 Smaller mines like Ryhill were usually passengers through many of the strikes with little by the way of incidents.One such incident, on 2 August 1919, when the loyal workmen, volunteers and others, who were keeping the pumps going at Ryhill Colliery were about to go on duty, they were surrounded by a large crowd of strikers and prevented from resuming work.Fortunately there was no actual violence, the crowd adopted the "peaceful persuasion" method.