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4-- NASE NOVINE, September 23, 1981
Dragi prijatelji:
Proslo je ved duze vreme od
kada mi je istekla pretplata i
zeleo sam da je obnovim na
vreme, ali sam morao dekati
do sada zbog promene
adrese. Evo, sada vam
Saljem 6ek na $35.00 za
obnovu i fond.
Primite srdacne pozdrave i
lepe zelje za uspeh u vasem
radu.
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Saljem vam cek na $25.00 za
moju obnovu i fond, u
spomen moga pok. supruga
Emilija Sardocha. On je
voleo da cita "Na§e novine".
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danl moji.
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vidi. Dobro se drzi.
Pozdrav od mog tate i mene.
Anna Ujcich Hunyadi
Cleveland, Ohio
Dear friends:
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$30.00 covering my renewal
and the rest for the fund.
Fraternally
Mark Heller
Bellflower, Ca.
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moju obnovu i fond.
Srdadno vas pozdravIjam.
J. Jurtin
St. Catharines, Ont.
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MEMORIAL HELD
To appreciate the real worth of
John Radosevic's long life, so
tragically ended but so usefully
lived, we must see it in the context
of our times. To many it might
appear to have been a very ordinary
life He worked hard from his
earliest years at a number of jobs,
as a logger, a miner, a road worker
and a fisherman, married late and
with his devoted wife Esther,
struggled to raise their children.
He held no public office and he
received no official honors. Yet
this gathering here today to honor
his memory, a tribute shared by the
many on the fishing grounds who
cannot be here, expressed the wide
respect in which he was held — the
feeling that we have lost a union
brother, and some of us a Com-munist
Party comrade, whose life
in fact was extraordinary.
It was extraordinary in the clarity
of his understanding of our socie-ty,
far surpassing that of politic-ians
whose policies offer na solut-ions
and economists who cannot
answer the questions they pose. It
was extraordinary in his selfless
commitment to a cause that is
greater than any one of us, the
cause of the working people and
their ultimate destiny of a socialist
society that will eliminate the
threat of war beclouding the future
of humankind. Of how many who
die heaped with honors and rich
beyong need can it be said, as it
can be said of John Radosevic,
that he asked so little and gave so
much of himself?
When John was born in 1902 at Lie
in modern Yugoslavia it was still
part of the Austro-Hungari- an
empire. For centuries the peoples
of the Balkans had struggled
against national imprisonment
within the boundaries of the
Austro-Hungaria- n or Ottoman
Turkish empires, or lived pre-cariously
in independent kingdoms
constantly threatened by their
powerful neighbors. By the time he
was 17, John's life had been
touched directly or indirectly by
three wars, the First Balkan War by
the Balkan League states against
Turkey in 1912, the Second Balkan
War between the Balkan League
states in 1913, and the First World
War.
The victorious Allied powers
dismantled, the ramshackle Austro
-- Hungarian empire ereating Yugo-slavia
as the kingdom of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes out of its
captive territories. But formationof
the new state did little to end the
centuries of feudal backwardness,
the exploitation of the working
people and perpetuation of natio-nal
antagonisms to maintain the
privileges of the ruling class.
The socialist ideas of the Russian
Revolution reverberated in Yugo-slavia
as they did throughout
Europe. To whatever extent they,
influenced John's early thinking,
his burning desire was to leave the
poverty, the tradition encrusted
backwardness of his native land,
for what he believed would be the
opportunities of a new land
overseas. In those post-wa- r years
thousands of Croats and Serbs
emigrated to Canada, the United
States and Australia in search of a
new life, a better life, and in 1926,
the year he came to this country,
John was among them.
For a few years he worked in
logging camps, in a mine in the
Nelson-Tra- il area, and in road
camps, but in 1930, with the onset
of the depression, the new land
became as devoid of opportunity
as the old. And under the 'Iron
Heel' policies of Prime Minister R.
B. Bennett's Conservative govern-ment,
it became no less oppres-sive.
Whether as workers organiz
IN FISHERMEN'S HALL, VANCOUVER ON AUGUST 15
ing to protect their living standards
or as unemployed demonstrating
for work and wages, the response
of all governments was the same.
Picket lines were smashed by
police, strikes were broken by
scabs, union and unemployed
leaders were beaten up and jailed.
Like thousands of others, John
worked at whatever jobs he could
get, always of short duration, and
lor much of the time he was
unemployed. In Vancouver he
became secretary of the Croatian
branch of the Canadian Labor
Defence League, the national
organization that raised bail for
those arrested, provided legal aid
and helped the families of those
sentenced to jail terms.
In the 1930 waterfront strike, when
striking longshoremen were
attacked by police in the "Battle of
Ballantyne Pier', he was one of the
many treated for unjuries at the
hospital or the first aid centre
hastily set up by the longshore-men's
women's auxiliary.
It was an unequal battle, as I well
remember — fully, equipped police
confronting unarmed strikers
assembled in a peaceful demon-stration,
and the police attack with
teargas and clubs was extended
into the working class areas of
Powell and Cordova streets by the
city mounted police squad, headed
by the notorious Sergeant Scanlon
— 'Scan Ion's Cossacks', as they
were known — who ran down even
women and children in front of
their homes.
Out of his experiences in those
years, John shaped the convictions
he upheld with honor throughout
his 49 year' membership in the
Communist Party, which he joined
in 1932 while it was an autlawed
organization under section 98 of
the Criminal Code.
He served in the armed forces of
his adopted country during the
Second --World War, but the pull of
his native land was still strong. In
1948, when an appeal was made for
emigrants to return to help in the
task of transforming Yugoslavia
into a socialist state, he was
among those who responded,
accompanied by Esther whom he
married that same year.
But John was a socialist inter-nationalist
who understood the
principle of solidarity, whether in a
union struggle or the continuing
struggle of the declining capitalist
system to impede, divide and
weaken the rising socialist system.
He understood the cold war as
another aspect of the unremitting
attempt by the major capitalist
powers to destry socialism
wherever the working people suc-ceeded
in establishing it. They had
failed in their attempt to crush the
Soviet Union at its birth. Britain
and France had brought themselv-es
close to utter defeat by their
collaboration with German
fascism. Now, subordinate to U. S.
Pedeset godina
Nikada nije previSe
govoriti i misliti o radnifikoj
novini, jer ona svakom
radniku i radnici pomaze da
zdravo gleda i da zdravo
misli. Pomaze im da slo-bod- no
rasuduju o drust-veni- m
problemima. Svaki
radnik ili radnica koji 6itaju
radni6ku §tampu, mogu
bolje i realnije- - objasniti
dogadaje u svijetu, kao i
uzroke tih dogadaja, nego
oni koji ne cltaju radnifiku
stampu.
Iz tih razloga, mi, Citaoci
"NaSih novina", iz Farrell-- a i
policy, they were striving to regain
by whatever means the countries
lost to socialism in the wake of the
Soviet armies' liberating sweep to
Berlin.
John knew of the British policy
which for much of the war denied
support to Tito's partisans. In my
last discussion with him I recalled
that as editor of The People had
been summoned to the provincial'
censor's office and warned that the
paper would be suspended or
banned if it continued to publish
articles supporting Tito — the
British were supporting
Mihailovich; although there was
ample evidence of his col-laboration
with the Nazis. Not long
afterward I was advised that the
warning order had been lifted
because the British were now
supporting Tito.
During his three years in Yugo-slavia,
John became profoundly
disturbed as relations between
Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union
were strained to the breaking
point. He saw the break as a
weakening of socialist solidarity
which inevitably must affect the
shaping of a socialist society in
Yugoslavia, the reason he had
returned. In 1951 he and Esther
came back to Canada with the two
children born to them in Yugosla-via,
and he reentered the fishing
industry, joining the embattled
UFAWU to whose struggles- - he-devote-d
a quarter of a century of
his working life.
In the works of the Soviet poet
Vladimir Mayakovsky you will find
these lines:
"We've
seven days
to spend,
twelve hours
for diverse uses.
Life must begin —
and end.
Death won't accept
excuses. "
John Radosevic had no need of
excuses for the way he had spent
his life. On the contrary, he
embodied the finest ideals to --
which Communists aspire, for he
was modest, self-disciplin- ed in
fulfilling his commitments to his
party, his union, his ethnic organi-zation,
unassailable in his princip-les.
To Esther, his partner of 30 years
who sustained him In his con-victions,
he leaves a proud
memory. To his son John, and his
daughter Helen, he bequeaths the
finest of legacies, the inspiration
of a new order of society, free of
exploitation of man --by man, free of
the scourge of war, entrusted to
them to carry into their future. To
all of us he leaves an example of
how the life of a worker linked in
common struggle with the lives of
millions of workers throughout the
world can shape the course of
history.
"NaSih novina"
okolice, prikljucujemo se
ovoj velikoj historijskoj
proslavi, njenoj 50. godiS-njic- i,
zele6i joj da i dalje
izlazi i ide pravim putem
progresa i interesa za
radnidku klasu, dasvojom
bakljom uklanja mrak ispred
radnika, i vodi ih u svijetlo.
Kao dokaz nase privr-zenos- ti,
Saljemo svotu of
$135.00 u fond za proslavu
50. tog rodendana "NaSih
novina".
2ivile "NaSe novine".
Citaoci iz Farrella, Ohio
i okolice