Background
SCARGILL, Arthur was born on January 11, 1938 in Worsborough, Yorkshire. Son of the late Harold Scargill and of Alice Scargill.
SCARGILL, Arthur was born on January 11, 1938 in Worsborough, Yorkshire. Son of the late Harold Scargill and of Alice Scargill.
White Cross Secondary School.
Worked first in a factory, then Woolley Colliery 1955. Executive since 1972, President Yorkshire. North.U.M. 1973-1982, President North.U.M. April since 1982.
Chairman North.U.M. Institute Committee.
President Institute Miners Organization September since 1985.
Arthur Scargill was the militant, controversial president of the British National Union of Mineworkers who led the longest and most violent miners' strike in British history.
Barnsley Young Communist League 1955-1962. National Union of Mineworkers (North.U.M.) since 1955, North.U.M. Branch Committee 1960, Branch delegation to North.U.M. Yorkshire. Area Council 1964, member North.U.M. National.
Labour Party since 1966.
T.U.C. General Council 1986-1988.
Married Anne Harper in 1961.
