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THE LANCASHIRE MINERS, THOMAS GREENALL and the LABOUR PARTY, 1900-1906 J. Hill, B.A., Ph.D. HE Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' F
THE LANCASHIRE MINERS, THOMAS GREENALL AND THE LABOUR PARTY, 1900-1906 J. Hill, B.A., Ph.D. HE Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation (LCMF) was J. the first of the big county miners' unions to become affiliated to the Labour Party. It did so in 1903, a full six years before the general passage of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) from Liberal to Labour. This early alignment of the Lancashire Miners with the new party, though an event of some significance in Labour politics, has not elicited very much detailed comment from historians,1 for whom the explanation for Lanca shire's affiliation has been sought in the unique convergence of pressures affecting the miners of this region. It is generally recog nised that the Lancashire Miners shared with their fellow workers in other coalfields a desire for parliamentary representation as a means of securing remedial legislation for the industry. Thus the LCMF had been a prominent campaigner for the Eight Hour Day ever since the issue had first been raised in the early iSgos and had later come to embrace a number of other legislative objectives, including the controversial demand for the nationali sation of the mining industry.2 Consequently, the Lancashire Federation was no stranger to electoral activity and in 1892 and again in 1895 had mounted campaigns in trie Wigan coalfield to elect miners' leaders to Parliament. Indeed, the Federation President Sam Woods had represented Ince3 as a Lib-Lab for three years from 1892. But historians have been quick to point out that a feature -
1938 Presidents Address
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS Mr. LAWTHER (VICE-PRESIDENT): I have very much pleasure in calling upon Mr. Jones to deliver this, his fourth, Presidential Address. The delegates will receive copies immediately after the speech has been made, Mr. J. JONES (PRESIDENT): FELLOW DELEGATES: It is but a few months since we were assembled together at Blackpool on the occasion of our last Annual Conference, but since that time the Great Reaper has been at work in our ranks, and we have lost many '4 old friends and comrades who then shared our work and respon- sibilities. Guy Rowson, of Lancashire; D. L. Davies, of South Wales; Thomas Greenall, of Lancashire; Oliver Wright, of Derbyshire; J. Smith, of Group No. i; Isaac Eccleston, of Cannock; and John Potts and Herbert Smith, of Yorkshire. All these were men of character, men whose loss will be deeply felt in the coalfields, and men whose worth and work will ever remain green in our memories. Some of these men were in the flower of their early manhood; others had lived long, hard and full lives; but all had one outstanding characteristic, both the young and the old. Both those whom we had sent to the House of Commons and those who were still in the coal- fields had one central purpose in their lives—to be of service to their fellows. For this we honour them, and from the same ennobling fount we take inspiration and courage to go forward, in our separate ways striving to the utmost of our ability to further the interests of the men whom we are privileged to serve. -
Past Forward
Produced by Wigan Archives & Museums Issue No. 85 August – November 2020 Summertime by the Canal £2 Wigan and Leigh's local history magazine ARCHIVES & MUSEUMS FOLLOW US Contents Letter from the 4-6 Out of the Pits and into Parliament Editorial Team Forward 7 Tracing Myles Standish Welcome to PAST Issue 85. We’re delighted that in spite of the pandemic and lockdown, your local 8-9 Lancashire Lads in history research has not stopped and we’ve plenty of fascinating stories to Lincoln's Army share in Past Forward. 10-12 Death's Dictionary Yvonne Eckersley continues her exploration of the journey taken towards political influence by Ashton-in-Makerfield’s miners, from the pits to 13 Covid-19 Archive Parliament. Charlie Guy examines ‘Death’s Dictionary’ with a fascinating overview of the use of symbols on nineteenth century graves. 14-17 A Hidden Flaw: Brian Joyce looks at the tragic events at Dan Lane Mill in September 1911 An Atherton Tragedy and Karen Lynch investigates the evidence for the Observatory at Haigh Hall. 18-21 Lost parts of Standish We’re pleased to announce that our Past Forward Essay Competition will Hall found in America continue as normal this year, thanks to the kind sponsorship of Mr and Mrs O’Neill. Please see opposite for full details about how you can enter. 21 Information for With one eye on the future and one on the last few months, we launched Contributors the Wigan Borough COVID-19 Archive. We all have a story to tell about how the pandemic has altered our lives and we want to preserve and 22-23 Finch House – document our lived experiences for future generations. -
Miners' Strike 1984
Produced by Wigan Heritage Service Issue No. 52 August - November 2009 25th Anniversary Miners' Strike 1984 £1 YOUR HERITAGE HERITAGE SERVICE Contents Letter from the 3 History Shop Update 4 Archives News Editorial Team 5 Learning and Outreach News The History Shop restoration project is gathering pace. You can read all about progress on the opposite page and visit our new online 6 Local and ‘blog’ at www.wlct.org/Culture/Heritage/hsblog.htm Family History News 7 Collections Corner This issue of PAST FORWARD commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 1984 Miners’ Strike. On page eight two local miners share their 8-10 Miners’ Strike of 1984 memories of the strike. Collections Corner turns the spotlight on two 11 Heritage Open Days objects from the museum collection related to the strike and Archives Heritage Network News focuses on mining records. 12-13 Vanished Deer Parks In the last issue we reintroduced the Probing Pictures feature and had 14-15 Memories a great response from our readers. This issue we are introducing 16-17 Walter Hurst – another new feature the Puzzle Page, we hope you enjoy it! We plan ‘Mr Hindley’ to develop this feature further in future issues. 18-20 August 1966 - a PAST FORWARD now has its own e-mail address Nostalgic Tour in the [email protected]. You can use this to send in your articles, Dying Days of Steam letters and comments. 21 Hindley’s Bell-man Finally, Tyldesley Library will be celebrating its centenary in December. 22-23 Do you remember? PAST FORWARD issue 53 will commemorate this anniversary with an Wigan’s Town Centre article about the Library and its benefactor Andrew Carnegie.