P237 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                   Arthur Scargill (born 11 January  1938) is a British politician and  trade unionist who is president of  the National Union of Mineworkers  (NUM) from 1982.  Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in  1957, he became one of its leading  cadres in the late 1960s.  In 1973, he was instrumental in  organising the miners' strike that  toppled Edward Heath's Conservative  Government in March 1974.  A decade later, he led the union  through the 1984 miners' strike, a  key event in British labour and   Next       Prev       Home        End