As the anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike approaches, its figurehead Arthur Scargill has become a recluse, at war with the current NUM leadership. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. He claimed that the government had a long-term strategy to destroy the industry by closing unprofitable pits, and that it listed pits it wanted to close each year. In the 1997 general election, he ran against Alan Howarth, a defector from the Conservative Party to Labour, who had been given the safe seat of Newport East to contest. The media characterised the strike as "Scargill's strike" and his critics accused him of looking for an excuse for industrial action since becoming union president. Arthur Scargill's name is on the list of union officials that adorns one wall, but that is it: among the banners, memorabilia and countless images of the strike, he is nowhere to be seen. It's too soon to say.". Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! My mother was strictly non-political. 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. Anne, in 2001 and reportedly refused to attend the wedding of his daughter Margaret. And I got a reply." A smile. I've had hundreds and hundreds of pounds offered for my story, and I'm not washing my dirty linen in public.". "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's OK," says Capstick. 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. The following year, he also became a member of the Labour Party. On a nearby mantelpiece is a small pink calendar, filling up with dates: academic seminars, radio shows, outdoor festivals and more. Mention of him draws a quick response. In time he and his family moved to a more comfortable, modern home in the town where he grew up. "He's estranged from his ex-wife. They had one daughter named Margaret. Scargill was divorced from his activist wife Anne in 2001. He studied security videotapes and saw Mrs Scargill sneaking along a corridor with a tube of glue in her hands. The results are then fact checked and confirmed by our staff. [31] There was much criticism of Scargill within the NUM from the Welsh and Scottish areas, who briefly considered splitting from the NUM. Would you not love to have Arthur Scargill as your opponent in any debate, a man who is frightened to go to his own members to get them to vote for a strike that he called? Wheat it and weep! We are no longer accepting comments on this article. I had a job at the Co-op. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. They divorced in 2001. After the miners' strike, Scargill was elected to lifetime presidency of the NUM by an overwhelming national majority, in a controversial election in which some[who?] When the suggestion was put to Mr Cole, why didnt he say the idea was out of the question, not least because the public would want to see an officers face? 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. "They asked me to relay that to him. 'We now have a situation where the government and the establishment have a funeral on their hands which they wish they didnt have. Its energy is that of Mother Gaia. Arthur Scargill opinion Leon Brittan was the shadowy power behind Margaret Thatcher's war on the miners Leon Brittan Arthur Scargill returns to Orgreave site where he was ''knocked unconscious. . 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. 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. offers Cook. The hidden ingredient in your supermarket loaf that might put you off bread for good. Back in 1993 he first tried to acquire the flat under Margaret Thatchers right-to-buy scheme. 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. 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. What would have become of our democracy had they succeeded?. 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. 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. It was all or nothing. The 84-year-old British politician has done well thus far! Feedback |
The fight was a political one, as well. The staff at headquarters issued a press statement in January 1983 to deny this and to list twelve grievances against Scargill's treatment of his staff. He had no means of calling a strike in Yorkshire.[27]. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/arthur-scargill-50638.php. What I infer from that, I tell him, is that he believes the secret services deliberately turned a blind eye to some aspects of Scargill's life. 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. An email came back: 'No.' 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. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 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. He left school in 1953 at fifteen years old to work as a coal miner at Woolley Colliery, where he worked for nineteen years.[2][3]. So how is he? 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. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. On the first step, it says "nationalisation"; after that comes "the five-day week", "social security", "family allowances", "health and peace", and "prosperity and happiness". Thats what right-to-buy did for ordinary people. The union now has just under 1,800 members, who work at a small handful of deep pits and open-cast mines, but its financial holdings are said to total around 20m, which Scargill's supporters say lies at the heart of their current battles. He understood the plight of the workers, and chose to stay and remain a self-appointed representative of the workers. He was on television all the time: a charismatic character. So does his son-in-law. Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. 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. [14], Scargill was a very vocal opponent of Thatcher's Conservative government, frequently appearing on television to attack it. On the appointment of Ian MacGregor as head of the NCB in 1983, Scargill stated, "The policies of this government are clear to destroy the coal industry and the NUM". ", "And that," says Capstick, "was the only thing he said about Thatcher. Arthur Scargill is a Capricorn and was born in The Year of the Tiger Life. He reaches for his phone and shows me what he received. That couldnt be true as she announced after the series ended she was gay. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Let them eat cake! 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. Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. "I shall never, ever forgive the police for doing that to me," she says. He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. All net worths are calculated by applying a proprietary algorithm. He also represented the Barnsley Co-op at Cooperative congresses. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. By 1984 however the police were ready and neutralized the tactic with superior force. Three decades on from 1984, Kitchen says there are many aspects of the strike and its aftermath that have yet to be thrashed out in public: the precise details of what the Thatcher government were up to, the horrific police violence seen at the Orgreave coking plant, the involvement of MI5 and some matters relating to Arthur Scargill. Lord Tebbit, one of Lady Thatchers closest allies, said: The trades union generals had brought down Ted Heaths Government. Hero of the working classes, Arthur Scargill, has joined the Conservative Party after they allowed the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria. He told yesterday how he first met his future mother-in-law, Anne Scargill, five years ago when she was involved in the Women Against Pit Closures protest. DESPITE all the weeping and wailing about Sports Direct, a little known fact is that Karen Byers, the head of ops and credited by founder Mike Ashley as the brains behind the company, started with the firm 25 years ago on. And did we win that? Do send more to kelvin@the-sun.co.uk. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. "[46] Kitchen says that Scargill "has had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. says Scargill. I got my mobile phone, and I sent him a text. And Stefni warned Margaret's parents that Mr Logan is a "sly, deceitful toe-rag''. 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". Either they won or we did.". I thought: 'Well I've got to do it.' The strike started in Yorkshire, and he was not present at the delegate Council meeting in Barnsley. The names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. In January 2014, the Prime Minister, David Cameron stated, "I think if anyone needs to make an apology for their role in the miners' strike it should be Arthur Scargill for the appalling way that he led the union. IVE heard from Ron The Guvnor who on receiving his car renewal of 755 for his BMW an increase of 300 without a claim told his insurers they had a good chance of appearing in my column unless there was a reduction. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. Scargill recalled how after becoming a miner, the poor working conditions and "people who should never have been working, having to work to live on that first day I promised myself I would try one day to get things changed". There's more to this new Arthur Scargill chic than mere fashion nostalgia. On the first step, it says "nationalisation"; after that comes "the five-day week", "social security", "family allowances", "health and peace", and "prosperity and happiness". Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! 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. The strike began on 12 March 1984, and became known for being one of the most violent events in British labour history. However, by the time he grew up, the family was able to move to a better and more comfortable home. The secretary at this time was a very good friend of mine called Jimmy Reid, and we're still close friends. [19] The NUM had previously held three ballots on a national strike, all of which rejected the proposal: 55% voted against in January 1982, and 61% voted against in both October 1982 and March 1983.[20]. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. He played an important role in the miners' strike of 1972 and was involved in the mass picket at Saltley Gate in Birmingham. She queried it and as a loyalty bonus they reduced to 655. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead. 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. A secret record is kept of the time at which all workers arrive and leave each day. Some strikers also believed the strike was against the constitution and denounced Scargill. He injured himself acouple of years ago playing penalty shoot-out with his grandkids. After his return to Britain, he joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. 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. He keeps a home close to the pit village where he was born, and is said to be close to Nell Myers, the American-born woman who was the NUM's national press officer during the strike, and continues to assist Scargill in his political and media dealings. Harper married Arthur Scargill, who was also an elected member of the Trade Union branch committee at Woolley Colliery, at Gawber Parish Church on 16 September 1961. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. That's what I believe". This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 23:47. They said: 'How about 15,000?' 'No.' "It's sad to be inthis position. He felt the need to fight for changes in the capitalist society, and vowed that he would work towards making the world more equitable. The daughter of National Union of Mineworkers' president Arthur Scargill is to marry the man who helped close down the last pit in the NUM's South Yorkshire heartland, it was disclosed. But so far, Arthur Scargill is conspicuous by his absence. [15] However, Scargill's statements in the years after becoming NUM president divided left-wing opinion with his support of the Soviet Union, most notably when he refused to support the TUC's positions on the Solidarity union in Poland or on the Soviet shooting down of the Korean Air Lines Flight 007. If you were on the minimum wage it would take 100 years to earn the 1,500,000 you needed to buy that flat. Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. They've made me worse.'". [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. He regularly attended Workers' Educational Association (WEA) classes and Co-operative Party educational programmes, and in 1962, undertook a three-year, part-time course at the University of Leeds, where he studied economics, industrial relations and social history. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city), "Scargill" redirects here. He felt that the Labour Party had betrayed the basic principles of the party`s constitution. 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. How will she write a book like that while somehow keeping him out of the story? 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. They divorced in 2001. That violence strengthened the stature of the Coal Board and the Thatcher government. 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Robert Taylor depicts Scargill as an 'industrial Napoleon' who called a strike 'at the wrong time' on the 'wrong issue', and adopted strategies and tactics that were 'impossibilist', with 'an inflexible list of extravagant non-negotiable demands' that amounted to 'reckless adventurism' that was 'a dangerous, self-defeating delusion'. Scargill admitted there was 'bad blood' between him and the NUM general secretary Chris Kitchen, who said, "I honestly do believe that Arthur, in his own world, believes that the NUM is here to afford him the lifestyle that he's become accustomed to. 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. 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. I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. But apparently not. [31] In addition, it was alleged that he had taken 1,000,000 of cash donated by the Soviet Union for the Welsh miners and placed it in a Dublin bank account for the "International Miners' Organisation", where it stayed until a year after the strike had finished. It's Mr (coffee) Bean! Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. ", "It's Thatcher's legacy, isn't it?" 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. The values are responsibility, family, long-term goals. [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. We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. This was denied by the government at the time, although papers released in 2014 under the thirty-year rule suggest that Scargill was right. It was alleged that, of the money donated from Libya, Scargill took 29,000 for his own bridging loan and 25,000 for his home in Yorkshire, but gave only 10,000 to the striking Nottinghamshire miners. [14], The vast majority of head-office staff took redundancy rather than move to Sheffield. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. Scargill had condemned the killing at the time. Arthur Scargill was born in England, United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 11, 1938 (Silent Generation). . The 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. Was it an investment by her so she cleans up when he dies? I'm working on article about the 30th anniversary of the strike, I say. (2004) "Al Richardson (19412003): An Appreciation", David Howell, et al. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). [37] Scargill reached an agreement to repay money to the NUM shortly after this. He lives a normal sort of a life. Allies of Scargill counter that there is a clear and present danger that the funds will be misused, and as the union's membership shrinks, they want its handsome holdings to somehow be ploughed back into former mining communities. "Goodbye to all that? Further afield, amid great stretches of empty space, you find places that seem to be clinging on by their very fingertips, such as the former pit village of Goldthorpe, stranded halfway between Barnsley and Doncaster. First, I ring the bell, to no avail, then usea door knocker in the shape of a miner's lamp. His comments followed a question in the Commons from Labour MP Lisa Nandy, who said the miners and their families deserved an apology for the mine closures. Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. Having been elected president of the NUM in 1981, Scargill held that position for just over 20 years. He took a part-time course as well at the University of Leeds. 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. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. "Five years ago, when I first started, if we got 30 or 40, we thought we'd got a lot," she says. He then started working as a coal miner. That house sits on the edge of Worsbrough, close to the pit village where Scargill was born. In the 1981 election for NUM president, Scargill secured around 70% of the vote. The doors to Parliament open to show Scargill's wife and daughter. I think we should be told. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. It's the last place Ivisit in Yorkshire before I turn the car round and head south: a low, long, stone-clad cottage only 50 or so yards from the M1, with a silver 4x4 parked outside, and a modest set of gates. Arthur's dad lived with us as well: there were me, Arthur, Margaret [their daughter] and Arthur's dad. "Analysing the British miners' strike of 19845.". His last formal tussle with Scargill came on 13 February, when Scargill took four matters to an Employment Appeal Tribunal, and was granted a future hearing. In 2012, the flat was valued at 1,500,000, and had 24/7 access to concierge services. In 1964, he was also elected representative to the Yorkshire area meetings. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? Im shocked.. For other inquiries, Contact Us. On his first day, he was horrified to see the working conditions. That's what I believe.". Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. Those are great saving stories. "He's. [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that time. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. 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