The Ukrainian Weekly 1983, No.24
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www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., I Ї c, a fraternal non-profit association! - xt Z Д) - CKO oo ZDO OO"D oxn .,ОЛ rainian mo MO Y ЧЛ — Vol. LI No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, ИJUNE 12,1983- і cents Edmonton approves Supreme Assembly approves UNA-UFA merger famine monument executive officers, auditors and ad the Supreme Executive Committee: Mr. Advisor Lozynskyj quits; visors. Flis, supreme president; Dr. Myron B. EDMONTON -The Board of Com Tatarskyj fills vacancy The delivery of reports did not take Kuropas, supreme vjce president; Sen. missioners of the city of Edmonton has place without incident, however, as Paul Yuzyk, supreme director for offered city land for a monument which KERHONKSON, N.Y. - The Su Supreme Advisor Askold Lozynskyj Canada; Gloria Paschen, supreme vice would commemorate the 50th anniver concluded his report with the announce presidentess; Walter Sochan, supreme sary of the Great Famine in Ukraine. preme Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association, the UNA's highest ment of his resignation from the UNA secretary; Ulana Diachuk, supreme The site, approved by the Board of Supreme Assembly. He said he was treasurer; and Stefan Hawrysz, su Commissioners on May 18,.\ and governing body between quadrennial conventions, convened its first regular resigning because of differences of preme organizer. previously endorsed by the City Coun opinion with the Supreme Executive Also participating are the members of cil, is situated in front of Edmonton's annual meeting here at the Soyuzivka estate on Monday morning, June 6. C,ommittee and especially Supreme the Supreme Auditing Committee: City Hall on its southwest corner. President John O. Flis. John Hewryk (chairman), Nestor 01es- The search for an appropriate site has The Supreme Assembly, elected at the 30th UNA Convention in May 1982, had The Supreme Assembly voted (20 for, nycky, Anatole Doroshenko, Dr. been spearheaded by. the Ukrainian six abstentions) to accept notification of Bohdan Hnatiuk and the Rt. Rev. Professional and Business Club of first met at an extraordinary session last September. Mr. Lozynskyj's resignation and then Protopresbyter Stephen Bilak. Edmonton, which worked on behalf of proceeded to elect a UNA`er to fill the The following supreme advisors are the Ukrainian Canadian Committee in On the third day of deliberations, Wednesday, June 8, the Supreme As vacated supreme advisor's position. also taking part in the meeting: Helen Edmonton. Mayor Cec Purvis and the Olek-Scott, Taras Szmagala, Andrew entire aldermanic group have shown sembly members unanimously ap Roman Tatarskyj, chairman of the proved a resolution empowering the Detroit UNA District Committee and Jula, John Odezynsky, Eugene lwanciw, both interest and endorsement of the Walter Hawrylak, Walter Kwas, Tekla project. The swift action on granting the Supreme Executive Committee "to secretary of UNA Branch 94, was prepare a proper contract of merger and elected the new supreme advisor (23 for, Moroz, Andrew Keybida, Anna Haras, site has attested to their endorsement. Taras Maksymowich, Wasyl Didiuk, (Continued on page 2) take all other steps it deems necessary" three abstentions). so that the merger of the Ukrainian The following day, Tuesday, June 7, William Pastuszek and Mr. Tatarskyj. National Association and the Ukrai the Supreme Assembly voted (24 for, Honorary Supreme Assembly mem nian Fraternal Association "сзп be duly two abstentions) to accept the reports of bers Maria Chuchman, Stephen Kuro Census: 730,000 effectuated" at the 1986 convention of аіГ supreme advisors, with the excep pas, Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch, Genevieve the UNA and of the UFA, or at a special tion of Mr. Lozynskyj. Zerebniak, Anna Chopek, Bohdan convention to be held by autumn of Zorych and Walter Zaparaniuk, as well Ukrainians in U.S. 1984. Annual meeting participants as editor emeritus Anthony Dragan are also participants. In addition, Joseph WASHINGTON - Results of the The first day of the Supreme As sembly meeting was devoted to elections Participating in the Supreme As Lesawyer, honorary member of the 1980 census contained in a new report (Continued from page 11) released here on June 1 show that there of special committees and reports by sembly session are all the members of are 730,056 Ukrainians in the United States, and that 52.2 percent of that total, or 381,084, listed only "Ukrai Sichko tells Andropov her husband, sons, are innocent nian" as their ancestry. Article 187. she said, with "possession of narcotics The remaining 47.8 percent or Says Vasyl was charged "From the day of his re-arrest to the for the purpose of selling," under 348,084, listed Ukrainian and at least trial, not once did anyone ask my Article 229-6-2 of the Ukrainian Cri one other ancestry group in identifying with drug possession husband any questions," Mrs. Sichko minal Code. their ethnic background. ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - Stefania wrote, "but when the court convened, Mrs. Sichko said that she happened The report also reveals that Ukrai three witnesses, probably camp in to be in Cherkaske on the day of her nians make up .39 percent of the total Sichko, whose husband and two sons are currently serving terms in Soviet mates, whom my husband never met son's trial, but was refused permission U.S. population. before, testified that Petro Sichko to attend the proceedings even though The newly released report, titled labor camps, has written a letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov charging frequently complained that his sons the ob)ast procurator telephoned the "Ancestry of the Population by States: were falsely convicted, and that Petro court and said that legally the trial 1980," illustrates the complexity and that all three were wrongly imprisoned. In the March letter, the Ukrainian Sichko was unhappy with the labor- should have been open to the public diversity of America's ancestral make camp administration." because it involved a criminal offense. up and shows that more than 83 percent text of which was supplied by the She also said that on July 5, the day Although she did not attend the trial, of the U.S. population identifies with at Smoloskyp Ukrainian Information her husband was due to be released, her and was not permitted to see her son least one ancestry group. - Service here, Mrs. Sichko said that her husband, Petro, 57, and her oldest son, home was searched by the secret police, after it was over, Mrs. Sichko wrote that Responses from the 1980 long-form who told her that they were looking for she learned that her son was severely census questionnaire show a nation Vasyl, 26, both of whom were re- sentenced last year shortly before copies of appeals her husband may have beaten sometime before the proceed where slightly more than half (52 sent. ings, and that he appeared in court with percent) claim only one ancestry; others completing previous three-year terms, were framed by prison officials. She On October 15, 1982, her husband both eyes swollen shut and welts and claim two or more (31 percent); and a bruises on his face. large group (6 percent) simply identi also expressed fear that another son, 23- was moved to a labor camp in Kherson, year-old Volodymyr, who is due to be some 85 miles northeast of Odessa and She said that in his last letter, dated fies its ancestry as "American." About January of this year, Vasyl told her that 10 percent did not answer the question. released this December, will be re- over 400 miles from Dolyna, where arrested on a fabricated charge. Mrs. Sichko lives. She said that since his v iting privileges had been suspend The ancestry report shows more November of last year she has received ed for the year because he allegedly did Americans of English descent or partial Petro Sichko, a veteran of the Ukrai nian liberation struggle during World only two letters from her husband, and not meet his work quota. He informed English descent (50 million) than the that when she tried to visit him recently, her that work detail leaders told him total population of England; more than War II, was first' arrested along with Vasyl on July 5,1979. Both members of she was told that he was being kept in that they had been ordered to report on one-half as many Americans of German isolation for not fulfilling his assigned him to authorities, who said that the or part German stock (49 million) as the the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, they were charged with "slandering the work quota. She added that her hus reports should continue until he is population of East and West Germany; band is suffering from tuberculosis and sentenced again. and altnost 12 times the number of full- Soviet state" under Article 187 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, and each has been assigned to a special invalid "How should I understand this?" Irish and part-Irish Americans (40 brigade. Mrs. Sichko wrote. "That they are million) as the population of the Re sentenced to three years'imprisonment. Writing about the case of Vasyl, Mrs. fabricating another charge for a life public of Ireland. According to Mrs. Sichko`s letter, her husband was re-arrested on May 26, Sichko said that her son was re-arrested sentence?" Twenty-one million Americans listed in last January in a labor camp in She expressed similar concern for the "Afro-American" ancestry, a number 1982, 40 days before he was due to be released. On July 19, he was sentenced Cherkaske shortly before he was due to fate of her second son, Volodymyr, who (Continued on page 4) to another three-year term, again under complete his sentence.