 At Jerome, Hillman Coal offered a general amnesty to most miners, if each returned to work as an individual and not as part of a union local.Nevertheless, the solid front displayed by Jerome miners laid the groundwork for the mine's eventual unionization in the 1930s.Further, as Hapgood, Blankenhorn, Beik and others point out, the miners themselves felt the 1922-23 strike to be a victory.