The Cannock Chase Miners', Enginemen's and Surfacemen's Association was a trade union representing coal miners working the Cannock Chase Coalfield in the Cannock Chase area of England.
[1] Albert Stanley became the leader of the union in 1884, and he put it on a much sounder footing.
[2] In 1886, it became a founder constituent of the Midland Counties Miners' Federation, through which it subsequently became part of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB).
[1] The association registered as a union with the Board of Trade in 1887, and at that point Stanley was officially appointed as general secretary.
[4] A couple of years later, it absorbed the Pelsall District.