Alfred Onions

Alfred Onions (30 October 1858 – 5 July 1921) was a Welsh trade unionist, a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, a Wesleyan Methodist and a very longstanding local preacher.

[2] Soon afterwards, in 1883, he left Shropshire to obtain work in the Black Vein Colliery,[3] in Risca, Monmouthshire.

Also he represented South Wales several times on the committee of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.

In 1910 he travelled with Robert Smillie, his Scottish counterpart, to the German coalfields in the Ruhr 'to investigate the conditions of the working-classes ... under the tariff system.

[11] Onions was active in the Liberal-Labour movement, serving on local school boards, then on Monmouthshire County Council,[12] on which he became its chair.