i remember my old man going on the picket lines each day of the strike,i also remember having no food/etc in the house,and managing what we could scrape together.i can also remember a friend of my old man giving in and returning to work to feed his family,the only winners/winner was scargill and his cronies who still got paid,never starved for a day and yet the miners still folllowed him blaming everyone but who they should have blamed for calling the strike.scargill started the strike and he should have some responsibility for what happened to communitys afterwards.