Arthur Scargill
Arthur Scargill
Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist and politician who was president of the National Union of Mineworkersfrom 1982 to 2002. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, he became one of its leading activists in the late 1960s. In 1973, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that toppled Edward Heath's Conservative government in March 1974...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 January 1938
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father masters stills
My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words
direct-action people important
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
dispute four industrial national sustain year
In 1984, the miners' union, which was down to about 180,000, was able to sustain a national industrial dispute for one year and four months.