[17], The government announced on 6 March 1984 its intention to close 20 coal mines, revealing as well the plan in the long-term to close over 70 pits. A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. "They asked me to relay that to him. His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . 21 Feb 2012. All but two of the county's collieries have closed, and in their place are seemingly endless retail parks, the foundations of a local economy in which people work in shops to spend money in other shops. Arthur Scargill was born on 11th January 1938, in Worsbrough Dale, in South Yorkshire, England, into a family of coal miners. He wouldn't say another word. 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"I am writing a book, but he'snot mentioned in it. The man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. The secretary at this time was a very good friend of mine called Jimmy Reid, and we're still close friends. Scargill was divorced from his activist wife Anne in 2001. However, by the time he grew up, the family was able to move to a better and more comfortable home. Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. Even if talent is thin on the ground could I suggest the Crime Commissioners of Leicestershire and West Midlands do us all a favour by throwing out their deranged Chief Constables. Terms of use | "I shall never, ever forgive the police for doing that to me," she says. I think if it had been made public before then there'd have been a huge outcry. SMS: Ken Capstick, treasurer of the Socialist Labour Party which Arthur Scargill leads, sent the former union boss a text message reading: 'Thatcher Dead'. But it emerged last night that Ken Capstick, treasurer of the Socialist Labour Party which Arthur Scargill leads, sent the former union boss a text message on Monday reading: Thatcher Dead. [37] The prosecution brought by the Certification Officer was rejected in July 1991 on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to use the material provided in confidence to Lightman's enquiry. One of the main planks of his platform was to give more power to union conferences than to executive meetings, on the grounds that the former were more democratic. To his remaining allies, this fact confirms that his reputation still burns bright: Scargill was right, they say, and this verdict extends beyond the fate of the British coal industry, to every key aspect of his leadership of the NUM. I drove the picket bus. [21] Many politicians, including the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, believed Scargill had made a huge mistake in calling the strike in the summer rather than in the winter. he council chamber at the Barnsley HQ of theNational Union of Mineworkers is a jaw-dropping sight: a huge, oak-panelled room, draped with banners that were once kept at collieries across Yorkshire and beyond. "It's sad to be inthis position. On his first day, he was horrified to see the working conditions. [9] When Bullough (unwell at the time) attempted to rule Scargill as "out of order", he was voted out by the area's delegates and a strike was declared across Yorkshire on the issue. They made a final offer of 16,000." Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dies at . Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. {{ #verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ ^verifyErrors }}Something went wrong. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." And now he's ditched all that. I've never criticised Arthur for what he did during the strike, because I didn't know the ins and out of it at the time. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. Its energy is that of Mother Gaia. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. "Goodbye to all that? Two killed by 'armed' chickens: Men bleed to death after being sliced by knives fixed to roosters at Law student, 26, was told 'you sound like you're feeling a bit sorry for yourself' by nurse before dying, Safety first! Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Scargill decided to turn his attention to politics. [35] Negotiations between Scargill and the NUM took place in France. He tells me he's writing a book. Scargills trickery and hypocrisy coupled with the startling revelation that Labours Shadow minister for preventing violence Sarah Champion was arrested and put in a police cell accused of assault after a violent row with her husband back in 2007 and you can see Socialisms mantra is simple: Do as I say not as I do. The two men had been convicted of the murder of David Wilkie, a taxi driver, by throwing a block of concrete from a bridge onto his car. Many of the details are too complex and arcane to comprehensively explain, let alone understand, though some of what has emerged from all this tussling has been manna from heaven to those sections of the press who would have their readers believe that Scargill's reputation is beyond repair. Arthur Scargill's net worth estimate is $100,000 - $1M. Arthur Scargill faces 200,000 bill after losing court battle with his old union The former Yorkshire miners' leader Arthur Scargill was facing a bill of more than 200,000 last night. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". "It's strange, because Arthur was a media person. Rivals: Arthur Scargill (left), the militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, was the Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher's (right) most bitter enemy during the miners' strike of 1984. 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[7], Scargill became involved in the Yorkshire Left, a group of left-wing activists involved in the Yorkshire region of the NUM, its largest region. On 25 August 2010, it was reported that Scargill had been told that he no longer qualified for full membership of the NUM under union rules that he had helped draw up, but was only eligible for "life", "retired" or "honorary" membership, none of which carried voting rights. He lives a normal sort of a life. Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. It was a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. "In the strike, he were never at home We didn't spend much time together that year," she says. 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He was responsible for leading two pivotal miners' strikes: one in 1937 and another in the mid-1980s. And then there is the real Arthur Scargill. Before I set off for Yorkshire, I email her to request an interview with him, citing the fact that my own grandfather was a coalminer and union activist, and many of my close relatives were actively involved in the strike. Some scholars have concluded that Scargill's decisive tactical error was to substitute his famous flying picket for the holding of a national strike ballot. They said: 'How about 15,000?' After a Labour Party conference speech on energy policy by Richard Marsh in July 1967, Scargill said: I can honestly say that I never heard flannel like we got from the Minister he said that we have nuclear power stations with us, whether we like it or not. He had also refused to speak to the media, after Margaret Thatcher`s death in 2013, though he was offered a sum of 16,000. "It's so hypocritical it's unreal," he said. "Don't you think I've done enough without him?". The following year, he also became a member of the Labour Party. More than 100 migrants suffer freezing temperatures to get to UK while French coastguard pluck another 45 Bad news, men 'winter penis' might be real after all, doctors say. Arthur Scargill soon got a response from a representative of The Daily Worker, who persuaded him to join the Young Communist League of Britain. Most viewed. ARE our chief constables going quite potty? Mr Scargill first came to prominence in the early 1970s, when he was involved in a mass picket at the Saltley Gate coking plant in Birmingham. "I don't see much difference betweenthe way Arthur has lived his life and thecapitalist system he built areputation for fighting in that he's allout for his self. All rights reserved. The strike began on 12 March 1984, and became known for being one of the most violent events in British labour history. [58][59] Scargill's appearance on the picket line was alluded to by Prime Minister Boris Johnson the next day at Prime Minister's Questions, accusing the Labour Party of "literally holding hands with Arthur Scargill". Downstairs in the NUM's waiting room there are flyers and posters advertising other events, complete with long lists of invited speakers. This had great implications for regional relations in the NUM; the executive was described as dominated by "Gormley's rotten boroughs", since every region even quite small ones had one delegate, and the larger regions had only a few more (Scotland and South Wales had two delegates each, Yorkshire had three). He stepped down from leadership of the NUM at the end of July 2002, to become the honorary president. Arthur Scargill was born in England, United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 11, 1938 (Silent Generation). ARTHUR SCARGILL has two faces. Since 2010, Scargill has been battling its current leadership, on issues pertaining to Scargill himself, and matters relating to both the people now in charge of the union, and a small handful of miners who have tried to dislodge them. He soon started demanding an improvement in the working conditions, and wrote letters to several agencies and newspapers. The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. Those are great saving stories. I'm not interested in any woman in the who le world.. SCARGILL LEAVES HIS WIFE AFTER 37 YEARS; My marriage is over he tells pals. In the 1981 election for NUM president, Scargill secured around 70% of the vote. "If you've got a young lad at school and he's being bullied, and he comes out of school at the end of the day and the bully is waiting for him, to give him a good hiding the bully may be bigger than him, but he has a choice. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". ", She then shoots me a look. An article published in The Times in August 2015 stated that Scargill had spoken to the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union conference in June 2015, and that he was due to appear alongside Jeremy Corbyn at the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign in September 2015. Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938)[1] is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. Along with Tony Benn, veteran left-wing MP from the Labour Party, he campaigned to free the two strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock, who were convicted of killing a taxi driver named David Wilkie. It's always those lower down who are suffering. The names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. Arthur Scargill is a Capricorn and was born in The Year of the Tiger Life. HAVING just been charged 349.20 to replace a rear brake light unit on my Mercedes ML 250. So I sent an email, and the 7,000 was rejected. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. That's what I believe.". [41], In 1993, Scargill tried to use Thatcher's flagship Right to Buy scheme to buy a flat on the Barbican estate in central London. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. He also became known in the 1972 strike, where he was the spokesman for the Yorkshire miners. [9][11], A few months later, the president of the Yorkshire NUM died unexpectedly, and Scargill won the election for his replacement; the two posts were then combined and he held them until 1981. Shankland's and Hancock's life sentences for murder were reduced to eight years for manslaughter on appeal. Scargill says that if he had succeeded, the property would have been eventually returned to the union; the NUM's leadership insists there is no evidence to back up this claim. Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! In Fridays column I wrote about the difficulty forces were having in finding officers good enough to step up to Chief Constable with both Lincolnshire and the Met struggling to find the right calibre of applicant. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. Their life sentences were eventually reduced to eight years. I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. The values are responsibility, family, long-term goals. By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead. 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