The Mining Association of Great Britain (MAGB) was an industry association of employers in the mining industry of Great Britain that was active from 1854 to 1954.

History

The Mining Association of Great Britain was established in 1854 to represent mining industry employers. Its purpose was to review proposed legislation that could affect the owners, and take action in necessary. There was a central policy committee and various sub-committees. The MAGB participated in discussions over mine worker's wages, hours and employment conditions. It published a journal, ran schools and a college of mining, and funded research into ways to prevent coal dust from causing explosions in the mines. The MAGB worked with the government's National Conciliation Board for the Coal Mining Industry and the

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. Following

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(1914–18) there was discussion about the possibility of the mines being nationalized. Some of the owners were open to this if they could get sufficient compensation. Evan Williams, chairman of the

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and soon to become virtually the life-president of the MAGB, told the MSWCOA that there would inevitably be some change in structure, and "there are certain owners who think it would be advisable to accept Nationalisation. There is, to an extent, an amount of justification for this, but it must be remembered that it is not in the Nation's interests, as well as the Owner's interests, that this should be resorted to." The MAGB became largely irrelevant after the coal industry was nationalized in 1947. It was dissolved on 23 September 1954.

Presidents

Presidents of the association included: *

Sir Frederick Jones, 1st Baronet Sir Frederick John Jones, 1st Baronet (1855 – 23 May 1936) was created a Baronet of Treeton in the West Riding of the County of York in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 23 May 1919. He was educated at Repton School and Trinity College, C ...

*W. E. Garforth (in 1908–09) *Adam Nimmo (in 1918) *

Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, of Glyndwr (2 July 1871 – 3 February 1959) was a Welsh industrialist. As Chairman of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners Association and later President of the Mining Association of Great Britain, he ...

Andrew K. McCosh Andrew Kirkwood McCosh, J.P., D.L. (31 August 1880 – 27 September 1967) was an administrator in the coal and steel industries, born in Ayrshire, Scotland. Education McCosh was educated at Fettes College, Fettes and Trinity College, Cambridge. ...

(1944–45)

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* * {{authority control Coal mining in the United Kingdom 1854 establishments in the United Kingdom 1954 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Mining trade associations Trade associations based in the United Kingdom