Jedinstvo, November 10, 1961

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tional leadership of the orga-nization
was given to the mo-vement,
that of Workers' and
Paesants' Educational Clubs.
Slowly but surely the young
mocmcnt of Yugoslav wor-kers
advanced. "Horba" soon
was published twice each
week.
In 1935, during the month
of July, the fourth convention
of the organization was held
at which important decisions
were made and which enab-led
the movement to develop
with greater rapidity. With
the increase in membership
and the comparatively large
circulation of "Horba", con-ditions
were created for the
establishment of individual
national movements of Yu-goslav
workers in Canada.
Yugoslav Immigrants in Can-ada
The decision to establish
separate Croatian, Serbian
and Slovenian movements was
based upon positive possibili-ties
of performing more effec-tive
and fruitful organization-al
work among the workers of
each individual nationality.
Many of them were not mem-bers
of any organization. Some
on the other hand, were in-fluenced
by reactionary im- migrant organizations which
were supported financially by the former semi-fasci- st Yugo-slav
regime.
The establishment of separ- ate organizations was not car- ried out until after the fifth
national conference of the
Yugoslav Workers' and Peas-ants'
Educational Clubs. This
conference was in actuality
the constituent comention of
the Progressive Serbian Move-me- nt
as well as the League of
Progressive Slovenes.
. At this conference, held in
193G, the name of "Borba" was
changed to "Slobodna Misao".
It appeared three times week-ly
under the editorship of
Steve Miosich, recent national
secretary of the Council of
Canadian South Slavs.
The convention of the Pro-gressive
Serbian Movement
decided to initiate the publica-tion
of "Pravda". The first is
sue appeared in January, 1937,
under the editorship of Milosh
Grubich who later was replac-ed
by Jovan Djajich after his
return from Spain.
During the outbreak of the
Spanish civil war, no less than
70 members of the progressive
Yugoslav movement volun-tarily
went to Spain to com-bat
fascism. They knew that
the defence of Spain meant
the defence of their adopted
country, Canada, of their na-tive
country, Yugoslavia, as
well as the defence of peace
and democracy. They knew
that the defence of the heroic
Spanish city of Madrid ui
the defence of Canadian cities
as well the defence of Be-lgrade,
Zagreb and Ljubljana.
Thirteen of them never re-turned
from the battlefields
of sunny Spain.
After the outbreak of World
War II, the democratic Yugo-slav
organizations and their
newspapers were declared
ilegal in 1910.
Following the ban on "Slo-bodna
Misao" and "Pravda"
the first issue of "Novosti"!
and "Srpski Glasnik" appear-ed.
"Novosti" was edited by
Edward Yardas, followed by
Marian Kruzlch; "Serbian
Herald" by Jovan Djajich.
When the fascist hordes at-tacked
Yugoslavia, the immi-grants
organized the Move-ment
for the Liberation of the
Homeland in 1941, an organi-zation
which embraced within
its ranks the workers of Croa-tian,
Serbian and Slovenian
origin.
Again in 1912, during the
month of June, a convention
of the Movement for the
Liberation of the Homeland
was called at which the foun-dations
of three separate or-ganizations
were laid: League
of Canadian Croatians, Lea-gue
of Canadian Serbians and
League of Canadian Slovenes
At this convention the Slo-venian
delegates resolved to
publish "Edinost", a paper of
their own. Its first editor was
George Matesich; second Joe
Smrke. Ever since then Ш
structure of the Yugoslav or-ganizations
in Canada has re
mained.
WALTER BROZOVIC
The total membership of the
League of Canadian Croatians
reached as high as approxim-ately
2,000 members, about
500 of whom left for Yugosla-via.
"Novosti" has a circula-tion
of over 5,000. "Srpski
Glasnik", on the other hand,
has a total of 2,500 subscrib-ers,
while "Edinost" has a cir-culation
of 1,100.
The Macedonian Canadians,
mostly concentrated in Tor-onto,
began organizing in
1918. The difficulties they en-countered
were similar to
those that confronted any of
thj Yugoslav national groups
in Canada. In 1933, they be-gan
to issue "Proletcrsko Dc-l- o" which at that time was
edited by Nick Dimoff. In
193G "Jcdinstvo" appeared
edited by A. Christoff who de-voted
his whole life to the la-bor
movement and the cause
of the working people and
later died after he returned
from Europe where he attend-ed
the first post-w- ar Slav
Congress. After "Jcdinstvo"
was banned "Novo Vreme" ap-peared.
Besides the paper, the
Macedonians also built an or-ganization
called the Mace-donian
People's League under
the leadership of Andrew Pal-mero- ff.
Before the war there was no
organization of Yugoslav Can-adian
youth. Our young peo-ple
at that time were younj
and immature. Today, how-ever,
they have a united, natio-n-
wide movement, the Can-adian
South-Slavi- c Youth Fe-deration,
embracing young
people of Croatian, Serbian,
Slovenian, .Macedonian and,
Bulgarian origin. It was cs-- 1
tablished In December, 1915.
The foregoing is a very
sketchy and brief historical
outline of the Yugoslav immi-grants
in Canada. Ггош this
we can see the difficulties that
they experienced, especially
during the depression.
It is unfortunate that th;
pages of Canadian history
give no recognition to the
work and toil of Slavic-Canadia- ns
as well as to other
minorities which have made
an Immcsurable contribution
in building the Canadian na-tio- n.
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Ova (rojica nasih mladica poginula su kao kanadski
vojnici u Drugoni svjetskom ratu
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J. MUVR1N SAVA ROSULOV
.jMltosj- - V1 gtf
Oko hiljadu kanadkih unicrzitctskih studenata piketoralo Je nedano
kanadski parlamenat u Ottawi. Oni su traiili da se Kanada udrekne
nuklcarnog oruJja i time doprinese nu-djunarodno-m
porazumu o гаго.
rulanju, kojl ce ukljufiti abranu nuklearnog oruija, ukljufiv pokuse.
Demonstracija je trajala 73 sata u mak sjeanje na 73.000 Irtaa pre
nuklearne bombe u Hiroimi. (Slike su iz Canadian Tribune).
Greetings and Best Wishes
Sinccrcst prcctings and best wishes on the oc-casion
of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Progres-sive
Yugoslav Press in Canada.
The goungcr generation of Canadians of Yugo-slav
origin rejoices in the fact that, throughout the
tony gears, the press has played a great role in bring-ing
close to us the rich cultural heritage of the land
of our parents, which we shall cherish and ertend to
enrich the culture of Canada.
In extending our hartfelt greetings to the foun-ders
and supporters of Jcdinstvo, we pledge our-sclvc- t
'o continue in the footsteps of our pioneers in inak-m- a
the work for the progressive press a lifelong task.
Xeka zivi nasa radnicka noviua "Jcdinstvo" —
ueka ;ive njeni citaoci i jtrijatelji!
Anka Xozmic