Jedinstvo, February 03, 1961

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Canadians Of Slavic Origin Have a i Manifestacije slovenske solidamosti
Big Contribution to Make
(Continued from Page One)
historical art treasure- - m Canada
has come to an end and they are
now back in the Wawel Castle in
Krakow where they belong We are
eojxy to say that there were people
calling themselves Poles in Canada
who objected to the return of their
sacred property to the people of
Poland. Needless to say, they did
not speak for the masses of Polish
Canadians— and well, there's a
black sheep in every family, as they
say.
(One Canadian newspaper went
out of its way to point out among
those Polish treasurers was Sxczer-bie- c,
the ancient coronation sword
of the Polish kings, so named be-cause
Boleslaw Chrobry is supposed
to have nicked it on the Golden
Gate in Kiev, that is part of a sad
history of times past—times which
will never return Now Kiev and
Warsaw are good sisters and who-ever
should dare ever again to at-tack
either one of them will get not
only his sword, but his teeth dent-ed!)
We axe glad that there is now a
trade mission of the USSR in Can-ada,
a Polish trade mission too, and
(hat the prospect for mutual trade
is growing. Our only complaint is
that it is not growing fast enough-- —
not only because trade paves the
road to poace, not only because it
is good for. the Slavic countries, but
also because Canada needs it—our
economy needs it, our workers need
It, our termors need it, and our coun-try's
independence needs itl
We ate glad that more Canadians
are visiting the Slavic countries both
on business and in the line of cul-tural
and scientific exchange, sports
competitions etc , as well as tourists,
and wo are glad that we have been
able to welcome guests from Slavic
countries in Canada Again, our
only complaint is that there are not
enough of such visits and ex-changes,
because they help enorm-ously
to create better understanding
of oach other—and better under-standing
means better chances for
peace. There are so many suepi-cion- s,
so much ignorance of the facts
and outright untruths to be swept
away I
It is a matter for congratulation
that the study of Slavic languages
and interest in Slavistics generally
is growing in Canada, that many
thousands of Canadians, for exam-ple,
are now even learning Russian
through regular courses over the
, radio and television. This not only
goes along the line of setting the
balance right —they have been
studying English in the Slavic coun-tries
for many years and on a broad
scale— but today, in 1961, everyone
must admit that there is much that
we could learn from the USSR and
the other Slavic countries, in some
bronchos of knowledge we've al-ready
got to run to catch up with
thorn, and a knowledge of the lan-guage
will help us to do it.
And we are happy that the time
has come when very many Cana-dians
are saying loudly today the
things that only we and very few
others were saying even a short
year ago The professors and stu-dents
of the Universities and now
the high school students, churches
and liberal groups, trade unionists,
professional people, prominent citi-zens
and rank-and-fi- le Canadians
are demonstrating in many different
movements and actions against pre-paration
of nuclear war, for Cana-dian
neutrality, to leave NATO and
NORAD, not to permit nuclear
weapons to be stored in Canada
or bases for launching them to be
built on our soil, for total world
disarmament . . We are no longer
a voice in the wilderness. We are
part of a growing chorus of the Can-adian
people singing the inspired
song of peace and friendship among
all men We must admit that there
are some people among Slavs in
Canada who still strike up the old
discordant notes To them we
say. "Wake up! John Foster Dulles
is as dead as Hitler — bury them,
banish them from your minds and
U Torontu jo preminuo O-le- g Vladimir Rodomar, rus-k- i
bjelogardejac izbjeglica,
aktivni ucesnik kontrarevo-lucijc- .
U nekrolozima se iz-no- ei
da so lorio sa "srpskom
brigadom", sluzio u francus-koj- ,
britanskoj i americkoj
obavjcitajnoj sluzbi. a Vla-divostok
je napustio s "po-tljcdnji- m americkim bro-dom- "
koji je vokIo americke
flsCri
John Weir
join tho clean and noble cause ol
friendship and peacel That is the
road which tho Slavic peoples have
taken, that is the road which the
Canadian people are taking. Turn
away from tho dark shadows of the
dead past and face the morning
sunl"
It is a new world we are living in.
Africa has risen after centuries of
slavery to join the free peoples of
the world Cuba is the swallow that
heralds the coming Latin American
spring. The Slavic nations at the
head of 1,000,000,000 people in the
socialist countries, stretching from
Albania and Berlin to Korea and
Vietnam, are successfully carrying
out the task to produce more goods
per capita and provide a better and
richer life for every person than
does vaunted America—and to do
it within tho next decade. Slavic
unity has something to do with that
too!
It is tho emblem of the Soviet
Union that has been planted on the
moon. And while animals have no
nationality, the two Christopher
Columbuses of outer space who
circled the earth 18 times in a space
ship and returned alive and well
back to earth bore the Slavic names
of Strelka and Belka.
One year ago the hopes of the
world ran high. Premier Khruschov
had made his world-shakin- g pro-posal
to the United Nations for com-plete
and general world disarma-ment
to be carried out under inter-national
control within four years.
The General Assembly of the United
Nations voted unanimously for it.
That plan was torpedoed. But the
attempts to continue the Dulles
"brink of war" policies are meeting
defeat in Cuba, in the Congo, in
Laos—and Eisenhower, the partner-in-crim- e
of John Foster Dulles, has
been repudiated by the American
people. A great hope is once again
rising in the hearts of people every-where—
with a greater caution and
a greater determination that man-kind
will not again be betrayed.
We are proud that we, the Slavic
Canadians, through our progressive
organizations and through the Can-adian
Slav Committee have made a contribution to the battle for
peace. Our rallies across the entire
country this month are rallies for
peace We have published two
pamphlets —in English and in Slavic
languages— in that cause. Last
spring under the title taken from
the message sent before his death
by Julius Fucik— "People. Bo Vigil-ant- l"
—we published the documents
showing Hitler's plans to extermin-ate
the Slavic peoples as part of his
insane attempt to conquer the world,
plans which some unhung Nazis are
still dreaming of today And this
month we have Gregory Okule-vich- 's well documented warning of
the catastrophe that faces mankind
if we don't achieve disarmament
and peaceful co-existen- ce, an ex-pose
of those who are blocking the
way and an answer to the ques-tions
being asked today by the peo-ple.
It bears the title "At the Cross-road- e
—For Life and Happiness."
That struggle has not yet been
won And that is why we, the Slavic
unity movement, still have a role to
play and a job to do for peace
There are other jobs to be done
too Not the least of them is the job
of putting an end to the discrimin-it'o- n that is practi-- d against the
SMRT JEDNOG „PRIJATELJA" JUGOSLAVIJE
:
intervoncionisticke t r u p e.
Njegovi stari su u Rusiju do-.seli- li
iz Crne Gore.
I Rodomar je nasoj javnosti
poznat iz 1911. — 1916. go-dine,
kad je stajao na colli
I organizacije "Kanadski pn-jjate- lji
Jugoslavije", koja je
,
bila stvorena na inicijativu
j jugoelavenskog konzula. Toj
I organizaciji je bilo povjerc--
no da rasporedjuje fonriom
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Slav- - and nut only the Slavic
people r Canada by the Depart-ment
of C tizenship and Immigra-tion
We cannot any longer puli c s
punches on this question.
We are revolted and angry at tho
revelations that fascist war crimin-als,
little and not-so-lit- tle Eic.i-mann- s,
are provided a haven from
punishment in Canada, given fat
jobs, given citizenship papers and
not only permitted but encouraaod
to preach hatred and war m our
country. That's an international
scandal and a mockery of the mil-lions,
including Canadians, wh- -
died fighting the Nazi beasts dur-ing
the Second World Var But tho
other side of the coin is no le
shameful—when hundreds of Slavic
workers are denied citizenship be-cause
they were and remain anti-fascists!
Men and women who have
lived as long as 40 years in Canada,
who have given a lifetime of labour
to build up this country, who have
built homes and raised families
here, some of whom fought in Can-ada's
armed forces in both world
wars, cannot become citizens. Why?
The department doesn't have to say
why and it's decision is final, you
can't appeal it. Why are our people
being discriminated against' Be-cause
they refuse to become janis-saries
against their own people?
Because they believe in peace? Be-cause
they avail themselves of the
supposed rights of Canadians to join
a trade union, cultural or benefit
association or political party of their
own choice? Because they read a
newspaper which somebody in of-fice
doesn't happen to like? Because
they go to their own hall? Because
they attend meetings such as this
one?
The minister of citizenship and im-migration
may be a lady ... to the
unhung war criminals, but to our
people that department is cruel, cal-lous
and oppressive. Today, when
even in the farthest corners of the
earth human beings will no longer
tolerate despotism, oppression and
discrimination, we here certainly
aren't going to take it lying down.
Our next pamphlet, which will be
out this spring, is going to expose
this shameful situation to the whole
Canadian people—yes, and to the
world! We know that the decent
Canadian people will stand with us
to win this battle for democracy at
home.
There are many tasks which we
Slavic Canadians should act to-gether
on or help one another out.
Last year there was the 1,000 years
of Polish statehood and the 550th
anniversary of Grunwald. This year
there is the 30th anniversary of the
founding of our member Russian
Canadian organization. There are
other such events which should be
close to the hearts of all Slavs
The World Council of Poace has
named two outstanding Slavic per-sons
for world-wid- e commemoration
this year —Lomonosov and Shev-chenk- o. We are, of course, marking
the anniversaries of all the great
men of culture, of science, of human
thought and achievement. We are
the heirs of the best that has been
produced on all continents and in
all the centuries But we are proud
that our own contribution is receiv-ing
the world-wid- e study and recog-nition
which it deserves So we must
together as Slavs and together with
all cultural and progressive circles
in Canada pay tribute to the mem-ory
of the great Russian scientist
Lomonosov, whose torch of learning
throws light upon the whole world
And we must join in the great
events, culminating in the national
festival of song, music and dance
here in Toronto next July 1, to
hUoknroauinrianthepoemt,emaorrtyist oafndtherevgorleua- t
tionary democrat, Taras Shevchen-k- o It Is fitting that I should in dos-ing
quote the words that Shevchen-k- o whpicehnnceadrrymoaremtehsasnagae ceanstutrryueagfoor
us today as it was for our great-grandfathers-
'Let all the Slavs aood brothers be
And sons of the Sun of Truth "
koji je bio odredjen za Jugo-slavij- u
iz opceg kanadskog
fonda. Radilo se o svoti od
GOO.000 dolara. U vrijeme
burnih politi6kih dogadjaja
pred proglaSenjc republike
1915. god. Rodomar je pro-glasi- o
da prekidn Siljanje
pomoci. Protiv toga jc oStro
protestiralo Vijecc Kanads-ki- h
JiiEnih Slavena, pa je
vlada naredila da sc taj fond
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oduzme od Rodomarovc or
ganizacije i preda Kanads-ko- m
ervenom krizu, koji je
otpremio pornoc".
Rodomar i "Kanadskj pri-jate- lji
Jugoslavije" su bili
prijatelji starog re2ima i za-t- o
nisu htjeli pomoci narodu.
Zbog toga je izmedju Vijeca
Kanadskih JuZnih Slavena i
"prijatelja" stalno dolazilo
do sukoba.
FodmoRodilnja Jerina Gabre recilirala je pjemu
"J a ham mlaria pwnirka"
Odlicno uspjela priredba
u Hamiltonu
U subotu 28. januara u U-krajinsk-om
radnifikom do-m- u
na Barton St. odrzao je
mjesni Odbor slavenskih or-ganizac- ija
zakusku sa igran-ko- m
i malim programom, ko-ji
je popraccn govorom sa o-bjasnje- njem
znacaja Dana
"Slavenske solidamosti", ko
ji so svakc godinc provodi u
januaru mjesecu.
Program je izvela omladi-n- a
sa nekoliko narodnih ko-la
i igara, koje kod gleda
laca izazvalo prijatno zado-voljstv- o.
Nakon izvedenog
programa i pozdravnog go-vor- a
pocela jc igranka i za-bavljan- je,
pa je omladina
pomjc§avsi se sa ostalim na-rodo- m
koji su plesali i oni o-p- ct
uhvatili se u kolo i po-nov- no
izmedju publik0 igln-l- i
svoje igre, Sto jo pobudilo
kod starijih veoma dobro ra-spolozcn- jc
i vesclje.
Ovc godinc posjet jo bio
zaista odlican. Ukrajinski
U
Pise: Vlada
(Port Arthur)
No ce biti od gorega ako
!o3 ncsto kazem o mom rod-no- m
mjestu Mrkopalj.
Mrkopalj je udaljen od
Seljeznicke stanice Lokve 9
kilometara. Nalazi se u jed-n- oj
kotlini. Ima ne§to polja.
Oknlo njega su kosenice, a
pozadi lijcpa jelova Suma.
koja se prostire od Slovenijc
pa do Primorja i Ogulina u
Lief.
Ima oko 100 kuca. Prije
je bila opcina, a sada'e mje-sni
ured. U o-pc- ini
bilo je §est pilana a sa-d- a
je samo jedna. Mrkopalj
ci malo znaju o
ali su bili dobri §umari,
tosaCi i vrlo dobri kirijasi.
Mjesto ncma 2iv0 vodc, pa
jo nekad poteSkoca za vodu.
Bilo jo slucajeva kad se jc
po vodu illo u Lokve, 11 ki-lometara
od Mrkoplja. Dva
puta se trazilo 2ivu vodu, pr--vi
put, ako se no varam 1902.
godine. Onda je nacelnik bio
moj djed, pa sam od njega
cuo, da se u Mrkopalju zivu
vodu nc mof e naci, jer je to
ren takav da voda nc moze
doci na povrsinu. Godine
1919. dolao je inZinjer sa
maSinom da trazi vodu. Tn
sam i ja bio zaposlon. Bio
sam prisutan kad je djed re-ka- o
inJinjcru da co se obje-si- t
ti sred mjesta ako nadje
vodu. I dosad nije nadjena.
Sada se rndi o dopreml iz
drugih mjesta.
Prvi stanovnici Mrkopalj
dom bio je pun naroda, sta-rijih,
srednjih godina i mla-djarij- e
raznih slavenskih na-rodno- sti
pomijesani i svi u-jedinj- eni
u borbi za mir i
prijateljstvo medju narodi-ma- ,
jcr to Je bio smisao ovo-g- a
zajcdni£kog veselja. Do
pola noci ii grupama disku-siran- a
jc svjotska situacija,
borba za mir u svijetu, rad
Kanadskog kongresa mira,
koga svim s i 1 a m a pot-poma- ie
Sveslovcnski komi-tc- t
sastavljen od svih napre-dni- h
slavenskih organizaci
ja.
Uostalom, ova zajcdniSka
naprcdnih Sla-vena
stvorila jak utisak na
sve one koji nisu u proslosti
ovakovim sves-lavenski- m
manifcstacijnma-solidarnost- i
i bratstva.
Clan mjesnog
Slavenskog komitcta
u Hamiltonu
M0JI UTISCI STAROM
KRAJU
Papic
(Svrsctak)
Mrkopaljskoj
poljoprivre-di- ,
manifestacija
prisustvovali
oko 1597. bili su Srbi, 1750.
nastanili su se Ccsi i Hrvati.
Godine 1785. mjesto je prog-la§cn- o
trgovi§tem. Tada je
bilo 2.9 11 stanovnika.
Marija Terezija dala je
zagradit 2upnu crkvu, koju
su Nijcmci u proSIom ratu
sruSili. Godine 1771. ustano-vljcn- a
je plovanija a prijc je
bila kapelanija. Matica po-sto- ji
od 1761. Prvi Supnik
bio je Josip Sostaric, kojega
je 1781. ubiln drvo. Govori
se da je pala grana s jele i
ubila ga. Zato su na5i stari
znali pjevat:
Pala kita
iz jelviSa
i ubila
popa SoStaricn
No bi bilo dobro da nc ka-zem
ne3to o jedanaostom zu
pniku, a to jc bio David Ma-rini- c.
rodjon u Kosinju, Lika.
Rio je dosta dobar za narod.
U prvom svjetskom ratu na-bavlj- ao je provizaciju. Rio
pijanac i kartas, znao se po-tu- ci
s deckim i trcao za 2c-nam- a.
Znao je reci : "Ja sam
Sovjek kao i svi drugi, ab
L'nrl en -- twl nltnCAn. #inHn
I lll 01 JIICH uuniuin чшш
1 sam svecenik." Bio je u Mr--
koplju od 1890. do 1921.
Trinaesti ?.upnik je bio I- -
ivan Butorac. On jo u vrije-me
prolog rata narodu go- -
vorio da jedni druge no op-- '
tuluju, da no govore tko ido
ju sumu itd. Bio je u prijatclj-stv- u
sn partisanima. Ali njfr ,
i
Uspeli koncert
kanadskih Slovena
ii Torontu
R :l de; proslava Meseca
- .vcn.,kc solidamosti koje se
ai. ivaju sirom Kanade u me-et
u anuaru, odrian je vrlo
u~pe an Koncert-mitin- g u To- -i
r ! . nedelju 29 januara.
к - -- ertni deo programa iz-- V'
dil'i u lskljucivo deoa raz--"
r lovenskih orgaruzacija.
Mi. na ie bilo gledah i slulati
dcrn pevacki hor ruske orga-r-- .,
it tie plesacke grupe Ukra-mar- a,
Slovaka i Karpatorusa
a icrma Gabre, koja je istupi- -i
i one nase organizacije, sa
ic Klamcrci;om, sa svojim umi- -i
atim osmehom, u divnoj na-- :
idnoj nosnji, osvojila je sroa
, vih pnsutnih.
Ovo ie Drvi out da ie na slo--
venskoj pnredbi bio iskljucivo
deciji talenat a po svoj prilici
nece biti poslednji jer se na
koncertu vec rxstavilo ratanje
od mnogih pnsutnih da se sa
ovakvim radom nastavi. Svi su
pozdravili ovaj dobar pocetak
i izrazili ieliu da se nastavi u
torn pravcu kako bi i nasi mla
d]i, ovde u Kanadi, upoznali
slavne tradiaje svojih preaata
i nastavili da prenose kultume
tekovine slovenekih naroda u
nznicu kanadeke kulture.
Voino je takodje istaci da je
u citavom decjem programu
glavni naglasak bio za mir.
Na zavrsetku programa, sva sc
deoa nastupila zajodno i ofpe-va- la
dve posme o miru.
Za uspoh ovog decjog kon- -
corta moze se uglavnom za- -
hvaliti vrednoj omladinki So-n- ji
Nestoruk, koja je uloJila
mnogo truda za organizovanjo
programa. Samim koncertnim
programom rukovodila je Anka
Nozinlc.
U drugom delu programa na
pozornia su bile pretstavljene
sve organizacije, flanico Slo-vensk- og
komiteta. Ovom delu
programa pretsedavao je cm
ladinac, clan Karpatoruske or-ganizacije,
Mihailo Lukac i is-tak- ao
je vainost priredbe kao
i potrebu solidamosti kanad-skih
Slovena za mir, za demo-krati- ju
l ravnopravnost svih
ICanadjana, ukljuclv i Kana-djan- e
slovenskog porekla. U i-- me
Kanadskog sveslovenskog
komiteta govorio je njegov se-kre- tar
John Weir.
Na vehko zadovoljstvo pri-sutm- h,
prekidan sa cestim a-plauz- om,
u cast gosta i gla-vn- og
govrnika tog dana, save-tm- ka ambasade SSSR u Otta-w- i
G Kavenna, redtovao je
nai omladinac Bolo Pavkovic,
"Pozdrav nasoj ruskoj braci".
G. Kaverin je u svom govoru
pozdravio plemeniti rad kana-dskih
Slovena za stvar mira i
istakao je doprinos Sovjetskog
Saveza za ocuvanje mira u
svetu.
Ovo je zaista bila vrlo zna- -
cajna priredba kanadskih Slo-vena
a Sloveni Toronto su na
dostojan na&n proslavili Meeec
3lovenske solidamosti u Kana-di,
za mir i bolju buducnost a
u isto vreme, sa nastupom mla-dje- g naraitaja, utrli put za
produzenje ovog plemenitog
rada
Jodan od pnsutnih.
ga nisu htjeli slusatl bas onl
najpoboJniji.
"Sport" u Mrkoplju Je bit-can- je
i kartanje j to za vino
tko izgubi mora platit. To
traje od proljeca do zime,
ncma dana da se nc igra, a
osobito u nodjelju od jutra
pa do dvanaest sati uvovfer.
Gostionica se zatvara u 11
sati, pa se nckada igra 1 za
novae i traje do ponedjclj-k- a
ujutro. Rijctki su Mrko-paljc- i
koji nc igraju mari-ja- s;
kad dodjeS u gostionicu
ncma stola gdje so ne igra.
Vecinom po igra za vino, all
ima onih koji bi htjeli igrati
za novae, ali to je zabranje-no- .
karJteadnnomjesamza gnolevdaaeo.
D o s a o je milicajac i na-red- io
im da prestanu. Mil-icajac
je otisao i oni nastavili
da igraju. Poslije jc doao
drugi milicajac i boz rijccl
pobrao karte i novae. Nasta
la je vika i graja, pa im jo
vratio novae.
Tako vam je to u Mrkopa
lju.