Militant heads U.K. miners
NZPA-Reuter London The militant Left-winger, Arthur Scargill, has taken over as leader of Britain’s 250,000 miners and has promptly put his powerful union on a collision course with the Government.
Mr Scargill, who succeeded the moderate Joe Gormley as president of the National Union of Mineworkers, pledged to fight legislation planned by the Government to curb trade union powers.
Mr Scargill, aged 43, who followed his father into the pits at the age of 15, is known to fellow miners as “King Arthur.” He was elected president of the union in December with a record 70 per cent vote.
But he received a rebuff barely a month later when the miners showed that they would not go along with his militancy and voted to accept a 9.3 per cent rise, thereby averting a crippling national strike.
Mr Scargill had called for a strike unless the Government paid a 22 per cent increase.
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Press, 20 April 1982, Page 24
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