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The Mayor of La Union and Executive Chairman of the Foundation Cante de las Minas, Francisco Bernabé, and Deputy Mayor of Culture and Director of the International Festival del Cante de las Minas, Julio García, today visited the mining personally Galian Salvador Perez and the widow of mining Ginés Penaranda Segura, Carmen Roca Olmos.
This visit occurs prior to the official character to them, which will take place on Wednesday 6 August as the "Day of The Union" Prologue Day International Festival del Cante de las Minas tribute.
Like every year, The Union presents its compliments to a miner and a miner's widow in memory of the sacrifices made in the development of this tough profession and today is a past unionense all be proud.
In this personal visit, Francisco Bernabé said the "immense satisfaction posed to La Union to pay tribute to our miners and their widows, for thus we do justice and reconcile us all to our past, which, after all, but the world is not mine and the people who made it happen. "
The mining Galian Salvador Perez was born in 1939 in El Algar.
It was 1958 when just 19 years and "still practically a child," began his work in "Streetcar" to extract silver mine, sphalerite and pyrite, in the time when Esteban Bernal, future Mayor of the Union , was the owner of the mine.
Lively and anecdotal, Salvador tells us as were his years in the mine: "I started working there because there was nothing else," says Salvador, who admits that working conditions were harsh, "hasselled in a bucket into the well and there galleries were then sellabas gender vats to remove him to the street, it was very hard, with hammers, had to throw it over his shoulder or head to remove it. "
Trembling, shows a cracked old photograph to show a scene in which some young people are seen semi-dressed, he among them, to say "all who are here, they're all dead but me."
And is that despite its Larda and hard life, Salvador can be considered a lucky man.
Except for some non-serious accidents at work, this mining has cheated silicosis, and has reached the age of 74 years with a health still allows you to joke about it, "If I had caught, he would be buried" .
He moved to La Union 54 years ago out of love for his wife, María Aznar Melgarejo, with whom he had 9 children.
Following the closure of the mine unionense, moved to mazarrón for
continue working on another farm: The Pedreras mine.
As a householder, dedicated Salvador morning to work in the mine and evenings to work in the field.
You had to make as much money as possible, and salaries were not very high.
After eleven years difficult, Salvador leaves the mine to start working in the city of La Union, where he said he did "everything: undertaker, butcher, sweeper ..."
Even having lived a quiet life until his retirement in 2003, Salvador admits proudly that in the case of going back in time and have the opportunity, I would work in the mine without thinking: "of course would get me without fear, as I already know what that is, so yeah, I'd get. "
Very hard has also been the life of Carmen Roca Olmos, married miner Ginés Segura Penaranda, who died in October last year at the age of 82 years of the notorious victim as "disease of mine," silicosis.
Born in La Union in 1931, from either worked on farms Penyarroya company as "Brunita" or "Gloria".
Carmen and Gines started "mocear" when she was just 14 and he 18. The boy began to visit his girlfriend every day in El Algar, his hometown, until they decided to embark on a life together and a long marriage that has lasted 64 years.
From this union were born three children, two girls and a boy.
His widow that Ginés always chose "the worst cuts" to make more money, about 1,000 pesetas a week of the decade of the 60s. Ginés also worked at the mine to help the medical treatment of a sister, ill tuberculosis.
They were 15 years this unionense devoted to extract ore from the Sierra, including high temperatures, difficulty breathing and suffocating humidity.
Until one brother emigrated to Barcelona, ​​and took it with him.
In the Catalan city's children grew and Gines Carmen for 30 years.
And it was in the late 90s when the disease Carmen's mother forced them to return to the Union.
Ginés time and had retired, and his desire and his entire family was returning to their land.
Carmen is excited to remember how he loved to Ginés mine yet.
His musical idol, and his wife, could be none other than Antonio Molina.
And his favorite song, "I'm a miner."
A hymn that this woman, full of life inexhaustible at age 78 working, you can not hear without emotion.
The widow of miner honored this year greatly appreciates the recognition of the Festival del Cante de las Minas, but says he would have liked more than I would have received this award in her husband's life.
Carmen says, from his modesty and love for her husband: "He deserved it more."
Source: Agencias
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