Technikatörténeti szemle 19. (1992)

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joined to the lodge in an always increasing number. The lodge saluted in a solemn meeting the peace-conference of Hague in 1904. The problem of education was a central question of the lodge. They helped the modern endeavours on eaci levels. They wanted for instance to ensure the possibility for youngsters to travel into foreign lands, especially into America to collect some sperts. Teaching was connected with the problem of patriotism, and that ethnic minorities. Youngsters have to be self-conscious enough to be able to work for the native land. It is guarantee of the development of Hungary. Rudolph Fabinyi had eleven children. One of them: Dr. Rudolph Fabinyi, the physician became the member of the lodge, too. The lodge took the support of industry also, as a national task. By industrialization they could prevent the terribly increasing rate of emigration. The poblem had also an ethnic character, because the old houses and territory, left by the Hungarian owners were occupied by Roumanians. The lodge uncovered the fatal mistake of the government in the problem of ethnic minorities. Hungarian government supported the Roumanian schools better, than that of Hungarians. A Roumanian Cultural Association, named .Astra" gave propaganda-leaflets to the Roumanians, agitating against Hungarian government (who supported them) and Hungarians at all. The lodge advised the government to fasten the boarder between Hungary and Roumania and to make sure the possibility of learning the Hungarian mother-language for each Hungarian child. When the Roumanians occupied Kolozsvár at Christmas 1918 withour any declaration of war, they offered to the professors, the possibility of remaining with the condition of swearing to the Roumanian constitution. But Fabinyi and several other professors refused this, so they had to leave Kolozsvár. One year later he died in Budapest. The lodges couldn't work ceased till the 6th of October 1926 because the Roumanian Grand Lodge wanted to enforce the lodge „Unió" to change the language into Roumanian, but they refused it The American freemasons intervenied, so the Roumanian Grand Lodge accepted the Union of Hungarian lodges, as its fraction with Hungarian language, with the center of Brassó (Brasov).