From what I've picked up, it seems the Government took over the pits during the war and then handed them back. Northumberland had record outputs during the war years. Newburgh seems to have restarted in 1921?
Things weren't good for miners after the war as Germany was producing war reparation coal so they were undercutting everybody else on price. The coal owners in this country would have had a whip hand on wages as a result.
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