Miners’ rebuff to leader
NZPA-Reuter London The threat of a strike by British coalminers was virtually lifted yesterday when Arthur Scargill, their new Left-wing leader, conceded that he had failed to win enough support for a walkout.
He said unofficial returns from a ballot of 250,000 miners showed that most had voted to accept a 9.3 per cent pay offer rather than authorise a strike to press for a 23.7 per cent rise. It appeared to be an embarrassing defeat for the militant president-elect of the National Union of Mineworkers, out to flex his political muscle in a showdown with Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Government.
Mr Scargill suffered a double blow when he failed to get the union executive to censure the retiring president, Joe Gormley, for urging miners to go against their executive and oppose a strike.
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Press, 21 January 1982, Page 6
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