In the event, it turned out to be the exact blueprint that the government followed[21]. The Myth of Control: Created by Mikail Chowdhury, Sana Soni. Page 158. 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. Page 343-344. However, it can be argued that the government limited its role in upholding law and order in a dispute between the NUM and the NCB. jQuery(function() { 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. Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. Page 70. Historian, John Campbell, described the battle at Orgreave; They were beaten back by even greater numbers of mounted and heavily armoured police[41]. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. Page 18. Look for the .htaccess file in the list of files. Somerset: Routledge, 2018. July 31, 2013. In stories told since the strike, the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Arthur Scargill, is strangely absent. [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. Scargill was often accompanied by his then wife Anne Harper to speak at picket lines and to media appearances; Harper was simultaneously involved in founding and leading the National Women Against Pit Closures movement. Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. After the miners' strike, Scargill was elected to lifetime presidency of the NUM by an overwhelming national majority, in a controversial election in which some[who?] The strict trade union laws have also been credited for the failure of the strike with Norman Tebbit, who introduced the trade union law reforms, saying because of my reforms, if these other unions had joined an illegal strike, the Coal Board could have asked the court to confiscate their funds[23]. ARTHUR SCARGILL AND PEGGY KAHN - "THE MYTH OF WORKERS' CONTROL" - 1st . Having examined a range of factors which led to the failure of the miners strike in 1984, it has become clear that it was easy to just blame the leadership of Arthur Scargill as the ultimate factor that led to the strikes failure. On March 6, 1984, the National Coal Board announced its plan to cut the nation's coal output by 4 million tons, in an effort to stem a $340 million annual loss. Page 341. The .htaccess file contains directives (instructions) that tell the server how to behave in certain scenarios and directly affect how your website functions. However, we have to be careful when using this as evidence as Tebbit may have been trying to take credit for the failure of the strike. "[40] Scargill complained to the Advertising Standards Authority who criticised the advertisement as "highly distasteful". you only have to look at the current state of our country after Cov19torealise that we have noindustry left! March 07, 2009. The failure of the miners strike in 1984 has been seen by many as the result of bad leadership of the head of the NUM, Arthur Scargill, the lack of support for the strike as well as giving credit to the governments preparations. Page 473. [8] Nigel Lawson, who takes a clear mainstream media view on the Miners strike and even admits the left-wing majority on the NUM executive insisted, however dubiously, that Rule 43 of the union allowed for a strike without a ballot[9] showing that although many people didnt agree with it, including him, it was actually permissible. Was this national or local? March 10, 2004. It was not , and will not ever be the liberator of the working Class, but their oppressors. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty[28]. London: Vintage, 2008. Therefore, government preparations are more important than other factors, such as Arthur Scargills leadership and support for the strike, in the failure of the miners strike. Articles like the above, years later are actually a compliment to Arthur. When working with WordPress, 404 Page Not Found errors can often occur when a new theme has been activated or when the rewrite rules in the .htaccess file have been altered. [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. We may criticise some of the tactics he used in the 1984-5 miners strike, but we cannot dispute that he gave real leadership and was serious about wanting to defeat the Tories. of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. Accessed October 12, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn. Scargill had condemned the killing at the time. EconBiz.Logger.enable_visibilityState_tracking(); [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. National Archives: Margaret Thatcher Wanted to Crush Power of Trade Unions.. 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 used the NUM for his own advancement, and ended up thinking he was bigger than the Union and everything else. He left school in 1953 at fifteen years old to work as a coal miner at Woolley Colliery, where he worked for nineteen years.[2][3]. Peter, Gibbon. Perhaps theyre embarrassed by this reminder of how the Stalinist and reformist left squandered the power and influence it once had in British politics. Yet he was a trade union leader who helped lead a strike that brought down a Tory government (1974) and correctly understood that Thatcher was out to smash the unions and that they needed to fight back. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). The Museum at Work; Health, Wellbeing and Amgueddfa Cymru ; Collections Online. This was to begin the argument of whether the actions of Thatcher and the state during the strike led to its failure. One source described them as the iron ladies of the coal fields[17]. It can be argued that both Marxist and Mainstream Media view give credit to the fact that government preparations were a factor in the failure of the miners strike but they have opposing views on to what extent. However, Wakefield also mentions the betrayal he felt by the Nottinghamshire miners who continued to work by saying The lads are in good spirits even if the majority of scabs are working. [27] Thatcher, Margaret. The easiest way to edit a .htaccess file for most people is through the File Manager in cPanel. Accessed October 12, 2018. Routledge, 1997. "It's so hypocritical it's unreal," he said. The strike became a symbolic struggle, as the NUM was one of the strongest unions in the country, viewed by many, including Conservatives in power, as having brought down the Heath government in the union's 1974 strike. 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]. Letwins Thatcherite view is also discredited by Tony Benn who says The issue of a national ballot was really irrelevant. A former Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996. Page 164. London: Fontana, 1992. Atvery lease Mr Scargill was a leader of man and lead them unlike our current prime minister who couldn't lead a pack of sheep out of a field even though he resemble one. Therefore, when considering both sources, Letwins Thatcherite view isnt very convincing as the argument that the failure of the miners strike was due to Scargills bad leadership is based on factors out of his control like the timing of the strike and accusations that havent been proven. Thats why he can write one third of the worlds workers those who live in the Stalinist states out of the class struggle, allotting them no role but to support their socialist rulers. Scargill led the union in the 19841985 miners' strike. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. Test your website to make sure your changes were successfully saved. [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". As for the EEC/EU, his anti- stance was in keeping with Labour Party Policy. Scargill never balloted NUM members for a strike; this was seen as an erosion of democracy within the union, but the role of ballots in decision-making had been made very unclear after previous leader, Joe Gormley, had ignored two ballots over wage reforms, and his decisions had been upheld after appeals to court were made. If your blog is showing the wrong domain name in links, redirecting to another site, or is missing images and style, these are all usually related to the same problem: you have the wrong domain name configured in your WordPress blog. [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. [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city). 100 0 _ a Arthur Scargill c British trade unionist (born 1938) 100 1 _ a Scargill, Arthur d (1938- ). Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. Scargill has so burnt his bridges with the NUM and the broad left of the labour movement that his name is never mentioned at Durham miners' gala or at other miners' strike commemorations. 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. The Enemy Within: The Secret War against the Miners. Before you do anything, it is suggested that you backup your website so that you can revert back to a previous version if something goes wrong. Page 317. This article, far from being full of lies, hit the nail, well and truly, on the head. ", 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? I then thought of things rather differently. Downing Street Years. [38] Thatcher, Margaret. Page 161. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world . Put the custom structure back if you had one. 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. Essay Writing Service. His nationalist backwardness on Brexit (and immigration, to judge by a letter published in the Guardian on 29 August 2017) cannot be forgiven. First shown: 06/. [25] Thatcher, Margaret. Seumas Milne argues that the miners had sued the police for assault, wrongful arrest, malicious persecution and false imprisonment and then went on to describe the battle of Orgreaves as an 8,000 riot police staged medieval-style mounted charges of unprecedented ferocity[33]. This website uses cookies, you can find out more and set your preferences here. Eric Evans described him as aggressive and charismatic, but vain and politically limited[42], therefore showing his limitations as the head of NCB. 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