Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-06

its administration buildings on tbs
Cincinnati Southern Railroad near
the Tennessee line. Here the miners
are given, under stipulated conditions.
opportunity 10 acquire surface rights
to land. They may build their cot
tages and own them and i've In them
in the siyla 10 which Kentucky noun
taineers arc accustomed. The result
Is that a great proportion Of the nil
ners here are natives. Their loa ca
bins peep from the pines In various
situations 50 picturesque that they
look rs IL hey we're built for a movie
canera 10 shoot. They are wholly
without the convenionces which unaks
miners home In a modern camp
much Ike an apartment In Chicago
or New York Wives q miners here
pack water from the spring. IN ma
tive vernaculsr feed pigs in a pen.
and keep chickens. They knoH the
hardship of strenuous labor. but seem
ingly they have no desire 20 move.
and their men share their local at
tachment.
In Floyd County, in the Big sandy
Valley, native miners predominant.
There are no camps In this rsgion that
could be called show places Of
Kentucky coal fields. But native mi
uers, resenting the intrusion Of for
eigners. are inclined to remain in ono
place. 50 greatly do they resent tho
presence <ef outsiders that importing
labor into this field may cause bloody
| clashes. In times Il large coal orders
there is difficulty in getting enough
| labor ar the naive coal population is
not dense.
! In the model camps miner o-rns
nothing but his household goods.
Thst az a rule he acquired az the
| company store after arrival Often
ne sells IL and leaves Il when no
moves. Nothing binds him 10 tho
place. Nothing inpedee him II hs
WISHES 70 move. He gees like A city
| Iodger, leaving one furnished room
70 take a similar ono in another
street.
At Hmlerviils. upon Tug River in
Martin County. across the stream
from Kermit, West Virginia there
is settlement Of miners which At
tracts considerable attention because
II represents the first experiment. IN
cooperative mining.
|. The HimlerviIle operation is a email
, one compared with these IN West
virginia, across Tug River. or In
Kentucky. II is 4 projec. ~ Martin
hinler. we'll known in America and
, in Europe as a. Hungarian Journalist
r ana welfare worker for his fAllo--
; Hunssrians here and >I.~wnsrs Mr..
, Himler, the owner and publisher ~
, Magyar Bauzlap", A New YORK. ns-rs
? paper for Hungarians. eonos4v.d "a
4 ldea OF A coal mine worked nv ,s-s re
earners who would own ina r,tna
Jointly, participate in the divfdande
and own their homes. EFfr,as,,,,rIa
~ Hungarian community Of sev.-ol
nundred set down in the hills in which
. me Hathelds and McCoys foush,
tneir bloody feuds. and across a INV
? river from the state in which the f,gh,
between miners and operators at
? tracted national attention.
Hin1lsrv1lle may b ths rnaans n.
providing an illustration Of tina no.-
y MoiiiceS OF the cooperative ids> NJ
phed 10 mining. but II ,s no, AZ al,
hheiy that its success would an>c,
greatly the circumstances 81 80
: digging IN the Kentucky ana -,
: west virginia fields. The coal baron,
as the operators are called. VIII -o,,
= Nhue 70 De the large operators 30.
cause large operations demand Is-r.
} capital. 1t seems probabl. thar th.~.
= WI be within the next 20 year. se-v.,
Il examples, ike Stearns, OF home ov,.-
snip by miners, and NOR. MOI.
. camps Ike Lynch where the COMPANY
owns everything.
. Mining coal is at best hard. Isnor
/ Nothing could make II attractive ;,
= some men. but an adage of the n,jrin,
country Is once a miner aIvvav-
. miner The exception 70 the -ul.
8 s me native Kentucky rnountainss;
: wno' not infrequently. gives I'D enn
10 parauve wealth 20 return 70 hi. 10,
d cabin and the indoient lie OF m,
H. hills.
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