EconBiz.Logger.enable_visibilityState_tracking(); The Miners Strike Day by Day: The Illustrated 1984-85 Diary of Yorkshire Miner Arthur Wakefield. Industrial Democracy in Italy: Workers Co-ops and the Self-management Debate Mark Holmstrom, Mark Holmstrm Snippet view - 1989. Scargill recalled how after becoming a miner, the poor working conditions and "people who should never have been working, having to work to live on that first day I promised myself I would try one day to get things changed". 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. I could write a million words and not be able to adequately describe the misery,hardship and dispare these leaders bought upon the people of this nation. Scargill, Arthur (1938- ) English trade union leader. This had great implications for regional relations in the NUM; the executive was described as dominated by "Gormley's rotten boroughs", since every region even quite small ones had one delegate, and the larger regions had only a few more (Scotland and South Wales had two delegates each, Yorkshire had three). He did not. Therefore, the argument that the government limited its role to upholding law and order in the dispute is faulty as many of the people who were downplaying the governments actions are known Thatcherites and consequently had ulterior motives. Marching to the Fault Line: The 1984 Miners Strike and the Battle for Industrial Britain. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. [44] Thatcher, Margaret. This is supported by Margaret Thatcher herself; His (Ian McGregor) impression was that the police were failing to uphold criminal law and that the pickets had been able to prevent people going to work[38]. [35] Negotiations between Scargill and the NUM took place in France. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. 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. London: Verso, 2014. [33] Milne, Seumas. London: Verso, 2014. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. That is what we need to remember these days when we think of Scargill. 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. References to this book. [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. [14], Scargill was a very vocal opponent of Thatcher's Conservative government, frequently appearing on television to attack it. This article, far from being full of lies, hit the nail, well and truly, on the head. Many people blame him for the failure of Miners Strike due to his poor leadership skills and bad judgement. Accessed October 11, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/guardianletters4. Shirley Letwin takes the mainstream media view that Arthur Scargills incompetence as a leader caused the miners strike to fail. 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. Accessed October 12, 2018. Soup kitchens were set up to save miners and their families from starvation in nearly every small village[18]. [41] Campbell, John. [4] UK | Politics | Head to Head: The Miners Strike. BBC News. : S.n., 1996. [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city). [7] Scargill, Arthur. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. Tony Benn opposes Evans view by saying the extent of the support in the NUM as a whole was evidenced by the overwhelming majority of miners who remained on strike until it ended in 1985[14]. Either way, please contact your web host immediately. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3815426/. Person/Body (Historic): A. Taylor & Sons Ltd. [16] One branch of the NUM, at Annesley in Nottinghamshire, put forward a vote of no confidence in Scargill in autumn 1983 following his comments on these matters, but Scargill defeated this at a December meeting and won a vote of confidence instead. If anyone of them has any cause for complaint they are simply showing the door because they have no unions to speak for to stand up for the rights of any working man or woman in this country. Downing Street Years. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical. Therefore government preparations was definitely a factor in the failure of the miners strike but to what extent, can be argued. Ian White talks exclusively to Arthur Scargill, 84, on 50th anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gate in Birmingham [26] Milne, Seumas. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. Margaret Thatcher. Seumas Milne, who takes the Marxist view, supports Thatchers argument that government preparations werent sufficient enough to cause the failure of the strike. However, Margaret Thatchers intentions in this source have to be questioned as this book was published in 1993 after Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister in 1990, therefore she may have been trying to justify her actions and downplay the use of police in the miners strike. Scargill said himself that the real reason that the NUM areas such as Nottinghamshire, South Derbyshire and Leicestershire wanted a national strike ballot was that they wanted the strike called off, believing naively that their pits were safe[7]. We also know that lots of support groups popped up to encourage the miners on in their fight. The miners had already built up a fearsome reputation as the shock troops for organised labour and during his time as leader of the Yorkshire coalfield, Mr Scargill had rarely been out of the news. She even admitted to appointing Peter Walker as Secretary of State for Energy because of his negotiating skills and said he was also a skilled communicator, something in which I knew would be important if we were to retain public support in the coal strike[29]. Therefore, the overwhelming support for the strike could not be denied. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 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. (2004) "Al Richardson (19412003): An Appreciation", David Howell, et al. [9] This performance strengthened his popularity with the Yorkshire miners. Happily, his saintly wife spent her time, during his period of madness, doing all she could to bring practical help and comfort to the hardest hit families. Robert Taylor depicts Scargill as an 'industrial Napoleon' who called a strike 'at the wrong time' on the 'wrong issue', and adopted strategies and tactics that were 'impossibilist', with 'an inflexible list of extravagant non-negotiable demands' that amounted to 'reckless adventurism' that was 'a dangerous, self-defeating delusion'. 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. You may need to scroll to find it. Free resources to assist you with your university studies! 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]. Can you add one ? Nevertheless, Government intervention such as the use of police and the actions of Ian McGregor was not the most important factor in the failure of the strike as many people openly criticised McGregor, including Thatcher herself. Another important factor in the failure of the miners strike was Thatcher and her governments actions during the strike such as using the police force. [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". The View from No. However, the people that argue this are clear Thatcherites such as Shirley Letwin, John Campbell and even Thatcher herself who blamed Scargill for the violence at the picket line mass pickets led by Arthur Scargill forced the closure of the Saltley Coke Depot in Birmingham[44] contradicting this, Seumas Milne who takes a clear Marxist view that the standard fairy tale, still routinely recycled by media and politicians alike, has it that Scargill called the action in spring in a classic example of his poor generalship and tactical sense[45]. This was to begin the argument of whether the actions of Thatcher and the state during the strike led to its failure. [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. On the 20th of July 1984, Thatcher gave a speech to the 1922 committee where she deemed the miners as the enemy within going on to say We had to fight the enemy without, in the Falklands. Arthur Scargill. 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 names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. (You may need to consult other articles and resources for that information.). . Page 158. of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. The properties will tell you the path and file name that cannot be found. Eric Evans described him as aggressive and charismatic, but vain and politically limited[42], therefore showing his limitations as the head of NCB. He lost on both occasions, winning 2.4% of the vote in Hartlepool at the 2001 general election. Arrow, 1994. Following these results, Thatcher urged Ian McGregor to fix the problem, she describes how time and time again he (Ian McGregor) and his colleagues were outmanoeuvred by Arthur Scargill and the NUM leadership[36]. [6] In 1970, he was elected a member of the regional committee of the Co-operative Retail Services in Barnsley and a delegate to its national conference. London: Vintage Books, 2008. Accessed January 06, 2019. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3503545.stm. However, In , He was right. In any case, the will of the people has decided the UK will leave, we have even had a General Election over the matter. "Analysing the British miners' strike of 19845.". /index.php [L] 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. See also V. L. Allen, The Militancy of the British Miners (1981); N. Hagger, Scargill the Stalinist (1984); and "What Drives Arthur Scargill?"The Sunday Times of London (July 15, 1984).. Kim Howells discusses how Neil Kinnock argued that real power lay at the ballot box[4]. Clearly, Scargill did fall out of favour with the Socialist movement, perhaps because it became evident that he was only happy when he was in the limelight. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. [12] Evans, Eric J. Thatcher and Thatcherism. March 07, 2009. However, if it had gone the other way the Yorkshire area would have come out and other areas would have to decide whether to give support. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/guardianletters4, https://www.marxist.com/britain-when-britain-went-to. Beyond Service: State Workers, Public Policy, and the Prospects for Tous les rsultats Google Recherche de Livres». Page 341. When you encounter a 404 error in WordPress, you have two options for correcting it. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has stripped ex-president Arthur Scargill of his voting rights - threatening to end the career of one of the most divisive figures in Britain's recent. The Anatomy of Thatcherism. London: Pan Books, an Imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2017. 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. This is because had the NUM come out nationally in favour of the strike, Nottinghamshire area would have won permission for its own ballot and remained at work. Margaret Thatcher. Therefore, we must conclude that whilst Arthur Scargills leadership was an important factor in the failure of the strike, it would be wrong to assume that this was the main reason as without the lack of support, especially from the Nottinghamshire miners, as well as the governments preparations, such as the stockpiling of coal, the miners strike might not have failed. On the other hand, the Marxist/Left Wing view suggests that the strike was part of Thatchers wider attack on political consensus and suggest that the miners could have won the strike had it not been for the concerted, illegal government campaign to smash the miners union, something they had been planning for some time. Many of us started in the 1950s in the Young Communist League. [26], There is a prevailing view that Arthur Scargill, the NUM National President, called the strike. 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. Their support would have been vital if they were to win the strike; this is presented by Cabinet minutes which show that Thatchers priority was to settle the dock strike as quickly as possible in order to allow the government to concentrate on winning the miners strike[15]. [58][59] Scargill's appearance on the picket line was alluded to by Prime Minister Boris Johnson the next day at Prime Minister's Questions, accusing the Labour Party of "literally holding hands with Arthur Scargill". (1983), Restructuring the employment relationship, Gallie, Duncan, Another factor in the failure of the miners strike, in 1984, is government involvement. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) 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. Historian, John Campbell, described the battle at Orgreave; They were beaten back by even greater numbers of mounted and heavily armoured police[41]. [28] Travis, Alan. Page 150-152, [2] Campbell, John. Many people blame him for the failure of Miner's Strike due to his poor leadership skills and bad judgement. London, 1984. On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity PNG and png are not the same locations. Accessed January 06, 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/mar/07/arthur-scargill-miners-strike. His father, Harold, was a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Uncategorized > the myth of workers' control arthur scargill. Scargill, once the hero of the miners, now cuts a rather sad, isolated figure and this is a complex post-1985 story. The Truth of Nacods Shameful Sell-out. The Guardian. This confirms the fact that Thatcher and Ian McGregor often didnt see eye-to-eye, an example of this is the issue with the NACODs strike. They were released from prison in November 1989. Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. Authors: Scargill, Arthur; Kahn, Peggy: Publisher: Leeds [u.a.] Scargill had the ability to do great things; Pity he got in the way of his own opportunities, and could not see Communism as a failed ideology that blighted every country in which it held sway. A former Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996. The Myth of Workers' Control (booklet) Person/Body (Historic): Scargill, Arthur. It's easy to mock Arthur Scargill. The 84/5 miners strike brought great hardship, but achieved nothing. The Making of Neil Kinnock. He also represented the Barnsley Co-op at Cooperative congresses. Notice that the CaSe is important in this example. London: Pan Books, an Imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2017. Scargill, along with veteran left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn, campaigned to free strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock from prison. Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. [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. Absolute nonsense on all accords above. Edit the file on your computer and upload it to the server via FTP. September 09, 2018. In the 1981 election for NUM president, Scargill secured around 70% of the vote. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. [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. He stepped down from leadership of the NUM at the end of July 2002, to become the honorary president. Dont forget that Labours manifesto at Kinnocks last election included a policy of leaving the bloc, and who knows what t was under Corbyn. Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. In stories told since the strike, the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Arthur Scargill, is strangely absent. He is looking for socialism in one country, and since that is impossible he ends up with a recipe of capitalism in one country. [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. However, we have to be careful when taking Nicholas Ridleys account at face value as he was a known Thatcherite and also came up with the Ridley Plan that outlined how to deal and prepare for a potential strike; Perhaps my confidential annexe had been worthwhile after all. His comments followed a question in the Commons from Labour MP Lisa Nandy, who said the miners and their families deserved an apology for the mine closures. However, Kenneth OMorgan may be overemphasising the amount of support that the miners had as we know that Thatcher continuously demonised the miners in the media calling them the enemy within and this reduced a lot of public support for the strike. After the Miners were beaten into submission in 1984and the rest of uscheated and swindled by that government and successive government afterwards. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 404 means the file is not found. Thatcher deliberately chose to make the miners who continued to work look like heroes and make the striking miners look like the public enemy. Routledge, 1997. A miner at the age of 18, he was a member (1955-62) of the Young Communist League before joining the Labour Party.In 1981, Scargill became president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).His attempt to confront Margaret Thatcher's programme of pit closures and anti-union legislation led to a miner's strike (1984-85). [5] Benn, Tony. Would JD care to say why he writes in such a vindictive and aggressive style? Page 340. The strike gained momentum quickly and calling a ballot may have broken down this early support. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. 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. A household name in the seventies and eighties, it was easy to imagine the strike as a personal conflict between Scargill and his nemesis, Margaret Thatcher. Page 18. 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. Parcourez la librairie en ligne la plus vaste au monde et commencez ds aujourd'hui votre lecture sur le Web, votre tablette, votre tlphone ou un lecteur d'e-books. Page 342. The Socialist Labour Party ( SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. In conclusion to my little rant, unions were formed for the betterment of its members, not to be used as a personal vehicle for selfish political dogma. T he council chamber at the Barnsley HQ of the National Union of Mineworkers is a jaw-dropping sight: a huge, oak-panelled room, draped with banners that were once kept at collieries across. (1998), Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000684676, Occasional papers in industrial relations. Amazingly the electorate resent being told they're either racist or stupid or both, if the remain campaign had been more mature in it's approach, almost certainly a different decision would have been reached. Accessed October 12, 2018. Another important factor in the failure of the miners strike is the amount of support that it had. Andrew Marrs view on why the Miners strike failed is much more convincing as it gives credit to Scargills leadership skills while also saying not even he would be able to persuade every part of the industry to strike showing that Marr believes that Scargill was the best man for the job. Assess the view that the main reason for the failure of the miners strike in 1984 was the leadership of Arthur Scargill. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". 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. If you need assistance with writing your essay, our professional essay writing service is here to help! London: Constable, 2009. The easiest way to edit a .htaccess file for most people is through the File Manager in cPanel. 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. However, it can be argued that government preparations werent sufficient enough in order to bring down the miners. This strengthens Milnes argument that the police brutality, authorised by Thatcher, was unjustified. Page 316, [3] Harris, Robert. However, Lawson then goes on to say The violent tactics used by the NUM pickets reopened the issue of Who governs Britain?. . The best work on Scargill was Michael Crick, Scargill and the Miners (1985). (1988), Trade unions and politics : thatchers assault on the unions ; the unions response, Kahn, Peggy, Arthur Scargill: We Could Surrender or Stand and Fight. The Guardian. This was seen as violent and was deemed illegal. [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. The Miners Strike Day by Day: The Illustrated 1984-85 Diary of Yorkshire Miner Arthur Wakefield. Articles like the above, years later are actually a compliment to Arthur. I was for the EU then, and was critical of this stance, but I I then came to the out view, albeit for different reasons.l, and was fully behind Brexit. [37], The South Wales area leader, Des Dutfield, moved that Scargill should stand down and face re-election, but the motion was defeated. [10] Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. Copyright 2003 - 2023 - UKEssays is a trading name of Business Bliss Consultants FZE, a company registered in United Arab Emirates. In fact, other factors such as the governments intense preparations came into play. [53], Scargill still occasionally gives interviews and makes appearances. 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 317. 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