The Lanarkshire Miners' County Union, later the Lanarkshire Mineworkers' Union, represented coal miners in the Lanarkshire district of Scotland. The union...

a miner himself. The following year, his family moved to Coalburn and he worked at Auchenbeg Colliery. He became active in the Lanarkshire Miners' County...

followed in his father's footsteps by becoming an agent of the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union (LMCU). His younger brother Robert Small was also appointed...

before they became part of the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union. Several founding sections of the South Wales Miners' Federation already held membership...

second son of William Small, who became the secretary of the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union (LCMU), and Janet "Jessie" Bell Scott. Robert was the younger...

and was a leading founder member of the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union (LMCU). He remained involved with union while transferring to work at nearby Bent...

disputes between the AMMW and the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union (LMCU) led the union to leave the Scottish Miners' Federation (SMF). The SMF sent Robert...

in Lanarkshire. After the Lanarkshire Miners County Union (LMCU) was founded in 1893, these led to demarcation disputes, and although both unions were...

Robert Steel to call meetings of miners in Lanarkshire with a view to founding a branch of the Lanarkshire Miners' Union. Among those who attended was Robert...

year, he also took up the post of general secretary of the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union, holding it for five years alongside his Parliamentary duties...

National Union of Scottish Mineworkers (NUSW) is a trade union in Scotland, founded in 1894 as the Scottish Miners Federation. It joined the Miners' Federation...

1927, when he was defeated by William Allan, leader of the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union. Smith was also losing support in the AMU, perceived as being...

subsequently led miners' strikes in Lanarkshire (1880) and Ayrshire (1881). He turned to journalism to make ends meet, and from 1886 was a full-time union organiser...

they met the miners, joined pickets and raised funds. The songs of the South Wales Striking Miners' Choir and the speeches of Kent miner Alan Sutcliffe...

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union for coal miners in Great Britain, formed in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain...

Scots: Airdrie; Scottish Gaelic: An t-Àrd Ruigh) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on a plateau 400 ft (130 m) above sea level, 12 miles...

Scots: Ruglen, Scottish Gaelic: An Ruadh-Ghleann) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, immediately south-east of the city of Glasgow, three miles...

trade unions from across the UK. By this point, about two-thirds of the trade unions in the city had affiliated, with the important Lanarkshire Miners' County...

membership of 200 for both 1894 and 1895 it became a branch of the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union in 1896. Many have drifted away since the early 1990s due to...

Stirlingshire miners reconstituted their union separately from the Forth and Clyde Valley miners. Although the Stirling Miners County Union initially had...

The Ayrshire Miners' Union was a coal mining trade union based in Scotland. The first Ayrshire Miners' Union was founded in 1880, with Keir Hardie as...

strike, with many of those who were not miners and not directly affected striking to support the locked-out miners. The government was well prepared, and...

(Scots: Cotbrig or Coatbrig, locally /ˌkoʊtˈbrɪdʒ/) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 8+1⁄2 miles (14 kilometres) east of Glasgow city centre...

The 1972 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major dispute over pay between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Conservative Edward Heath government...

The Midland Counties Miners' Federation was a trade union, representing coal miners in the West Midlands region of England. The union was founded in 1886...

1984–1985 miners' strike. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated...

active involvement in the Miners' Unofficial Reform Committee which published the famous syndicalist pamphlet 'The Miners' Next Step' in 1912. The pamphlet...

and would return miners' wages to the levels recommended by the Wilberforce Inquiry in 1972. There had been some violence on miners' picket lines during...

becoming a coal miner. He became active in the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union, serving as its president, and as a full-time agent for the union. At the 1906...

attempt by the Miners Federation of Great Britain, the main trade union representing coal miners, to secure a minimum wage for miners in their district...