The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 for kids Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th American President who served in office from September 14, 1901 to March 4, 1909. From the start, Scargill was confident of victory. Thatcher had taken note of the way the miners had brought down her predecessor and was determined the same thing would not happen to her premiership. Let's find out about these strikes and the changing power dynamic between trade unions and the government. Who was in power for the 1972 UK Miners' Strike? Desperate to preserve their jobs and communities, which often depended entirely on the local pit, the Yorkshire miners walked out, as did their Scottish counterparts. Replacement jobs failed to materialize, businesses closed down and young people got used to the idea of either moving away or wasting the best years of their lives on the dole. However, as funds ran dry and families found it harder and harder to put food on the table, destitute miners started to trickle back to work through picket lines where they were branded scabs and sometimes physically assaulted. js photo studios. Grimethorpes story was repeated up and down the land. A flying picket was the organised transportation of strikers to strategic workplaces, such as coal processing plants. There, intimidating flying pickets closed the coke depot in pursuit of a 43% rise for miners, setting in train the eventual fall of Edward Heaths government, writes Charles Foster (Letters, 9May). Since Scargill had been so public about his enthusiasm for confrontation, ministers had been building up coal stocks for years. Why did the miners go on strike? [CDATA[// > Boxrec Ratings Heavyweight, Articles OTHER