Leicestershire Miners' Association

Leicestershire Miners' Association

Founded	1887
Dissolved	24 June 2016
Headquarters	8 Bakewell Street, Coalville
Location	United Kingdom
Members	4,724 (1907[1])
Key people	Levi Lovett (President), Jack W. Smith
Affiliations	Miners' Federation of Great Britain

Former headquarters, in Coalville

The Leicestershire Miners' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1887 as the Coalville and District Miners' Association to represent coal miners in the Coalville area of Leicestershire.^[2] In about 1907, it became the "Leicestershire Miners' Association".^[3]

The union was affiliated to the Miners Federation of Great Britain, and in 1945 it became the Leicestershire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Although all but thirty of the union's members broke the 1984 Miners' Strike, they voted against joining the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, and remained part of the NUM. The union was finally dissolved in 2016.^[4]

Notable figures associated with the union include president Levi Lovett and agent Jack W. Smith.

Secretaries

c. 1900: Tom Gowdridge

1945: Frank Smith

1976: Jack Jones

c. 1990: Peter Smith

References

1. Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907. London: Board of Trade. 1909. p. 82-101.
2. Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, p.210
3. John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions Vol.6, p.489
4. Trade Union Certification Officer, "Former trade unions"