North Wales Quarrymen's Union

North Wales Quarrymen's Union

Founded	27 April 1874
Date dissolved	1923
Merged into	Transport and General Workers' Union
Country	United Kingdom

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 affiliated with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1923, but maintained a separate identity until 1960.^[3]

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

1. Jones, R. M. "The North Wales Quarrymen 1874" (1982) Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp.108-9
2. Dalton, I. "Nid Oes Bradwr Yn Y Ty Hwn: The Great North Wales Quarry Strikes" (2009) Bangor: Bangor Socialist Party, pg.5
3. Annual Report of the 1960 Trades Union Congress, p.108

• 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

See also

• List of trade unions
• Transport and General Workers' Union
• TGWU amalgamations
• Slate industry in Wales