Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of UKEssays.com. He was succeeded by Ian Lavery. [25] Thatcher, Margaret. [41] Campbell, John. Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. Scargill, Solidarity and Workers Revolutionary Party ( Book ) Margaret Thatcher, face aux mineurs : 1972-1985, treize annes qui ont chang l'Angleterre by Pierre-Franois Gouiffs ( Book ) The strike ended on 3 March 1985 following an NUM vote to return to work. Love him or hate him a lot that Mr Scargill and the Minors stood against in the1970/80s has now come to fruition, the uprise ofThatcherism,greed is good, stand on your neighbour to get a head! Page 340. We also know that lots of support groups popped up to encourage the miners on in their fight. When you encounter a 404 error in WordPress, you have two options for correcting it. Somerset: Routledge, 2018. 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Page 151. In fact, other factors such as the governments intense preparations came into play. 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. The Myth of Control: Created by Mikail Chowdhury, Sana Soni. (1978), CONTESTING THE MARKET: PAY EQUITY AND THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, Eigart, Deborah M., Arrow, 1994. He stepped down from leadership of the NUM at the end of July 2002, to become the honorary president. Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. Page 70. With Fay Hauser, Olivia Haller, Doris Morgado, Chrystee Pharris. Thatcher disregarded how much of an impact the WAPC would have on the strike as many of the striking ladies figured out that if they went out picketing then they would less likely be targeted by police. In March 2014, ex-miner John Cunningham attended the memorial meeting for the two Yorkshire miners killed in the strike, Davy Jones and Joe Green. In pictures: Arthur Scargill's legacy Mr Scargill's election as NUM president in 1981 had an electrifying effect on the union movement. [39], During the media controversy, the antiperspirant Mitchum used Scargill's image, without his consent, under the slogan "Mitchum, for when you're really sweating! Arthur Scargill (born January 11, 1938) is a British trade unionist. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3815426/. [44] Thatcher, Margaret. Thatcher, herself, advances this view in her memoirs The Downing Street Years and echoed by many other Thatcherites such as Nigel Lawson, Shirley Letwin and historians such as John Campbell. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. 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. [4] UK | Politics | Head to Head: The Miners Strike. BBC News. ", Howell, David, et al. A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. Although he never worked at Barrow Colliery in his home village, he was involved in the politics of the branch, where the membership was much more left-wing than in the conservative Woolley Colliery. The movement faced a huge confrontation from the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, and the union was eventually defeated. [20] Ridley, Nicholas. [8] Beckett, Francis, and David Hencke. 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. [12] Evans, Eric J. Thatcher and Thatcherism. Authors: Scargill, Arthur; Kahn, Peggy: Publisher: Leeds [u.a.] Milne explains how the strike was a last-ditch fight to defend jobs, mining communities and the NUM itself against a government prepared to bring into play unlimited resources and its entire panoply of coercive powers as and where necessary to break the union and its backbone of support[22]. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. 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?] This is given credence by the fact that Scargill authorised these violent tactics, which decreased public sympathy for the Miners which was actually their greatest asset[10]. Milne, Seumas. " Therefore, Milnes interpretation is supported by Ridleys in the fact that government preparations led to the downfall of the miners. But Rule 43 said that a national strike can only be called if there was a ballot. The secretary at this time was a very good friend of mine called Jimmy Reid, and we're still close friends. In this example the image file must be in public_html/cgi-sys/images/. 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. Yet he still gives credit to Thatcher and her government for their actions during the strike which legitimises his view. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. 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]. Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was the president of the National Union of Mineworkers. John Campbell sums up the mainstream media view by saying The Governments only role was to uphold the liberty of those miners and others who wanted to work[31]. The myth of workers' control: We are fighting for the survival of our culture: Selected Co-authors Countries and Regions of . Page 473. The View from No. [he fails to see that] the working class is a world class. RewriteEngine On I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. jQuery(function() { Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world . In the 2001 general election, he ran against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool. [22] Milne, Seumas. Margaret Thatcher: From Grocers Daughter to Iron Lady. Bone figurines of waterbirds made about 16,000 B. C., which were found in Mal'ta in Siberia, share the symbolism of the wild gander . Shankland's and Hancock's life sentences for murder were reduced to eight years for manslaughter on appeal. London: Corgi Books, 1993. Page 51, [9] Lawson, Nigel. Page 341. Having read the above (barely, dont like reading lies) I felt the immediate need to respond, if anything to comfort myself. London: Pan Books, an Imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2017. Arthur Scargill, the former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), addressed a rally Saturday outside Sheffield railway station in support of the railworkers' strike. We're here to answer any questions you have about our services. Routledge, 1997. 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]. (1980), Scargill, Arthur, Accessed October 10, 2018. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3815426/. [37] Scargill reached an agreement to repay money to the NUM shortly after this. [27] Thatcher, Margaret. No plagiarism, guaranteed! Page 340. 100 1 _ a . 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. 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. [35] The Truth of Nacods Shameful Sell-out. The Guardian. [38] Thatcher, Margaret. [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]. Peter, Gibbon. He was not addressed or greeted from the platform, though as Honorary Life President of the NUM it might be expected, as a courtesy if nothing else, that his presence would be acknowledged. Accessed October 10, 2018. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3815426/. 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]. Many people blame him for the failure of Miners Strike due to his poor leadership skills and bad judgement. Another important factor in the failure of the miners strike is the amount of support that it had. [32] Benn, Tony. It is possible that you may need to edit the .htaccess file at some point, for various reasons.This section covers how to edit the file in cPanel, but not what may need to be changed. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). Accessed January 06, 2019. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3503545.stm. (You may need to consult other articles and resources for that information.). Page 317. Either way, please contact your web host immediately. 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. Accessed October 12, 2018. [55], In 2017, Scargill spoke at an event in Cardiff setting out how British manufacturing could be rebuilt after Britain had left the European Union. 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. [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. However, Thatcher, herself, has discredited this view saying He (Arthur Scargill) was making wild claims that the CEGB had only eight weeks of coal stocks. All work is written to order. Lawson also takes the mainstream media view that everything Thatcher did during the strike was to maintain law and order. On any measure, Scargill was a failure who brought hardship down on those who followed him, now a pitiful figure. 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. The View from No. 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. [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. I think if it had been made public before then there'd have been a huge outcry. Soup kitchens were set up to save miners and their families from starvation in nearly every small village[18]. 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. The Essay Writing ExpertsUK Essay Experts. He played an important role in the miners' strike of 1972 and was involved in the mass picket at Saltley Gate in Birmingham. Eric Evans described him as aggressive and charismatic, but vain and politically limited[42], therefore showing his limitations as the head of NCB. The End of an Era Diaries 1980-90. Which makes his present-day role (such as it is) in politics all the more tragic. The 84/5 miners strike brought great hardship, but achieved nothing. This Mainstream media view holds that the strike failed because of Scargills extreme beliefs and bad decisions. Many people argue that government preparations led to the failure of the strike. That violence strengthened the stature of the Coal Board and the Thatcher government. Therefore government preparations was definitely a factor in the failure of the miners strike but to what extent, can be argued. 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. You may need to scroll to find it. 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. Ian White talks exclusively to Arthur Scargill, 84, on 50th anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gate in Birmingham Strike: When Britain Went to War. In Defence of Marxism. Your TV show 'White Light' presenter James Maw speaks to Union leader Arthur Scargill about what Trade unions can do for the youth of today. [21] Ridley, Nicholas. ",confirmEmpty: "Are you sure you want to empty your clipboard? [24] Letwin, Shirley Robin. If being ignored is the ultimate retribution forscargill, then he is a lucky man, for if he had espoused his views in some of the countrieswith which he wanted to align us, his best outcome would have been breaking rocks but more likely he would have disappeared never to be heard of again. Aucun commentaire n'a t trouv aux emplacements habituels. It only demonstrates the individual and threat he was. March 10, 2004. Page 39. The End of an Era Diaries 1980-90. For more information, see The National Review (June 15, 1984 and April 5 . [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. See the Section on 404 errors after clicking a link in WordPress. The students, lesbian and gay rights movements also supported the miners as they could relate to their struggle. Accessed October 11, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/guardianletters4. When you have a missing image on your site you may see a box on your page with with a red X where the image is missing. Edit the file on your computer and upload it to the server via FTP. [18] Still the Enemy Within (2014). IMDb. Study for free with our range of university lectures! This article, far from being full of lies, hit the nail, well and truly, on the head. Travis, Alan. However, it can be argued that government preparations werent sufficient enough in order to bring down the miners. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. 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. [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. Change the settings back to the previous configuration (before you selected Default). In any case, the will of the people has decided the UK will leave, we have even had a General Election over the matter. Therefore, Thatcher and her governments actions could have caused the failure of the strike but to what extent these actions can be justified is still widely argued. [9] He had challenged Sam Bullough, the President of the Yorkshire area NUM, to act on the working hours of surface workers, given that the union's conference had passed a resolution that their hours be shortened the previous year. Shirley Letwin takes the mainstream media view that Arthur Scargills incompetence as a leader caused the miners strike to fail. His legacy is one of shame and ignominy. [11] Benn, Tony. He was also on the hard-left of the Labour Party, often disagreeing with Neil Kinnock who couldnt support the strike due to its illegitimacy after Scargills failure to call a ballot. Harpercollins Publishers, 2012. 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. 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. [40] Tony Benn. Wikipedia. Arthur Scargill: We Could Surrender or Stand and Fight. The Guardian. However, we have to be careful when using Thatcher as a source as she may be trying to give more credit to her successes and deflecting her failures onto other people such as Ian McGregor. Scargill, Arthur. Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. (1988), Trade unions and politics : thatchers assault on the unions ; the unions response, Kahn, Peggy, This is unfair as after the NCB accidently announced pit closures, the strike gained momentum very quickly forcing Scargill to just go along with it. 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. September 09, 2018. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. A History of Modern Britain. 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]. [15] However, Scargill's statements in the years after becoming NUM president divided left-wing opinion with his support of the Soviet Union, most notably when he refused to support the TUC's positions on the Solidarity union in Poland or on the Soviet shooting down of the Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Page 18. [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. Scargill, Arthur (1938- ) English trade union leader. 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. 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. . 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. 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. "Leadership in the Miners Union-Scargill, Arthur Rise to Power. The .htaccess file contains directives (instructions) that tell the server how to behave in certain scenarios and directly affect how your website functions. He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (198485), a major event in the history of the British labour movement. However, In , He was right. Uncategorized > the myth of workers' control arthur scargill. To export a reference to this article please select a referencing stye below: If you are the original writer of this essay and no longer wish to have your work published on UKEssays.com then please: Our academic writing and marking services can help you! Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. S.l. This only reinforces the idea that it was Scargills decision not to call a ballot that lost him valuable support. Arthur Scargill emerged from semi-retirement from politics to speak at a meeting of the Communist Party of Britains wretched little pro-Brexit front organisation Leave Fight Transform (LeFT) in Brighton on 11 September, alongside Eddie Dempsey (the man who said Tommy Robinson supporters were right to hate the liberal left) and other assorted xenophobes, nationalists and social conservatives. Scargill won widespread applause for his response to the disaster at Lofthouse Colliery in Outwood, West Yorkshire, at which he accompanied the rescue teams underground and was on site for six days with the relatives of the seven deceased. (1998), Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000684676, Occasional papers in industrial relations. This led to McGregor and the NCB negotiating a settlement with NACODS in order for them to call off the strike which could have seriously affected the outcome of the miners strike. In fact, stocks were much higher[27]. The Myth of Workers' Control Issue 5 of Occasional papers in industrial relations Author Arthur Scargill Publisher University of Leeds, 1980 Original from Cornell University Digitized Apr. 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. Therefore, the overwhelming support for the strike could not be denied. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. However, another reason that many people blame Scargill for the downfall of the miners is due to the fact that Scargill authorised the flying picket strategy in order to stop miners going to work. vufindString = {bulk_email_success: "Your item(s) were e-mailed",bulk_save_success: "Your item(s) were saved successfully",close: "close",loading: "Loading",sms_success: "Message sent. [14] Benn, Tony. The strike was called under Rule 41 of the NUM rule book, which said that local strikes can be made official by the National Executive without a ballot. 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. ARTHUR SCARGILL AND PEGGY KAHN - "THE MYTH OF WORKERS' CONTROL" - 1st . Page 341. The Miners Strike Day by Day: The Illustrated 1984-85 Diary of Yorkshire Miner Arthur Wakefield. However, many people argue that there was a lot of support for the strike so therefore it couldnt have been such an important factor in its failure in 1985. During this time, he earned the esteem of significant sections of the left and the British working class, who saw him as honest, hard-working and genuinely concerned with their welfare,[12] and he was also respected for improving the administration of the compensation agent's post. The issue of Scargills leadership is argued as the main reason that the miners strike failed. In 2012, the flat was valued at 1,500,000, and had 24/7 access to concierge services. He used the NUM for his own advancement, and ended up thinking he was bigger than the Union and everything else. Page 22. A5 format. Downing Street Years. Riddled with Stalinist politics and practice and some of the worst sectarianism imaginable, it has no meaningful existence today. Yet Arthur Scargill clearly sees class struggle as just British workers versus British bosses. *You can also browse our support articles here >. [37] The prosecution brought by the Certification Officer was rejected in July 1991 on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to use the material provided in confidence to Lightman's enquiry. 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. 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. Person/Body (Historic): A. Taylor & Sons Ltd. In the event, it turned out to be the exact blueprint that the government followed[21]. Page 57. [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. Brexit: Labour movement debate, not talk with Tories! 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. [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. : S.n., 1996. 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. RewriteRule . Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. Carrying the Fire in The Road T he dystopian world of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is best summarized by the following lines from the novella: "Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. 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. You can try renaming that file to .htaccess-backup and refreshing the site to see if that resolves the issue. After the Miners were beaten into submission in 1984and the rest of uscheated and swindled by that government and successive government afterwards. 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. Many people also argue that the police werent as brutal as some other accounts made them out to be and that they were just doing their jobs in maintaining law and order. The motto, An injury to one is an injury to all, applies world-wide. Page 161. 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. 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. 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