 2009). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 6. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 504, 512. ISBN 9780754666837. LCCN 80-151653.
^ "Miners' Conference at Newport". The Manchester Guardian. 27 November 1889. Retrieved 6 April 2016 – via ProQuest.