Dedicated to the ideal* Address and interests of young Americans of Ukrainian UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SECTION descent 81-83 Grand Street Informative, ' instructive. Supplemena of Jersey City 3. N. J. Ukrainian Daily Svoboda УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ щоА&шиш UKRAINIAN DA1LV Tel. HEnderson 4-0237 Pubbshed by the Ukrainian National Ukrainian National Ass'n Association. The Ukrainian Weekly Section Tel. HEnderson 5-8740 РПС ЬХШ 4. 143 SECTION TWO SVOBODA, UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SECTION, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1956 SECTION TWO No. 143 VOL. LXin UKRAINIAN PRISONERS IN SOVIET SLAVE LABOR REPUBLICAN NATIONALITIES DIVISION Ukrainian American Veterans J OPENING OF UKRAINIAN *""" J-- -jV ". "'•• ' -^"Цчі CAMPS DEMAND THEIR "ENDOWED RIGHTS" CULTURAL COURSES Support Immigration Legislation Wednesday, August 1st IN A SMUGGLED LETTER TO THE UN At a meeting of the National oue legislation now pending in .vill mark the formal open­ Executive Board of the Uk­ Washington, Resolution HR- ing of the Ukrainian Cul­ (Text in ТОГО Appears on Page 2 and 3) rainian American Veterans 6888 was discussed in its'en­ tural Courses for the Uk- held on Friday, July 20th, at tirety. NEW YORK. — On Monday, and refugees in the free world. rainin American youth con- kuta and Colonies 1 and 3 in the Ukrainian Institute in New A report Was made on the July 23, 1956, at 3:00 P.M., the These documents reveal the ducted under the auspices Kingir, and in the camps of York, following a report by its action taken by the Joint Uk­ Ukrainian Congress Commit­ continuity of slave labor prac­ of the Ukrainian National Vorkuta, Norilsk in 1953 and National Legislative Officer, rainian American Immigration tee of America sponsored a tice and barbaric mistreatment Association at "Soyuzivka" in Karaganda in 1954). It is Walter Steck, concerning vari- Legislation Committee and on special press conference in the and abuse of Ukrainian and recalled that Attorney General in Kerhonkson, New York. South Room, Hotel Commo­ other nationalities in slave motion duly made and passed Rudenko was Soviet "Judge" it was unanimously agreed that dore, for the purpose of pres­ labor camps. Furthermore, at the trial of Nazi war crim­ enting to the American. press these documents are the first the Veterans take such ac­ inals at Nuernberg immediate­ Student Fund Grants Eleven tion that would help bring and the American .people at to disclose that revolts and ly after the last war, in com­ large two original and import­ strikes in „the camps be­ Scholarships For 1956-1957 this matter to a vote in the pany of the most prominent United States Senate. ant documents dealing with gan before Stalin's death. In United States and other West­ the plight and persecution of the autumn of 1952 they were ern legal experts. At the annual meeting held now coming to a close is the Walter Bacad, the National Ukrainian political prisoners started in the Karaganda camp Another abhorrent crime of in June, the Ukrainian Student Commander, suggested that in the Mordovian slave labor campaign month for new funds the Executive Board appropri­ system by former soldiers of the Soviet government, the do­ Fund, Inc., headed by Prof. Ro­ and the Executive Board is ap­ compound in the Soviet Union the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ate funds to send its represen­ cument reveals, is the construc­ Members of the Republican Advisory Committee (Nationalities Divi­ man Smal-Stockl of Marquette pealing to everyone of Ukrain­ by the Soviet Government (UPA), the force that fought tion of new cities and factories sion) express satisfaction to Leonard B. Hall (sitting center) with University, Milwaukee, Wiscon­ tative, Walter Steck, if and Mr. Dmytro Halychyn, presi­ first against the Reichswehr over the mass burial sites and which their respective nationality groups received the news of Presi­ sin, granted eleven scholar­ ian ancestry to forward a con­ when necessary, to Washing­ dent of the UCCA, presided at dent Eisenhower's return to health and his decision to conduct an tribution to the Ukrainian Stu­ ton to lobby for the passage and then against the Bolsheviks. cemeteries of the prison camps. energetic election campaign. At the meeting of the members con­ ships totalling $1,630 to stu­ the conference and Ц his open­ The 1953 strike in the yorkuta During the conference ex­ vened for the purpose of developing national election strategy dents of Ukrainian descent who dent Fund. Inc., 302 West 13th of this bill which would enable ing remarks he stressed the complex, hitherto thought to planation and remarks upon among the nationality groups the Ukrainian group was represented are pursuing their studies in Street, New York 14, N. Y. our Ukrainian immigrants to by: Mr. Dmytro Halychyn, head of the Ukrainian Division (stand­ clarify their status here in the importance of these documents be the first, was led by three the documents were made by various colleges and universi­ All donations are fully deducti­ and the fact that after more hundred Ukrainian insurgents ing first row, fifth {rom left). Prof. L. Dobriansky (standing first ties in the United States. Jo­ United States, so that they Mr. Walter Dushnyck, editor row, third from left) A. Dachuck (sitting extreme right) and S. ble from Federal Income tax than 3 decades of. Soviet dic­ who had been transferred of the Ukrainian Bulletin, and Skubick (last row, second from right). seph Lesawyer, treasurer of the may gain citizenship. The mo­ reports. tatorship and terror there are from Karaganda. Further especially by Mr. Mykola Le­ Fund, announced that the in­ tion was passed unanimously. still in Ukraine persons who strikes followed In Norilsk, bed and his assiciates, Dr. M. dividual grants ranging from would risk their lives to in­ Vorkuta again, the Kingir Prokop and Dr. L. Shankow- RECOMMENDED PLANK ON THE $100 to $250 will be paid at form the free World of the true camps (in Kazakhstan), the sky. the commencement of the 1956- UKRAINIAN PI iNEERS IORED conditions prevailing in Soviet camps at Verkhonoye - Imbat- It is noteworthy that the POLICY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION 1957 school year this Septem­ Ukraine. skoye and Mirnoye, from 1953 National Review deemed these ber to*the following students: As the Winnipeg Free Press in the political field the Ukrai­ These documents were writ­ up to the present time. The Miss Myra Irene Beryk, Cleve­ documents so important and WASHINGTON. — The ma­ Azerbajani and the Turkestan- of July 16th reports, the his­ nian Canadians are trusted by ten by two groups of Ukrain­ Kingir strikes lasted for two land, Ohio attending Ohio timely that it published them jority of the Platform Commit­ iane. tory of the Ukrainian Canad­ all Canadians to carry on the ian political prisoners and de­ and a half months in 1954 State University at Columbus, in toto in a special supplement tee of various anti-Communist We are determined to imple­ ians was unfolded past week­ government of our country. portees at slave labor camps (according tp the direct testi­ Ohio; Mr. Yurij Buriaklwec, in the August 1, 1956 issue nationality organizations ap­ ment this peaceful policy of end In Gardenton, the first U- J. R. Solomon, MLA for located in the Mordovian. ASSR, mony of the Hungarian Dr. Fe- "in order that they may be­ Trenton,. N. J. attending Al­ pointed by' the Conference on national liberation by generat­ krainian settlement in Manito­ Emerson introduced Premier about four' hundred miles dor Varkonyi, here confirmed) come part of the historical liance College st Cambridge Freedom and Peace through ing ! pressures for expanded Springs, | Pa.; Mr. T- Caryk, ba and second in Canada. southeast of Moscow, and 1 D. L. Campbell, who unveiled were suppressed finally when record of our time... as re­ Liberation July 2nd 1956, pre­ freedom, aimed ' at the aboli­ smuggled out through under­ the MVD used tanks to crush markable in their origin as in Baltimore, Maryland attending The diamond jubilee attend­ the cairn and was the principal pared and submitted for ap­ tion'of the Communist Iron University of Maryland; Miss ground channels to Western hundred of prisoners. their content." ed by over .2,000 was sponsor­ speaker at an open air meet­ proval to their respective or­ Curfedn, the staging of free Nadla Ulana Haftkowycz, Hart­ Germany. < The documents also reveal Present at the conference ganizations the following plank elections in all' captive coun­ ed by the sons and daughters ing outside the Ukrainian Hall. The original Ukrainian texts, ford, Conn., attending St. Jo­ of the first settlers here 60 He brought greetings from the for the first time that the So­ were representatives of the on the policy of National Lib­ tries, the rise in the standard seph College at West Hart­ dated September and October years ago. On the committee government and people of Ma­ viet Attorney General Rudenko Associated Press, Internation­ eration for the Republican and of Uylng for all captive peo- ford, Conn.; Mr. Titus D. 1955, are painstakingly writ­ al News Service, Catholic News Democratic conventions: jpl^s,'an3 the cessation of Мов- | were William Onysko, Mike nitoba. and MVD General Mftslcnni- Hewryk, Newark, N. J. attend­ ten, in e 'purple that• looks Service, Radio' Free Europe, "We strongly reaffirm our re­ eow-cchtered colonialism and Hasiuk, tfony Onysko, T. Si­ Нош M. N. Hryftorcmjk, Ma­ rather like the old-fashioned kov were in charge of firing ing' Pratt Institute st Brook­ Radio Liberation, American jection of all concepts which imperialism. The challenge of lyn, N. Y: Mr. Adrian Bohdan korsky, Mrs. Margaret Onysky, nitoba's Attorney-General, said "indelible pencil" marking, on squads (At Mine 29 in Vor­ Journal and others. would abandon the captive na­ Communist competition for the pieces of linen cloth that may Karmazyn, Cleveland, Ohio at­ A.