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
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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.