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 played a significant role in the unofficial strike of UK miners in 1969. ", R.R. "Five years ago, when I first started, if we got 30 or 40, we thought we'd got a lot," she says. "One day last year, I was talking to him on the phone. He can either cower down and take his beating, or he can stand and fight, and hope to maybe land a few punches. In time he and his family moved to a more comfortable, modern home in the town where he grew up. 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. 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 very, very rarely came home, 'cos he was always in the offices or organising things. Scargill was divorced from his activist wife Anne in 2001. But his victory is in the struggle itself. I were 42, me. . Even his own union are up in arms at the purchase. It just said: 'Thatcher dead.' "I would have thought that someone who was public enemy number one, with MI5 tapping his calls and following him, and everything else they were allegedly doing to him I'm very surprised he managed to live the life hedid and get away with what he did without being pulled up," he says. [9] He had challenged Sam Bullough, the President of the Yorkshire area NUM, to act on the working hours of surface workers, given that the union's conference had passed a resolution that their hours be shortened the previous year. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. "He's. Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. 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. So they shouldn't think they've scared me. offers Cook. Mr Scargill replied simply: 'Scargill Alive! 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. Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! My mother was strictly non-political. 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. We've got food banks now, but they're doing clothing banks for children and babies as well.". British trade unionist Arthur Scargill marching with his wife Anne and other miners' wives during a protest in London, UK, 12th August 1984. He tells me he's writing a book. [53] Following Margaret Thatcher's death in April 2013, ITN made Scargill several offers for a five-minute interview, with the final offer reaching 16,000, but Scargill refused all the offers and did not speak to any media organisation. The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. Scargill remains its leader, which may account for its lamentably low profile; after all, if your figurehead is also a media recluse, the world may not be yours for the taking. 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. 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SCARGILL'S GIRL TO WED MAN WHO SHUT LAST PIT; Mum-in-law's office attack. 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. I receive no reply. This eventually led to the strike of 1984, when the government announced that they intend to close 20 coal mines. The NUM says the money is being used to defend what remains of the coal industry and help both its members and former miners. [22][23], Many found Scargill inspiring; many others found him frankly scary. And then there is the real Arthur Scargill. 'No.' "I was either on a picket line, or in a soup kitchen. Copyright 2023 Farlex, Inc. |
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However, by the time he grew up, the family was able to move to a better and more comfortable home. However, in 1979, the Conservatives were able to win again under Margaret Thatcher, and destroy the majority of the Labour Party. [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. There, he met Russian leaders such as Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. [56], In July 2021 he spoke at the Rebel Town Festival in Jarrow. 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. All rights reserved. Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. Even Muslim groups think the idea is mad. 21 Feb 2012. The house in which he was born and in which he lived for his first three years had neither plumbing nor electricity. Had he done the humble thing and walked away with what he were entitled to, his reputation would still be intact.". For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Although he never worked at Barrow Colliery in his home village, he was involved in the politics of the branch, where the membership was much more left-wing than in the conservative Woolley Colliery. "They asked me to relay that to him. 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 Enemy Within", Verso 2014. 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. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. "Well, you've knocked on my door," he says. It's too soon to say.". If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. Its the next paragraph I found most interesting. So our conscience is clear. Arthur Scargill is a Capricorn and was born in The Year of the Tiger Life. MINERS' leader Arthur Scargill has left his wife after 37 years, it was revealed last night. He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". THE man set to marry the daughter of miners' leader Arthur Scargill was yesterday branded a love cheat - by his own daughter. He smiles. 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. I don't know how far he's got. I drove the picket bus. Mr Scargill staged the nationwide walkout without holding a strike ballot, an omission which fatally undermined public support for the NUM. 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. They divorced in 2001. 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. 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 cant wait for us to exit the single market as it will mean German cars will be so expensive they wont sell any here and we could then start our own car industry with the chance of making it a success now Red Robbo is so old he cant destroy companies any more. 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. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. The political power of the NUM and of most British trade unions was severely reduced. 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. The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. Cold, hard facts about how freezing winter weather can harm your health. . Having been elected president of the NUM in 1981, Scargill held that position for just over 20 years. 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. I presume Ms Tandohs bile is based on the fact she was NFI (not flipping invited) or more seriously NEFC (never even flippin considered) for the role at C4. I got my mobile phone, and I sent him a text. Beaming Queen Consort Camilla visits the University of Aberdeen as she returns to Take note, Prince Harry! 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. "Now, good day to you." 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. He was succeeded by Ian Lavery. 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. 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. Arthur Scargill wins 13,000 damages from National Union of Mineworkers. 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. Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! says Scargill. [5] In 1957 he was elected NUM Yorkshire Area Youth Delegate, and attended the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow as a representative of the Yorkshire miners. [51] Scargill criticised Poland's Solidarity calling it an "anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state", which Scargill saw as deformed but reformable. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. 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. And he's done very well out of it.". A former Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996. They've made me worse.'". ", "And that," says Capstick, "was the only thing he said about Thatcher. 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. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. Self defense expert shares live-saving hacks for evading ALL kinds of attacks - from cutting Do not sell or share my personal information. Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. Anne Scargill (left) and Betty Cook at the National Union of Mineworkers headquarters in Barnsley. When remembering this, she brims with the same rage she must have felt at the time. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. Milne, Seumas. " What would have become of our democracy had they succeeded?. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. Mr Capstick told ITV News: Id been talking to Arthur some ten minutes earlier so I sent him a text message, a very short one, just said Thatcher dead. In a 1975 interview with New Left Review Scargill said: I was in the Young Communist League for about six or seven years and I became a member of its National Executive Committee responsible for industrial work. ", 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? 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. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. "He's OK," says Capstick. "It's sad to be inthis position. 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. Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. 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. [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that time. He understood the plight of the workers, and chose to stay and remain a self-appointed representative of the workers. 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. The man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. [9] At the subsequent enquiry, he used notebooks of underground working from the 19th century, retrieved from the Institute of Geological Sciences in Leeds, to argue that the National Coal Board could have prevented the disaster had they acted on the information available. And yesterday, do you know what? The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 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". His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. 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. of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. They had one daughter named Margaret. Peter, Gibbon. The strike started in Yorkshire, and he was not present at the delegate Council meeting in Barnsley. This was the verdict of the rather strange former Bake Off star Ruby Tandoh on Paul Hollywoods decision to go with the show when it moves from the BBC1 to C4. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Margaret Thatcher didn't expect it, but miners' wives galvanised the '84 strike, Labour calls on government to apologise over miners' strike, Thelong, slow death of the UK coal industry, Thatcher had secret plan to use army at height of miners' strike, Theclosure of Maltby colliery in pictures, the horrific police violence seen at the Orgreave coking plant. They divorced in 2001. He did not. "Goodbye to all that? 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 is 84 years old and is a Capricorn. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. He may still lose. They came back to me, and said: 'We'll up it to 10,000.' "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. Staff members suddenly taken ill, or with long-standing medical appointments, require his personal consent to be absent from the office. But he will not be drawn any further. ", There follows the most illustrative of anecdotes. With the promise of at least 5 in cash, its sign reads thus: "We buy your unwanted clothes, shoes, socks, belts, handbags, paired footwear.". He also had an important role in the `Battle of Saltley Gate, that closed Birmingham`s Saltley coke depot. 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. They said: 'How about 15,000?' And this is why. Scargill had condemned the killing at the time. having received a 500,000 discount. It began in Yorkshire, and eventually spread to the rest of the country. And Stefni warned Margaret's parents that Mr Logan is a "sly, deceitful toe-rag''. We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. ", ITN, he claims, offered Scargill 7,000 for a five-minute interview. "[40] Scargill complained to the Advertising Standards Authority who criticised the advertisement as "highly distasteful". Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. And with that, not for the first time, Arthur Scargill retreats, inside. Half our time is spent discussing the strike and its aftermath; for the remainder, the two of them talk about what has happened to the place where they live since then. 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 . [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. 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? 'We now have a situation where the government and the establishment have a funeral on their hands which they wish they didnt have. Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. They'll probably be 10 or 11 now.". 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. The couple plan to marry later this year. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". He felt that the Labour Party had betrayed the basic principles of the party`s constitution. It is now worth around 2million. "I've never, ever said owt. This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 23:47. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. 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. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. [3] The couple had a daughter together, Margaret Scargill, in 1962 who is now a practicing GP. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) We are no longer accepting comments on this article. We did soup kitchens. 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 responsible for leading two pivotal miners' strikes: one in 1937 and another in the mid-1980s. He studied at the Worsbrough Dale School, till he was fifteen. They were released from prison in November 1989. In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. There aretwo security cameras fixed to the front wall, and all the blinds are closed. "But we've had to move to new premises. Scargill led the union in the 19841985 miners' strike. ", She then shoots me a look. His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. 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". [53] He was not attending any of the events to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 strike at the NUM. Arthur had told me that under no circumstances was he going to give an interview. 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. [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. You couldnt make this up. "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. That house sits on the edge of Worsbrough, close to the pit village where Scargill was born. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). As the militant leader of the miners, Arthur Scargill fought Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. "He's estranged from his ex-wife. On his first day, he was horrified to see the working conditions. Scargill, along with veteran left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn, campaigned to free strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock from prison. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. So what is Arthur Scargill's salary per year? Princess of Wales recycles 1,600 orange Gabriella Hearst top and skirt and 349 Adorable moment the Princess of Wales and a little girl dressed as Snow White play with some sand during a No rest for Anne! News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Arthur Scargill's net worth estimate is $100,000 - $1M. 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Frederik White with his wife Jennifer and 16-month-old daughter Nicky. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dear+Arthur+Scargill%2c+before+you+let+your+daughter+marry+my+love-+rat-a060693318. 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. There's more to this new Arthur Scargill chic than mere fashion nostalgia. 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. The fight was a political one, as well. [34] Scargill accepted Lightman's statement that many of his actions suffered from a lack of professional advice, which he was unwilling to be bound by. 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