www.ukrweekly.com І СВОБОДАXSVOBODA І І Ж В УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК ^aHP? UKRAINIAN OA/iV Щ Щ UkrainiaENGLISH-LANGUAGnE WEEKL Y WeerEDITION l у VOL. LXXXV No. 102 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 7,1978 25 CENTS UNA Convention to Mark "100th" of Ukrainians in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa.-In conjunc­ choruses and two Ukrainian dance en­ tion with the 29th Regular Convention sembles. Michael Komichak, director of of the Ukrainian National Association, the Ukrainian Radio Program in Pitts­ which will be held at the Hilton Hotel burgh, will be master of ceremonies. here, the UNA Convention Committee Bohdan Hryshchyshyn is concert chair­ has designated the week of May 21-27 man. as ' 'Ukrainian Week in Downtown The convention committee has char­ Pittsburgh" to mark the centennial of tered a boat, the ' 'Gateway Party Ukrainian immigration to this area. It Liner," for a "Ukrainian Nite on the was 100 years ago, in 1878, that Andrew Ohio" for Tuesday, May 23, from 7 to Andrejczyn and three other Ukrainians 10 p.m. This will be a dinner-dance from Lemkivshchyna first came to cruise and will provide the delegates with Pittsburgh. an excellent opportunity to see Pittsburgh A schedule of events is being plan­ from its three rivers. The boat can be ned by the Convention Committee to boarded just across the street from the honor the Ukrainian pioneers who Hilton Hotel in historical Point State established, organized and developed Park. The cost for the narrated cruise, the Ukrainian community in western the dinner and the dance is only S10. Pennsylvania. A request has been Reservations must be made in advance made of Pittsburgh officials to provide by calling the UNA Main Office, or an outside area, near the Hilton Hotel Mr. Komichak in Pittsburgh at Radio for an ecumenical religious service to Station WPIT, (412) 281-1900, be­ Seated, left to right: Michael Komichak, Dmytro Holowatyj, UNA Supreme be held on Sunday, May 21, at 4 p.m. tween 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Charles Sach- President Joseph Lesawyer, Andrew Jula, Chairman, and Charles Sachko; to commence the weeklong centennial ko is chairman of the hospitality com­ Standing, left to right: Olga Pishko, Charles Howancliak, Bohdan Hry­ observance. mittee. shchyshyn, John W. Yarchak, Nicholas Mach, Nick Drapala, Patricia Borden After the service, a concert dedicated The convention banquet will be held and George Moxinchalk. to the Ukrainian pioneers will be held on Thursday, May 25, in the Grand in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel. Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel. Promi­ Anna Chornodolska, will entertain at and the "Poltava" Dance Ensemble The program will feature Andrij nent Ukrainian and American digni­ the banquet. The cost of the banquet will close "Ukrainian Week in Down­ Dobriansky of the Metropolitan taries, including a representative of the ticket is S20. Ann Maluk is chairman. town Pittsburgh" with their annual Opera, accompanied at the piano by White House, have been invited. The On Saturday night, May 27, the performance at the Pittsburgh Folk Thomas Hrynkiw, three Ukrainian popular Ukrainian Canadian singer, League of Ukrainian Catholics Choir Festival in the Civic Arena. Pioneer Leaves 387,000 Gen. Grigorenko Urges Protests For Education of UNA Youth Against Soviet Repressions JERSEY CITY, N.J. —Joseph NEW YORK, N.Y.—In the after­ Wolk, a retired auto mechanic from math of the sentencing of several mem­ Trumbuii, Conn., who died last year, bers of the Ukrainian Public Group to was sincerely concerned about the well- Promote the Implementation of the being of youths and often helped them Helsinki Accords and non-Ukrainian pay for their education. human rights advocates, Gen. Petro Grigorenko has issued an emotional It was perhaps with this in mind that appeal for mass protests against Soviet he bequeathed 587,162.15, most of his repressions. estate, to the Ukrainian National Asso­ ciation for the specific purpose of pro­ "Decent people of the world. Pro­ viding scholarships for Ukrainian test! It is imperative to bind the hands youths. of the criminal regime, a regime which continues its aggressive plans in Africa, The UNA Main Office here was re­ which arms terrorists around the cently informed of Mr. Wolk's bequest world, and at the same time, liquidates by the executor of his estate, Nicholas its people," wrote Gen. Grigorenko in T. Giangrasso, Mr. Wolk's lawyer and an appeal published in the May 3 edi­ longtime friend. tion of Svoboda. The UNA has decided to deposit the Joseph Wolk The Ukrainian human rights activist, who was banned from returning to the money in a special trust fund. The Gen. Petro Grigorenko annual interest will be used for scholar­ widow. She died on November 18, Soviet Union while visiting the United 1971. States, said that the Soviet government ships bearing Mr. Wolk's name and and Petro Vins of the Ukrainian awarded yearly to qualified students. He was a quiet man, a good athlete, was overjoyed to see Western represen­ and a Ukrainian community activist tatives to the Belgrade conference group, and Balys Gajauskas of the Joseph Wolk was born in Uhertsi, who supported cultural, religious and "frighteningly retreat" from its Lithuanian group, Gen. Grigorenko Lisko county, western Ukraine, on sports activities. threats. said that "one is stunned when hearing February 2, 1892. He came to the Uni­ Mr. Wolk joined the UNA in 1923 "The government in the USSR initi- that persons use such terrible measures ted States after World War I. After and remained a member of Branch 59 tated even greater repressions against against individuals who devoted their studying auto mechanics he worked for in Bridgeport until his death on Jan­ activists of the rights movement," said entire lives to helping their people." the Bullard Co. until his retirement. uary 29, 1977. the 70-year-old Gen. Grigorenko. Gen. Grigorenko said that the impri­ Mr. Wolk was a bachelor until 1963 He was one of the founders of St. Citing the sentencing of Mykola sonment of Gajauskas to another 15- when he married Emily Demczak, a (Continued on page 2) Matusevych, Myroslav Marynovych (Continued on page 13) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 7,1978 No. 102 Kudirka Scores Sentencing Nationalism Growing in USSR, Of Balys Gajauskas Says Newspaper Columnist BROOKLYN, N.Y.—After hearing sidents, to assist their families. On NEW YORK, N.Y.—The Washing­ tion of Russian words into it, than to of the sentence of Balys Gajauskas by a April 20, 1977, he was arrested as a ton Post's April 20 edition carried an protest the infiltration of highly paid Soviet court to 10 years of witness in a case involving the ППНАГ. article by columnist Victor Zorza Russian bureaucrats and technocrats in harsh labor camp, Simas Kudirka ground "Chronicle of the Catholic about "Nationalist Rumblings Against Ukraine, or Georgia, or any one of called it tantamount to a death sen­ Church in Lithuania." After a year of Russian Rule." Russification has be­ about a dozen other republics. But rule tence, reported the Lithuanian Infor­ confinement and interrogation, Ga­ come a major issue in each of the by outsiders, whether is it exercized mation Service. jauskas was brought to trial and sen­ USSR's national republics, and directly from Moscow or by Russians Gajauskas is a 50-year-old Lithuani­ tenced to 10 years of hard labor and according to the columnist, it is often a in key jobs in the various republics, is an Roman Catholic veteran of the anti- five additional years of banishment signal of deeper dissatisfaction with often the real issue," he noted in the Soviet Lithuanian resistance after from his native Lithuania. government policies. article. World War II. He served 25 years in "This is a certain death sentence for Citing the recent demonstrations by Many of the Soviet Union's non- Soviet labor camps. Upon release in him. He is in very poor health as a re­ Georgians against the government's at­ Russians are afraid that Russification 1973, he was denied validation of his sult of the 25 years he has tempt to replace Georgian as the sole is a "step on the road that could de­ internal passport and constantly already spent in Russian concentration official language of the Georgian Re­ prive them of their national identity." harassed and fined, together with his camps. Now, as an unrepentant activist public, Mr. Zorza wrote that "In some There is a "growing feeling against aged mother, who was accused of har­ for Lithuanian freedom, he will be ways the language struggle has be­ Russian domination," wrote the boring an "illegal resident/' confined to a special regime labor come the symbol of the resistance to columnist. And "few countries are Gajauskas began to help Aleksandr camp, which he will never leave alive; Russian rule, because on the surface, at more vulnerable to the demand for Ginzburg distribute funds from the the KGB will make certain of that,"' least, it is a politically less sensitive autonomy and independence than the Solzhenitsyn Fund for jailed Soviet dis­ said Kudirka. issue." Soviet Union, with its patchwork of "It is safer, for instance to take up nationalities ranging from Ukraine, the cudgels in behalf of the purity of with its population of 50 million, to Gen. Grigorenko to Speak one's language, to protest the infiltra­ Georgia, with nearly 5 million." AtGluzman Rally May 11 NEW YORK, N.Y.—United Nations seven-year prison sentence and a three- Lviv Factory Experiments Ambassador Allard K. Lowenstein, year exile from his native Kiev, has Rep. William Green and Ukrainian been the subject of appeals by Soviet With Pleasing Workers, Consumers human rights activist Gen.