ABSTRACT
In June, 1873, the Secretaries of the South Yorkshire Association were instructed 'to make every enquiry into the so-called Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Miners' Association and to present a report to the next Council meeting but no further action was taken. The Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Association appears to have kept its wages policy in step with that of the South Yorkshire Association although there were probably more local variations. It is the same also with secretaries. But already the Derbyshire men were beginning to think in terms of secession from the South Yorkshire Association. The Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Association had to face the same series of reductions in wages as the South Yorkshire Association, although, for a time, it appears to have been more successful in resisting them. In October, 1875, the South Yorkshire Association refused to give financial assistance to the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Association on the ground that the latter was then resisting a 10 per cent.
