Kent, Durham and traditionally thumberland had stopped work In Durham, the one pit vote for return, Dawdon, could not begin work when winding engineers retused to do so.
With all the 25 Nottto work, Tnere were Sill only pits working normally. The remaining six. teen pits across the country could not produce coal as significant numbers of refused CIOSS picket lines. This included pits in Lancashire and the Midlands.
In North Derbyshire the ballot went against action by only Seen odorio pits toled voted for action with the individual ballot result shifted by the count in one large colliery. As a result Ine Nort Deroysnre executive met on Monday 19 March and agreed bi votes to two to call their members out on strike.
Miners in the so-called 'moderate have reacted strongly in tavour of the strike Call. Easington, one of the bigpits County Durham walked out solidly as soon as the strike was announced.
campaigning in the North East against unemployment which stands at above 25 per cent - has boosted support for the against pit •.. ON THE FIRST working day after ballots in Nottinghamshire and other less militant NUM areas, the majority of the British coalfield was at a standstill.
All the pits in Yorkshire, Scotland, South Wales, moderate Nor- 115 in all. closures. Only three weeks before the ballot there was mass through Easington against unemployment organised by the Labour Party and led by Neil Kinnock.