Coal Crisis (1920)

South Wales. Intertitle: COAL CRISIS. Miners Ballot scenes in South Wales, where the majority are in favour of a strike. M, S of miners outside the colliery placing their votes into the ballot box. Still, Intertitle: MINERS FEDERATION OF GREAT BRITAIN. Ballot Vote. In view of the refusal of the Government to concede the claims of the Miners Federation of Great Britain for a reduction in the price of Domestic Coal. .. More shots of miners voting. M, S of a group of miners posing by a coal cart at the entrance to the mine they all wear flat caps and have coal dust on their faces they have obviously just finished a day down the pit. M, S of miners chatting and smoking gathered around the colliery lift wheel. Note: The still of the ballot paper is used in story MINERS VOTE in G 698. AH 2000. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.