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Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation

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which prohibited all females and boys under ten from working underground. The association had 100,000 members and was involved in lobbying parliament to prevent persecution by tyrannical employers. The association, initially strongest in Yorkshire and the North-East, held a public meeting at Kersal
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Colliery owners fended off unions until well into the 19th century and trade unionism was slow to take a hold on the Lancashire Coalfield. Wages were poor and employers arbitrarily fined men for minor reasons, disallowed wages on false pretexts and victimised perceived radicals. Bonds, a system of
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in 1843 that was attended by 150 miners. Its general-secretary, David Swallow, considered the Lancashire miners to be among the worst paid in the country and attempted to address miners in Westhoughton, but the mineowners, including William Hulton, prevented him from holding a meeting.
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with headquarters in Bolton. The organisation was based on local branches with delegates attending quarterly meetings. The coal owners were not sympathetic and when the men went on strike to assert their right to organise,
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issued a pamphlet condemning his workforce who he considered had: "wantonly injured me to the fll limits of your ability, in my purse, and you have much farther wounded my feelings".
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hiring that legally tied miners to their job for a year, were used to enforce discipline. Miners protested about poor wages in 1757 when bread prices rose and some marched from
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ordered troops to be ready to quell unrest. Long strikes were unsustainable as the miners had no organisation or finances to back them. The first miners' association was the
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Membership rose rapidly, reaching over 70,000 by 1907. In 1913 Thomas Greenall, President and Thomas Ashton, Secretary, laid foundation stones in Bridgeman Place,
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The Lancashire miners were not considered as militant as their counterparts on other coalfields but were involved in disputes both locally and nationally.
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The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation was founded in 1881 in the aftermath of a bitter seven-week strike that was frequently violent.
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were admitted as members of the Federation after the first World War although work at collieries was considered an unsuitable job for women.
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Strikes in the first quarter of the 19th century generally failed to improve pay and conditions. In 1830 miners formed the
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was established at a meeting in Wakefield in 1842 and lasted for seven years. It supported the commission headed by Lord
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was elected the miners' agent and needed to unite the districts so that the fledgling union did not disintegrate.
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formed in Pemberton, Wigan in 1794. It was described as a friendly society to avoid prosecution under the
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was appointed agent of the LCMF in 1901 and, sponsored by the federation, fought for and won the
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Hill, J (1981), "The Lancashire Miners, Thomas Greenall and the Labour Party, 1900–1906",
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In 1888, the union called a national conference, which led to the formation of the
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and in the early-19th century there were 21 such societies in central Lancashire.
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towards Manchester in protest, but were turned back. When trouble flared, the
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in 1945, the LCMF became its Lancashire area. In 1963, this absorbed the
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employed 1,300 workers, paying them little more than if they were in the
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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol.130
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The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners Federation headquarters in Bolton
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By the Sweat of Their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines
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for stone and brick headquarters designed by Bolton architects
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that led to the merger of several district unions on the
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from 1881 until it became the Lancashire area of the
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Index

Lancashire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers
National Union of Mineworkers
Bolton
Miners' Federation of Great Britain
trade union
Lancashire Coalfield
North West England
National Union of Mineworkers
Kersal
Home Secretary
Combination Acts
William Hulton
Miners' Association of Great Britain and Ireland
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Coal Mines Act 1842
Lord Francis Egerton
workhouse

Thomas Ashton
Ashton-under-Lyne
Manchester Town Hall
Lancashire Coalfield
Sam Woods
Robert Isherwood
Ashton, Haydock and Bolton Miners' Trade Union
North Stafford Miners' Association
Tyldesley Miners' Association
Wigan Miners' Association
Miners Federation of Great Britain
Sam Woods

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