Vapaus, December 14, 1961

              HAUSKAA.JOULUA JA
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i^toivottaa .
raJKntajille — rautatavaraa • Öljyiiiaaieja
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' ' Piitelm AL 3-3295
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^ Hauskaa^; Joulua
Uutta Vuotta
toivottaa
MRNES PUG COMPANY
, • . . Puhelin' 4-4325
•Gor. Queen &.>Gore St. Sault, Ste; Marie, Ont.
(Confd from Page 2)
lied and single was 537. They ali
belonged to the Finnish Society. It
was also interesting to note. that
a careful register was kept of the
memberships political views. In
that same year the Society's mem-bership
supported the following:
Soclalist Party of Canada was sup­ported
by 314; Temperance move-raent
3; Christian movement 70;
Free philosophers 3; Christian
Youth 1; Neutrall46. THese early
records further reveal that the So-ci3*
y's membership was keenly in-terested
in political affairs. Alrea-dy
in 1909 an executive member,
and one of the founders tjf- the
Finnish Society, Mr. Jaakko Lin-dala,
ran for the of f ice of the mayor
of Toronto and received a very
substantial vote. While we have no
figures for the various other Fin­nish
associations as to their poli­tical
orientation, it is reasonable
to assume that the majority sup­ported
the program of the Socialist
Party of Canada, since at the found-ing
conveplion of the FO in 1911
the 19 clubs present had already
affiliated with the SPC.
On Sept 3 1911, a National Con-fersnce
was called to discuss the
iormation of a central organization
and on that same. day it was unani-mously
agreed and adopted that
this be done. The organization to
be known as the Finnish Organiza-iion
of Canada. The city of Toron­to
was chosen for the home Office
of, the National Committee. The
fol!cwing were elected to the first
National Committee: J. W. Ahlquist,
The First Years
HÄUSK^^'«)tSpUA JA
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rauta^lan tarpeita.
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185 James Street Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
Hauskaa Joulua
ja Onnellista
Uutta Vuotta
toivottaa
HURON AUTO
312 Alexandra Street
Sault Ste. Marie ••Ontario
H A U S K A A J O U L UA
J A O N N E L L I S TA
U"UTTA V U O T TA
suomalaisille ystävilleen
, toivottaa
G. F. HART
R. O.
OPTIKKO
Puhelin 3-1671
124 Gore Street
Sault Ste. Marie Ontario
- HAUSKAA JOULUA JA
ONNELLISTA UUTTA VUOTTA
leivottaa
NORMAN G. LANGSTAFF
IM ' HAUTAANTOIMITTAJA
SAULT STE. MARIE, ONTARIO
HAUSKAA JOULUA
J A O N N E L L I S T A U U T T A V U O T TA
' toivotamme suojiialaisille asiakkaillernme!
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P - • KAIKKEA KOTIEN RAKENTAJILLE
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" Puhelin 6-7454-5 "
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MEIDÄN^ ASIAKKAILLEMME . . .
Davis Clothing liikk3en johto ja henkilökunta toivottaa
nyt Teille HAUSKAA JOULUA JA ONNELLISTA UUTTA
?VUOTTA. Arvostaen Teidän aikaisempaa liiketuttavuuttanne,
me kehcitamme Teitä leikkaamaan irti tämän ilmoituksen ja
tuomaan sen' kauppaan allekirjoittaneelle saadaksenne 10%
alennuksen seuraavasta ostoksestanne.
Kunnioittaen Teidän,
DAVIS CLOTHING LIMITED
Puolesta ARVI TUUMANEN
Queen ja Bruce katujen kulmassa SauU Ste. Marie, Ont
often referred to as the father of
the FO, K. Holm, J. F. Lahti, P.
Leskinen, J. Lindala, K. Lehto and
E. Pirttinen. AU the other execu­tive
members have passed away
except Mr. Lehto who is here with
us today and still active in an ad-visory
capacity in the sports sec-tion.
The new bylaw"s were adopted
and translated into English. An ap-plication
for affiliation ,with the
SPC was approved and the charter
from the SPC was received on Oct
25, 1911.
Thus' began the colorful and
flourishing activity of the FO, By
1914 there were 64 locals across
Canada, with a total membership
of 3,062. At the beginning of the
first World war, 1914—15, it was a
crisis year for Canadians which al­so
adversely affected the FO. Mem­bership
dropped because of wide-spread
unemplo^ment and the fact
that we lost our official organ the
•Työkansa" published in Port Ar­thur,
for the lack of finances, andl to $2,000 were imposed. Some were
tion. After the successful overthow
of the Tsarist tyranny in Russia,
the new revolutionary government
led by Lenin, gave Finland its in-dependence.
But the reactionary
land-owners and other anti-Iabor
forces led by Mannerheim, receiv-
•ing aid from Kaiser Wilhelm and
from the Swedish moharchists,
overthrew the new elected demo-cratjc
government and established
a fascist type regime and closely
allied Finland with ^Germany. This
action placed.FinnsJn Canada into
the enemy camp. Our -government
passed an Order in Council, making
it illegal to publish a newspaper,
.subscribe to or read books printed
in Finnish or to even speak Finnish
except for the Bible. Our delegation
sped to Ottawa to try and have
this arbitrary decree rescinded but
without success. During this illegal
period many Finns were convicted
jf reading the so-called banned
literature. Fines ranging from $50
the publication of the newspaper
liad to be abandoned for the time
oeing.. Our present newspaper Va­paus,
\was established in Sudbury
in l.f^l?. However, our worries were
aot over. The war was still raging
in Europe, and the people in Can­ada
and throughout the World were
demanding an end to the hostili-ties.
This campaign was lead mainly
by the working class. Being an or­ganization
of the workers, the FO
.oined the end the war campaign
and the campaign of non-interven-tion
against the workers and farm-ers
new government in Russia. Our
government answered this by ban-ning
15 labor organizations includ-ing
FO and their new3papers. These
were trying times for our organiza-
H A U S K A A J O U L UA
J A O N N E L L I S TA
U U T T A V U O T TA
kaikiile asiakkailleen toivottaa
Eila ja Danny
Ostaff
PÖLYNIMUREITA JA
LATTIANKIILLOTTAJIA
295 Wellington St. West
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
P A R H A I N
V U O D E N A J A N
T E R V E H D Y S !
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Metsästystarpeita
• Tupakkakauppa
• J[ulkaisuja
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151 Gore Street
Sault Ste. Marie Ontario
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PAUUS
BAKERY
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Hmskaa Joulua ja
Onnellista Uutta
Vuotta toivottaa
NICOLET HOUSE
L I M I T E D
HELMI JA PENTTI
SAARINEN JA PERHE
304 Albert St West
Sault Ste. Marie Ontario
VUODENAJAN
TERVEHDYS
suomalaisille
ystävillemme!
PRrNCESS
THEATRE
163 Gore Street
Sault.Ste. Marie Ontario
•.entenced to be-» deported. Many
wei-e fired from jobs, etc. But soon
after the end of the war in 1919,
foUoNving a hard struggle by the
whole labor movement of Canada
the labor organizations regained
their legality and their right to
publish newspapers.
Now began a new phase of our
organization's activity. After the
demise of vhe SPC, FO affiliated
with the Workers Party of Can­ada.
But in p23 our National Con-vention
approved a resolution to
disaffiliate. From then on FO has
not been. affiliated with any poli­tical
party. That year an applica-tion
to the government for a Do­minion
wide charter was filed and
we received the charter that same
year.
•• With the post-war immigration
in full swing, several thousand
newscomers arrived from Finland
CO swell the ranks of the FO. More
comniunity halls, sports fields, and
summer camps were needed to
carry on our cultural work; AU
these wereobtained by member­ship
donations and free labor. In
paaaing I may mention that during
these 50' years, the, locals of the
FO have produced thousands of
fu 1 length plays, thousands of
ivariety concerts and" sponsored
educational meetings^ annual dra-ma,
sports and music iestivals,
pius other wholesome enlertain-meijit
for the enjoyment of aU the
Canadian people but particularly
for the Finnish community; Per-
, haps the years after the^first war
were the most productive and flou­rishing
period in the life of our or­ganization.
But this State of af­fairs
was not allowed: to last, how-ever.
Soon after the post-war boora
wa3 over the World capitalist sys-tem
became sick again with the
result that: millions of workers
.were thrown out of; their jobs.
Many of us will remember the
hungry thirties . . . during these
years it was a hard struggle to
maintain our properties and our
newspaper. Membership droppcid
due to the movement of our peo­ple
in search of work. Many of our
leading members were deported
for their activity in the strugglfs
of ihe unemployed workers f oi'
work or bread. Hundreds went to
the Soviet Union where they
found employment and most of
themremained there. Many of our
members en isted in the MacKen-zie-
Papineau- battalion to fight fa-scism
in Spain. Some of our boys
never did return home from
Spain. As you will recall, the crisis
was followed by the most devas-lating
war known in our history.
It is unnecessary to recall ali the
hardships, heartaches and setbacks
which followed the second world
war years. The government decree
to ha t the activities of the FO,
did not however, hait our war ef-fort
to defeat the grea.est threat
to mankind, Nazi Germany and
Fascist Italy and Japan. While our
halls were taken away from us
our newspaper Vapaus was how-ever
allowed to be published. With
the formation of our wartime orr-ganization
the Finnish, Democratic
League of—Canada, we mobilized
our people for the war effart. Our
members were among the best
workers in the win-the-war cam­paign.
Our youth were in the arm-ed
f orces and our women knitting
and sewing for the Red Cross.
Although having being perse-cuted
almost continuously during
these 50 years, still the FO has
effective'y influenced the moral,
mental and physical development.
of ihe majority of the Finnish
people of Canada. The FO has un-ceasingly
assisted . the Finns to
find their rightful place in Can­adian
life as good and responsible
citizens. In unitywith other Na­tional
groups,"~~through participa-tiun
in the trade union movement,
the Co-operative movement and
Ihe World .Peace movement the
Finns have found their rightful
place in the land of their adoption.
Let us then continuo in the groud
footsteps of our founders whd'
visualized a Canada where human
dignity and freedom, peace and
goodwiU would be the birthright
of every Canadian.
And finally — looking back over
these 50 years, we find thai our
SO called free enterprise sys.em
has been in pei-petual crisis . . .
stagnation and war . . . Let us
heed that the same signs of crisis
areupon us again today and the
howling war-wolves • at this very
moment-are plannihg to plunge us
into a wär and that nazi-fascism
is rearing its ugly head to erislave
us. Therefore let us resolve to do
our part to wipe out the scourge
of war and fascism from the face
of this earth.
Torstaina, jouluk. 14 p.—^ Thursday, Dee. 14, 1961 Sivu 5
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sanomalehti Sovjetskaja Rossija te­ki
äskettäin selkoa Neuvostoliiton
ensimmäisestä maanvilelijäin kau­pungista.
Tämä tarjoaisi kollektiivi;
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kaikki mukavuudet. Kau­punki
sijaitsee 60 km:n päässä Mos­kovasta
ja valmistuu kolmen vuo­den
kuluttua.
Jokainen perhe' saa kolmen tai
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ennen vuoden loppua. Kaupunkiin
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