0:00:02 > 0:00:04This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:04 > 0:00:07They have sort of like instilled in us the - how can I put it? -
0:00:07 > 0:00:10the desire to, like, just get out there
0:00:10 > 0:00:15and stand up for what you believe in as a person.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18It's all the lessons that I've learnt in the past
0:00:18 > 0:00:19is for the future.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21It's to benefit you in the future.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24You've been there, you've done it, it either worked or it didnae work.
0:00:24 > 0:00:28And hopefully you'll pass it on to your own children
0:00:28 > 0:00:31- and your grandchildren.- Mm-hm.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34I really do, you know? And I think you do.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36- I think you do pass it on.- Uh-huh.
0:00:36 > 0:00:41Because that's how you've received these same feelings.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45- Mm-hm. That... - A sense of loyalty and...- Mm-hm.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Fairness.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49I used to hear the stories of the old boys doon in the corner,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53and they would talk about what happened in '26,
0:00:53 > 0:00:55and about the soldiers and the police and...
0:00:55 > 0:00:58And that got...
0:00:59 > 0:01:01That was my father's generation that heard that,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04but he must've picked it up off of his father, eh?
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Cos it was his father that went through that in 1926.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09And, of course, I picked that up fae them.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12And I still believe to this day,
0:01:12 > 0:01:15what happened in 1926 made me the man I am.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20- MAN SHOUTS:- This side. Man down!
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Joe! Joe!
0:01:22 > 0:01:24MAN GROANS IN PAIN
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Lie down on your face.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Where are ye? Where are ye?
0:01:29 > 0:01:31MEN SHOUT
0:01:33 > 0:01:35MUSIC: "I'm Sitting On Top Of The World" by Al Jolson
0:01:35 > 0:01:40# I'm sitting on top of the world
0:01:40 > 0:01:42# I'm rolling along... #
0:01:42 > 0:01:45- MAN:- 'The nature of the job down the pit, you work close,
0:01:45 > 0:01:49'you socialise close with them, you live close to them.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51'You look after one another.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54'It made people depend on one another,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57'and I think that bred its ain Socialism, if you like, eh?'
0:01:57 > 0:01:59# ..I just called the parson
0:01:59 > 0:02:02# "Hey, Par, get ready to call
0:02:02 > 0:02:05# Just like Humpty Dumpty... #
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Mind you girls dinnae put your mucky fingers on my nice clean claithes.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13- WOMAN:- 'There was always somebody there if you needed help.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17'It was a really, really happy childhood.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19'The doors were never locked.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22'You felt safe. Friendliness, neighbourliness.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28'You know, a woman was your granny and I'd so many grannies,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31'you know. And everybody was the same.'
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Are you going oot to the dancing tonight?
0:02:35 > 0:02:39You'll need to go on your ain, I'm being taken.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42WOMAN: 'You grew up knowing that you were gonnae be living
0:02:42 > 0:02:46'in that village for the rest of your life because you're happy
0:02:46 > 0:02:47'and you're content there.'
0:02:49 > 0:02:50Michael, come on!
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Joe. Are you there the noo? Joe?
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Are you all right, son?
0:02:57 > 0:02:59MAN MOANS
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Dae something for him. Dae something for him.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15LOW RUMBLING
0:03:17 > 0:03:19The fire man says there's a roof fall.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Says there's a man trapped in Bankead number two face.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33He says there's water rising.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36Put your back into it.
0:03:37 > 0:03:38Right oot here.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Hey, come on!
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Aye, where? You'd better get them a' oot.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51ALARM BELL RINGS
0:03:58 > 0:04:00The legs. The legs.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02You've got to support his legs.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07RUMBLING
0:04:07 > 0:04:08MAN YELLS
0:04:10 > 0:04:12MEN GRUNT AND MOAN
0:04:12 > 0:04:15You're all right. You're all right. You're all right.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Go, go, go. Go, go.
0:04:23 > 0:04:24RUMBLING AND THUDDING
0:04:29 > 0:04:31ALARM BLARES
0:04:31 > 0:04:32MEN SHOUT
0:04:34 > 0:04:36I'm not paying you to gawp. Get on with it!
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Are you all right, Rosie?
0:04:38 > 0:04:40My faither's there.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Oh, my God!
0:04:52 > 0:04:55- Mummy. Mummy!- What is it?
0:04:55 > 0:04:58BABY CRIES
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Is Dad coming home?
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Hurry up. Give me your hand.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Hurry up. Come on. Come on.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Get back in here this minute!
0:05:16 > 0:05:18THEY COUGH AND SPLUTTER
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Are we all done, lads?
0:05:20 > 0:05:21Good job.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Gie's a look at that.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Pug! The bastard!
0:05:33 > 0:05:36A broken heid? Let's pray it's a Communist.
0:05:36 > 0:05:37Dan Guthrie's on that gang.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Dinnae get ma hopes up.
0:05:39 > 0:05:40HE CHUCKLES
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- WOMAN:- 'I was nine when my dad had his back broken.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48'For four years, he wisnae able to work.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51'He was laying in plaster, laying on boards in the bed.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58'He never got any compensation. They said it wasn't a liability case.'
0:05:59 > 0:06:01What's happening?
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Bankhead number two. It was number two.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Hey, Harry Lauder's no' on stage. Clear aff.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Back him in there.
0:06:17 > 0:06:18MINERS COUGH
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Where's Daddy?
0:06:25 > 0:06:26- WOMAN:- 'When anybody had an accident,
0:06:26 > 0:06:28'they used to take drawings at the pit.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30'When the men got their wages,
0:06:30 > 0:06:32'they'd stand at the end of the pit road, you know, and then
0:06:32 > 0:06:35'whatever anybody could afford, they would put into the tins.'
0:06:37 > 0:06:38Hey, Pug?
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Cheap timber. You're putting my men's lives at risk.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43That's only good for firewood.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45That's all it's good for.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48You'd rather I laid men off?
0:06:48 > 0:06:49There's nae profit in coal.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51It's a game, Pug, and no matter o' the rules.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54They're selling it to theirsel' at rock-bottom prices
0:06:54 > 0:06:56for their factories and steelworks.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57MEN: Aye.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Time for docking's o'er, Dan. You'd better read this.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Aye, they've cut the hourly rate. I telt yous.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06We worked long and hard to reduce the working day,
0:07:06 > 0:07:09- and noo they want to put another bastard hour on it. - ALL: Aye.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13I've been doing a man's job since I was 14-years-old. I'm 19.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15I'm no' having to dae wi' this wage till we're 21!
0:07:15 > 0:07:17And I've got a wife and bairn...
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Accept what the company can afford to pay you
0:07:19 > 0:07:21or piss aff
0:07:21 > 0:07:23and find work somewhere else.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27- Need to see the national union about that, man.- Local negotiations only.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30I'll keep the office door open for yous though.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32You'll be back in the morn, cap in haun.
0:07:32 > 0:07:37You'll be crawling back through these gates on your empty bellies.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39MEN SHOUT
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Lads. Lads, this has got to be done right.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44This is no' just a wee, local dispute.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46This involves every miner in the country.
0:07:46 > 0:07:51If 800,000 miners shout loud enough, somebody's gonnae hear us.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53ALL: Aye.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56MEN CHATTER
0:07:56 > 0:07:57- MAN:- 'It was the boys they worked wi'.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00'It was the camaraderie they had.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02'You liked going to work every day, because you kent,
0:08:02 > 0:08:04'although you were going to work, it was going to be hard,
0:08:04 > 0:08:06'you were going to get a laugh doing it.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08'And you were going to have boys
0:08:08 > 0:08:10'that you would trust your life with.'
0:08:10 > 0:08:13WOMAN: 'People then, tended to be more Communist-minded, because
0:08:13 > 0:08:16'they had like so many let downs
0:08:16 > 0:08:19'and nobody fighting in their corner.
0:08:20 > 0:08:26'The leaders, like the Communist councillors, a Communist MP,
0:08:26 > 0:08:28'they were like one of them.'
0:09:04 > 0:09:05Is that out inheritance?
0:09:05 > 0:09:06YOUTH LAUGHS
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Ah...
0:09:27 > 0:09:28It's the last fu' pay packet.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05I'm glad you're no' hurt.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Aye, it was your faither to thank for that.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Aye.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Joe?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Do you ever think about getting married?
0:10:25 > 0:10:26No' any mair.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32HE SIGHS
0:10:38 > 0:10:42- For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful. ALL:- Amen.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Are you going to your work tomorrow?
0:10:58 > 0:10:59What choice do I have?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01The choice to say no.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08I've done the sums, Michael.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10HE SIGHS
0:11:46 > 0:11:47Accept a reduced wage.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50That's what our bairns'll eat every nicht from now on.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Aye, and if there's a strike, we might lose everything we have
0:11:53 > 0:11:55and still get nothing mair.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57How old do you think that one is?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Nearly 200 million years old.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26It's 100ft high, 3ft thick.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Like a tree but wi' no branches.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Just a thick cluster of leaves on the top.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33- STUMBLES OVER WORD - ...dendron.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38A good miner is a good geologist, son.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42- Just like Mr Baxter. - Mr Baxter is ay crabbit.- Aye.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45But it was Mr Baxter who looked out for your daddy today.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Comrades,
0:13:10 > 0:13:14the coal owners say that if we dinnae work longer hours...
0:13:15 > 0:13:16..for less money...
0:13:16 > 0:13:19the industry will gang doon the side burn.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Aye, that's what they always say, Dan, it'll gang doon the drains.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Aye, but we a' ken why they're sayin' it.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26MURMURS OF AGREEMENT
0:13:26 > 0:13:29And we asked them anyway. "How come?" we say.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33And they reply, "Because coal disnae pay its way."
0:13:33 > 0:13:36LAUGHTER
0:13:36 > 0:13:39- I bet you never kent that? - Aye, we never knew that.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41But are they telling us the truth?
0:13:41 > 0:13:42They never tell you the truth.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44They're liars, Dan.
0:13:44 > 0:13:49Comrades, in the last three year, the poor wee Scottish coal owners...
0:13:50 > 0:13:54..have made a profit of very near £8 million!
0:13:54 > 0:13:55THEY SHOUT
0:13:55 > 0:13:58An actual trading profit of £8 million!
0:13:58 > 0:14:01- They're fiddling the books!- Taken the words oot my mooth, comrade.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05But when challenged on it, they changed their tune.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- You can hear them lyin'.- Aye.
0:14:07 > 0:14:12- It's because of the unprecedented debt.- So it's a debt noo, is it?!
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Aye, it's a debt. It's a big yin tae. £8,000 million!
0:14:16 > 0:14:17- What?- £8,000 million?
0:14:17 > 0:14:20It's the Great War debt.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24The same war that a million working-class laddies,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27like yours, and like mine...
0:14:27 > 0:14:29fought, aye, and died in.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31ALL: Aye.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33And noo they're saying we're the ones
0:14:33 > 0:14:35that's to pay for it all o'er again.
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Aye, all o'er again.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40But what they've forgotten aboot is the £400 million a year
0:14:40 > 0:14:43the working class in this country
0:14:43 > 0:14:45hand o'er in tax to pay THEIR war debt!
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Aye!
0:14:47 > 0:14:50And where does that money go?
0:14:50 > 0:14:51To the financers and to the bankers.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54Never seen any of them die on a battlefield.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Aye, money goes to money.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Listen, us miners are brought up to think for oursel'.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00- You all ken that. - ALL: Aye.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Imagine this.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04A chap on the door.
0:15:04 > 0:15:05A nice chap.
0:15:05 > 0:15:06LAUGHTER
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Impeccable manners.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Eton educated.
0:15:10 > 0:15:11WOMEN: Whoo!
0:15:11 > 0:15:12And he say...
0:15:12 > 0:15:16- (POSH VOICE)- .."Sorry to bother you, old chap.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18"But the bank account's a bit low.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21"Some old fruits are struggling to pay back the interest
0:15:21 > 0:15:24"on the lolly I lent them..."
0:15:24 > 0:15:26LAUGHTER
0:15:26 > 0:15:30"..Do you think you could eat a bit less?! What would you say?
0:15:30 > 0:15:31ALL: No!
0:15:31 > 0:15:35- Would you no' buy your weans shoes this winter? - ALL: No!
0:15:35 > 0:15:36The cheek!
0:15:36 > 0:15:40- Would you work a little longer for a little less pay? - ALL: No!
0:15:40 > 0:15:44I tellye, I widnae tak' bets on them reaching next door still breathing.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46I'd slam the door in their teeth!
0:15:46 > 0:15:47Comrades,
0:15:47 > 0:15:50we've a' got a chance to slam the door in their lying teeth.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Say "no". Withdraw your consent
0:15:52 > 0:15:55and we'll take the whole country wi' us.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59Not a penny off the pay and not a minute on the day!
0:15:59 > 0:16:00THEY CHEER
0:16:00 > 0:16:02THEY CHANT: No' a penny off the pay, no' a minute on the day!
0:16:02 > 0:16:05No' a penny off the pay, no' a minute on the day!
0:16:05 > 0:16:07No' a penny off the pay,
0:16:07 > 0:16:09no' a minute on the day!
0:16:09 > 0:16:12CHANTING CONTINUES
0:16:12 > 0:16:15THEY CHEER
0:16:19 > 0:16:24The Carhill branch of the Fife Miners' Reform Union
0:16:24 > 0:16:28recommends its members not to accept the new conditions
0:16:28 > 0:16:32and not to go to work tomorrow.
0:16:32 > 0:16:33Can I speak here, please?
0:16:33 > 0:16:34CHEERING
0:16:34 > 0:16:37It's a bit irregular, hen.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Have you nae control of your woman?!
0:16:40 > 0:16:44I dinnae care whether it is or whether it isnae irregular -
0:16:44 > 0:16:47I'll have my say and be done wi' it.
0:16:47 > 0:16:48Quite right, Mags.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Noo, a' the women have been talking...
0:16:50 > 0:16:52MAN: Never(?)
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Aye, well, because I tell you noo,
0:16:55 > 0:16:58if this strike is going to be won,
0:16:58 > 0:17:01it'll be us women that win it.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04And by God, we're ready for a fight.
0:17:04 > 0:17:09Noo, we cannae cope on what yous'll be bringing into the hoose
0:17:09 > 0:17:11if yous tak' a reduction in wages
0:17:11 > 0:17:13and gang back to work.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17So there'll be nae tea on the table for yous comin' hame.
0:17:17 > 0:17:22There'll be nae dry, clean claithes for yous to put on in the mornin'.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23ALL: No.
0:17:23 > 0:17:24And...
0:17:25 > 0:17:27And...
0:17:27 > 0:17:31there'll be nae increase in the population o' Carhill
0:17:31 > 0:17:32onytime soon.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Ah, well, there you have it, lads.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42You'll hae to make your ain minds up.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45A simple majority will do. All those in favour.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48MAJORITY: Aye!
0:17:48 > 0:17:51CHEERING
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- MAN:- 'We were actually backed into a corner. We never got a choice.
0:18:03 > 0:18:08'The choice was you stand up to keep your village, your community
0:18:08 > 0:18:11'going, if you want. Or you just roll over
0:18:11 > 0:18:13'and let them dae what they want.
0:18:13 > 0:18:18'That was oor life. It wisnae just oor job,
0:18:18 > 0:18:19'it was oor life.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22'Everything revolved around that pit.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24'Oor family, oor money, oor social life,
0:18:24 > 0:18:26'friends.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29'And again it was mair than a job.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31'So we had nae option but to fight.'
0:18:38 > 0:18:39WOMAN: General strike?
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Aye, in support of the miners.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43My God. I didnae think they'd actually do it. Who's coming out?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Railwaymen, dockers, transport workers.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48There'll be nothing moving.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Upstairs are worried there's gonnae be a revolution.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Revolution?! Chance'd be a fine thing!
0:18:53 > 0:18:55You know as well as I do,
0:18:55 > 0:18:58to work in the civil service, you have to be cleared.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Aye. And?
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Oh, come on.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Your father is a well-known Communist.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07So what? There's a Communist MP in Parliament.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10You'll get a full month's pay - I've made sure of that.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12- But my work's up to standard. - Look, Molly,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15- I had no say in the decision. - "Exceptional," you said.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18You're a Fifer, Walter!
0:19:18 > 0:19:20I looked up to you.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22I even liked you.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32MUSIC: "My Mammy" by Al Jolson
0:19:32 > 0:19:36# Everything seems lovely
0:19:36 > 0:19:39# When you start to roam
0:19:41 > 0:19:43# The birds are singing The day that you stray
0:19:45 > 0:19:49# But wait until you are further away
0:19:49 > 0:19:52# Things won't be so lovely
0:19:52 > 0:19:55# When you're all alone
0:19:55 > 0:20:02# Here's what you'll keep saying
0:20:02 > 0:20:05# When you're far from home
0:20:06 > 0:20:09# Mammy
0:20:11 > 0:20:14# Mammy
0:20:14 > 0:20:16# The sun shines east
0:20:16 > 0:20:17# The sun shines west
0:20:17 > 0:20:21# I know where the sun shines best
0:20:23 > 0:20:24# Mammy... #
0:20:24 > 0:20:26- Where are you going, hen?- Carhill.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29- Jump in.- Are you authorised?- Aye.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Oi, McGibbon!
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Got a TUC ticket for your donkey?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Widnae be wanting a lift off a scab lorry.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42# I'm a-coming
0:20:48 > 0:20:50One donkey and two buckets of shit coming through.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Sorry, lads. Make that three.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56JEERING AND LAUGHTER
0:20:56 > 0:20:58DONKEY BRAYS
0:21:02 > 0:21:06# ..I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles... #
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Tag.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13STRIKERS CHUCKLE
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Thanks, comrades.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22All right, Joki?
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Is that you, Molly Guthrie?
0:21:23 > 0:21:26- No, it's Greta Garbo. - It's Joe's sister.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31- What brings you back home?- Hear there's some fun to be had in Fife.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Aye, it's brilliant, isn't it?
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Three million people supporting the miners, can you believe it?
0:21:36 > 0:21:39- Have you seen my- dad? Aye, he's down picketing the railway station.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41A couple of posh laddies from St Andrews University
0:21:41 > 0:21:44are playing train drivers. I heading there myself.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Is it all right if we get a lift, mate?
0:21:46 > 0:21:49- Aye, climb aboard.- Come on, lads.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- All right, Molly?- Hello, Joe.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Cannae lose now, lads! Molly Guthrie's bak in Fife.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58THEY CHEER
0:21:58 > 0:22:00# ..I hope I'm not late
0:22:00 > 0:22:02# Mammy, look at me
0:22:02 > 0:22:04# Don't you know me?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08# I'm your little baby
0:22:08 > 0:22:10# I'd walk a million miles
0:22:10 > 0:22:12# For one of your smiles
0:22:12 > 0:22:19# My mammy! #
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Dan!
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- What?- Isn't that your Molly?
0:22:28 > 0:22:30BACKGROUND CHATTER
0:22:30 > 0:22:32What are you doing here?
0:22:33 > 0:22:36- They've sacked me, Dad.- What did you say?
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Nothing!
0:22:37 > 0:22:39- Honest!- Oh, well, it's good to hae you hame.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Comrade.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45I cannae believe that I've taken to this.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Who are they, eh?
0:22:47 > 0:22:48WHISTLE TOOTS
0:22:48 > 0:22:49What the?
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Fly bastards. They've changed lines.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Over here, lads.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56MEN SHOUT
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Cheerio, chaps.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08SHOUTING CONTINUES
0:23:18 > 0:23:20SHOUTING INTENSIFIES
0:23:22 > 0:23:25ENGINE HORN TOOTS
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Jesus!
0:23:42 > 0:23:44BRAKES SQUEAL
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Phew!
0:23:51 > 0:23:54STRIKERS YELL
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Go on!
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Go on. Get the scab!
0:24:07 > 0:24:09YELLING FADES INTO DISTANCE
0:24:16 > 0:24:18DONKEY SNORTING
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Shh!
0:24:37 > 0:24:39BRASS BAND PLAYS: "I'm Sitting On Top Of The World"
0:24:42 > 0:24:43PEOPLE CLAP IN TIME
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Are you ready?
0:25:01 > 0:25:02As I'll ever be.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14PEOPLE SING ALONG
0:25:28 > 0:25:29LAUGHTER
0:25:40 > 0:25:42I captured this zebra when I was in Africa.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- That's no' a zebra.- It's a donkey.
0:25:45 > 0:25:50That's right. But why would a donkey pretend he was a zebra?
0:25:50 > 0:25:51Do you come from Africa?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53He's a miner. My mother told me.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58You are both right. I am a miner and I am from Africa.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00McGubbin!
0:26:00 > 0:26:02CROWD JEER
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Scab!
0:26:04 > 0:26:07THEY CHANT: Scab! Scab! Scab!
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Scab! Scab! Scab!
0:26:09 > 0:26:14Right up then. Get a photograph all in your costumes.
0:26:14 > 0:26:15Ladies and gentlemen.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18Come on. Let's get moving.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20CHILDREN GIGGLE
0:26:20 > 0:26:23BAND CONTINUES PLAYING
0:26:23 > 0:26:24Come on!
0:26:32 > 0:26:34CAMERA CLICKS
0:26:34 > 0:26:37# Would you have freedom from wage slavery?
0:26:37 > 0:26:41# Then come join the grand industrial band
0:26:41 > 0:26:43# Would you from mis'ry
0:26:43 > 0:26:45# And hunger be free?
0:26:45 > 0:26:49# Come on, do your share, lend a hand
0:26:49 > 0:26:53# There is power, there is power in a band of working folks
0:26:53 > 0:26:57# When they stand hand in hand
0:26:57 > 0:26:59# That's a power, that's a power
0:26:59 > 0:27:01# That must rule in every land
0:27:01 > 0:27:03# One industrial union grand... #
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- WOMAN:- 'It was just a really good, fun day.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08'It was the main day of the whole year, actually.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12'Racing and competitions and everything.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15'But then, you were always like reined in
0:27:15 > 0:27:18'when it was time for listening to what they had to say
0:27:18 > 0:27:19'on the platform.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22'The park used to fall silent,
0:27:22 > 0:27:25'and, of course, when you're five or six,
0:27:25 > 0:27:29'it was just a case of lying on the grass beside your mum and dad.'
0:27:29 > 0:27:31# ..That's a power, that's a power
0:27:31 > 0:27:33# That must rule in every land
0:27:33 > 0:27:37# One industrial union grand
0:27:38 > 0:27:42# If you like sluggers to beat off your head
0:27:42 > 0:27:46# Then don't organise All unions disband
0:27:46 > 0:27:50# If you want nothing before you are dead
0:27:50 > 0:27:52# Shake hands with your boss and look wise... #
0:27:52 > 0:27:56Dad said he'd put a bottle aside to mark the occasion.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58What's with the South African man?
0:27:58 > 0:28:01The one that was speaking at the gala today.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Organising a revolution.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06I'm going to dance with my mum.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Is Dad all right?
0:28:21 > 0:28:25Oh, he's fine. He's just tired.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Oh, did I tell you we got tickets to see Harry Lauder?
0:28:28 > 0:28:31- Harry Lauder?- At the Alhambra.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32Oh, it'll be braw.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39Seven year ago, revolution was spreading like wildfire.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43Noo, Fascism is spreading through Italy, Spain,
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Bulgaria, eastern Europe.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Aye, but the fight's on your doorstep, no' next door, Dan.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50Och, Get off your feet from your ain doorstep.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53You'll see what's happening elsewhere's happening here.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56Fascism isnae think locally or nationally.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Aye. But you look out for your ain first.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Maybe that's what they're wanting you to think, Jim.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Hate and fear are powerful methods of manipulation.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06- Who's feart? I've nothing against folk fae...- I ken, son.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08But you dinnae reach oot either.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11I shook Jacob's hand when he come in.
0:29:11 > 0:29:13Aye. And your eyebrows near went through the ceiling
0:29:13 > 0:29:15when I telt you he was an engineer doon the pit.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19- I thought...- That's what's wrong, you dinnae think. You act.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22You look at Jacob like the Capitalists look at us.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24It's less than human.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27Mind, our skin's all black when we come up the pit.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32Miners in South Africa laughed,
0:29:32 > 0:29:35when the government announced that a miner with a black skin
0:29:35 > 0:29:37can no longer have a skilled job.
0:29:37 > 0:29:40White only.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42They would make us all slaves.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45Just like your ancestors. Right, Dan?
0:29:45 > 0:29:46Aye.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48And no that long ago.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51They had iron collars round their neck, chained to a wall.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53Less than 100 year ago.
0:29:53 > 0:29:54We've maybe got the iron collars aff noo,
0:29:54 > 0:29:57they're still holding us back.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00The bastards shift capital from one country to another,
0:30:00 > 0:30:01without losing a night's sleep.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04We'll lose mair than a night's sleep if we take up arms!
0:30:04 > 0:30:08- Do you understand what such a war will cost?- I'm ready for anything.
0:30:08 > 0:30:10We've lost enough laddies as it is.
0:30:10 > 0:30:14When I was your age, I thought I was ready for everything.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18Then the police raped and tortured my fiancee.
0:30:19 > 0:30:24She took own life. At least, that's what the police told me.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29They killed her to get at me.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34You pay a heavy price to be a Communist in South Africa.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38Aye, well, that'll never happen here. No' without a fight, anyway.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40You are a very passionate man, Jim.
0:30:40 > 0:30:44One country cannot challenge capitalism alone.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46HE SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE
0:30:46 > 0:30:47Coat of whit?
0:30:47 > 0:30:52Ah, it's a nice change for you to not understand something that I say.
0:30:52 > 0:30:56- REPEATS PHRASE IN OWN LANGUAGE - It means "a spear of the people".
0:30:56 > 0:31:00Now, tell me this. What does "neebs" mean?
0:31:00 > 0:31:03THEY LAUGH Comrade. Comrade!
0:31:03 > 0:31:05- Ah, neebs! - ALL:- Neebs.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11LAUGHTER
0:31:18 > 0:31:21MOTORBIKE ENGINE REVS
0:31:26 > 0:31:28Dan, Dan! Come oot!
0:31:28 > 0:31:30DOG BARKS
0:31:41 > 0:31:44HUSHED MURMURS
0:31:44 > 0:31:48RADIO NEWSREADER: 'This is the BBC.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52'A message from the Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55' "The General Strike is over.
0:31:55 > 0:31:59' "It has ended without conditions entered into by the Government.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01' "To those who were confronted by such a menace,
0:32:01 > 0:32:04' "it would involve treachery to the accepted
0:32:04 > 0:32:07' "basis of our democratic constitution.
0:32:07 > 0:32:11' "I realise that sympathy with the miners, that we all share, was
0:32:11 > 0:32:16' "the dominant notion underlying the action of the trade unions.
0:32:16 > 0:32:21' "That action, on whatever feeling it was based, was unconstitutional
0:32:21 > 0:32:25' "in character and directly threatened the safety of the nation."
0:32:26 > 0:32:29'The Trades Union Congress requested that
0:32:29 > 0:32:31'we broadcast the following announcement.
0:32:31 > 0:32:36'In order to resume negotiations, the General Council of the TUC
0:32:36 > 0:32:39'has decided to terminate the General Strike...'
0:32:39 > 0:32:40SHE RETCHES
0:32:40 > 0:32:43'..in the confidence that the Prime Minister meant what he said
0:32:43 > 0:32:47'when he called for an honourable peace.
0:32:47 > 0:32:50'The mine owners, meanwhile, made it clear that they will not
0:32:50 > 0:32:54'withdraw lock-out notices to the miners and in a statement said,
0:32:54 > 0:32:58' "The impression that substantial economies can be
0:32:58 > 0:33:03' "secured except by extended hours and lower wages is erroneous."
0:33:03 > 0:33:07'The Prime Minister went on to thank those who had responded
0:33:07 > 0:33:11'to his call to "resist the menace of the General Strike".
0:33:11 > 0:33:14'In particular, he praised the thousands who responded
0:33:14 > 0:33:19'as special constables, ready to run any risk in order that they may
0:33:19 > 0:33:22'demonstrate that the home of our great grace...'
0:33:22 > 0:33:24HE SWITCHES RADIO OFF
0:33:30 > 0:33:31DISTANT SHOUTING
0:33:33 > 0:33:36- That's your mother's gala dress. - Aye.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38Cannae let it go to waste.
0:33:38 > 0:33:42- Rosie, this place is to look after lassies in your condition.- No.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44- Lassies... - Tell me the laddie's name!
0:33:44 > 0:33:46I'll see his faither.
0:33:47 > 0:33:48Were you tellt to marry my mother?
0:33:51 > 0:33:54- No, no. I courted her. - Aye, and that's what I want.
0:34:07 > 0:34:12Near three years on boys' wages. I don't ken if I'm sticking around.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14I'm no'. Boxing will be my ticket out.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19Get to travel and see the country.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Aye, you'll to see it through black eyes!
0:34:23 > 0:34:25My eyes are black with soot as it is.
0:34:26 > 0:34:30I ken you're gid, like, but are you no' a bit wee, Baxie?
0:34:30 > 0:34:31Nah, my father used to tell me
0:34:31 > 0:34:34stories by this champion boxer fae Wales, Jimmy Wilde.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37"The Mighty Atom". I like the sound of him.
0:34:39 > 0:34:41- Used to talk then, did he?- Aye.
0:34:42 > 0:34:45No been the same since Mother passed, though.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49Girls, Pug Henderson's laughin' at yous!
0:34:49 > 0:34:51- SHE GIGGLES - Havin' a go?
0:34:51 > 0:34:52Come on, have a go.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56Nancy!
0:35:01 > 0:35:04- Argh!- Never take your eyes off your opponent! Never!
0:35:04 > 0:35:06(SPEAKS BREATHLESSLY) Nancy, kill!
0:35:08 > 0:35:09NANCY LAUGHS
0:35:15 > 0:35:18- Wee Baxie's going professional.- Aye.
0:35:19 > 0:35:20- You could be his manager.- Me?
0:35:20 > 0:35:24A boxing promoter?! You're as bad as Colin is!
0:35:24 > 0:35:28Butchers is all they are, and boxers, they're meat.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31They just cut and carve you up and sell you for profit.
0:35:31 > 0:35:33Eh, you're aw goin' to the meeting tonight!
0:35:33 > 0:35:35ALL GROAN
0:35:35 > 0:35:37Young folk these days!
0:35:37 > 0:35:41You've nae appreciation for what yer faithers fought for.
0:35:41 > 0:35:44This gym, for a start.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47This is a fight you girls and boys cannae duck!
0:35:50 > 0:35:53I cannae afford to hae nae mair money coming intae my hoose.
0:35:53 > 0:35:54Up to my eyes in debt as it is.
0:35:54 > 0:35:58I'm still clearing my debt and I mind how hard it was.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00There was nothing to eat, there was nae coal for the fire,
0:36:00 > 0:36:02and do you mind how hungry we all were?
0:36:02 > 0:36:04And how are we going to feed the bairns?
0:36:04 > 0:36:06You cannae soothe a bairn who's got an empty belly.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09As long as there's food growing in the field
0:36:09 > 0:36:12and fish swimming in the loch, naebody'll starve!
0:36:12 > 0:36:14- Aye.- But how are we gonnae win?
0:36:14 > 0:36:17With the trains running and lorries moving again
0:36:17 > 0:36:19and stockpiles of coal they've got, we're up against it.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22With the good weather, naebody is burning coal in their hooses.
0:36:22 > 0:36:24Aye, women need more watter to cook and wash.
0:36:24 > 0:36:27Without our unions behind us, how are we going to win?
0:36:27 > 0:36:30Aye, it wisnae the ordinary working folk that let us doon,
0:36:30 > 0:36:31it was the leadership!
0:36:31 > 0:36:32SHOUTS OF AGREEMENT
0:36:32 > 0:36:36- I'll just never ken why you lost your courage.- Go on yersel'.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38It wasn't oor leaders, hen.
0:36:38 > 0:36:43The miners weren't even present at the meeting that made the decision.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45The TUC tellt them the decision!
0:36:45 > 0:36:47That's right.
0:36:47 > 0:36:52Listen, it was our decision to go out, not the TUC's.
0:36:52 > 0:36:54It'll be OUR decision when we go back.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57That's right, that's right! That's right, you tell them!
0:36:57 > 0:36:59We'll open up the soup kitchens again.
0:36:59 > 0:37:02We did it in 1921, we'll dae it again noo.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06Aye, and we're no' gonnae fail this time!
0:37:06 > 0:37:07That's right!
0:37:07 > 0:37:11I'm going to say something on behalf of all the young miners.
0:37:11 > 0:37:16I had 12 brothers. Robbie and James, they never made it to 21.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19Both died in the trenches for King and country.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24Robbie was 18 and Jimmy, 20.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27They never told them they were too young
0:37:27 > 0:37:30to do a man's job, to earn a man's pay.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Double standards!
0:37:32 > 0:37:35- Why should we wait now? - Aye, you're right, son!
0:37:41 > 0:37:48Comrades, in South Africa, we were uprooted from our lands, sold
0:37:48 > 0:37:53like commodities in slavery, herded like cattle into concentration camps.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57But we, the people, endure.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59Be strong and unite!
0:37:59 > 0:38:03United we stand, divided we fall.
0:38:03 > 0:38:05Stand firm, comrades!
0:38:06 > 0:38:11# Arise, ye workers from your slumbers
0:38:11 > 0:38:14# Arise, ye prisoners of want... #
0:38:14 > 0:38:17Now, what are we going to do?
0:38:17 > 0:38:22They've voted to stay out in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Durham
0:38:22 > 0:38:23and Staffordshire.
0:38:23 > 0:38:27So what say Fife? Are we going to join them?
0:38:27 > 0:38:28- ALL:- Aye!
0:38:28 > 0:38:29APPLAUSE
0:38:29 > 0:38:34# Servile masses arise, arise
0:38:34 > 0:38:38# We'll change henceforth the old traditions
0:38:38 > 0:38:42# And spurn the dust to win the prize
0:38:42 > 0:38:47# So comrades, come rally
0:38:47 > 0:38:51# And the last fight let us face
0:38:51 > 0:39:00# The Internationale unites the human race
0:39:00 > 0:39:05# So comrades, come rally
0:39:05 > 0:39:10# And the last fight let us face
0:39:10 > 0:39:20# The Internationale unites the human race. #
0:39:20 > 0:39:23CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:39:25 > 0:39:27- Morning, miss.- Good morning, sir.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30CHURCH BELLS CHIME
0:39:30 > 0:39:31Hang on.
0:39:31 > 0:39:35Now that the miners have been left isolated,
0:39:35 > 0:39:38we'll be able to identify the ringleaders more easily.
0:39:38 > 0:39:42You'll be gathering information - names, addresses,
0:39:42 > 0:39:47places of work, crimes, and investigating the individuals named.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51- Looking for?- Anything we can use to stop them in your tracks.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55Put them on the first Bolshevik boat back to their beloved Russia.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00I know you're from a coal-mining area. Fife, isn't it?
0:40:00 > 0:40:06Well, you'll be able to talk to these people. Blend in with the natives.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Nobody's going to ask you any awkward questions.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10I see this as a great opportunity.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23- Her father's a trade union man. - It's not a crime.- Not yet.
0:40:23 > 0:40:27- But like a lot of miners, he's also a Communist.- So what's the problem?
0:40:30 > 0:40:33- Walter!- I was at school with her.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36CHEERING
0:40:40 > 0:40:45The union's organised and ready to do the job if you'll pay the poor
0:40:45 > 0:40:48relief money direct into the soup kitchen.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51How many would be fed each day?
0:40:51 > 0:40:53In Carhill? 500.
0:40:53 > 0:40:56And across the whole of the Fife coalfields?
0:40:56 > 0:41:00More than 12,000 miners, plus their families.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03I would say about 50,000 or more.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06As far as I'm concerned, you can all go back to work.
0:41:06 > 0:41:08- Our obligations are to feed the deserving.- The deserving?
0:41:08 > 0:41:10And who decides that, then?
0:41:10 > 0:41:14- The pit gates are open. - Aye, for scabs!
0:41:14 > 0:41:17For decent people who prefer to feed their families
0:41:17 > 0:41:19than take government hand-outs.
0:41:19 > 0:41:22Oor men aren't asking for mair money just to keep what they've
0:41:22 > 0:41:24already got!
0:41:24 > 0:41:27That was barely enough to keep a family on anyway!
0:41:27 > 0:41:32Look, it's no' in oor nature to ask the parish relief.
0:41:32 > 0:41:37You have a legal duty to feed all the destitute.
0:41:37 > 0:41:38Not if they made themselves destitute!
0:41:38 > 0:41:40You'll either need to feed them or bury them.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42Plenty of spades lying idle!
0:41:42 > 0:41:46Councillor, it sounds to me that many of the miners' families
0:41:46 > 0:41:48are close to destitution already.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51The soup kitchens will break up the family home.
0:41:51 > 0:41:55What's a wife for if not to make some grub when it's in the house?
0:41:55 > 0:41:57If the soup kitchen can feed more people for the same
0:41:57 > 0:42:01amount of money, and keep them out the poorhouse,
0:42:01 > 0:42:02it saved the parish council money.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05Might I suggest a compromise?
0:42:05 > 0:42:09The parish council issue food vouchers to individual families
0:42:09 > 0:42:14and let THEM decide if they spend them in the shops or soup kitchen.
0:42:17 > 0:42:19CHATTERING
0:42:24 > 0:42:26What's on the menu the day?
0:42:26 > 0:42:29Och, something fae Russia.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31Again?! God help us, no' that soup!
0:42:31 > 0:42:34Well, it's been soup once, I'm not sure what you'd cry it now!
0:42:34 > 0:42:36LAUGHTER
0:42:47 > 0:42:50- 'The bairns loved going up there, eh?'- 'Aye.'
0:42:50 > 0:42:53- 'For their soup and things.' - 'The bairns were never oot it, eh?
0:42:53 > 0:42:57'They thought it was just this great big adventure. It was superb, like.
0:42:57 > 0:43:01'We started going round about shops locally.
0:43:01 > 0:43:03'There were shops there that were very good.'
0:43:03 > 0:43:05Tam, Tam! Hold on, hold on.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09Maybe I shouldn't ask where that came fae?
0:43:09 > 0:43:11Local Carhill butcher.
0:43:29 > 0:43:30Baxter?
0:43:31 > 0:43:34Michael, Charlie, can you phone the other strike centres
0:43:34 > 0:43:37and get as many pickets as you can for tomorrow morning?
0:43:37 > 0:43:39Big picket, 5am.
0:43:39 > 0:43:40Hi...
0:43:40 > 0:43:43'Some of them that got involved in the soup kitchen
0:43:43 > 0:43:45'weren't even miners' wives, eh?
0:43:45 > 0:43:47'They were just local women that wanted to do something
0:43:47 > 0:43:49'and they done a superb job, like.'
0:43:49 > 0:43:51#..Of the world
0:43:51 > 0:43:55# I'm rollin' along
0:43:55 > 0:43:57# Yes, rollin' along!
0:43:57 > 0:44:02# And I'm quittin' the blues of the world
0:44:02 > 0:44:04# I'm singing a song
0:44:04 > 0:44:07# Yes, singing a song
0:44:07 > 0:44:08# Glory hallelujah
0:44:08 > 0:44:10# I just told the parson
0:44:10 > 0:44:13# Hey, Pa, get ready to call
0:44:13 > 0:44:15# Just like Humpty Dumpty... #
0:44:15 > 0:44:19- Are you stealing my flowers? - Only for the soup kitchen.
0:44:19 > 0:44:20Did big folk send you?
0:44:23 > 0:44:25Next time, chap on my door and ask,
0:44:25 > 0:44:27and we can find some nice ones together.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30# Don't want any millions
0:44:30 > 0:44:32# I'm gettin' my share... #
0:44:32 > 0:44:35Here. Tak' this for the pot as well.
0:44:35 > 0:44:36Thank you.
0:44:38 > 0:44:43# A bundle of money don't make me feel gay
0:44:43 > 0:44:45# A sweet little honey... #
0:44:45 > 0:44:48All that time, it's been the darkness. And now it's in the light.
0:44:48 > 0:44:52- Oh, this is a massive piece of coal! Look at this!- That's a beauty!
0:44:52 > 0:44:53# ..Top of the world
0:44:53 > 0:44:56# I'm rollin' along
0:44:56 > 0:44:59# Rollin' along
0:44:59 > 0:45:02# And I'm quittin, quittin' the blues, blues of the world... #
0:45:02 > 0:45:04HORN BEEPS
0:45:04 > 0:45:06# I'm singin' a song
0:45:06 > 0:45:09# Just singin' a song
0:45:09 > 0:45:10# Glory hallelujah
0:45:10 > 0:45:12# I just told the parson... #
0:45:12 > 0:45:14Can you no' get her aff the road?
0:45:14 > 0:45:17# Just like Humpty Dumpty
0:45:17 > 0:45:19# I'm going to fall Yeah!
0:45:19 > 0:45:24# I'm sittin' on top of the world
0:45:24 > 0:45:27# I'm rollin' along
0:45:27 > 0:45:30# Yes, rollin' along
0:45:30 > 0:45:34# And I'm quittin' the blues of the world
0:45:34 > 0:45:37# I'm singin' a song
0:45:37 > 0:45:40# Yeah, singin' a song
0:45:40 > 0:45:41# Glory hallelujah
0:45:41 > 0:45:43# I just told the parson
0:45:43 > 0:45:46# Hey, Pa, get ready to call
0:45:46 > 0:45:48# Just like Humpty Dumpty... #
0:45:48 > 0:45:51I cannae be late.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53That's mair than my job's worth!
0:45:53 > 0:45:55# And I'm sittin' on top of the world
0:45:55 > 0:45:58# I'm rollin' along
0:45:58 > 0:46:00# Rollin' along
0:46:00 > 0:46:03# Don't want any millions
0:46:03 > 0:46:06# I'm gettin' my share
0:46:06 > 0:46:08# I've only got one suit Just one!
0:46:08 > 0:46:11# That's all I can wear
0:46:11 > 0:46:15# A bundle of money don't make me feel gay
0:46:15 > 0:46:17# A sweet little honey... #
0:46:17 > 0:46:19- Soup kitchen?- Aye.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24How many mouths are we feeding?
0:46:24 > 0:46:26500.
0:46:26 > 0:46:27Could be six.
0:46:29 > 0:46:33Aye. It's gonnae be a long day.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36# And I'm quittin', quittin' the blues, blues of the world
0:46:36 > 0:46:39# I'm singin' a song
0:46:39 > 0:46:41# Yeah, singin' a song
0:46:41 > 0:46:43# Glory hallelujah
0:46:43 > 0:46:44# I just told the parson
0:46:44 > 0:46:47# Hey, Pa, get ready to call
0:46:47 > 0:46:50# Just like Humpty Dumpty
0:46:50 > 0:46:52# I'm going to fall Yeah... #
0:46:52 > 0:46:55BOYS SHOUT AND LAUGH LOUDLY
0:46:59 > 0:47:00Hey! >
0:47:00 > 0:47:01Ya wee bastards!
0:47:10 > 0:47:13Left, right, left!
0:47:13 > 0:47:17Left, left, left, right, left!
0:47:17 > 0:47:20Left, left, left, right, left!
0:47:22 > 0:47:24Squad...halt!
0:47:24 > 0:47:26Squad...birl!
0:47:26 > 0:47:28Quick, march!
0:47:28 > 0:47:33Left, left, left, right, left.
0:47:33 > 0:47:37Left, left, left, right...
0:47:37 > 0:47:39Squad, halt!
0:47:39 > 0:47:41And forward birl!
0:47:41 > 0:47:43MEN LAUGH
0:47:43 > 0:47:44At ease.
0:47:46 > 0:47:47Keep up with it!
0:47:47 > 0:47:49MEN LAUGH
0:47:56 > 0:47:59Would you like to say a few words to the lads, Michael?
0:47:59 > 0:48:02They look up to you. You're a war hero.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04I've had my fill of war.
0:48:05 > 0:48:09For Christ's sake, Michael, they'll send the army and polis against us!
0:48:09 > 0:48:11We're nothing but a rabble!
0:48:44 > 0:48:45Come in.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52You wait there. I'll get you some bread and butter.
0:49:13 > 0:49:16I thought you might like this. It's for a wee present.
0:49:16 > 0:49:21- It's no' for the soup kitchen, it's just for you.- Thank you.
0:49:42 > 0:49:45I didnae ken it was a sin till the Cardinal said so, Father.
0:49:45 > 0:49:48He stands by his, and we stand by oors.
0:49:48 > 0:49:52- He says the strike's a sin against obedience.- Obedience to who?
0:49:52 > 0:49:55The coal owners, or to God?
0:49:55 > 0:49:58Jesus said, "The poor shall inherit the earth."
0:49:58 > 0:50:00Well, it's no' going to happen by itself.
0:50:00 > 0:50:03Aye, but when, Father?
0:50:03 > 0:50:05When is it going to happen?
0:50:07 > 0:50:09My family needs fed today.
0:50:09 > 0:50:13Michael, you're a gid man. Examine your own conscience.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18- BOYS LAUGH - Cross it!
0:50:19 > 0:50:23Come on, then. Oh, come on, yous are crap!
0:50:23 > 0:50:24Come on!
0:50:24 > 0:50:25Yay!
0:50:27 > 0:50:29- CHILDREN:- Let's go, let's go!
0:50:29 > 0:50:31SOFT MUSIC PLAYS IN BACKGROUND
0:50:34 > 0:50:36BOYS SHOUT EXCITEDLY OUTSIDE
0:50:55 > 0:50:57Gave it to the soup kitchen.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02Aye? Well, we need it!
0:51:09 > 0:51:13- You should get yourself down to the soup kitchen.- I cannae.
0:51:17 > 0:51:23- Was it the Holy Ghost, like?- It's my business and nobody else's.- Christ!
0:51:23 > 0:51:25You're as stubborn as the old man.
0:51:26 > 0:51:31- Give me his name. I'll sort it. - With your fists? No.
0:51:31 > 0:51:33DOOR OPENS
0:52:05 > 0:52:07Wish my mother was here!
0:52:17 > 0:52:21- Oi, you!- This is the laird, you're on his land.- How is it his land?
0:52:21 > 0:52:25- My ancestors fought for it! - I'll fight you for it now!
0:52:25 > 0:52:27- Oi, you!- Oi!
0:52:27 > 0:52:28Come on, Pat, run!
0:52:30 > 0:52:32Ah, you cannae catch me noo!
0:52:32 > 0:52:33Run, Danny, run!
0:52:37 > 0:52:39And out.
0:52:40 > 0:52:42Again.
0:52:45 > 0:52:46And out.
0:52:48 > 0:52:50You're going to have to start doing less, Dan.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52It's no' a gid time, Doctor.
0:52:52 > 0:52:57- It's never a good time.- Listen to your wife, son. She's right.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00There's others that can run the union.
0:53:00 > 0:53:04The bottom line is, Dan, it's anthracosis.
0:53:04 > 0:53:06The black spit.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09And you should know better than most, Dan, there's no cure.
0:53:13 > 0:53:16I'll try and get somebody to tak' things over at the union.
0:53:18 > 0:53:21I cannae gie up being a magistrate the now.
0:53:21 > 0:53:23What'll happen if the men are up for picketing
0:53:23 > 0:53:27in front of some of they Tory ban-bandits fae around here?
0:53:27 > 0:53:29HE COUGHS
0:53:29 > 0:53:30You cannae dae a thing, Dan.
0:53:30 > 0:53:34But don't yous breathe a word about this to a soul.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37Have I got your word?
0:53:37 > 0:53:39What's he got you swearing to now, Mother?
0:53:39 > 0:53:41Oh, you ken your faither, son.
0:53:41 > 0:53:43DAN COUGHS
0:53:53 > 0:53:58- So when you're no' on strike, you're a coalface worker?- Aye, sir.
0:53:58 > 0:54:01What's your conditions like?
0:54:01 > 0:54:05Hot, wet. Dust is terrible.
0:54:05 > 0:54:06Aye, stour, eh?
0:54:07 > 0:54:11So you'll be better off on strike then, aye?
0:54:11 > 0:54:12Worse, sir.
0:54:12 > 0:54:15Nae money, nae food on the table.
0:54:15 > 0:54:17Nae shoes for the bairns.
0:54:17 > 0:54:21- So it gets on your wick?- Aye, sir. - Makes you angry?- It does.
0:54:21 > 0:54:23Angry with the coal company.
0:54:23 > 0:54:25And angry with the government.
0:54:25 > 0:54:29So why are you taking your anger out on your wife, ya eejit? Pair woman.
0:54:31 > 0:54:33Are you sorry?
0:54:35 > 0:54:36Aye, sir.
0:54:37 > 0:54:40You mak' sure you never lift your hands to her again.
0:54:41 > 0:54:44I'm going to bind you over, on one condition.
0:54:46 > 0:54:49There's a march coming up, and I want you to be on it.
0:54:49 > 0:54:54I want you to listen to the speeches about the Kingdom Coal Company.
0:54:54 > 0:54:58And I want you to sing The Red Flag along with everybody else.
0:54:58 > 0:55:02- Do you accept they conditions? - I'm no' nae Bolshie, sir.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05Do you know what a Bolshevik is?
0:55:08 > 0:55:12You mak' sure you learn the words, cos I'll be marching alongside you.
0:55:12 > 0:55:14Bind over.
0:55:15 > 0:55:16Next.
0:55:17 > 0:55:19HE COUGHS
0:55:26 > 0:55:28So you caught him stealing the laird's coal?
0:55:28 > 0:55:29Aye, red-handed.
0:55:31 > 0:55:35Aye, it must be awfie for the laird, trying to keep that big hoose warm.
0:55:36 > 0:55:38Especially in August, like.
0:55:38 > 0:55:40LAUGHTER
0:55:40 > 0:55:44Have you nothing better to do than chase laddies aff the bing?
0:55:44 > 0:55:47- I do what I'm told. - Oh, aye, I can see that.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49LAUGHTER
0:55:49 > 0:55:53Pat Brogan, you wouldn't have been on your own, like.
0:55:53 > 0:55:55So how come you're the only yin standing there the day?
0:55:55 > 0:55:59I was looking for fossils, Mr Guthrie, sir.
0:55:59 > 0:56:02- My daddy collect fossils. - Aye, I ken fine.
0:56:05 > 0:56:08And he was doing wrong. He should be punished.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11And what punishment do you think will fit the crime?
0:56:13 > 0:56:17- Clip round the ear.- Aye, well, gie him a skelp round the lug fae me tae.
0:56:17 > 0:56:19Come here a minute, Patrick.
0:56:29 > 0:56:35See when I was a laddie, I used to pray to God every night for a bike.
0:56:35 > 0:56:38And then I realised God doesnae work like that.
0:56:40 > 0:56:42So I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.
0:56:42 > 0:56:45LAUGHTER
0:56:45 > 0:56:47Case dismissed.
0:56:52 > 0:56:53HE COUGHS
0:56:58 > 0:57:00Michael. Come here.
0:57:04 > 0:57:08You take the laddie to see that. I'll no' mak' it.
0:57:08 > 0:57:11Harry Lauder? Are you sure, Dad?
0:57:11 > 0:57:12Aye, I'm sure.
0:57:14 > 0:57:15Thank you.
0:57:18 > 0:57:19Agh!
0:58:01 > 0:58:05- CHILDREN:- I would not! - You would!
0:58:05 > 0:58:07- Would not!- Yes, you would!
0:58:07 > 0:58:09I've got a ticket anyway.
0:58:09 > 0:58:11Oh, well, who cares!
0:58:31 > 0:58:34I saw Harry Lauder in France just before my brigade went in.
0:58:35 > 0:58:38Ken, will you no' wear them the nicht?
0:58:51 > 0:58:54My laddie who fought and won.
0:58:58 > 0:59:00ACCORDION MUSIC PLAYS
0:59:02 > 0:59:03Support the miners?
0:59:04 > 0:59:08Anyone against the strike? It was a pleasure meeting you.
0:59:08 > 0:59:09Support the miners?
0:59:11 > 0:59:14Ladies and gentlemen, anyone against the strike?
0:59:14 > 0:59:17Support the miners? Support the miners?
0:59:19 > 0:59:22Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, against the strike?
0:59:22 > 0:59:26- Support the miners?- Ladies and gentlemen, against the strike?
0:59:27 > 0:59:30- Against the strike, for the strike...?- Keep that.
0:59:32 > 0:59:33Support the miners?
0:59:35 > 0:59:36Support the miners?
0:59:37 > 0:59:40ACCORDION MUSIC CONTINUES
1:00:05 > 1:00:07Cheery, Fraser.
1:00:09 > 1:00:10Cheery, Annie.
1:00:11 > 1:00:12Thank you.
1:00:12 > 1:00:14ACCORDION MUSIC PLAYS
1:00:14 > 1:00:19# When the fightin' is over and the war is won
1:00:19 > 1:00:23# And the flags are wavin' free
1:00:23 > 1:00:28# When the bells are ringin' and the boys are singin'
1:00:28 > 1:00:32# Songs of victory
1:00:32 > 1:00:37# Oh, when we're all gathered round the old fireside
1:00:37 > 1:00:41# And the auld mother kisses her son
1:00:41 > 1:00:46# All the lassies will be lovin' a' the laddies
1:00:46 > 1:00:49# Laddies who fought and won... #
1:00:49 > 1:00:51LAUDER LAUGHS HEARTILY
1:00:51 > 1:00:53It's great to see you enjoying yourselves, eh?
1:00:53 > 1:00:57There's many braw Fife lads here today that went to fight for
1:00:57 > 1:01:01the dear old lady, Mother Britain. Stand up and take a bow, eh?!
1:01:01 > 1:01:04- Go on, Dad.- There's nae braver soldier than a Fifer!
1:01:04 > 1:01:07CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:01:09 > 1:01:12# When we all look back on the history of the past
1:01:12 > 1:01:16# Will we all know where we are?
1:01:16 > 1:01:21# We have pledged our worth and we'll not go back
1:01:21 > 1:01:25# To the day away so far
1:01:25 > 1:01:30# Until that time comes Let us fight and fight
1:01:30 > 1:01:34# And fight till victory is won
1:01:34 > 1:01:38# We will never give in We will fight to win
1:01:38 > 1:01:44# Till the very last man and God... #
1:01:44 > 1:01:46Come on, everybody!
1:01:46 > 1:01:49# When the...
1:01:49 > 1:01:53ALL: # Fighting is over and the war is....
1:01:53 > 1:01:56CHANTING
1:01:56 > 1:02:02# When the bells are ringin' and boys are singin'
1:02:02 > 1:02:06# Songs of victory
1:02:06 > 1:02:11# When we all gather round the old fireside
1:02:11 > 1:02:15# And the old mother kisses her son
1:02:15 > 1:02:20# All the lassies will be lovin' all the laddies
1:02:20 > 1:02:25# Laddies who fought and won
1:02:25 > 1:02:32SOLO: # The laddies who fought and won. #
1:02:32 > 1:02:34CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:02:34 > 1:02:36Haw-haw!
1:02:39 > 1:02:41CHANTING
1:02:44 > 1:02:45Thank you very much.
1:02:45 > 1:02:50You know, on the way to the theatre today, a reporter asked me
1:02:50 > 1:02:55what I thought about the industrial unrest here in the coalfield.
1:02:55 > 1:02:58I said, "It's a shame. It's inhuman."
1:02:58 > 1:03:01(CHANTING) Not a minute on the day, not a penny off my pay,
1:03:01 > 1:03:02not a minute on the day.
1:03:02 > 1:03:05I don't blame the miners.
1:03:05 > 1:03:07I blame the agitators,
1:03:07 > 1:03:08the scavenger unions.
1:03:08 > 1:03:10Stick to singing!
1:03:10 > 1:03:13The whole question is the agitation. Utopia of equality, eh?
1:03:13 > 1:03:14BOOING
1:03:14 > 1:03:18It's a dream. Huh? It's not possible. Nothing is equal.
1:03:21 > 1:03:25I deplore the situation of a strike. Nothing has come from a strike
1:03:25 > 1:03:26other than misery.
1:03:26 > 1:03:28SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE
1:03:28 > 1:03:31Thank you. And I hope the miners themselves will gather round
1:03:31 > 1:03:34and settle their own affairs and not sit in the hoose
1:03:34 > 1:03:38or stand on the corners, waiting for the agitators.
1:03:38 > 1:03:43We've had enough agitation. Agitation is the curse of the nation!
1:03:49 > 1:03:52- Yes, and in my humble opinion... - You're just a traitor!
1:03:52 > 1:03:55- You're a class traitor! - ..the working man is tired and sick.
1:03:55 > 1:03:58In other words, he's fed up and so are the public!
1:03:58 > 1:04:00You should be ashamed of yourself!
1:04:00 > 1:04:03- Do you remember when you were once a miner?- Calm down, lads!
1:04:03 > 1:04:08Go on, play something, lads. Let's give them... Calm down!
1:04:08 > 1:04:10Come on, here's one of your favourites.
1:04:10 > 1:04:11Get aff!
1:04:11 > 1:04:13# Oh, I'm courtin' a farmer's daughter
1:04:13 > 1:04:16# She's the prettiest thing you've ever seen
1:04:16 > 1:04:20# Oh, her cheeks they are a rosy red Her age is just sweet 17... #
1:04:20 > 1:04:23SCREAMING
1:04:23 > 1:04:27# When I put my arms around her neck and try to steal a kiss
1:04:27 > 1:04:30# Oh, she'll wriggle and giggle and twist and twiggle
1:04:30 > 1:04:32# And then you'll hear her shouting this
1:04:32 > 1:04:36# Will you stop your ticklin', Jock! Will you stop your ticklin', Jock!
1:04:36 > 1:04:38# Dinnae mak' me feel so hearty
1:04:38 > 1:04:40# Or you'll make me choke... #
1:04:40 > 1:04:42Come on, Mum, you'll be safe in here.
1:04:42 > 1:04:43What's going on?!
1:04:50 > 1:04:51Patrick, Patrick!
1:04:54 > 1:04:57SCREAMING
1:05:07 > 1:05:10LAUDER: Ha-ha-ha! Oh, my!
1:05:12 > 1:05:15That's the official line - the miners are the enemy?
1:05:15 > 1:05:18What's your assessment of the situation, son?
1:05:18 > 1:05:21- Eh?- What's your opinion? - What do you mean?
1:05:21 > 1:05:23What do you think? You do think?
1:05:23 > 1:05:25We're your ain people, for God's sake!
1:05:29 > 1:05:32- You're a bloody disgrace! - I'm a disgrace? I'm a disgrace?
1:05:32 > 1:05:35You're a disgrace. You're a disgrace wearing that uniform!
1:05:35 > 1:05:38You miners, you're bringing the country to its knees!
1:05:38 > 1:05:39Michael, come awa'.
1:05:39 > 1:05:42I fought to STOP this country being brought to its knees.
1:05:44 > 1:05:47- Fuck off! - And what are you going to do, eh?
1:05:47 > 1:05:50Are you going to shoot me? Going to shoot one of your ain?
1:05:50 > 1:05:51Michael!
1:05:54 > 1:05:57# Will you stop your ticklin', Jock!
1:05:57 > 1:06:01# I wish you'd stop your nonsense
1:06:01 > 1:06:03# Ah, ha-ha!
1:06:03 > 1:06:05# Stop your ticklin' Tickle-ickl-ickling
1:06:05 > 1:06:07# Stop yer tickling, Jock! Oh! #
1:06:07 > 1:06:11SHE READS "THE LORD'S PRAYER"
1:06:15 > 1:06:18Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
1:06:18 > 1:06:20Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done,
1:06:20 > 1:06:22in earth, as it is in heaven.
1:06:22 > 1:06:25- Give us this day our daily bread... - Emergency Powers Act,
1:06:25 > 1:06:29for the protection of the community, I am arresting you for acts
1:06:29 > 1:06:31- likely to cause sedition.- Dad!
1:06:31 > 1:06:34COMMOTION
1:06:37 > 1:06:38Dad!
1:06:39 > 1:06:42METALLIC TAPPING
1:06:42 > 1:06:43METALLIC TAPPING ECHOES
1:06:43 > 1:06:45(OUTSIDE) Here, you! Get up!
1:06:48 > 1:06:52METALLIC TAPPING
1:06:52 > 1:06:55METALLIC TAPPING ECHOES
1:06:57 > 1:07:00METALLIC TAPPING
1:07:05 > 1:07:06Joe, it's the polis.
1:07:08 > 1:07:09Stop it!
1:07:10 > 1:07:11Get off!
1:07:13 > 1:07:16OUTSIDE COMMOTION
1:07:22 > 1:07:24You watch yourself, son.
1:07:34 > 1:07:36Police! Police! Stay there!
1:07:38 > 1:07:39SHE SCREAMS
1:07:42 > 1:07:45- Get off him, you bastard! - That's ma family, ya thugs!
1:07:45 > 1:07:46All clear, sir!
1:08:05 > 1:08:08The whole strike committee must be in here.
1:08:08 > 1:08:10And more.
1:08:13 > 1:08:15See that poor one there?
1:08:15 > 1:08:23I made those marks, as a punishment for skelping his missus.
1:08:23 > 1:08:26And he's went and got his heid a' bursted.
1:08:26 > 1:08:28Maybe there is justice, after all.
1:08:28 > 1:08:32- Aye, maybe so. - Why did they lift you?
1:08:32 > 1:08:37I spoke out at a public meeting. I said I didn't think the polis
1:08:37 > 1:08:40battering folk was the best way to conduct negotiations.
1:08:40 > 1:08:42Freedom of speech, eh, Dan?
1:08:44 > 1:08:47Never mind freedom of speech. Will you two shut up?
1:08:47 > 1:08:51I'm trying to get some sleep here. I need to make a good impression
1:08:51 > 1:08:54- in the morning.- It will take more than a night's sleep for you
1:08:54 > 1:08:55to impress anybody.
1:08:55 > 1:08:57LAUGHTER
1:09:00 > 1:09:03It was a clear case of mistaken identity.
1:09:03 > 1:09:06It wisnae me, it was the polis.
1:09:06 > 1:09:07LAUGHTER
1:09:07 > 1:09:13Silence! Guthrie, the charge is causing disaffection.
1:09:13 > 1:09:14- Oh, disaffection?- Right!
1:09:14 > 1:09:16Any more rabble-rousing, you'll all be in the dock.
1:09:16 > 1:09:20It was the polis that caused the disaffection.
1:09:20 > 1:09:21Did you or did you not
1:09:21 > 1:09:24criticise the police at a public meeting on Carhill,
1:09:24 > 1:09:30with the intention of causing disaffection amongst the community?
1:09:30 > 1:09:35Aye, I spoke up, but wisnae batterin' the community
1:09:35 > 1:09:38with 100 truncheons more likely to cause disaffection...
1:09:38 > 1:09:39GAVEL BANGS
1:09:39 > 1:09:42..than a man sayin' a few words at a public meeting?
1:09:42 > 1:09:45As an appointed magistrate, I would have expected you
1:09:45 > 1:09:49- to have shown more restraint. - Restraint? As an elected magistrate,
1:09:49 > 1:09:53I would not have expected to see the polis behaving like a drunken mob.
1:09:53 > 1:09:56CHEERING
1:09:56 > 1:10:00Drunken mob? By your own admittance, you are guilty as charged.
1:10:00 > 1:10:03A £10 fine or 60 days' imprisonment.
1:10:03 > 1:10:04DISCONTENTED MURMURING
1:10:04 > 1:10:07As long as there is a strike on,
1:10:07 > 1:10:10any money I get will be going to the soup kitchen.
1:10:10 > 1:10:13APPLAUSE
1:10:13 > 1:10:14Very well.
1:10:15 > 1:10:20- 60 days.- Shame!- No! - And another 30 for contempt of court,
1:10:20 > 1:10:22with hard labour.
1:10:22 > 1:10:23Take him down!
1:10:23 > 1:10:26Hard labour? I've done 40 years' hard labour.
1:10:26 > 1:10:28Another 90 days will mak' no difference to me!
1:10:28 > 1:10:31APPLAUSE
1:10:31 > 1:10:34SUPPORTIVE CHANTING
1:10:42 > 1:10:44Any other cases today?
1:10:44 > 1:10:45182.
1:10:45 > 1:10:46Dickens.
1:10:54 > 1:10:55Is this the man?
1:10:57 > 1:11:03- Yes, sir.- Michael Brogan, you are charged with sedition.
1:11:03 > 1:11:08At a time of war, you would have found yourself facing a firing squad.
1:11:08 > 1:11:11However, Michael Brogan, you have been charged
1:11:11 > 1:11:14- under the Emergency Powers Act. - Oh, aye, one law for the miners
1:11:14 > 1:11:18- and another one for everybody else. - An emergency act intended to protect
1:11:18 > 1:11:21the community from men like you!
1:11:21 > 1:11:23DISAFFECTED MURMURS
1:11:23 > 1:11:26Michael Brogan, how do you plead?
1:11:39 > 1:11:42COUGHING
1:11:49 > 1:11:52Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,
1:11:52 > 1:11:55now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
1:11:55 > 1:11:59Hail Mary, full of grace...
1:11:59 > 1:12:00Pug Henderson,
1:12:00 > 1:12:02I was the first person to see you coming into this world.
1:12:02 > 1:12:07- I should have bloody drowned you! - Either you open this door
1:12:07 > 1:12:09or they break it down. It's a' the same to us,
1:12:09 > 1:12:12but it's you that'll have to pay for the damage.
1:12:14 > 1:12:16They'll have to get past us first.
1:12:16 > 1:12:18ALL: Aye!
1:12:18 > 1:12:20METALLIC TAPPING
1:12:20 > 1:12:23If you were a man, what kind of job would you have?
1:12:23 > 1:12:25A person who'd crawl on the ground!
1:12:32 > 1:12:35Look, these hooses are owned by the Kingdom Coal Company
1:12:35 > 1:12:38for workers employed by the Kingdom Coal Company.
1:12:38 > 1:12:44HUBBUB OUTSIDE
1:12:44 > 1:12:47If they weren't here, we'd rip you from limb to limb.
1:12:47 > 1:12:49I dinnae care who he is!
1:13:00 > 1:13:02Michael Brogan was born in that hoose -
1:13:02 > 1:13:05and his faither had it before him.
1:13:05 > 1:13:0850 years between them, working for YOUR company!
1:13:08 > 1:13:12- And this is the thanks that they get? - Aye, oot on the street.
1:13:12 > 1:13:15- Nae roof over their heid. - Who's going to pay the rent, then?
1:13:15 > 1:13:17- I'll pay it! - I ken yous a' in this street.
1:13:17 > 1:13:20Nane of you lot have paid your rent for six months.
1:13:20 > 1:13:24- There'll be more evictions.- There'll always be room in the Guthrie house.
1:13:24 > 1:13:28Anybody that takes in lodgers without the express permission
1:13:28 > 1:13:33- of the company, will get evicted, too.- Agnes, you can stay with us.
1:13:33 > 1:13:34You think so?
1:13:35 > 1:13:40You can come and stay in ma hoose. It's only a farm worker's cottage.
1:13:41 > 1:13:44But the coal company cannae bother me.
1:14:38 > 1:14:40Dan, look at this.
1:14:41 > 1:14:43- Move it!- Let it go!
1:14:45 > 1:14:46Leave it, son.
1:14:48 > 1:14:49(Bastard.)
1:15:14 > 1:15:15Is that for the pawn, too?
1:15:16 > 1:15:17Aye.
1:15:27 > 1:15:29Where's your wedding ring, Ma?
1:15:31 > 1:15:33With everything else.
1:15:33 > 1:15:34Oh, Molly...
1:15:34 > 1:15:37it's that quiet withoot him.
1:15:37 > 1:15:39SHE WEEPS
1:15:42 > 1:15:44It's all right, Ma.
1:15:44 > 1:15:46It's all right, it's going to be all right.
1:15:55 > 1:15:57People are human beings, eh?
1:15:57 > 1:16:01We're no' animals. We're just no' there to clock in and clock out.
1:16:01 > 1:16:05we're there to get treated as human beings. That's all we're asking for.
1:16:05 > 1:16:07We're no' asking for anything else, like.
1:16:09 > 1:16:10Do you call that soup?
1:16:13 > 1:16:15It looks like dirty dishwater.
1:16:15 > 1:16:17I'd go anything for a plate of ham and eggs.
1:16:17 > 1:16:20And a nice juicy steak.
1:16:20 > 1:16:25- Roast chicken.- Even a plate of mince and tatties would be nice.
1:16:25 > 1:16:29Never mind. The brambles will soon be ready.
1:16:29 > 1:16:33- We can have jam.- Aye, if we can get the sugar, Mrs Burns.
1:16:34 > 1:16:38God knows what we're going to do now they've stopped the parish relief.
1:16:38 > 1:16:40If they shut the soup kitchen,
1:16:40 > 1:16:42we'll all be chapping on the poorhoose door.
1:16:42 > 1:16:46Do you ken this? They had the poor souls digging graves last week.
1:16:46 > 1:16:49- That's ridiculous. - They stand them in line every day.
1:16:49 > 1:16:55Make them take their clothes aff and have a bath in disinfectant.
1:16:55 > 1:16:57I'd rather die in a ditch than go into that place.
1:16:57 > 1:17:00KNOCKING
1:17:00 > 1:17:01I ken you're in there.
1:17:04 > 1:17:05It's Joe.
1:17:24 > 1:17:25Why do you no' say...
1:17:28 > 1:17:29..something?
1:17:42 > 1:17:44Do you love me, Joe?
1:17:44 > 1:17:45I never thought about it.
1:17:47 > 1:17:48Just go.
1:17:51 > 1:17:53So, get out of here! Now!
1:18:12 > 1:18:15'You learn to hold your head up, regardless of how people
1:18:15 > 1:18:20'look down at you. It's like water off a duck's back, eventually.
1:18:20 > 1:18:24'You become hardened to it. You learn to be quiet...
1:18:26 > 1:18:28'..and you learn humility.
1:18:30 > 1:18:34'That was a lesson you had to learn, but you knew there was others
1:18:34 > 1:18:37'in the same boat as you, so that gave you strength, as well.'
1:18:41 > 1:18:44I have discussed the situation with the Board of Health.
1:18:44 > 1:18:47The Board of Health take their orders aff the government.
1:18:47 > 1:18:49They're Baldwin's lackies.
1:18:49 > 1:18:52You're entitled to enter the poorhouse...
1:18:52 > 1:18:53but there's no room.
1:18:53 > 1:18:58Nae room?! Well, we'll wait, until you DO have room.
1:18:58 > 1:19:01For the sake of the children, I'd advise you to take them home
1:19:01 > 1:19:07- and into the warm. - Right, everybody, settle doon.
1:19:07 > 1:19:09Make yourselves at hame.
1:19:28 > 1:19:31Do you have a strategy to deal with the local agitators?
1:19:31 > 1:19:35We were recently able to round up many of the local militants.
1:19:35 > 1:19:38Where the agitators have gained influence, the Economic League
1:19:38 > 1:19:41is working to make sure that there is an alternate view
1:19:41 > 1:19:44- for the ordinary miner. - And how do you do that?
1:19:44 > 1:19:48Through our network of local activists. We've challenged
1:19:48 > 1:19:52the Communists in the pubs, in the clubs and on street corners.
1:19:52 > 1:19:54I don't know how well you know Fife,
1:19:54 > 1:19:57but it's not having much of an effect here.
1:19:57 > 1:20:00The local mining unions are well organised and disciplined.
1:20:00 > 1:20:04- The strike's solid.- We've established a network of informants,
1:20:04 > 1:20:07with the full co-operation of His Majesty's government
1:20:07 > 1:20:13and local political organisations who are supportive of our cause.
1:20:13 > 1:20:17We know where and when the agitators will strike.
1:20:17 > 1:20:19GUNSHOT
1:20:26 > 1:20:28GUNSHOT
1:20:29 > 1:20:30GUNSHOT
1:20:30 > 1:20:33As of today, we have instructed the pit managers
1:20:33 > 1:20:36to cut off the water supply to the local rows which we own.
1:20:36 > 1:20:40This covers many of the more militant villages, such as Carhill,
1:20:40 > 1:20:43or The Happy Lands, as the locals call it.
1:20:43 > 1:20:46I'm sorry, I cannae be a part o' this any more.
1:21:08 > 1:21:11PANTING
1:21:23 > 1:21:26SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
1:21:28 > 1:21:31SCREAMING
1:21:37 > 1:21:40COUGHING
1:21:44 > 1:21:46Can we go, son?
1:21:49 > 1:21:50What are we doing here?
1:21:50 > 1:21:53We're not criminals.
1:21:53 > 1:21:56- We're prisoners-of-war. - Nobody wins the war.
1:21:57 > 1:22:00It's no' just about winning, Michael.
1:22:01 > 1:22:03You cannae win every fight.
1:22:04 > 1:22:07It's aboot learning from your losses, son.
1:22:08 > 1:22:10Make it hard for the bastards.
1:22:12 > 1:22:16If you have nae fight, you're as well rolling over and letting them
1:22:16 > 1:22:17fit you up the arse.
1:22:19 > 1:22:21It's aboot keeping what you've already won.
1:22:22 > 1:22:27You cannae dae that withoot fighting...and remembering.
1:22:27 > 1:22:30Some of us want to forget, no' remember.
1:22:30 > 1:22:34We're powerless, Dan. What's the point?
1:22:34 > 1:22:38If you forget who you are, you lose who you are.
1:22:38 > 1:22:42Nae offence, son, but you need to gi'e yourself a shake!
1:22:42 > 1:22:44You dinnae realise the power you've got.
1:22:48 > 1:22:50CHEERING
1:22:50 > 1:22:53BAGPIPES PLAY
1:23:10 > 1:23:13CHEERING
1:23:30 > 1:23:34It is truly an honour for me to be with you all here today.
1:23:34 > 1:23:38In the event, to present this medal to Michael Brogan,
1:23:38 > 1:23:43for his commitment to his class and his loyalty and dedication...
1:23:44 > 1:23:48..in our recent troubles. In pinning this medal on Michael,
1:23:48 > 1:23:52I salute you as a working-class hero.
1:23:52 > 1:23:55CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:24:28 > 1:24:31THUNDER RUMBLES
1:24:39 > 1:24:43I'm starting in the pit, as soon as the strike's over.
1:24:43 > 1:24:45There's other ways to make a living.
1:24:45 > 1:24:47Aye, maybe so, but there's nae better.
1:24:52 > 1:24:55They've asked me to stand as the checkweighman.
1:24:55 > 1:24:58- The company will no' allow that. - The company cannae stop me, Agnes.
1:24:58 > 1:25:01It's for the men to say, and that's the law.
1:25:02 > 1:25:06It's all very well passing safety laws in yon parliament.
1:25:06 > 1:25:07They're nae gid to man nor beast
1:25:07 > 1:25:10if there's naebody to make sure they're enforced.
1:25:10 > 1:25:12I don't know if that's the right job for me.
1:25:12 > 1:25:14At least there'd be some money comin' into the hoose.
1:25:14 > 1:25:18And I'd be sure one of yous would be hame at the end of the nicht.
1:25:18 > 1:25:21There's nae such faith when the wheels are turnin'.
1:25:22 > 1:25:24Away in coal tubs all day, though.
1:25:26 > 1:25:28- My man was killed in the pit.- How?
1:25:28 > 1:25:31Kitty, it's none of your business.
1:25:31 > 1:25:33No, it is her business.
1:25:34 > 1:25:36She's a miner's daughter.
1:25:39 > 1:25:42They were drilling up the way to bring the air doon,
1:25:42 > 1:25:44and a peat bog fell in on them.
1:25:45 > 1:25:48Left a huge crater in the field above.
1:25:51 > 1:25:52Trapped them for days.
1:25:54 > 1:25:56The rescue team got trapped, too.
1:25:59 > 1:26:01Buried alive for days.
1:26:04 > 1:26:06They were all dead when they got to them.
1:26:06 > 1:26:08That's terrible.
1:26:09 > 1:26:10Aye.
1:26:12 > 1:26:13It's a terrible way to die.
1:26:20 > 1:26:22That's his book.
1:26:24 > 1:26:27He wrote in it as he sat and waited to be rescued.
1:26:27 > 1:26:28Can I read it?
1:26:30 > 1:26:32Aye.
1:26:32 > 1:26:34You dae that, hen. You read it to us all.
1:26:36 > 1:26:39"We have no hope of getting out.
1:26:39 > 1:26:42"We're all resigned now.
1:26:42 > 1:26:46"Without oil and all in the dark...
1:26:47 > 1:26:48"..all prepared to die.
1:26:50 > 1:26:52"Farewell.
1:26:52 > 1:26:54"We'll meet on the other side of the river.
1:26:55 > 1:26:58"You must keep up for my sake, Isa.
1:26:58 > 1:26:59"God bless."
1:27:05 > 1:27:07They were all gid men.
1:27:11 > 1:27:12They needed a checkweighman.
1:27:14 > 1:27:17Man that kens the rules and regulations.
1:27:18 > 1:27:20And makes sure the bosses kens them, too.
1:27:23 > 1:27:26Union men, Michael.
1:27:26 > 1:27:28Rosie, are you in?
1:27:36 > 1:27:38Rosie!
1:27:38 > 1:27:41BABY CRIES
1:28:39 > 1:28:42I got this one fighting for my neighbours,
1:28:42 > 1:28:45and I got this one fighting for my country.
1:28:48 > 1:28:51"The Great War For Civilisation,
1:28:51 > 1:28:53"1914-1919."
1:28:53 > 1:28:55What did they give you the medal for?
1:28:55 > 1:28:59I just did what any miner would dae for another any day of the week.
1:28:59 > 1:29:01Aye, but what did you do?
1:29:13 > 1:29:15There was a man lying out in no-man's-land
1:29:15 > 1:29:17with his leg all mangled.
1:29:19 > 1:29:21So I crawled oot my trench
1:29:21 > 1:29:22and I put him on my back
1:29:22 > 1:29:25and I carried him to where he'd be safe.
1:29:25 > 1:29:26Were you feart?
1:29:28 > 1:29:30Aye.
1:29:42 > 1:29:45BABY CRIES
1:29:45 > 1:29:47ROSIE SINGS
1:30:24 > 1:30:26BABY CRIES
1:30:26 > 1:30:30# Closer and closer on my knee... #
1:30:32 > 1:30:34Right, get her faither.
1:30:34 > 1:30:36He's at the picket line at the pit.
1:30:41 > 1:30:42Rosie!
1:30:55 > 1:30:57It's all right.
1:30:59 > 1:31:00It's all right.
1:31:02 > 1:31:04It's all right.
1:31:05 > 1:31:07Let's get you home.
1:31:07 > 1:31:10Mr Baxter, come quick, Rosie's gone into the loch!
1:31:19 > 1:31:21BABY GURGLES
1:31:21 > 1:31:25My milk had gone. I couldnae feed her.
1:31:25 > 1:31:27I couldnae see her starve.
1:31:27 > 1:31:30Oh, Rosie, the bairn doesnae need to starve.
1:31:30 > 1:31:31Give her here.
1:31:33 > 1:31:36BABY CRIES
1:31:38 > 1:31:40There.
1:31:40 > 1:31:43Shh. Shh.
1:31:51 > 1:31:53Doesnae love me, Molly.
1:31:53 > 1:31:55How could anyone love me?
1:31:58 > 1:32:00BABY CRIES
1:32:28 > 1:32:30CHEERING
1:32:30 > 1:32:32BELL RINGS
1:32:40 > 1:32:42You know what happened to my sister?
1:32:42 > 1:32:44She's had a bairn.
1:32:44 > 1:32:46Only the bairn doesnae have a faither!
1:32:46 > 1:32:50The faither's no' man enough to take his responsibilities.
1:32:59 > 1:33:01I'll kill ye!
1:33:12 > 1:33:14Look, the strike has gone on for too long.
1:33:14 > 1:33:16Folk cannae see clearly any more.
1:33:16 > 1:33:19Is it not fuckin' clear? My sister needs food so she can feed her bairn.
1:33:19 > 1:33:23Aye, I ken you want tae dae something, but what you gonnae dae?
1:33:24 > 1:33:27You cannae scab, Baxie. No' you!
1:33:33 > 1:33:36One of us has to be the man 'round here.
1:33:36 > 1:33:39It's a long time since I've been feart of you, you daft old coo.
1:33:39 > 1:33:41Argh!
1:33:43 > 1:33:46Argh! Argh!
1:33:50 > 1:33:51What you daein' here?
1:33:51 > 1:33:53Personal business.
1:33:53 > 1:33:55Are you still working for the government?
1:33:57 > 1:33:59- You think you're better than us, eh?- No.
1:33:59 > 1:34:00Argh!
1:34:00 > 1:34:04You're no' fuckin' wanted round here. Understand?
1:34:36 > 1:34:38(Come on.)
1:34:44 > 1:34:49TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
1:34:56 > 1:35:00TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
1:35:00 > 1:35:02- Ha! - GIRLS: Argh!
1:35:02 > 1:35:06If I catch any of you bairns in here again, I'll boot yer arse!
1:35:06 > 1:35:08This is private property.
1:35:08 > 1:35:10Stay oot!
1:35:11 > 1:35:13Carhill rats!
1:35:21 > 1:35:24SHOUTING AND COMMOTION
1:35:26 > 1:35:29Brogan! You keep your toerags aff company property.
1:35:29 > 1:35:32I catch them here again, I'll fine you.
1:35:52 > 1:35:54Jokie.
1:36:06 > 1:36:08It's over.
1:36:34 > 1:36:38TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
1:36:44 > 1:36:47TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
1:37:06 > 1:37:08Some of my school friends
1:37:08 > 1:37:11- say I'm not allowed to play with them any more.- Why no'?
1:37:11 > 1:37:14They said you're not a Catholic any more - you're a Communist.
1:37:14 > 1:37:15What did you say?
1:37:15 > 1:37:17Said you're still my daddy.
1:37:59 > 1:38:02BRASS BAND PLAYS
1:38:08 > 1:38:11CROWD CHEERS
1:38:37 > 1:38:39CHEERING
1:38:45 > 1:38:48You've all received notices.
1:38:48 > 1:38:50You ken as well as I dae, you're all sacked.
1:38:50 > 1:38:52You'll get nae mair work in this pit,
1:38:52 > 1:38:54or any other pit in the Kingdom of Fife.
1:38:54 > 1:38:56The rest of yous - get in here.
1:38:56 > 1:38:58I'm not paying you stand and gawp.
1:39:06 > 1:39:08Comrades.
1:39:12 > 1:39:14On behalf of the sacked miners,
1:39:14 > 1:39:17we'd like to thank you for your solidarity.
1:39:17 > 1:39:18We hope it lasts till payday.
1:39:20 > 1:39:23You ken me, I'm not one for public speaking...
1:39:25 > 1:39:28..but a few of you, including Dan Guthrie,
1:39:28 > 1:39:30have asked if I'd be your checkweighman.
1:39:30 > 1:39:32Well, I ken dirt and I ken coal,
1:39:32 > 1:39:35and I ken what it takes to fill a tub,
1:39:35 > 1:39:37so I'd make sure you got what you earned.
1:39:37 > 1:39:38ALL: Aye.
1:39:38 > 1:39:42Ken mair about mining than I dae politics, but I want to know mair.
1:39:42 > 1:39:44What I do ken
1:39:44 > 1:39:48is that there's ayways other ways tae dae things.
1:39:48 > 1:39:50A way where people look out for each other.
1:39:50 > 1:39:53A way where our taxes are spent on improving our lives,
1:39:53 > 1:39:56rather than killing folks in wars.
1:39:56 > 1:39:59When I fought their pointless bloody war,
1:39:59 > 1:40:01they tellt me I was a hero.
1:40:01 > 1:40:04But when I fought for ma ain, they tellt me I was a traitor.
1:40:04 > 1:40:06CHEERING
1:40:06 > 1:40:09Well done, Michael.
1:40:09 > 1:40:12All those in favour of Michael Brogan
1:40:12 > 1:40:15for Carhill Colliery Checkweighman show.
1:40:15 > 1:40:18- ALL:- Aye!
1:40:18 > 1:40:22I've got this to read for you. It's fae the Union.
1:40:24 > 1:40:27"We know our army is breaking up.
1:40:27 > 1:40:29"Our magnificent army of one million men
1:40:29 > 1:40:32"and their wives and their children
1:40:32 > 1:40:36"have stood firm for seven long months.
1:40:36 > 1:40:40"We've endured the sacrifice forced upon us
1:40:40 > 1:40:42"by a ruthless and relentless foe."
1:40:42 > 1:40:43- CROWD:- Aye.
1:40:43 > 1:40:46"But the combined powers of the press,
1:40:46 > 1:40:50"the government, the coal owners, and federated capitalism
1:40:50 > 1:40:52"has proved too strong for us.
1:40:57 > 1:41:00"But the world has marvelled at your courage.
1:41:00 > 1:41:04"You've lit a beacon of hope across the world
1:41:04 > 1:41:07"and won the hearts of the British people."
1:42:33 > 1:42:35Hello, wee lassie.
1:42:36 > 1:42:39I'm your grandad.
1:42:39 > 1:42:40Yer daft old dey.
1:43:29 > 1:43:31It's important to learn from your history
1:43:31 > 1:43:33to see what's in front of you,
1:43:33 > 1:43:35because it'll repeat itsel' again.
1:43:35 > 1:43:37It's repeating itsel' today.
1:43:37 > 1:43:39These injustices and these rights
1:43:39 > 1:43:40they're trying to take away from you,
1:43:40 > 1:43:42you've got to stand up for them.
1:43:42 > 1:43:44And the reason you've got to stand up for them
1:43:44 > 1:43:47is because your bairns is coming up the back of you,
1:43:47 > 1:43:50and if you dinnae stand up, they'll hae nothing.
1:43:50 > 1:43:52And what will they say?
1:43:52 > 1:43:56They'll say, "It wasnae my fault, it was the generation before me."
1:43:56 > 1:43:57You cannae allow that to happen.
1:43:57 > 1:43:59Although they did lose the battle,
1:43:59 > 1:44:02they still never lost the war, eh?
1:44:02 > 1:44:05And you can say, even though there's no' any pits,
1:44:05 > 1:44:08the war is still ongoing.
1:44:08 > 1:44:13It's an ongoing war all the time
1:44:13 > 1:44:16just for you to fight
1:44:16 > 1:44:19for what is your rights.
1:44:19 > 1:44:22We might've got forced back to our work,
1:44:22 > 1:44:27and they might've thought they'd defeat us,
1:44:27 > 1:44:29but they'll never defeat us,
1:44:29 > 1:44:31because they've never got in there yet.
1:44:31 > 1:44:33I know what I'm at, I know what I come fae,
1:44:33 > 1:44:35and I know what I would dae again.
1:44:35 > 1:44:37And if it happened tomorrow,
1:44:37 > 1:44:39I'd be back in the street and dae it again tomorrow.
1:44:39 > 1:44:42And hae nae qualms about that.
1:44:43 > 1:44:48My dad was 22 when...in 1926...
1:44:50 > 1:44:53..when the strike broke out.
1:44:53 > 1:44:56He worked in Glencraig Colliery
1:44:56 > 1:44:59and along with another 11 men -
1:44:59 > 1:45:01one of them was his younger brother -
1:45:01 > 1:45:07he was arrested and spent six months in Saughton Prison,
1:45:07 > 1:45:11and we still have that medal in the family.
1:45:13 > 1:45:17And we've always been really proud of my dad
1:45:17 > 1:45:18and his part he played
1:45:18 > 1:45:22and stood up for his rights and the rights of others.