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". I thought: 'Well I've got to do it.' Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. 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. 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. After the miners' strike in 1984, there were accusations that Arthur Scargill had misappropriated National Union of Mineworkers funds and that money which sh. He also had an important role in the `Battle of Saltley Gate, that closed Birmingham`s Saltley coke depot. 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. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) It is now worth around 2million. My father was a Communist. [16] One branch of the NUM, at Annesley in Nottinghamshire, put forward a vote of no confidence in Scargill in autumn 1983 following his comments on these matters, but Scargill defeated this at a December meeting and won a vote of confidence instead. [37] Scargill reached an agreement to repay money to the NUM shortly after this. One by one, he bats away the standard criticisms of Scargill's leadership of the strike: that it was ill-advised to commence the strike in the spring, that he should have held a national ballot ("The miners weren't calling for a ballot the people who were calling for a ballot were our enemies"), and that in returning to work without an agreement, the miners were left in an impossible position. It's Mr (coffee) Bean! 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. "Goodbye to all that? It just said: 'Thatcher dead.' I'm working on article about the 30th anniversary of the strike, I say. He stood as an independent communist, as he had never joined the Communist Party formally. [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! They made a final offer of 16,000." A secret record is kept of the time at which all workers arrive and leave each day. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. Peter, Gibbon. The house in which he was born and in which he lived for his first three years had neither plumbing nor electricity. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. . 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. I had a job at the Co-op. [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. As the anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike approaches, its figurehead Arthur Scargill has become a recluse, at war with the current NUM leadership. 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. Baroness Thatcher was very lucky,' he said. For webmasters |. So does his son-in-law. . The strike ended on 3 March 1985 following an NUM vote to return to work. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/arthur-scargill-50638.php. They lived in the house Scargill grew up in Worsborough, South Yorkshire. McIlroy, J. Some strikers also believed the strike was against the constitution and denounced Scargill. Arthur had told me that under no circumstances was he going to give an interview. Either they won or we did.". offers Cook. During this time, he earned the esteem of significant sections of the left and the British working class, who saw him as honest, hard-working and genuinely concerned with their welfare,[12] and he was also respected for improving the administration of the compensation agent's post. 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. He has contested two parliamentary elections. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". [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. The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. "Destroy everything, and create a 'me-me-me' class. His application was refused because the flat in the Barbican Estate's Shakespeare Tower was not Scargill's primary residence. And Stefni warned Margaret's parents that Mr Logan is a "sly, deceitful toe-rag''. In 1957, he attended the world youth festival held at Moscow. 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. That violence strengthened the stature of the Coal Board and the Thatcher government. I hate all women. The intended title, she and Cook tell me, is Only a Miner's Daughter, and it will tell the story of her entire life, with a seeming focus on the strike. The NUM says the money is being used to defend what remains of the coal industry and help both its members and former miners. The judge, Sir SydneyTempleman held that it was unfair that Scargill was on the appeal panel in the NUM for journalists being disciplined for appearing as witnesses against a libel action by Scargill himself. 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. In 1990, Scargill was accused in a series of Daily Mirror articles of mishandling money donated for the striking miners during the 19841985 strike, with many of the sources being those who had previously worked with him in the NUM such as Kim Howells, Jim Parker and Roger Windsor. ", Gildart, Keith. ARTHUR SCARGILL has two faces. 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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. "[40] Scargill complained to the Advertising Standards Authority who criticised the advertisement as "highly distasteful". I think we should be told. Princess Royal honours Team GB curling stars and Scottish police chief at Palace of Peter Andre launches scathing attack on Prince Harry as he says Duke of Sussex is 'publicly trashing his Heartbreak for Kate: Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to educating on the horrors of Charles's first royal RSVP! Among those matters, he says, is Scargill's attempt to use Right to Buy,and the NUM's claim that Scargill somehow managed to buy his current house when he was not being paid by the union. How will she write a book like that while somehow keeping him out of the story? IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. We went in search of Yorkshire's living legend and found him, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Arthur Scargill leads picketing miners at Orgreave, 1984. Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. They're at it again! Their life sentences were eventually reduced to eight years. "Yes. [56], In July 2021 he spoke at the Rebel Town Festival in Jarrow. Beaming Queen Consort Camilla visits the University of Aberdeen as she returns to Take note, Prince Harry! Self defense expert shares live-saving hacks for evading ALL kinds of attacks - from cutting Do not sell or share my personal information. He was responsible for leading two pivotal miners' strikes: one in 1937 and another in the mid-1980s. Scargill, along with veteran left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn, campaigned to free strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock from prison. 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. Instead she went on aspokesmansaid.com and Axa covered her for 343, a saving of 424. 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? The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. Thats what right-to-buy did for ordinary people. Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson ministry, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. "The gentleman was not for turning.". Kitchen has said he believes Scargill is out to destroy the NUM. 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. He played an important role in the miners' strike of 1972 and was involved in the mass picket at Saltley Gate in Birmingham. Scargill was involved in a High Court case in 1978 that set a precedent in UK labour law, known as Roebuck v NUM (Yorkshire Area) No 2. 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. 'We now have a situation where the government and the establishment have a funeral on their hands which they wish they didnt have. Frederik White with his wife Jennifer and 16-month-old daughter Nicky. 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. But so far, Arthur Scargill is conspicuous by his absence. The fight was a political one, as well. Feedback | I received one almost instantly saying Scargill alive! and hes very much alive. 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. 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. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. The doors to Parliament open to show Scargill's wife and daughter. 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. But one name is missing: that of Scargill's ex-husband, who will forever be synonymous with the events of 1984 and 85, but has seemingly resolved to sit through the anniversary in silence. 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 felt the need to fight for changes in the capitalist society, and vowed that he would work towards making the world more equitable. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. It was a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. Of all the people I can think of Scargill, is the least deserving of tenants. He reaches for his phone and shows me what he received. "He doesn't live lavishly, although he does like a glass of red wine. ', Mr Scargill replied simply: Scargill Alive!. It's too soon to say.". 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In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. Hundreds of strikers were arrested, including Scargill and his wife. "It's so hypocritical it's unreal," he said. 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. [4] He joined the Young Communist League in 1955, becoming its Yorkshire District Chair in 1956 and shortly after a member of its National Executive Committee. By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead. The 84-year-old British politician has done well thus far! They cut it by 255. Jeremy Hunt is mocked over toe-curling 'inflation explainer' video by ordering How much will YOUR broadband go up in price? First, I ring the bell, to no avail, then usea door knocker in the shape of a miner's lamp. 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. [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. He played a significant role in the unofficial strike of UK miners in 1969. The secretary at this time was a very good friend of mine called Jimmy Reid, and we're still close friends. Arthur Scargill acquired a lease on the flat around 1982, when he became president of the NUM, as the the union was then based in London, though Scargill soon moved its headquarters to Sheffield . 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. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". Not very often the CEO of such a large company would admit there was work to be done and it means my gripe must be mirrored in their customer research. Arthur Scargill was born in England, United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 11, 1938 (Silent Generation). That's what I believe". "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. Arthur Scargill, I ask you. Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. "One day last year, I was talking to him on the phone. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. Though he continued his work as a miner, he also studied various subjects including economics, social history and industrial relations. Hair salon in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester Hairess, Driving school in Worcester Jules Control. In May 2009, he was a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party for one of London's seats in the European Parliament. Milne, Seumas. " {{ #verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ ^verifyErrors }}Something went wrong. In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. As the militant leader of the miners, Arthur Scargill fought Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. They had one daughter named Margaret. 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. 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. But I can't promise you there'll be any chance of an interview.' [22][23], Many found Scargill inspiring; many others found him frankly scary. 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. On a nearby mantelpiece is a small pink calendar, filling up with dates: academic seminars, radio shows, outdoor festivals and more. And I got a reply." To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. 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. Prince Albert of Monaco is the first Euro monarch to confirm he and his wife Keep calm and carry on! "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Arthur Scargill wins 13,000 damages from National Union of Mineworkers. "I am writing a book, but he'snot mentioned in it. Let them eat cake! [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that time. He founded the Socialist Labour Party in 1996, after he left the Labour Party. He also became known in the 1972 strike, where he was the spokesman for the Yorkshire miners. 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. Do send more to kelvin@the-sun.co.uk. They still pay 3,500 a year towards the upkeep of his Yorkshire home as they believed it was his main home. Downstairs in the NUM's waiting room there are flyers and posters advertising other events, complete with long lists of invited speakers. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. "Well, you've knocked on my door," he says. He lives a normal sort of a life. The NUM is not your personal bank account and never will be again. I said: 'I'll pass it on. Unlike the strikes in the 1970s, the later strike ended with the miners' defeat and the Thatcher government was able to consolidate its fiscally conservative programme. Exciting, witty Arthur Scargill brought coalmining to a close in Britain far faster than would have happened had the NUM been led by some prevaricating, dreary old-style union hack. 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. Scargill decided to turn his attention to politics. [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. "Two Kinds of Reform: Left Leadership in the British National Union of Mineworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, 19821990. They said: 'How about 15,000?' says Scargill. It is only after I leave the NUM's HQ for the last time that one striking fact hits home. 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. His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. His father was also a loyal member of the Communist Party. Anne, in 2001 and reportedly refused to attend the wedding of his daughter Margaret. He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (198485), a major event in the history of the British labour movement. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Loyal Anne Scargill, 57, has moved out of the couple's luxury pounds 200,000 bungalow. [45], For years the NUM had been paying 34,000 annual rent for the flat on Scargill's instructions, without the knowledge of NUM members or many senior officials; Scargill claimed the NUM should continue funding his flat for the rest of his life, and thereafter for any widow who survived him. 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