The new union suffered several splits. The Independent Labour Party-aligned Miners' Reform Union of Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan left almost immediately, led by Philip Hodge. This union survived through the 1926 UK general strike, following which William Adamson was persuaded that it should be permitted to merge back into the FKCMA. However, Hodge was elected General Secretary in 1928, and Adamson left to found the right-wing "Fife, Clackmannan, and Kinross Miners' Union", which subsequently was recognised as the official union by the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers and Miners' Federation of Great Britain.