www.ukrweekly.com UNA DISTRICT COMMITTEES HOLD MEETINGS UNA CONTROLLERS CONCLUDE STAGE RALLY, DEMONSTRATION IN WASHINGTON •JBRSeY CITY, N.J .—As- The District contributed and- L Skllpecky, social af­ ] ANNUAL AUDIT By I. DLABOHA eesment of progress over the $850 to local sports clubs and fairs. pa*t twelve months, determi­ $230 to Ukrainian communi­ Highlighting the annual WASHINGTON, D.C—Dur­ Among the students taking Sadoweky, performed three nation of new plans, and elec­ ty organizations, leaving a meeting was the presenta­ ing his lifetime, over a cen­ part in the commemoration songs. tion df Officers highlighted a balance of $410.51 in the tion of a gold watch and a tury ago, Taras Shevchenko was Askold Lozynskyj, who The march on Soviet Em­ series of annual meetings of treasury. certificate .of merit •%© Pre*. wrote many poems which recited Taras Shevchenko's the Ukrainian National Asso­ Roman Ozuczkewych, secre­ bassy began after the small CLEVELAND were critical of Tsarist Rus­ poem, "My Friendly Epistle", ciation's district committees, tary of Branch 346 and one buffet which was arranged by sia. For these works he was and Ihor Rakowsky who said hdd over the past three Supreme Advisor Bohdan of the UNA's leading Organ­ the local Plast unit. ~ - V arrested by the Russian gov­ that "Ukraine should stop weekends in various centers Futey was reelected chair­ isers. The demonstratoi-s carried ernment and deported to Si­ being a doormat for invading of Ukrainian life. man of the Cleveland District Prof. Czucskewych, who is many placards denouncing beria for ten years. nations and get up on its feet -*The meetings also serve Committee at its annual leaving the area and settling Russian policies in Ukraine, to evaluate the overall activi­ meeting held Sunday. March The present Russian regime, and fight back". while chanting "Freedom for elsewhere, received the gold though it bears a different ty of «tl» UNA, locally aid 12. Also chosen to the com­ The all-girl choir "Yevshan Moroz" and "Freedojq for watch from Mrs. Ulana Dia- name, does not have a differ­ nationally, attended, as they mittee were the following: Zillia" from Newark, N.J., Ukraine". chuk, UNA Acting Treasurer, ent means of dealing with (Continued on p. 2) •«•* але, by executive officers and D. Deychakivsky, vite-chair- under the direction of Borys and the certificate from Su­ people who criticize Its poli­ field organizers. man, P. Telisheveky and W. preme Advisor E. Repeta. The five-member Auditing Committee of the Ukrainian Na­ cies. As is well known, since Basladynsky, s.ecretaries, Prof. Czuczkewych pledged tional Association concluded yesterday the annual audit of January 1972, some 100 per­ Motorcade Protest Spotlights £ •> CHICAGO Mrs. M. Fedak, treasurer, L that he will continue to serve asssete, operations, and membership status of Soyuz. The sons have been arrested in Fur, organization and press, (Contfraed on p. S) audit, which began last Monday, March 20, included the Ukraine for similar "crimes". Plight of Intellectuals Michael Oishansky, noted •ea і • і Svoboda Press and Soyuzivka, the UNA resort in the Cats- A gathering of some 400 NEW YORK, N.Y. (UCCA) I objectives of the protest were local UNA activist and last GERALD FORD SCORES kills. The auditors also met wiA architects Julian Jastremsky Ukrainian Americans — from —On Saturday, March 18, an announced by Mrs. Mary yeart secretary of the Chi­ and Apollinaire Osadca, in charge of $he new UNA sky­ as far as Newark and Phila­ effective motorcade protest, I Dushnyck, UNA Vice-Pres- cago District Committee, was RED REPRESSIONS Ш UKRAINE scraper being built in Jersey City. The auditors queried the delphia — commemorated the organized by UCCA Branches ident, Ihor Rakowsky, a elected chairman at the com- WASHINGTON, D.C. — state that among those ar­ architects on every phase qf the building's construction. The anniversary of the birth of from the metropolitan area student representing SUSTA, mttte's •annual meeting Congressman Gerald F. Ford, rested were teacher, Valen- architects averred that the hew building is a sound invest­ Ukraine's pcet-laureate .with a of New York, took place with and Miss Tania Basniak of bald Friday, March 3. More House minority leader, called tyn Moroz; literary critics, ment for the UNA and^wffl^jjeld a profit from rentals. The program at the foot of the over 60 cars participating. Newark, N.J., member of the than -70 -members took part on his colleagues in both Ivan Svitlychny and Ivan auditors are taking partfin> joint meeting today with the Shevchenko monument here, The motorcade was organized local Ukrainian student Hro- in the ineeting. Twenty-seven houses "to add their voices Dziuba; and . jo urna 1 і at, Supreme Executive Committee. They will present their report and afterwards staged a dem- in protest against the per­ mada and TUSM organiza­ of - the total 35 branches to those of the Ukrainian Vyacheslav Chornovil, author to the Supreme Assembly at its annual meeting in May. ontration near the Embassy of secution and repression of tion. were sepresented. Americans who' are protest* of the Chornovil Papers. Photo above shows, left to'right, Dr. Ivan Skalczuk, Prof. the Soviet Union protesting Ukrainian intellectuals by Motorcade protesters came . ij^tod^ldce-diairmen were under the direction of local ing the trampling of human "According, to Michigan Bohdan Hnatiuk, John Hewryk, chairman, Iwan Wynnyk the recent arrests. This ac­ the Soviet government in U- Dr. Roman Smuk, W. Iway- leaders, such as- Yaroslav rights in Ukraine." , citizens who. have written and Dr. Michael Danyluk. tion, which took place Sun­ kraine. chuk and Lew Bodnar. Elect­ day, March 19, was sponsored Rak, Drs. Stepan Woroch and Speaking in the House of me, the onjy "crime" these ed", as Ukrainian language by the Federation of Ukrain­ Myroslav Bych (Newark-Ir- Representatives on February men have', committed is to Thousands View secretary was Stephen Pan- Yuriy Shukhevych Is Reported ian Student Organizations of vington), Myron Pinkowsky 29th, Mr, Ford cited a num­ speak out in defense of hu­ kiw and organizing chairman America (SUSTA) and the (Elizabeth), Dr. Eugene Ko- ber of letters which he said man rights, rights which are Participating m the protest ia'^P. Wrubleuski. All other Arrested Again by KGB Ukrainian Congress Commit­ tyk (Jersey City), Yaroslav he received from many Uk­ guaranteed by the constitu­ were UCCA members from members of last year's com­ MUNICH, W. Germany On the eve of his release tee of America (UCCA). Kosanowsky (New York), rainian Americans, quoting tion of the Soviet Union. • New York City, Jersey City, mittee were reelected to their dispatches from Reuters and Yurij Shukhevych, son of the in 1958, Shukhevych was Passaic, Yonkers, Newark- George Yurkiv, representa­ respective posts, with the ex­ the Associated Press "detail­ "As these letter writers late Ukrainian Insurgent Ar­ again accused of "anti-Soviet Prayers Irvington, Elizabeth, Clifton tive of the Ukrainian Amer­ ception of a social chairman, state: my (UPA) Commander Taraa" agitation among prisoners" and New Brunswick. Thou­ ican Veterans from Astoria ing the repression visited Metropolitan Mstyslaw of U> be appointed. "The pjsople pf the free Chuprynka- Shukhevych, .is and sentenced to ten years at sands of New Yorkers and and Atty. Myroelaw Smorod- upon certain intellectuals in the Ukrainian AutocephalouB Ukraine." world cannot allow this re­ reported to have been , ar­ hard labor. The real reasons tourists, visiting the city sky (Passaic). Last ^year's chairman, Su­ Orthodox Church opened the pression bi the basic free­ rested again in the Caucasus for his repeated incarcera­ during the weekend, had an At the close of the protest, preme Advisor Anatole Doro- Mr. Ford's statement, afternoon program with a doms of speech and thought by the Soviet Secret Police. tion are said to be his un­ opportunity to view the Uk­ police detained one person for shenko, who reported for the published in The Congres­ prayer, in which he stated sional Record, was as fol­ to conthiue- It to the du|$r of Shukhevych, 39, was living willingness to "denounce his rainian protest, with many passing a red light resulting outgoing committee, has been L that 'We are praying to the lows: ^ ; ; each, of /jje' .; $o voice 'our in "Nalchyk^ Caucasus , *&tjfa (father." of them taking pictures of in his detention for a few transferred out of the Die* : Lord to lessen.our hardship? -Strongest • 4»ademnatlon of his release from imprison­ the motorcade. hours. He was given a sum­ tric't b^ ihlTengmeering firm "The American теоріє After his release in 1968, and help us reallfce a free Uk­ these infringements of basic ment in 1968. He was barred mons and will appear in which employs him. have always concerned them Yurij Shukhevych was said raine". The people, assembled Originating at East 36th selves with the plight of human г1*іШ|Л from returning to Ukraine. court. As soon as it was Attending the meeting to be living with his wife in a somber ahd angered Street between First and Sec­ He is married and the father learned that he was detained, were also Supreme Advisor the oppressed, and so it Is "I agree wito the objective and child in Nalchyk, Cau­ mood, ended Metropolitan ond Avenues, the motorcade of one child. Atty. George Wolynetz, Jr. Myron Kuropas, Supreme that I call the attention of of the Ukrainian American casus. Reliable воигсев say Mstyslaw's prayer by singing madft two laps covering the Arrested first in 1948 when Dr. Dushnyck. Dr. Sawchak Advisor and regional organ­ the House to the treatment protesters, which is to arouse that his signature appeared "Vichnaia Pamiat'" for the center of New York City, in­ being accorded intellectuals public opinion so that the he was 15 years of age, and Mr.