Ebby Edwards

Ebenezer Edwards (30 July 1884 – 6 July 1961) was a trade unionist and politician in Britain.

Early life

Born in Chevington, near Broomhill, Northumberland,^[1] Edwards went down the coal mine at the age of 12. In 1906, he joined the Independent Labour Party, although he left after three years. In 1908, he attended Ruskin College in Oxford for ten months, but had to leave due to a lack of finances. After leaving the course, he became an early member of the Plebs' League and began to espouse Marxism.

Later life

Edwards continued working as a miner during World War I. A supporter of Robert Smillie, he opposed the war. He narrowly missed election to Parliament at the 1918 Wansbeck by-election, standing as a local Labour Party candidate, losing to Robert Mason. He lost in Wansbeck again at the 1918 general election.

Long active in the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB), Edwards was elected to increasingly important posts in the union. In 1929, he was finally elected to Parliament, as the Labour MP for Morpeth, succeeding Smillie, but lost his seat at the 1931 election. Elected as vice-president of the MFGB in 1929, he became president in 1931 and secretary in 1932. He also served in various posts at the Miners' International Federation.

In 1945, he attended the World Trade Union Conference in London alongside many renowned trade unionists.

Edwards supported the MFGB's reconstitution as the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), and became the NUM's first secretary in 1945, but stepped down the following year to serve on the National Coal Board, keeping this post until 1953.

References

^ The Colliery Guardian and Journal of the Coal and Iron Trades (1931), Volume 143, p. 394.

Andrew Taylor, "Edwards, Ebenezer (1884–1961)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ebby Edwards

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Robert Smillie	Member of Parliament for Morpeth 1929–1931	Succeeded by Godfrey Nicholson
Trade union offices
Preceded by John Cairns	Financial Secretary of the Northumberland Miners' Association 1918–1929	Succeeded by John Carr
Preceded by Arthur Pugh and Will Sherwood	Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour 1928 With: John Marchbank	Succeeded by James Bell and James Thomas Brownlie
Preceded by Thomas Richards	Vice-President of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain 1929–1930	Succeeded by Peter Lee
Preceded by Thomas Richards	President of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain 1931–1932	Succeeded by Peter Lee
Preceded by A. J. Cook	Secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain 1932–1945	Succeeded by Position abolished
Preceded by Achille Delattre	Secretary of the Miners' International Federation 1934–1947	Succeeded by Will Lawther
Preceded by Anne Loughlin	President of the Trades Union Congress 1944–1945	Succeeded by Charles Dukes
Preceded by New position	Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers 1945–1946	Succeeded by Arthur Horner

v t e Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
Presidents	1889 Pickard 1904 En. Edwards 1912 Smillie 1922 Smith 1929 Richards 1931 Eb. Edwards 1932 Lee 1934 J. Jones 1939 Lawther 1954 E. Jones 1960 Machen 1960 Ford 1971 Gormley 1982 Scargill 2002 Lavery 2012 Wilson
Vice-Presidents	1889 Woods 1909 Smillie 1912 Harvey 1914 House 1917 Smith 1922 Walsh 1924 Richards 1929 Eb. Edwards 1931 Lee 1932 J. Jones 1933 Davies 1934 Lawther 1939 Bowman 1950 E. Jones 1954 T. Jones 1961 Collindridge 1963 Bullough 1969 Schofield 1973 McGahey 1987 Thompson 1989 Vacant 1992 Cave 2002 Stanley 2010 Wilson 2012 Thomas
General Secretaries	1889 Ashton 1919 Hodges 1924 Cook 1932 Eb. Edwards 1946 Horner 1959 Paynter 1968 Daly 1984 Heathfield 1992 Scargill 1992 Vacant? 2002 Kemp 2007 Kitchen
Treasurers	1889 En. Edwards 1904 Abraham 1918 Robson 1921 Richardson
Affiliates and areas	Bristol Cleveland Cokemen Colliery Officials and Staffs Cumberland Derbyshire Durham Forest of Dean Kent Lancashire and Cheshire Leicestershire Midland Counties (Cannock Chase North Staffordshire Old Hill Pelsall Shropshire Warwickshire West Bromwich) Northumberland North Wales Nottinghamshire Scotland (Ayrshire Fife and Kinross Lanarkshire Mid and East Lothian Mid and West Lothian Stirling) Somerset South Derbyshire South Wales Yorkshire
Strikes	1893 1912 1926 1969 1972 1974 1984–1985

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