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Hungarians Successfully Conduct Co-operative Mine In Kentucky, Having Two Million Dollars Invested
Bridge Had to Be Built Over Tug River—Coal In Dumped Inside Mine and Is Brought Out by Conveyor—Employee-Shareholders Unanimously Accept 30 Per Cent Wage Reduction
BY J. R. HAWORTH
Huntington, W. Va.
ORGANIZERS, officers, directors and employees of the Himler Coal Co., operating in Martin County, Kentucky, agree with one voice that that company has solved the labor problem. With the coal-producing industry distraught in its struggle for years with this question, with this plan and that expedient, this theory and that system attempted and abandoned as impractical and unavailing one after the other in an impressive array of failures in final solution of the labor question, the cheerful pronouncement of the Himler company that the answer has been found is intriguing, at least.
The company claims for itself the distinction of being the only co-operative coal-mining company in America. To prove this the company has solved its labor difficulties it points to its history covering a period of two years, and recites the difficulties already overcome.
STOCKHOLDERS VOTE FOR LOWER WAGE SCALE
The history of industry is littered with the wreckage of co-operative schemes of various sorts which hive failed Ind have been forgotten. Yet the Himler plan, its sponsors say, has been a success In twu yen —n recent stockholders' meeting, in tact, voted unnni. mously for a 30-percent x-eductlon in waxes folluwinz submission of a report 01 the trealuuei. Ind the cumpnny continue: nut only to mint coal at tm low mlrket price but hm incrensed its cspitll no 32.000300 for nxtznsiull of its overnlionsl
Few less promising places in the United States could be found at this time (or tn exnerimant in labor 11rnb< lemn than Himlervilk, Ky., the home of tin I-flmler Cnll Co. I-Iinllcrvllle is being built in the hollow torrnnd by Buck Creek. which flows into Tun River at Warfleld. Ky., nbmit twn miles [mm Himlerville. wnrneld Is a villa: on Tue River Omxiaite Kerrnil, W. V», and Kurnit is an the nelvlage of the Williamson coal field. About twenty mile: iron. the town of wllllnmon Itulf.
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HIMLER COAL CO. TIPPLE WITH ITS 45-DEG. SLOPE
This shows the tippin before it was entirely completed. The shape is so steep and short as to be what our mineral-mining brothers would call an inclined shaft.
