The 86-year-old former NUM leader tells rally the 1984-85 strikes are an 'important part of history'.
Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill was the guest of honour at a rally marking 40 years since the year-long strikes.
He gave a 40-minute speech at Dodworth Miners Welfare near Barnsley at a rally marking 40 years since the strikes.Mr Scargill, 86, worked as a coal miner at Woolley Colliery from the age of 15 and joined the National Union of Mineworkers when he was 19.and rose to national prominence after the so-called Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972, when he led an initial group of 400 Yorkshire miners on a picket of the Saltley Gate coal depot in Birmingham.
Speaking outside the rally, he said: "It's important to come today to pay tribute to the miners, their families and the women against pit closures who fought so hard during 1984 and 1985.
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