Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Arthur Scargill
Standard Name: Scargill, Arthur
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From March or April 1984
The National Union of Mineworkers
or NUM, led by Arthur Scargill
, struck against pit closures by Margaret Thatcher
's Tory government, which retaliated with riot police and efforts to make non-local pickets illegal.