Strike! The Village That Fought Back | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to go on strike and the last to go back to work  | dG1fbzhrenp0bXJ2WmM

Transcript

00:00I've never seen a gathering like that again.

00:06I must say, I didn't realise what was in front of us.

00:11I didn't realise what was...

00:13how...

00:17how rotten it was going to turn.

00:25Men in this area, you could say they were right militant.

00:29There's no way that anybody would let anybody else down.

00:40There was a hit list in Pole Maze, Missouri.

00:44The main thing is that Pole Maze never wasted any time in trying to do something about it.

00:48If the tide blows down Pole Maze, which they're intending,

00:51I can assure them they'll have the biggest, biggest wrestle ever had in their life.

00:58They were the first pit out on strike actually.

01:00This is where it all began.

01:03And the last pit to go back.

01:05It's been called the most militant pit in Scotland

01:08and the first rumblings of a national strike were heard here.

01:21The significance of the Pole Maze miners was their determination.

01:25They were a little bit scary actually at times because they were so determined.

01:42We would go anywhere and do what we needed to do to try and get our message across.

01:48You fight for your livelihood, you fight for your jobs, you fight for your community.

01:52Pole Maze was 100% solid.

01:55No scab workers.

01:57Everybody was on strike for a year.

01:59Every single man.