Himlerville: Hungarian Cooperative Mining in Kentucky - The Filson ...
Himlerville: Hungarian Cooperative Mining in Kentucky - The Filson ...
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542 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Filson</strong> Club History Qudrterly [October<br />
(a block of coal left with<strong>in</strong> the tunnel to l revent the roof from<br />
collaps<strong>in</strong>g) to get the huge blocks of coal 16ft by the <strong>Hungarian</strong>s.<br />
When the pillows were removed the roof collapsed, which made<br />
it impossible to ever aga<strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> the Himterville works,so<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hungarian</strong> effort at cooperative m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
ended <strong>in</strong> failure. That the enterprise survived throughout most<br />
of the 1920s was a testimony to the immigrants' will<strong>in</strong>gness to<br />
work hard <strong>in</strong> search of the elusive American Dream. If the coal<br />
<strong>in</strong>dustry had not experienced one of its recurr<strong>in</strong>g periods of bust<br />
dur<strong>in</strong>g the 1920s, it is quite likelY, that Him|erville would have<br />
survived.<br />
80 Balazs <strong>in</strong>terview.
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