"Analysing the British miners' strike of 19845.". [35] Negotiations between Scargill and the NUM took place in France. It is now worth around 2million. [39], During the media controversy, the antiperspirant Mitchum used Scargill's image, without his consent, under the slogan "Mitchum, for when you're really sweating! Scargill decided to turn his attention to politics. He called for the cotton mills, steel plants and mines to be re-opened and that under EU rules, the government had not been able to subsidise the coal mines. In 2012, the flat was valued at 1,500,000, and had 24/7 access to concierge services. Scargill was the only child of his parents. Arthur Scargill was born in England, United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 11, 1938 (Silent Generation). His application was refused because the flat in the Barbican Estate's Shakespeare Tower was not Scargill's primary residence. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. "Don't you think I've done enough without him?". But he will not be drawn any further. They had one daughter named Margaret. Every Monday, she says, she helps out a local church project that gives free breakfasts to whoever shows up. Arthur Scargill faces an inquiry by his former union into his bargain purchase of a 2m council flat in one of London's most prestigious developments. His major innovation was organising "flying pickets" involving hundreds or thousands of committed strikers who could be bussed to critical strike points to shut down a target. Born In: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK, education: The Elmhirst School (1953), University of Leeds, See the events in life of Arthur Scargill in Chronological Order, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pit_Closure_Rally_(6008227201).jpg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQjEopv9ZgQ. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. He contested twice, in the 1997 general election, as well as the 2001 general election. ", ITN, he claims, offered Scargill 7,000 for a five-minute interview. "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. 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. HAVING just been charged 349.20 to replace a rear brake light unit on my Mercedes ML 250. That's what I believe.". [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. Having been elected president of the NUM in 1981, Scargill held that position for just over 20 years. He also had an important role in the `Battle of Saltley Gate, that closed Birmingham`s Saltley coke depot. We were busy. 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. At the top, surrounded by sunbeams, is the single word "socialism": the destination that, some would say, decisively disappeared from view midway through the 1980s. He was 17 at the time of the strike, and an active picketer, in Yorkshire and elsewhere. Arthur Scargill, I ask you. The names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. My mother was strictly non-political. Airport staff at Leeds-Bradford Airport identified Scargill attempting to travel under a false name (Arthur Fenn) wearing a disguise on 20 July, and turned him away to purchase a genuine ticket with his true identity. "The way I would put that is this," he says. They said: 'How about 15,000?' A secret record is kept of the time at which all workers arrive and leave each day. His policy alienated most of the Nottinghamshire miners, undermined his position with the leaders of the trade union movement, hurt the union's reputation in British public opinion, and led to violence along the picket line. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. I've had hundreds and hundreds of pounds offered for my story, and I'm not washing my dirty linen in public.". One he enjoys showing the world: The great trade unionist, the great Socialist, the great fighter against the evils of capitalism, the man who would walk 1,000 miles across broken glass to stop the sell-off of council properties. When remembering this, she brims with the same rage she must have felt at the time. Capstick also reiterates something he has said in the past: that somehow, for all that the miners lost the strike, "the victory was in the struggle itself". This eventually led to the strike of 1984, when the government announced that they intend to close 20 coal mines. Back at the NUM I have an appointment to meet Betty Cook and Anne Scargill, to discuss the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike of 1984-5, which began in Yorkshire during the opening days of March 1984. Its main street leads to a huge expanse of rubble and weeds; on the way there, you pass a branch of a business called The Recycle Shop. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. That's what I believe". Cabinet papers released earlier this year proved that when, at the start of the strike, Scargill claimed that there were secret plans to shut around 70 pits in the face of endless official denials, he was unquestionably correct. For webmasters |. Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. They came back to me, and said: 'We'll up it to 10,000.' He also stated regarding Brexit that "we should just invoke the first clause of Article 50 and that means we could leave the EU tomorrow". As late as 2009, it was said that Scargill was estranged not just from Anne, but his daughter, Margaret, and her husband and, by extension, his twin grandsons. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. Arthur Scargill joins rail picket line in Sheffield Former NUM leader says he feels duty-bound to offer his support to striking workers, and has choice words for Starmer and Johnson Arthur. At the top, surrounded by sunbeams, is the single word "socialism": the destination that, some would say, decisively disappeared from view midway through the 1980s. Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. He had been a Communist and retained strong Marxist views and a penchant for denouncing anyone who disagreed with him as a traitor Scargill had indeed been elected by a vast margin and he set about turning the NUM's once moderate executive into a reliably militant group By adopting a position that no pits should be closed on economic grounds, even if the coal was exhausted more investment would always find more coal, and from his point of view, the losses were irrelevant he made sure confrontation would not be avoided. Those who walk a Life Path with Number 6 gift the world with unconditional love, healing and nurturing. And when Iput the phone down, I came and sat in the house, and the television was on, and it came on that Margaret Thatcher had died. He gained fame for using the tactic to win the Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972, and made it his main tactical device in the 1984 strike. "We're going backwards, aren't we?" ", "It's Thatcher's legacy, isn't it?" ", Howell, David, et al. Even his own union are up in arms at the purchase. What can he tell me about Scargill's everyday life? [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city), "Scargill" redirects here. "There's definitely a disproportionate amount of time and money being spent fighting Arthur Scargill rather than looking after the members and protecting the union," he tells me. In 1965 he was elected Branch Delegate from Woolley to the Yorkshire NUM Area Council, and in 1969 was elected a member of the Yorkshire NUM Area Executive Committee. His father, Harold, was a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. It just said: 'Thatcher dead.' Chris Kitchen said: "I would say it's time to walk away, Mr Scargill. Scargill's girl to wed pit axeman; Doc Margaret falls for 'enemy'. He founded the Socialist Labour Party in 1996, after he left the Labour Party. ", "And that," says Capstick, "was the only thing he said about Thatcher. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? . Advertisement Further Reading on Arthur Scargill The best work on Scargill was Michael Crick, Scargill and the Miners (1985). Scargill had condemned the killing at the time. [47], In 1996, Scargill founded the Socialist Labour Party after the Labour Party abandoned the original wording of Clause IV advocating the public democratic ownership[48] of key industries and utilities from their constitution. His time at the top of the union saw not just the strike and his union's defeat, but the rapid decline of the British coal industry not least in the early 1990s, when the-then trade minister Michael Heseltine announced that 31 ofthe UK's remaining 50 deep collieries were to shut. 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. Kitchen has said he believes Scargill is out to destroy the NUM. [3] The couple had a daughter together, Margaret Scargill, in 1962 who is now a practicing GP. "I'm just curious as to why some of the stuff we're finding out and bringing to light wasn't brought to light years ago," he says. He went on to be elected president of the NUM from. 10 Dec 2012. Punnies always start Monday with a smile. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. But I can't promise you there'll be any chance of an interview.' On a nearby mantelpiece is a small pink calendar, filling up with dates: academic seminars, radio shows, outdoor festivals and more. The NUM is not your personal bank account and never will be again. [32] An internal NUM report by Gavin Lightman QC found that Scargill had used some of the Libyan money to pay for improvements to his bungalow but not to pay off his mortgage (as had been alleged),[33] and stated that Scargill's failure to make a full report on the Soviet money donated for the Welsh miners was "a remarkable breach of duty" and that he should repay the money back to the NUM. Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. Scargill won widespread applause for his response to the disaster at Lofthouse Colliery in Outwood, West Yorkshire, at which he accompanied the rescue teams underground and was on site for six days with the relatives of the seven deceased. McIlroy, J. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/arthur-scargill-50638.php. He injured himself acouple of years ago playing penalty shoot-out with his grandkids. According to one of Scargill's oldest friends, former miner Derek Stubbings, now 74, who worked at Woolley pit with him and was a fellow 'Young Red' in the British Communist Party, Scargill busies . The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Im massively in favour of the council sales and can well remember a friends father buying then selling his council house in Bromley, South East London, and having a fabulous retirement in Poole on the money. If BA is ever to going to boast that its the Worlds Favourite Airline again it will have to hire staff who dont look at passengers as getting in the way of their decent nights sleep. Even Muslim groups think the idea is mad. I drove the picket bus. He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers was the Tory prime ministers most bitter enemy during the miners' strike of 1984 but has not commented publicly on her demise. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. We did soup kitchens. But so far, Arthur Scargill is conspicuous by his absence. ", R.R. If you were on the minimum wage it would take 100 years to earn the 1,500,000 you needed to buy that flat. [22][23], Many found Scargill inspiring; many others found him frankly scary. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. In the 2001 general election, he ran against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool. 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. He smiles. He led an unofficial strike in 1969, and played a key organising role during strikes of 1972 and 1974, the latter of which played a part in the downfall of Edward Heath's Conservative government. In 1957, he attended the world youth festival held at Moscow. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. "Goodbye to all that? The values are responsibility, family, long-term goals. "The gentleman was not for turning.". "But we've had to move to new premises. 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The results are then fact checked and confirmed by our staff. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. Soon, he also made his first attempt to win political office in a local council election, though he was defeated. They divorced in 2001. He then started working as a coal miner. 'No.' Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. 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). She and Cook, then a miner's wife were among the founders of an organisation called Women Against Pit Closures, and organised support for striking miners' families, as well as taking to picket lines: early on in the strike, she was hauled away from one such gathering in Nottinghamshire, and detained for hours at a police station, where she was eventually strip-searched. Scargill subsequently decided to move to Sheffield, and said that he had spoken to each member of staff to ask them to move to Sheffield. We got 111. One of his closest associates is Ken Capstick, 73, who lives 20 minutes' drive from Barnsley in a quiet corner of Wakefield. They brought down Jim Callaghans Government. "Two Kinds of Reform: Left Leadership in the British National Union of Mineworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, 19821990. ", Old Labour party constiturion, Clause 4 part IV, Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, "Arthur Scargill joins Battle of Saltley Gate 40th anniversary celebration", "The Nottinghamshire Miners, The Union of Democratic Mineworkers and the 198485 Miners' Strike: Scabs or Scapegoats? First, I ring the bell, to no avail, then usea door knocker in the shape of a miner's lamp. Had he done the humble thing and walked away with what he were entitled to, his reputation would still be intact.". This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 23:47. By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead. The man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. He was succeeded by Ian Lavery. The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. Wheat it and weep! 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