Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] miners [unc] federation " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herbert Smith , President of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , maintained that the 1925 coal dispute had been ‘ an affair of outposts . |
| 2 | An important change in the balance within the industrial movement , and hence within the Labour Party , was brought about by the decline in numbers and influence of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain . |
| 3 | Robert Smillie , who became the leader of the Miners ' Federation , told the 1911 conference : " I think it is a shame and a disgrace that the lives of our miners ' wives , from four in the morning until 11 o'clock at night should be one long day of slavery . " |
| 4 | While Communists had taken an active part in the 1926 General Strike and earned some support within the Miners ' Federation , most trade-union officials looked upon them as enemies trying to control the movement in the interests of a foreign organization . |
| 5 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 6 | secretary of the Miners ' Federation , to arouse Left activity with the Labour Party . |
| 7 | The ILP founder , Keir Hardie , although a miner , had not entered parliament as the nominee of the Miners ' Federation and most ILP Members were nominated by local Party branches or Trades Councils rather than through the national trade unions . |
| 8 | The prospect of his receiving deputations as Prime Minister from the Miners ' Federation or the Triple Alliance , for example , is capable of causing alarm for the future relations between the Government and Labour — between moderate and less moderate opinion . |