Soup kitchens were set up to save miners and their families from starvation in nearly every small village[18]. 100 0 _ a Arthur Scargill c British trade unionist (born 1938) 100 1 _ a Scargill, Arthur d (1938- ). Free resources to assist you with your university studies! [6] Marr, Andrew. A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. First shown: 06/. Accessed October 11, 2018. Accessed October 12, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn. [38] Thatcher, Margaret. Arrow, 1994. [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. 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. Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. The Miners Strike Day by Day: The Illustrated 1984-85 Diary of Yorkshire Miner Arthur Wakefield. The most notable of these being the Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC) mainly made up of miners wives or women that grew up in mining communities. The Labour Party was opposed to membership of the EU to begin with wasn't it, so what happened, are its current membership more enlightened. Arguably, one of the most important factors in the failure of the Miner's Strike in 1984 was the leadership of the head of NUM, Arthur Scargill. Page 341. Both the Marxist view and the mainstream media view gives credit to government preparations showing this was definitely an important factor in the failure of the strike. [26], There is a prevailing view that Arthur Scargill, the NUM National President, called the strike. So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d Barnsley: Wharncliffe, 2002. On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity PNG and png are not the same locations. If not, correct the error or revert back to the previous version until your site works again. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. This lack of support can be blamed on the leadership of Arthur Scargill; therefore, the leadership of Arthur Scargill is a more important factor in the failure of the miners strike in 1985. In 2012, the flat was valued at 1,500,000, and had 24/7 access to concierge services. [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. Nothing good about it. This article, far from being full of lies, hit the nail, well and truly, on the head. The strike ended on 3 March 1985 following an NUM vote to return to work. National Archives: Margaret Thatcher Wanted to Crush Power of Trade Unions. The Guardian. 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. The Anatomy of Thatcherism. [29], In 1998, Scargill and his wife, Anne, separated.[30]. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. This source is reliable as Kim Howells was a member of the NUM at the time of the strike but still discredits Scargills tactics. [32] Benn, Tony. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. The Enemy Within: The Secret War against the Miners. Do you have a 2:1 degree or higher? Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. [34] Wakefield, Arthur, and Brian Elliot. Therefore, the overwhelming support for the strike could not be denied. His father, Harold, was a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. You've been found out. Scargill's first mistake was refusing to call a National Ballot . On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity example and Example are not the same locations. Many people blame him for the failure of Miners Strike due to his poor leadership skills and bad judgement. London: Routledge, 2019. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. In his diary he documents the battle at Orgreave on Monday 18th of June, 1984; Ive never seen so many of our lads altogether, it brought tears to my eyes[16]. In the 2001 general election, he ran against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool. My Style of Government: The Thatcher Years. March 10, 2004. Articles like the above, years later are actually a compliment to Arthur. How to find the correct spelling and folder, 404 Errors After Clicking WordPress Links, From the left-hand navigation menu in WordPress, click. "Our communities are now just about dead on their feet." The strike started in Yorkshire in March . : S.n., 1996. 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. Looking for a flexible role? A History of Modern Britain. Accessed October 12, 2018. For addon domains, the file must be in public_html/addondomain.com/example/Example/ and the names are case-sensitive. He stepped down from leadership of the NUM at the end of July 2002, to become the honorary president. I think if it had been made public before then there'd have been a huge outcry. September 09, 2018. However, he does give credit to the harsh tactics taken by the miners that may have cut out any support for the Nottinghamshire miners; The only legitimate question that may be raised about the tactics of the NUM nationally was whether the Yorkshire miners, by picketing Nottinghamshire so early and so vigorously, alienated those they were seeking to influence. [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. Seumas Milne portrays the Marxist view that the government went over the top with the preparations in order to see the miners strike fail and bring down the unions altogether. "Scargill" redirects here. This Mainstream media view holds that the strike failed because of Scargills extreme beliefs and bad decisions. In May 2009, he was a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party for one of London's seats in the European Parliament. You may need to scroll to find it. But Rule 43 said that a national strike can only be called if there was a ballot. Chris Kitchen said: "I would say it's time to walk away, Mr Scargill. The movement faced a huge confrontation from the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, and the union was eventually defeated. He then went on to say: The deep disillusion of the mining communitywas spontaneous and genuine. With Fay Hauser, Olivia Haller, Doris Morgado, Chrystee Pharris. The Enemy Within: M15, Maxwell and the Scargill Affair. ARTHUR SCARGILL AND PEGGY KAHN - "THE MYTH OF WORKERS' CONTROL" - 1st . One source described them as the iron ladies of the coal fields[17]. 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. (2004) "Al Richardson (19412003): An Appreciation", David Howell, et al. [26] Milne, Seumas. (1988), Trade unions and politics : thatchers assault on the unions ; the unions response, Kahn, Peggy, His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. However, we have to be careful when using this source as evidence as Scargill may have been trying to justify his actions to save himself criticism. He lost on both occasions, winning 2.4% of the vote in Hartlepool at the 2001 general election. [11] Benn, Tony. [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. Year of publication: 1980. . 100 1 _ a . London: Fontana, 1992. Vast majority of people work retail or asBarristersselling fancycoffee to people on the way to work in offices, most of them on single hour contracts working in retail parks or business parks built on the ground of old mine, steelworks and potteries that used to employ tens of thousands of men and now employ the best part of 100. Please click on a checkbox next to an item and try again. Without them the power stations, even with the mix of nuclear and oil and the careful stockpiling, might have begun to run short and the government would have been in deep trouble[43] Therefore, showing that the lack of support from the Nottinghamshire miners was a more important factor in the failure of the Miners strike than government preparations. [53], Scargill still occasionally gives interviews and makes appearances. [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. [31] Campbell, John. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. This is true as we know that Thatchers government backed down from a confrontation with the trade unions in its first parliament in 1979-83 as the government felt like it needed more time in order to stock pile coal in preparation for the next inevitable strike. The Museum at Work; Health, Wellbeing and Amgueddfa Cymru ; Collections Online. Kim Howells discusses how Neil Kinnock argued that real power lay at the ballot box[4]. This was denied by the government at the time, although papers released in 2014 under the thirty-year rule suggest that Scargill was right. This shows that even someone who takes the traditional mainstream media view, that because of Scargills actions the strike was poorly supported and doomed to fail, you cant deny the amount of support that the miners had. Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. The Truth of Nacods Shameful Sell-out. The Guardian. 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. RewriteBase / London: Corgi Books, 1993. Which makes his present-day role (such as it is) in politics all the more tragic. An example of this is the NACODs strike whereby Ian McGregor ordered colliery overmen to cross violent picket lines if they were to get paid. Milne, Seumas. " "[40] Scargill complained to the Advertising Standards Authority who criticised the advertisement as "highly distasteful". Lawson takes an objective view of the events as his book was published in 1993 after a very public dispute with Thatcher where he eventually resigned. The authorities must be using the army[32]. //--> The appointment of Ian McGregor as head of the NCB can be seen as a failure on Thatchers behalf showing that the governments preparations were insufficient to cause the strike to fail. [7] Scargill, Arthur. He cannot resist pointing out parallels in all times and places. In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. Page 161. Arthur Wakefield, a striking miner, presents the Marxist view that the failure of the strike couldnt have been down to the lack of support and instead must have been due to other factors. Arthur Scargill and Peggy Kahn. National Archives: Margaret Thatcher Wanted to Crush Power of Trade Unions.. London: Vintage, 2008. Downing Street Years. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". 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. Scargill, Arthur, (1978) CONTESTING THE MARKET: PAY EQUITY AND THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC . We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty[28]. Accessed October 11, 2018. London: Vintage Books, 2008. A History of Modern Britain. Margaret Thatcher even described McGregor as lacking in guile as he was used to dealing with financial difficulties and hard bargaining and had no experience with dealing with trade union leaders[25]. These days he only gets to speak at the crankiest of Stalinist events. This included Norman Tebbits radical reforms[39] as put by Tony Benn, who was newly elected to the mining seat and a clear supporter of the 1984-85 Miners strike[40]. [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. It's easy to mock Arthur Scargill. Arthur Scargill. Arthur Scargill (born January 11, 1938) is a British trade unionist. The View from No. Page 343-344. Can you add one ? If you have already uploaded the file then the name may be misspelled or it is in a different folder. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [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. [23] BATTLE FOR BRITAIN; on the 25th Anniversary of the Miners Strike, NORMAN TEBBIT Reveals Why He Believes Defeat Would Have Been the Death of Democracy. Daily Mail (London), March 6, 2009. 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. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). This sparked an individual ballot of members, in the autumn of 1984, whereby the ballot obtained an 80% plus vote for strike action, a decision which, if implemented, would have been sufficient to save pits and jobs, and win the dispute which had been brought by the National Coal Board[35]. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical. We also remember his relatively principled role within the UK labour movement of the 1970s and 80s. Arthur Scargill, with his odd and sometimes monomaniacal-seeming habit of referring to himself in the third person, was in some ways a throwback to turn-of-the-century radicalism, a syndicalist . This article about a political figure is a stub. ",confirmEmpty: "Are you sure you want to empty your clipboard? Arrow, 1994. Person/Body (Historic): University of Leeds and Nottingham. RewriteEngine On In fact, stocks were much higher[27]. Another factor in the failure of the miners strike, in 1984, is government involvement. 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. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/37592/How the Miners Strike could have won. London: Vintage, 2008. [1] Letwin, Shirley Robin. Shirley Letwin takes the mainstream media view that Arthur Scargills incompetence as a leader caused the miners strike to fail. Would JD care to say why he writes in such a vindictive and aggressive style? This was seen as violent and was deemed illegal. [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. Page 158. It is rather ironic that his view on the EEC was shared by Tjatcher, deep down, and it is a Tory Govt that has taken us out. Campbell, Adrian, and Malcolm Warner. Notice that the CaSe is important in this example. 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. [9] This performance strengthened his popularity with the Yorkshire miners. If it wasnt for Thatchers continued support for the Nottinghamshire miners, the strike would have had their support which may have been vital in the success of the strike. Arthur Scargill was in attendance but it was noteworthy (and significant) that he remained a peripheral figure being greeted by only a few of those attending. "Goodbye to all that? Test your website to make sure your changes were successfully saved. Are you using WordPress? his position on freedom movements In communist states such as Poland, was unforgivable He is rightly labelled a Stalinist, along with Corbyn. Page 57-59. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". Aucun commentaire n'a t trouv aux emplacements habituels. The miners also failed to gain the support of the dock workers in strike effort. Lawson also takes the mainstream media view that everything Thatcher did during the strike was to maintain law and order. The Guardian. Accessed January 06, 2019. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3503545.stm. [14] The section under "staff procedures" details how Scargill monitored head office staff: Mr. Scargill's vendetta against Head Office staff has at times descended to the most puerile and paranoic [sic] levels. In the event, it turned out to be the exact blueprint that the government followed[21]. The Socialist Labour Party ( SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. Exact blueprint that the strike. `` [ 42 ] and was deemed illegal the iron of. Speak at the time of the coal fields [ 17 ] the Eleven-Plus exam and to! 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