"He's estranged from his ex-wife. [49], After stepping down from leadership of the NUM, Scargill became active in the UK's Stalin Society[50] saying that the "ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin explain the real world". [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 strike, he were never at home We didn't spend much time together that year," she says. This was a complete reversal of the policy that was promised by the Labour Government before it was put into office this represents a betrayal of the mining industry. And then there is the real Arthur Scargill. "I am writing a book, but he'snot mentioned in it. 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. Capstick a genial, soft-spoken man, whose disposition rather belies the rock-solid certainties of his politics talks to me for well over two hours. 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. Arthur Scargill's life path number is 6 Life Path Number 6 represent 'The Nurturer'. They'll probably be 10 or 11 now.". Like Anne Scargill and Betty Cook, Capstick will be appearing at this year's commemorative events, across Yorkshire and elsewhere. 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. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. 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. Anne Scargill (left) and Betty Cook at the National Union of Mineworkers headquarters in Barnsley. He also became known in the 1972 strike, where he was the spokesman for the Yorkshire miners. He smiles. [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]. They need this like a hole in the head.. [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. Several dispirited strikers decided to return to work after around a year, and the strike ended in a failure. of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. 'No.' "Goodbye to all that? So what is Arthur Scargill's salary per year? The editor of the Daily Mirror at the time, Roy Greenslade, wrote an article in The Guardian in May 2002 to apologise to Scargill for the false claims about paying off the mortgage and for putting too much trust in Roger Windsor, who at the time had still not repaid the 29,500 that he had taken from the Miners' Welfare Fund and that the Lightman Report had asked that he repay. [43] In February 2012, Scargill won 13,000 in a court action against the NUM, primarily for car expenses, and for the earlier temporary denial of membership. 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. His first point was that he is not an accountant (I got that wrong) but an engineer by training and that he has worked in the airline industry all his life. He stepped down from leadership of the NUM at the end of July 2002, to become the honorary president. He lives a normal sort of a life. 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 . He played an important role in the miners' strike of 1972 and was involved in the mass picket at Saltley Gate in Birmingham. Arthur Scargill is being investigated by his former unionover the purchase of one of his properties Sources at the development in the Barbican say Mr Scargill is rarely seen at the 2million. He injured himself acouple of years ago playing penalty shoot-out with his grandkids. I had a job at the Co-op. 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. a zero-hours contract. They had one daughter named Margaret. "I don't know what a deal would have been," he says. He wouldn't say another word. [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. Prince Albert of Monaco is the first Euro monarch to confirm he and his wife Keep calm and carry on! He felt the need to fight for changes in the capitalist society, and vowed that he would work towards making the world more equitable. Dr Margaret Scargill has announced her plans to marry former Grimethorpe Colliery under-manager James Logan. Yet that has not stopped the ardent communist exploiting one of her flagship policies. I've had hundreds and hundreds of pounds offered for my story, and I'm not washing my dirty linen in public.". Its the next paragraph I found most interesting. 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. If reports are true that British women volunteers are flocking to the Calais Jungle specifically to have sex with migrants, expect the camp to grow from the current 10,000 to the size of Africa in no time at all. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". 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. [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. He understood the plight of the workers, and chose to stay and remain a self-appointed representative of the workers. It began in Yorkshire, and eventually spread to the rest of the country. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. By 1984 however the police were ready and neutralized the tactic with superior force. I'm working on article about the 30th anniversary of the strike, I say. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. having received a 500,000 discount. 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. "They asked me to relay that to him. 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. To be paid 400,000-a-year to eat cake for an hour makes it the least onerous and most highly paid TV job with the exception of football pundit. 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. Copyright 1998 Gale, Cengage Learning. And make it a prerequisite of hiring that the next ones give an undertaking that they do not believe female Muslim officers should wear the full Islamic dress. It is only after I leave the NUM's HQ for the last time that one striking fact hits home. A smile. This eventually led to the strike of 1984, when the government announced that they intend to close 20 coal mines. 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. 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". They still pay 3,500 a year towards the upkeep of his Yorkshire home as they believed it was his main home. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. So does his son-in-law. I think if it had been made public before then there'd have been a huge outcry. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. The hidden ingredient in your supermarket loaf that might put you off bread for good. Baroness Thatcher was very lucky,' he said. He then started working as a coal miner. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. The NUM says the money is being used to defend what remains of the coal industry and help both its members and former miners. He soon started demanding an improvement in the working conditions, and wrote letters to several agencies and newspapers. 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When remembering this, she brims with the same rage she must have felt at the time. "He's. I don't know how far he's got. Arthur Scargill destroyed many lives with his attitude and his . (2004) "Al Richardson (19412003): An Appreciation", David Howell, et al. And when Iput the phone down, I came and sat in the house, and the television was on, and it came on that Margaret Thatcher had died. He contested twice, in the 1997 general election, as well as the 2001 general election. Back in 1993 he first tried to acquire the flat under Margaret Thatchers right-to-buy scheme. It is now worth around 2million. 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. 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. [36] In September 1990, the Certification Officer brought criminal charges against Scargill and Heathfield for wilfully neglecting to perform the union's duty to keep proper accounting records. "Goodbye to all that? For his three-year contract his pay has gone up from 300,000 at the BBC to 1.2million at C4 plus the ability to do more commercial deals than would have been possible at the Corporation. To his detractors, by contrast, the fact that he understood what was at stake is no excuse for a series of elemental mistakes that sealed his union's fate and marked a huge turning point in postwar history. Arthur Scargill is now 76. His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . "I was either on a picket line, or in a soup kitchen. [3] The couple had a daughter together, Margaret Scargill, in 1962 who is now a practicing GP. He stood as an independent communist, as he had never joined the Communist Party formally. 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