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The one that was guarding alarmed the others by calling out: “The wire brothers, the wire!” From that time, from those events, the Moldavians are called “wire”. But starvation did not just root out the Moldavians, but also others from other lands. A rambling movement was started in the entire country. There was a sort of parents that banished their children from home by simply not having anything to give them to eat. At such state of need the demand fro employment turned up, that concluded with the beginning of the country’s reconstruction. Before and during “Hunedoara’s effusion” through that small village (Indoara) more than ten thousand people have passed. The rambling of some people was justified, others found the occasion to “hit” in a new place, and far from their families, relatives and they could afford everything. A unique character of that period was Simon, a man of 25 years old, the son of the restaurant’s boss, which you see and which was nationalized in June 11. The way of protesting, of Simon, against the government that took his source earnings, was to never work for the GOVERNMENT (in our case, at the mine). That’s how Simon started to haunt all over the country, living his life after his own will. It happened that Simon had the same name as his father. Simon was going by train, bus, obviously without ticket. If he got caught there was no problem. He showed up his ID and a protocol was being “tamed” to …his father. A period of time has passed and it was five years since the father didn’t see his son, he knew were he was only by the place from where the penalties came, that were during every week. These, the penalties, were matters that everyone from home knew, but about many things through Simon went through, his “activities” not even his parents knew.
The reconstruction started, that in fact was the organization of the building yard at the future “Casa a Scanteii” (Sparkling House), “Casa Presei” (The House of Press) today, and that was made after a soviet project of the “Lomonosov University” but at lower scales. But this didn’t matter to Simon. What he was interested in directly was that they still got fences and guards at the future place of construction, but they used to bring continuously bricks on that vast field. Practically, the brick factories would send all the bricks in here and if they could sell they would have sold also to private industries. Our man, Simon, was “resting his feet” on a column of bricks and from that immensity of bricks columns you could hear an agitation beyond description. At an instance a man with a cart gets close to Simon and from chit-chatting Simon sells the brick he was sleeping on with 35 lei cash/piece.

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The man paid his fair-dealing, loaded the cart and left to bring others carts with which he can carry away the brick. With the money taken, Simon looked after his own way. What would have happened there after his leaving only God knows.
Other kind of adventure of Simon took place in a village near Pitesti. He was looking for work and accepted to be a retainer at a country man that was having a distinguished fruit tree orchard. It was during summer and the country man had mature fruits from August until late October. From now and until Christmas, there was a lot of work in the orchard, including getting and depositing the fruits for the winter season. But until that time, the fruits were being picked up, generally apples, and were being sold, according to the prize, in Pitesti or in other place. Simon was by turns, picker, cart man, stable man, salesman and others. He was being used in any work craft, he was very capable and the host was testing him continuously to see how honest he is. The employer happened to “forget” money in different places was “loosing” the keys from different boxes where he was keeping the money, but Simon knew what meant all these things and didn’t “react” different than the employer wished. Another form of testing Simon of his employer was loading the carts with bigger quantities of apples, more apples than he would tell Simon there were. Each time Simon would bring him home the carry-over. He got out of all these tests so well that the country man not only that he thanked God for the servant He gave him, but since he didn’t have any children he thought of making him his inheritor. During all Autumn Simon worked with high intensity at the duties that his employer engaged him, with any remarks, never answering back at what the boss had to say. Nobody could reproach him anything. He became one of them.

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One day, none of the employers could join Simon at the fair. Alone and somehow angry, he left to sell a cart full of apples. He sold the apples, the cart with the oxen for good, all at a good prize and maybe the employer is still waiting, even until today, for Simon to come back with the oxen cart and the money for the apples …
– Nowadays, a friend interrupted Buia, at what we are living, at this “wonderful” economics transformation, of laws and why not of mining too, there are some occurrences that fit perfectly with the words: “shoot at a pigeon and kill a crow”. Many have looked forward in “catching the clue” of the transformation but they realized that the plan of the reform is the type of: “dropping a brick”.
The mining fellowship was indebted. The mine diggers, indifferent to “where they will end” were the ones that had to “bear the troubles” as the old “mining combatants”. Their lay down started. Who would have thought then that in a horizontal economics development, if a single link breaks, if the circle cracks, nothing else turns round, continuously. The mining fall down meant the break down of the national vehicles industry of construction, at the low consumption of electricity, even in agriculture, with no other untouched place left. We may feel like smiling. Maybe we would even smile with pleasure if we weren’t sure that it would be a fake one. Through the break down of the economics infrastructure of Romania by those 15.000 specialists in only 200 days almost 23 millions of people (minus their parties’ members) became almsmen. It seems a lot and mistreated but after the mining energy power “felt down”, UMT, UNIO, “Roman”, “Tractorul” and many other industries that the country was proud with.
Our old leader understood in ’68 that is necessary to cover yourself against “friends”. He left to build strategically communications that would allow a fast disruption of the tropes in the centre of the country. Such road, from concrete was servicing some mining villages that today have through the flagging green crosses of grass grown between and the mountain streams sectioned it on the broadways making it impracticable. By closing the mines, population from the small mining villages and not to say about the mining cities population, left with any kind of occupation. Thousands of people were left with any kind of possibility of living, with any hope of realizing something and that something to be at least for the daily bread of their children. It is absolutely right that this tragedy doesn’t get at the so blasphemed palace (“Casa Poporului” , The Nation’s House) or at the office holders that were “algorithmic punished” after two years, while the country …The news that people get after ’89 are called: the coldness from inside the houses, assessments, salary (that became almost welfare), that aren’t necessary to come in time, efflorescence, TBC, suicides …

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