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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coal-miners underestimate economic
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.