Arthur Scargill At Orgreave

December 14, 2016

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On this day in 1984 Arthur Scargill, the mine workers’ president was fined £250 and ordered to pay £750 in costs following his arrest outside Orgreave Coal Works, near Sheffield, Yorkshire. Mr Scargill was arrested as he led about 80 pickets to the plant on the fifth consecutive day of the strike action by miners in protest over Thatchers pit closures. The defence argued in court that any suggestions of manhandling during his arrest, were a lie and that the arrest was “brazen, almost brutal”. It was argued police had taken action as part of a preconceived strategy to remove the miners’ leader from the scene “almost at any cost.” Mr Scargill was told by magistrates his “actions demonstrated a very poor example for those he sought to lead”. Speaking to reporters outside the court he said: “On the grounds that we presented to the court there was only one judgement which should have been given and that was not guilty.” He said the verdict was not surprising and reflected a prevailing attitude from authorities against the miners. “I anticipated the same kind of anti-working class judgement that has been the order of the day throughout this mining industrial dispute.”

The Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign includes ex-miners, Trades Unionists, activists and others who are determined to get justice for miners who were victims of police lies and cover ups at Orgreave in June 1984. In the Light of the Home Secretary’s shocking decision in October not to grant an inquiry into “The Battle of Orgreave” the OTJC are planning their “biggest and noisiest demonstration to date.” They have chosen Monday March 13th at 2pm (Demo 2pm to 4pm) to Demonstrate at the Home office, Unit 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF.