The Ukrainian Weekly 1980, No.42
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www.ukrweekly.com X "і Л - x^ СВОБОДАД,SVOBODA І І ;т О л УМРЛІНСЬКИЙ ЩОдІННИК ^!ИВ^. UKRAINIAN DAIl\ і о -- х і) roinioENGLISH-LANGUAGnE WEEKLY EDITIOWeekN l V VOL. LXXXVII. No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1980 25 CENTS 13th Congress of Ukrainians of America concludes Over 20 organizations walk out of congress to protest irregularities PHILADELPHIA - Delegates of over 20 national organizations walked out of the 13th Congress of Ukrainians of America -during its concluding plenary session as a result of the elimi nation of the"rotational basis of the UCCA`s executive vice presidency and what these organizations cited as in stances of violations of the UCCA By laws and procedural inconsistencies in the conduct of the congress. The 647 delegates gathered at the congress elected" Dr. Lev Dobriansky to his 10th consecutive term asjjresideni of, the tTkr"alnmrTtongf ess"tornrnrt'tee of America and Ignatius Billinsky as executive vice president (this officer automatically serves as chairman of the UCCA National Council). Ivan Ba- zarko was re-elected administrative director. A scene during the congress plenary session. Roma Sochan Hadzewyu The congress, held Friday through Sunday, October 10-12, here at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, was also their belief that it was purposeless for attended by some 100 guests and mem them to continue taking part in the bers of the press. congress. Formal protests about the A conflict arose immediately conduct of the congress were also Memorandum after the report of the nominations lodged by the Ukrainian National committee during the concluding ses Women's League of America and To all members of the Supreme Assembly, all branch and district officers and sion because the rotation system for the Plast Ukrainian Youth Organization. to the entire membership of the Ukrainian National Association. position of executive vice president — Opening session which had been established four years ago at the 12th congress (until then the The opening session of the 13th The delegates of the Ukrainian National Association were compelled by the position was automatically assumed by UCCA Congress got under way on nature of the proceedings to walk out of the deliberation hall of the 13th the Supreme President of the UNA) - Friday, October 10, at 11:30 a.m. A Congress of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America on the last day was rescinded by the nominations color guard led by Walter Darmopray thereof. committee, the executive committee carried in flags of Ukrainian veterans', was expanded from 21 to 26 members youth and community organizations. The reasons for our walk-out were the continued effort by certain elements without an amendment to the UCCA Pianist Zoya Markowycz then played to ignore" the wishes of the minority, the imposition of a gag rule upon the By-laws, and because of other alleged the American and Ukrainian national minority and the relegation of the UNA to a position of insignificance in the violations of the by-laws. anthems. official organs of the UCCA by the arbitrary cancellation of the UNA's traditional right to the office of the executive vice presidency of the UCCA, Before the elections of new UCCA Following brief opening remarks by which office the UNA has consistently held for many years, albeit on a officers were held, the Ukrainian Fra UCCA President Dr. Lev Dobriansky rotational system with the other three Ukrainian fraternals during the past ternal Association, the Ukrainian Na and Executive Vice President Wolo- four years. tional Association, the Association of dymyr Masur, Archbishop Marko of The UNA has not resigned its membership in the UCCA. This question will Ukrainians of America, the Organiza the Ukrainian Orthodox Church gave be considered by our Supreme Assembly. For reasons stated above, the UN A tion for the Rebirth of Ukraine (includ the invocation, asking God's guidance has not named representatives to the positions reserved for the UNA in the ing its affiliate organizations: the so that the delegates would safeguard governing bodies of the UCCA. Zarevo academic society. Youth of the organization started by their prede We urge all UNA'ers to close ranks and defend the interests of the UNA Ukrainian Nationality - MUN. and cessors 40 years ago. against all attacks, internal and external, and assist your governing bodies in the Ukrainian Liberation Fund), the their attempts to retain in our communities our earned position of integrity Association of Ukrainian Veterans' Following the formal opening cere mony, the delegates turned their atten and respect. Organizations, Veterans of the 1st We urge all our branch and district officers, all members of our Supreme Division of the Ukrainian National tion to the election of the presidium. Chosen to serve on the presidium were Assembly and our entire membership to double their efforts for the good of Army, Veterans of the Ukrainian Re our communities, for the good of our Churches and for the good of the sistance, the Association of UPA Veter Bohdan Futey — chairman; Pavlo Doroznynsky, Ivanna Rozankowsky, Ukrainian National Association, as did our pioneer forefathers. ans, Council of Friends of the Ukraini- Let our effort be instrumental in bringing about a healthy rebirth of unity in . an National Republic, the Ukrainian the Rt. Rev. Protopresbyter Wolody^ myr Bazylewsky, Mykola Semanyshyn our communities and a revival of the spirit upon which we built the Gold Cross, the Association of Sup democratic foundations of the Ukrainian National Association. porters of Ukraine's Liberation Strug — vice chairmen; Orest Szczudluk, gle, the Association of Ukrainian Jour Petro Baybak - secretaries; Stefania Fraternally yours. nalists of America and the Ukrainian Bukshowany and Dr. Michael Snihuro- John O. Flis wych — members. Revolutionary Democratic Party ex Supreme President pressed - in separate statements - (Continued on page S) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19.J980 No. 21 Vasyl Stus sentenced Ukrainian artist found hanged for anti-Soviet agitation TORONTO - Viktor Kindratyshyn, kivske oblast. He completed his studies a 28-year-old Ukrainian artist, was at an art academy and upon graduation found dead in Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivske served his term in the Red Army. In HELSINKI - Vasyl Stus, noted oblast on December 1, 1979, according contemporary poet and member of the 1979 he won third place in an art exhibit to information recently received by the held in Kiev in which same 500 artists Ukrainian Helsinki group, has been Homin Ukrainy press. sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment took part. He lived in Kosiv where he and five years of exile in Siberia accord The mutilated body of Kindratyshyn worked as an artist-sculptor. ing to Article 62 (anti-Soviet agitation was found hanged with one leg tied to a Mr. Kindratyshyn is survived by a and propaganda) of the Ukrainian pipe. Authorities contend that Mr. wife and a four-year-old son. w Criminal Code, reported the Smolo- Kindratyshyn had committed suicide The mysterious circumstances of the skyp Ukrainian Information Service. and have advised the family to "keep artist's death inevitably recall thefateof silent" in this matter, according to Volodymyr Ivasiuk, the young com The trial was held in Kiev on October Homin Ukrainy`s October 8 article. 10-14. The trial was closed - Mr. poser of modern Ukrainian songs, who Stus's mother and sister were allowed Mr. Kindratyshyn was born in 19S2 was found ` murdered on the outskirts into the courtroom only on the last day in the village of Patsykiv, Ivano-Fran of Lviv on May 18, 1979. of the trial. Mr. Stus was born in 1938. He studied at the Pedagogical Institute in Canadian council outlines position Kiev and then served his term with the Red Army. In 1964, he received his doctoral degree from the Institute of on Canada's role in Madrid Vasyl Stus Literature of the Academy of Sciences OTTAWA - The Canadian Council In addition, the captive nations of the Ukrainian SSR, where he also During the trial, the prosecution of Captive European Nations recently council recommends that the Cana worked. accused Mr. Stus of the "crime" of presented a memorandum outlining its dian delegation, working with other In September 1965 he participated in allowing his poetry to be published position on Canada's role" in the upcom Western participants', condemn the a demonstration held in Kiev's Ukraina abroad. (Two collections of Mr. Stus's ing Madrid Conference to a special Soviet Union for its utilization of theatre in protest to the groundless poetry have been published in the parliamentary subcommittee set up to forced-labor camps and psychiatric arrests of young Ukrainian intellectu West.) hammer out the framework of Canada's hospitals to house political prisoners, als. Consequently, he was expelled from Upon completion of his sentence, Mr. position at the November 11 talks which and the Soviet regime's persecution of the Institute of Literature. Stus returned t.o Kiev. In the fall of will review compliance with the Helsin religious believers. He then workd at various odd jobs 1979, he joined the Ukrainian Helsinki ki Accords. Copies of the document were sent to which invariab)y ended in dismissal. group. On May 9 he was re-arrested. The council's . position paper was several members of the'House of Com During this period, he joined the Citi signed by nine nations: Ukraine, Byelo mons and the Senate,, as well as to zens' Committee in Defense of Nina Considered by some to be one of the russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, various organizations and institutions. Strokata, who had been sentenced in finest contemporary Ukrainian poets, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Hun 1972. Mr. Stus published his first poetry in gary. Mr. Stus was arrested on January 12, 19S9 and his first major work appeared The subcommittee is part of the Authorities harass 1972, for "anti-Soviet agitation and in the Dnipro journal in 1963.