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Arthur Scargill
ArthurScargill
Born 1930s.
AncestorsSon of Harold Scargill and Alice Pickering
[sibling(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
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Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was the president of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002.
Biography
Arthur Scargill was born in Yorkshire, England.
Arthur Scargill was a coal miner
Arthur was born on 11th January 1938, in Worsbrough Dale, in South Yorkshire, England, into a family of coal miners. He is the only child of Harold Scargill and Alice Pickering. [1]
Arthur went to school in Worsbrough Dale, Yorkshire, and left at the age of 15 with no qualifications. Later he went on to study various subjects including economics, social history and industrial relations on part-time courses and at University of Leeds;
He started work, age 15, as a coal miner at Woolley Colliery and remained there for 19 y
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Arthur Scargill
British trade unionist (born 1938)
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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 is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement.
Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. He led an unofficial strike in 1969, and played a key organising role during the strikes of 1972 and 1974, the latter of which played a part in the downfall of Edward Heath's Conservative government.
Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 1984–1985 miners' strike. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. Initially a Young Communist League member, then a Labour Party member, Scargill
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Arthur Scargill
Arthur Scargill (born January 11, 1938) is a Britishtrade unionist. He was the President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1981 to 2002 and has served as leader of the Socialist Labour Party, a political party he founded, since 1996. He led successful unofficial strikes in 1969, 1972, and 1974 which contributed to the downfall of Prime Minister Edward Heath. However, he also led an unsuccessful strike in 1984–85 that was defeated by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government, substantially weakening both the British mining industry and trade union movement.
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[edit]1967–1980
[edit]- 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. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us... but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. This was a complete reversal of the policy... that was promised by