The cap Arthur Scargill wore on the picket lines of railroad workers this week evoked another era of industrial unrest when militant unions called for a bailout from the government and the country.
For the previously feared miners leader, known as the Old King Coal, the growing industrial unrest is fulfilling his 50-year vision of overthrowing a Conservative government.
The cap had the same design as the one he wore when he was arrested during the violent clashes between police and miners at a cockpit near Sheffield in what became known as the Battle of Orgreave during the 1984 national miners’ strike. -85.
Supporting railroad workers, Scargill, 84, recalled even more the picket of a fuel storage tank known as the Battle of