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Yugosl a v s in (ORIGINALY PUBLISHED IN THE PROGRESSIVE Slavic- - Canadians, who were compelled by difficult economic conditions to leave their native countries, have written many Important pa-ges In Canada's history. This is the case with all the Slavic people who settled in Canada and adopted this country as their new home. The Ukrainian-C-anadians in particular ли'1ш began to settle in thU country as early as 189C, un-deniably made a constructive .aiulan admirable contribution .In transforming Canada from .a chiefly agricultural land In-to a mighty Industrial giant. Of great significance is their pioneering work In 6penlng up the golden wheatflelds of We-stern Canada. Under difficult conditions; of the English language, Slavic-Ca-nadians spread throug-hout our vast country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Tor miserably low wages they toiled from dawn till dusk on the Canadian Trades, in the factories and mills, on the railroads and In the mines of Northern Ontario. Approximately 1,250,000 Yu-goslavs left their beloved natl-v- c country and settled beyond the seas. About 1.000.000 of them live In the United Sta-tes, £0,000 In Argentina, 12,-(0- 00 In Australia and approxi-mately 20,000 in Canada. The Yugoslav Immigrants In the United States are usualy refcred to as the "New Immi-gration" which reached Its amazing proportions during the two decades just before World War I. The majority of them reached America bet-ween 1885 and 1911, before they were collectively known as Yugoslavs (South Slavs) and before Yugoslavia came Into existence as a state after the collapse of the Austro-Hungari- an empire in 1918. According to Louis Adamir, a prominent Yugoslav-America- n author, who wrote "A Na-tion of Nations", the Yugoslav chapter In American history begins with the very birth of America. In his book, Mr. Л-da- mic states that little doubt exists that on Columbus' ships were Croatians from the Dal-matian city of Hagusa, now known as Dubrovnik. The sai-lors from the Dalmatian coast arc traditionally known as fearless and seafaring people and there exists a posibility that some of them accompa-nied Columbus in his Journey in 1492. In his popular book the au-thor further mentions that in about 1510 a fleet of ships from Itagusa — now called Dubrovnik — left for America hoping to settle In the New World. A number of them ap parently were shipwrecked off the coast of North Carolina. .Some of them who were res-cued mixed with the inhabi Ш I Ib-aw- S tants who since then have been known as the Croatan Indians ( note the similarity between Croatan and Croa-tian). The Yugoslavs, who experi-enced bitter physical difficul-ties, along with the people of other nationalities making up the "Nation of Nations", pla-yed a first rate role In buil-ding America. Today New Yor-kers admire the great structu-re of the Empire State Bull-din- g but few of them realize that the stonemason work was performed by master crafts-men from Dalmatia. In Ame-rica the names of Michael Pu-p- in and Nikola Tcsla, both of Serbian origin, are well and widely known. Today practi-cal- y everything motivated to turn by electrical energy is a result of Tcsla's invention. Dr. A. П. Bchrend, an Ameri-can scientist, in speaking a-b- out Tesla's work, said: "Were we to eliminate from our in-dustrial world the results of Tcsla's work, the wheels of industry could cease to turn, our electric trains and cars would stop, our towns would be dark, our mills and facto-ries dead and Idle. So far re-aching is his work that he has become the warp and woof of Industry." Many Yugoslavs also arrived in United States after the first world war. Some of them crossed the border into Cana-da and settled in such cen-tres as S. S. Marie, Welland and Hamilton. They were the first Yugoslavs to reach this country and were later joined by new immigrants who came directly Into Canada from Yu-goslavia. Today there are approxima-tely 20,000 Yugoslavs In Cana-da. They settled in this coun-tr- y after World War I — be-tween 1924 and 1930. The ma-Jorlt- y of them — 12,000 — arc Croatians; about 5,000 are Ky S i m a c - YOUTH IN 1918.) Serbians and 3,000 Slovenians. Without any knowledge of the language or industrial life they came from the farm-lands of Yugoslavia as and unqualified in-dustrial workers. They gained their livelihood by doing labour in the indus-trial sections of Canada, in the mines of Northern Onta-rio and in the forests of Bri-tish Columbia. Since the labour movement in Canada at that time was not very strong, the immig-rants had to accept difficult jobs and starvation wages. They were exploited and All of them today arc workers with the exception of an number of small businessmen. With them the Yugoslav immigrants brought debts and worries about their families, their loved ones whom they left behind. Some of them ho-ped to remain in Canada foi a year or two, make a "for-tune" and then return to their families. During the initial years, they were unaccustomed to the new conditions. In the begining they had no until branches of the Croatian Fraternal Union — an organization which today has a of 100,000 in America and Canada — estibilshcd. The Serbs, on the other hand, organized clubs of their Serbian People's Be-nevolent Association. The es-tablishment of these organi-zations gave the new immi-grants an opportunity to as-semb- ie and to discuss their problems. Slowly but surely the immi-grants were getting accusto-med to the way of life in Ca-nada. Realizing that a fortune cannot be made overnight, they built halls where they got together and organized tUnoti Vijea Kanadskih Juhiih Slatena u Hamilton! 1915. godin. brace u JugosUuji u oslobodilackoj borbi. L njemu su bili okupljenl SKtftf -- irfllte mmt w a H a cultural activities. The crushing weight of the deep economic crisis, which struck Canada in 1929, left a deeply rooted imprint upon the minds of the immigrants. During the depression there were no jobs; they had to join the army of the unemployed or worked for miserably low wages which were inadequate to keep themselves and their families alive. They lined be-hind the soup kitchens and the bread lines. In the light of these conditions, it is no wonder that the immigrants began to feci an urgent need for an organization through which they take part in the day-t- o- day struggles for th; advancement of their econo-mic needs. Realizing that their life was inseparable from the life of other Canadian work-ers, they joined the Canadiau labour movement and serious-ly began to tackle the job of organizing their own societies. During the depression the first progressive Yugoslav workers' clubs were born. In the beginning, the clubs came into existence in the larger in-dustrial centres and they en-veloped the Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian workers. They were called the Yugoslav Workers' Educational Clubs. The first newspaper printed in the lan-guage which the members of these clubs were able to ge' hold of was "Radnik", pub-lished in Chicago. However by the grace of the Yugoslav consular authorities in Wash-ington and Montreal "Had. nlk" no longer reached Can-ada. Following this, "Iskra " appeared and it was soon de-clared an illegal paper by the Canadian authorities. Following the ban on "Rad-nik- " and "Iskra" measures were taken to firmly establish a paper in Canada for the be ncfit of the Yugoslav immi 13 d a Emcric YUGOSLAV CANADIAN NEWSPAPER ADVANCE, inex-perienced back-breaki- ng dis-criminated. insignificant organi-zations membership Serbo-Croatia- n grants' In November, 1931, when the economic crisis was at its worst, when hundred. of thousands of Canadiau workers suffered from unem-ployment, misery, hunger and destitution, the first issue of "Uorba" appeared. — During the hungry Thirties, when Iron Heel liennet was in power a vicious attack was launched by reaction on the young Canadian labour move-ment. With the assistance of the authorities from the Yu-goslav consulate in Montreal who feared the strength of organized workers, Tomo Ca-ci- c, the first editor of "Bor-ba- ", was jailed tor two years because he fought for the rights of labour. In this drive against the labour movement reaction found its assistants in renegades such as Peter Stankovich, editor of a pro-fasc- ist sheet, "Hrvalskl Glas", and adherent of traitorous Мдбек who betrayed the peo-ple of Yugoslavia during the war of liberation and fled with the Germans when the Partizans liberated their coun try. They also iound them among the Serbian pro-fasci- st elements who were edit-ing the "Glas Kanadc". All of them unsuccessfully launched this attack against "Borba" the organ of the Yugoslav workers in Canada. These attacks of reaction did not succeed in destroying the young movement of Yu-goslav - Canadian w o rkers which inspitc of this constan-tly strcnghtcned itself and continued to further develop. In the beginning of 1932 "Bo-rba". whose Edtior at that time was Edward Yardas, was published on a weekly basis. During the month of Aug-ust 1932, the first convention of the Yugoslav Workers Edu-cational Clubs was called and held in Toronto, Ontario. At this convention the first na- - flfe, . ЈШШР' SLOGAUBORBi '1Ш2: - ;l Нгаг' 'ШвР? PROTI FASIZMA % Olatna evrha Vija je bila moraine i malenjalno pomajjanjc моЈе eii rodoljubhi Hrvali, Srbi, .Sloicnci i drujfi Jugclacni u Kanadi.
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Title | Jedinstvo, November 10, 1961 |
Language | hr; sr |
Subject | Yugoslavia -- Newspapers; Newspapers -- Yugoslavia; Yugoslavian Canadians Newspapers |
Date | 1961-11-10 |
Type | application/pdf |
Format | text |
Rights | Licenced under section 77(1) of the Copyright Act. For detailed information visit: http://www.connectingcanadians.org/en/content/copyright |
Identifier | JedinD2000080 |
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Title | 000337 |
OCR text | Yugosl a v s in (ORIGINALY PUBLISHED IN THE PROGRESSIVE Slavic- - Canadians, who were compelled by difficult economic conditions to leave their native countries, have written many Important pa-ges In Canada's history. This is the case with all the Slavic people who settled in Canada and adopted this country as their new home. The Ukrainian-C-anadians in particular ли'1ш began to settle in thU country as early as 189C, un-deniably made a constructive .aiulan admirable contribution .In transforming Canada from .a chiefly agricultural land In-to a mighty Industrial giant. Of great significance is their pioneering work In 6penlng up the golden wheatflelds of We-stern Canada. Under difficult conditions; of the English language, Slavic-Ca-nadians spread throug-hout our vast country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Tor miserably low wages they toiled from dawn till dusk on the Canadian Trades, in the factories and mills, on the railroads and In the mines of Northern Ontario. Approximately 1,250,000 Yu-goslavs left their beloved natl-v- c country and settled beyond the seas. About 1.000.000 of them live In the United Sta-tes, £0,000 In Argentina, 12,-(0- 00 In Australia and approxi-mately 20,000 in Canada. The Yugoslav Immigrants In the United States are usualy refcred to as the "New Immi-gration" which reached Its amazing proportions during the two decades just before World War I. The majority of them reached America bet-ween 1885 and 1911, before they were collectively known as Yugoslavs (South Slavs) and before Yugoslavia came Into existence as a state after the collapse of the Austro-Hungari- an empire in 1918. According to Louis Adamir, a prominent Yugoslav-America- n author, who wrote "A Na-tion of Nations", the Yugoslav chapter In American history begins with the very birth of America. In his book, Mr. Л-da- mic states that little doubt exists that on Columbus' ships were Croatians from the Dal-matian city of Hagusa, now known as Dubrovnik. The sai-lors from the Dalmatian coast arc traditionally known as fearless and seafaring people and there exists a posibility that some of them accompa-nied Columbus in his Journey in 1492. In his popular book the au-thor further mentions that in about 1510 a fleet of ships from Itagusa — now called Dubrovnik — left for America hoping to settle In the New World. A number of them ap parently were shipwrecked off the coast of North Carolina. .Some of them who were res-cued mixed with the inhabi Ш I Ib-aw- S tants who since then have been known as the Croatan Indians ( note the similarity between Croatan and Croa-tian). The Yugoslavs, who experi-enced bitter physical difficul-ties, along with the people of other nationalities making up the "Nation of Nations", pla-yed a first rate role In buil-ding America. Today New Yor-kers admire the great structu-re of the Empire State Bull-din- g but few of them realize that the stonemason work was performed by master crafts-men from Dalmatia. In Ame-rica the names of Michael Pu-p- in and Nikola Tcsla, both of Serbian origin, are well and widely known. Today practi-cal- y everything motivated to turn by electrical energy is a result of Tcsla's invention. Dr. A. П. Bchrend, an Ameri-can scientist, in speaking a-b- out Tesla's work, said: "Were we to eliminate from our in-dustrial world the results of Tcsla's work, the wheels of industry could cease to turn, our electric trains and cars would stop, our towns would be dark, our mills and facto-ries dead and Idle. So far re-aching is his work that he has become the warp and woof of Industry." Many Yugoslavs also arrived in United States after the first world war. Some of them crossed the border into Cana-da and settled in such cen-tres as S. S. Marie, Welland and Hamilton. They were the first Yugoslavs to reach this country and were later joined by new immigrants who came directly Into Canada from Yu-goslavia. Today there are approxima-tely 20,000 Yugoslavs In Cana-da. They settled in this coun-tr- y after World War I — be-tween 1924 and 1930. The ma-Jorlt- y of them — 12,000 — arc Croatians; about 5,000 are Ky S i m a c - YOUTH IN 1918.) Serbians and 3,000 Slovenians. Without any knowledge of the language or industrial life they came from the farm-lands of Yugoslavia as and unqualified in-dustrial workers. They gained their livelihood by doing labour in the indus-trial sections of Canada, in the mines of Northern Onta-rio and in the forests of Bri-tish Columbia. Since the labour movement in Canada at that time was not very strong, the immig-rants had to accept difficult jobs and starvation wages. They were exploited and All of them today arc workers with the exception of an number of small businessmen. With them the Yugoslav immigrants brought debts and worries about their families, their loved ones whom they left behind. Some of them ho-ped to remain in Canada foi a year or two, make a "for-tune" and then return to their families. During the initial years, they were unaccustomed to the new conditions. In the begining they had no until branches of the Croatian Fraternal Union — an organization which today has a of 100,000 in America and Canada — estibilshcd. The Serbs, on the other hand, organized clubs of their Serbian People's Be-nevolent Association. The es-tablishment of these organi-zations gave the new immi-grants an opportunity to as-semb- ie and to discuss their problems. Slowly but surely the immi-grants were getting accusto-med to the way of life in Ca-nada. Realizing that a fortune cannot be made overnight, they built halls where they got together and organized tUnoti Vijea Kanadskih Juhiih Slatena u Hamilton! 1915. godin. brace u JugosUuji u oslobodilackoj borbi. L njemu su bili okupljenl SKtftf -- irfllte mmt w a H a cultural activities. The crushing weight of the deep economic crisis, which struck Canada in 1929, left a deeply rooted imprint upon the minds of the immigrants. During the depression there were no jobs; they had to join the army of the unemployed or worked for miserably low wages which were inadequate to keep themselves and their families alive. They lined be-hind the soup kitchens and the bread lines. In the light of these conditions, it is no wonder that the immigrants began to feci an urgent need for an organization through which they take part in the day-t- o- day struggles for th; advancement of their econo-mic needs. Realizing that their life was inseparable from the life of other Canadian work-ers, they joined the Canadiau labour movement and serious-ly began to tackle the job of organizing their own societies. During the depression the first progressive Yugoslav workers' clubs were born. In the beginning, the clubs came into existence in the larger in-dustrial centres and they en-veloped the Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian workers. They were called the Yugoslav Workers' Educational Clubs. The first newspaper printed in the lan-guage which the members of these clubs were able to ge' hold of was "Radnik", pub-lished in Chicago. However by the grace of the Yugoslav consular authorities in Wash-ington and Montreal "Had. nlk" no longer reached Can-ada. Following this, "Iskra " appeared and it was soon de-clared an illegal paper by the Canadian authorities. Following the ban on "Rad-nik- " and "Iskra" measures were taken to firmly establish a paper in Canada for the be ncfit of the Yugoslav immi 13 d a Emcric YUGOSLAV CANADIAN NEWSPAPER ADVANCE, inex-perienced back-breaki- ng dis-criminated. insignificant organi-zations membership Serbo-Croatia- n grants' In November, 1931, when the economic crisis was at its worst, when hundred. of thousands of Canadiau workers suffered from unem-ployment, misery, hunger and destitution, the first issue of "Uorba" appeared. — During the hungry Thirties, when Iron Heel liennet was in power a vicious attack was launched by reaction on the young Canadian labour move-ment. With the assistance of the authorities from the Yu-goslav consulate in Montreal who feared the strength of organized workers, Tomo Ca-ci- c, the first editor of "Bor-ba- ", was jailed tor two years because he fought for the rights of labour. In this drive against the labour movement reaction found its assistants in renegades such as Peter Stankovich, editor of a pro-fasc- ist sheet, "Hrvalskl Glas", and adherent of traitorous Мдбек who betrayed the peo-ple of Yugoslavia during the war of liberation and fled with the Germans when the Partizans liberated their coun try. They also iound them among the Serbian pro-fasci- st elements who were edit-ing the "Glas Kanadc". All of them unsuccessfully launched this attack against "Borba" the organ of the Yugoslav workers in Canada. These attacks of reaction did not succeed in destroying the young movement of Yu-goslav - Canadian w o rkers which inspitc of this constan-tly strcnghtcned itself and continued to further develop. In the beginning of 1932 "Bo-rba". whose Edtior at that time was Edward Yardas, was published on a weekly basis. During the month of Aug-ust 1932, the first convention of the Yugoslav Workers Edu-cational Clubs was called and held in Toronto, Ontario. At this convention the first na- - flfe, . ЈШШР' SLOGAUBORBi '1Ш2: - ;l Нгаг' 'ШвР? PROTI FASIZMA % Olatna evrha Vija je bila moraine i malenjalno pomajjanjc моЈе eii rodoljubhi Hrvali, Srbi, .Sloicnci i drujfi Jugclacni u Kanadi. |
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