North Wales Quarrymen's Union
Appearance
Merged into | Transport and General Workers' Union |
---|---|
Founded | 27 April 1874 |
Dissolved | 1923 |
The North Wales Quarrymen's Union (NWQU) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It was founded on 27 April 1874 at the Queen's Hotel, Caernarfon after a month of discussions between quarrymen from Dinorwic and other supporters.[1] Initially the union was not led by miners but radical Liberals who later became supporters of David Lloyd George's Cymru Fydd[2] It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1923.
General Secretaries
- 1874: William John Parry
- 1876: W. J. Williams
- 1897: J. E. Williams
- 1898: William H. Williams
- 1908: Robert Thomas Jones
Presidents
- 1874: Morgan Richards
- 1874: John Lloyd Jones
- 1876: William John Parry
- 1880: Robert Parry of Ceunant
- 1884: William John Parry
- 1890s: W. W. Jones
- 1903:
References
- Richard Merfyn Jones, The trade union and political activities of the North Wales slate quarrymen in relation to their social and working conditions: 1870-1905