Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Charles Carlow ya mutu a watan Janairun 1923, wanda Augustus Carlow ya gaje shi a matsayin manajan darakta. Amma babu wani canji nan da nan ga shirye-shiryen fadada kamfanin. A wannan shekarar, an sayi ma'adinan Earl na Rosslyn, tare da yuwuwar fitar da tan 500,000, sannan Oakley Collieries a 1924. Wannan ya zama sayayya ta ƙarshe. Masana'antar kwal ta Biritaniya ta fuskanci matsaloli masu yawa a kasuwannin fitar da kayayyaki saboda fuskantar gasa daga Faransa, Jamus da Poland, duk tare da ƙananan albashi. Rashin rashin gasa ya kara tsanantawa a watan Afrilu 1925 ta hanyar komawa ga tsarin zinariya a babban darajar darajar. Fife Coal kanta tana asarar kuɗi kuma matsin lamba ga masu hakar ma'adinai don karɓar ƙananan albashi ya ƙare a cikin yajin aikin ma'adinai a farkon Mayu 1926. Kwana biyu bayan haka kungiyar TUC ta kira
babban yajin aiki don tallafawa masu hakar ma'adinai. Bayan kwanaki tara an soke yajin aikin gama gari amma masu hakar ma'adinai sun ci gaba da gwagwarmaya har zuwa Nuwamba.