The Ukrainian Weekly 1939-42

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i No . 42 ~???J E R S E Y G T F Y , N. J., S A TU R D A Y , ( 7, 1939 - i V5GHL. VH

YOUTH CLUB FORUMSNow is the time when many of our youth clubs areracking their collective heads in a painful4 effort to evolvesomfr manner of program for the coming -sear tha t willjustify their existence. At first glance it would appear thatthe problem is quite simple. But when one eliminates theusual dances and social affairs, that some opUn|Bcallylabel as "activity," one inevitably finds the problem iamoy-ingly. difficult. In attempt to be of some help to rthosefaced with it, therefore, we offer a suggestion.Our suggestion, or, better still, recommendation, isbased on the premise t ha t people like to discuss things,

: especially at such times as these when mbmentou^^eventsare taking place. Opinions are Asapcja-tion .will again sponsor basketballduring the coming season underth e rules of the U.N.A.-basket-,ball League, according to an announcement issued this week byGregory Herman, Athletic Directo r of the U;N.A.Financial assistance will be givento the teams that become members of t he . Le ague , the announcement states. Two trophies, it says,will be awarded-to the winningt eams: , one f o r t he Eastern U.N.A.nhmnpiQiyihip, . now held by theBerwick team; the other for?Mid-West, held . by the Hamtramckt e am . Only .members of the U.N.A. areeligible to play on the . U.N.A.t e am s , the announcement .declares .N ew members become eligible whentheir first month 's ..dues are xe-ceived at the home office. Slui-sRegistration of teams will closeon November 30, 1939. Additionsto the list of an y players may bemade during the month of December . No additional players, the an-,nouncement warns, will be registered after December 31, 1939:Scheduling of games will be completed by December 15th.sRegistration blanks will be . mailed to former teams after October15 , says, the announcement. Newteams may obtain blanks on request, by writing to. G.'Jtternian,Athletic Director. p'fp^

" W E E K L Y " OrjRDIN WORK ONAS8IMELATIONTb&'jjfcBfj&y, published "Ameri- scans In The MakingThe NaturalHistory of the Assunilation of Im-m i grah t s ," by WSUJam 'CarlsonSm i t h , Ph. D., professor


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OF-' ' ; > ':" 8 ..Why Mazeppa Entered Bight Bank

U k r a i n e t ; ? ^ ^fTPHE .Muscov ian - Polis h allianc eP aga ins t C harl e s of Sw edendid not find, as recounted in pre?,vious installments here,, wholehe arted sup port ^ ^^ ^ ^strong pro-Swedish element in' thePolish sta te -took a hostile stan dagainst i t , and as Charles gained.further victories, this element, unfder leadership ? Stanislaus Les.chynsky, threatened open revoltagainst the Polish sovereign, , Augustus . | " ; ^^ ^-W he n A ugustus was finally annihilated by Charles (1702), andjStanMaus&'eupported by Charles;becam e the ,-new king of Poland/-that country became the battle--ground of grave internal dissension'and disorder, that threatened to en- gulf the nominally-Polish ^Rigbt"Bank Ukraine, including the fragmen ts hug ging th e Dnieper that- Peter I of Muscovy-had ceded-to.Poland as a price for her allianceagainst Charles. At the same timeSwedish penetration , into Polandx^^p roac hed i. dangerously close' toRight Bank Ukraine.

J.'JJorisequently, as toldTnM -th esixth., installme nt *of this serie s,Mazeppa decided to take measures/to preserve order in Right BankUkraine and at the same time prevent it ' from being overrun by theSwedes and thus protect his ownbef t Bank Ukraine. F i rs t he sentColonel Myklashevich with a 12,-000 Kozak army into White Russia,to prevent any flank attack fromthat direction, and secondly in thesprin g of 1804 . he perso nallycrossed the Dnieper at the head ofan army of 40,000 and enteredRight Bank Ukraine. This crossing, however, was not only intended by him as a strategic-stepin the war against Sweden, but alsoas a means of gaining permanentcontrol of that section of Ukraine.He intended to annex i t to LeftBank ^Ukraine, better kn own 'thenHetmanschynaover which heruled, but only as much as-Muscovy allowed him.

s te ad il y' g ro w in g nu m b er of |^" individuals and organizat ionsdevoting/, themselves to ' stud y ofUkrainian Uterature, would dowell to devote some of their attention to f the founder of themodern .period -of Ukrainian literat ure , Ivan,, Kotlya revsky , whose^birthday , anniversary . (September 769) i s be ing obse rved th i s-month. .Especially interesting will' they find lushest known work, the.Aenied travesty.. ^ilvan Kotlyare'veky was born an d5j ra ised .dur ing ^ * s ignif icant"period. . On the one hand Ukraineseemed to beheaded for permanentextinction; ' .as Ration; her laststronghold of national freedom,the ' famed Zapbrozhian Sitch, .being treacherously captured' aridruined by Russia {1783); and hercultural, life,' under the blightingmisrule of Russia, seemingly losingits identity. On the other h and,howev er , -as-a sor t of . counter-move to this decline of the Ukrainian, nation, , there were arisingthroughout Europe, especially inthe W es t, new', conceptions in th ecultural and hterary fields- thatwere destined to bring to the cen-ter-of-public attention the life.andplight4of the hitherto ignoredmasses who down through thecenturies - have always been thebackbone; of ever y.natio n. Thesegrowing [ "hew conceptions weregenerally known then as the Romantic Movement. t

| ^ ^ 9 e m e n P a l l y ?i i?jt_ that.time th e Kozakdom ofRight Bank Ukraine was dominated -Jjr Semen Hurka," bette rknown as Semen Paliy, a man ofhumble orjgin and of high patriotism , w ho. found Polish r ulevery intolerable. 8 $A former colonel of the Khvas-tiw region, he decided u po n' hisrise to power' to make that townnear the Dnieper his headquarters.His contacts with Mazeppa datedb a ck to 1 6 94 'w h en l e tt er h ewrote to him that,~jgt found th iscountry a wilderness, and laboredover it from Khvastiw as would 'ove r own p rope rty . T he w idefields have, been sown with grainan d have become, enriched: have .buQt and decorated churche swherein to worship and praise the- Settling the wastelands withhardy pioneers and organizingthem $ the order of Kozaks,Pally gradually made the Khvas-tiw; region |a ^ haven against Jtheconstant danger of Turko-Tartarattacks. As he grew stronger heho longer conterided himself inbeating back the wild invaders butbegan to attack them himself, a ttimes penetrating as far as theBlack ' Sea^^Sc" & * PaUy's fame as a martial leaderjfand a wise and just ruler causedpeople to flpek to h is ' sjjarsely-settled domains and settle there.Even many Poles, whose parentshad lorded in this territory prior.to the national rebelion under. 'Khmelnitsky (1648)^ began todribble back and with the backingof the Polish-government attemptto reclaim "their ancestral lands."Paliy, however, brooked ho.:interference from them. He had notlabored so hard and sacrificed somuch merely to provide a'field ofexploitation for the Poles. A' gre at. Ukrainia n patrio t, his prim -s consideration was th e welfare of the Ukrainian people. Ac-| cordingly he did his best to discourage, even by use of force, the

YOUTH and f New Branch in S t . ^ ^

Both these, tren ds o r courses of.events strongly affected Kotlyarevsky. As a Ukrainian, who spenta gr ea t .deal of time .amon g hispeople, he could noUhelp b ut n oticeto what 's trait s his native land hadbeen driven by foreign oppression.And 'as an .intellectual he wasvividly conscious of the new currents of thought rushing throughout- th e length and b readth of Europe, and affecting even Ukraine.The combination of-these two maincombination of these two main'influences resulted in his' writingof-;" "Aen ied," th e app eara nce ofwhich, in 1798, is considered a s thestart of modern Ukrainian literature. For this worka travesty onVergil's original put into a Ukrainian settingwas written notin the old bookish Church-Slavonic. languag e b ut in the verna cular ofthe masses of Ukrainian people,the language which Eotlyarevskyhad learned to love and appreciatewhile teaching in the native villages. As such it became th e firstof ' kind and a flaming guide-post for the others that followed.The work stirred great interestamong the Ukrainian people assoon as it appeared, not only byreason of the revolutionary changein the use of the literary mediumattempted - Polish ~ colonization of 'Ukrainian' lands, and likewise castabout for some means of fore-ever safeguarding them from further* Polish a ggr essio n..; Gradually Paliy ' envisaged theplan of placing hie sphere of influence under- Mazeppa's rule. In1688 he senta message' to Mazeppaasking him to .take the Khvastiwregion under'" his protection. Ju stabout that time, however, the Mus-*:ovians and the Poles concludedbetween themselves a "permanent4tre aty of peace. Arme d with -thetreaty, ' Polaftd caused1 Pally to bearr este d' antiL imprisoned , and,, aPolish garrison stationed at Khvastiw. - But soon thereaf ter, Paliybroke out of prison and regaininghis lost command over the Kozaksdrove the Poles pell-mell out ofhis capital and resumed his inter-,rupted negotiations with Mazeppa.(To be continued) -

it introduced, b u | also* because itexpose d.1 th e jErue , copditions.^ .Ukraine under- Russian' rule, .yetto a manner t o givfc oftenseto th e Rus sian censor.,., Peoplegan to be conscious towatdsj whata miserable end 4hey ^ ^ a were being .driven.:--5Bbey| realizedthat unless something~was*begunto be 'done soon, th is' en d :.wouUibe upon them to'*, iho:rtspace uf.time. Accordingly, t]hey 'beg an tpraying:She wished his soul would stopdelayingThe trip to that unearthly place.

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N o . 42:: t i g U K R A I N I A N W E E K L Y , S A T U R D A Y , O C T O B E R 7 , 1 9 3 9 3P H I L A D E L P H I A C H O R U S

A Ii tt le ; fe l low with dynamic' personal i ty and music abi l i ty," Ste ve n Mar use v idT " N e w Yor k ,plus a modest -but.energetic worke r , P e te r Z ahar c t i uk of*r auade l -"phia, fore saw t he possibility of aUkrainian you th cho rus in Phi ladelphia and founded such an 6r- ganization just one year - . T h eidea of a young Ukrainian choral' gro up appealed4 to the youth andi n a f ew w ee ks th e Y o u ^ p f C h o r u s ' o f P h il a de lp h ianumbered s ixty voices , about even*ly divided between the male andI female . Since that t ime rehearsalshave been held weekly at the Ukrainian Hal l wi th the director'Steven Marusevich who mak es 'bisweekly tr ips from ?ww York toPhi l ly to conduct them. Prog ress; has been evidenced by the fact that. the c hor us ha s appea red in,- fou rconcerts in Phi ladelphia and alsoparticipated in the Music-JPestivalsponsored by the Ukrainian Youth's'League of North America at i ts7th Annual Convention held inNe war k ove r L abor Day . T he c hor us a l so be c am e a .m e m be r ofthe UYL -NA th i s pas t ye ar . Af te r the re gu l ar r e he ar sa l s themembers usual ly partic ipate insome form of activi ty. The mostrecent urge'Which has se ized thegroup i s the tr icky art of tw ir l ing-huge bal l s at s teadfast yet e lusivepins-Bowling. I t ' s surpris ing indeed the manner in. which our: Ukra inian girls c an' -roll thos e heavy bal l s , but then, they may be-practic ing for the day when they-ma y need to rol l (perhaps thro w).'the pin and n ot th e ball .." A s forthe sco res , suffice to s ay -th at:for the present their musical abi l -. ity- surpasses their athlet ic prowess .'However , the gir l s are qui te adeptat the sport of playing darts andping pong, which i s indu lged inwhi l e wai t i ng ' for ' the g roup toassemble for rehearsals . On otheroccasions the chorus members gobicycle r iding and work up ap-vpeti tes for the inevi table weenie

r oast whi c h fo l l ows . , E ve r yone h as-a grand t ime despi te a few burned--f ingers and watery eyes caused bysmoke. The entertainment committee also plans- to have4- other; ou tings l ike the one which was held^ dur i ng las t sum m e r -at N or th L on g: Branch,-N. J. , where both the N.T.-NtJP&youth chorus and thePWUy^jgouth chorus go t . toget herfor a good old fashioned outing Ofswimming, eating, s inging and.'drinking. Oh ye s, and the girlshave even interested the boys in-playing - Bridge , .Already plans are under way for. the c horus , to a f tpe i yû^qm âoa~;certs before the end ;of th is year . |The n ext app earance/ .wi l l .be onOctober 8th for the occasion ce le-

hrating the 30th Anniversary of. the Ukrainian American \ CitizensAssociation of Phi ladelphia. .The.chorus -wi l l al so s ing a t the L isto-padove Svyato c onc e r t on -Nove m ber 5th and arrangements are being made for the- chorus t o ap pearat th e 45th. Ann iversary ce lebrat io n o f t h e N at io na l A s sociation which i s be ing sponsor ed' by all 'th e J U.N.A. branches inPhi la delph ia. and vic ini ty, to behe l d on Nove m be r 26 . No w that" the choru s has reachedJ ts : i i rst birthday, th e memb ershave planned to ce lebrate the oc-ccasion with a dance which i s tobe held in the Ukrainian H al l onSaturda y evening, October 14th, ar e c or d i a ll y i nv ite d to a t te ndthi s ce lebration. Perhaps, you ma yeven decide to join the Chorus. I t ' sa n . oppor tunity for you to m akene w fr iends a nd. , al so ga in t hatpersonal sense of sati sfaction thatyou are -doing someting co nstrue- ._ t ive for the Ukra inians in helpingI to perpetuate the Ukrainian cul tur e * and tr ad i t i on , thr ough the. medium of ; m usic . , , g g B g . D A V I D C H M E L Y K "

THE WAGE AND HOUR LAW

RARITAN, .N. ' $ - Come and renew old acquaintances*-|ftf t h e S e c o n d A n n u e l DANCE s p on sored by . the U krainian. Social Club t o be held on SATURDAY,. .OCTOBER*.;]($$ 1 9 3 9 , a t th e S t . Jo se p h Auditorium. on Somerset Street. Music. $ befurnished byv.Vif Roniaine and hisorchestra. ^ , swing it, beat it,j sweetly treat it, You'll heartily greetjijft^DancIng' from 8 P. M. to l. A . M.Admission *45 f. 233,9

T he L ong Str uggl e F or W ageand Hour L awsr pHE F ai r L abor S tandar ds Ac t* of 1938, which sets a floor below which wages may not fal l anda ce i l ing above which hours maynot c l imb, i s the culmination of astrug gle generations lon g to improve the condit ions under whichthe m asse s o f m e n , wom e n andchildren live. /T h i s l aw i s by no m e ans thefirst in which a n effort ha s -beenmade through legis lation to regulate the hours worked andwag e s pa i d . Mor e than 300 ye ar sa g o , the Mayflower colonists passed a la w fixing th e wages of carpenters , masons andthatch ers . Ev en that e ffort hadprecedents as far back as Egyptand the Rom an E m pi re . B ut tho selaws we re designed, not . for th ewel fare of the w orkers , , but to. puta .ce il ing on the com pensation the ymight demand for their labor .T h e m o v e m e n t . t o r e g u l a t e t h ehours of work and wages paid inthe interest of the work ers tookc onc r e te for m m or e than 50 ye ar sa g o . The appl ication of ste am ' (andwater power) to industr ial production made our factories efficient,but .wi th them came economic condi t ions which produced suffer ing,misery and desti tution for mi l l ionsof workers and their fami l ies .The appl ication "of stea m, howe ve r , to m anufac tur e c hange d thewhole economic l i fe of the nation.Formerly, 'population and manufacture were confined to centers on-the coasts and along the r ivers ,.put wi th the coming of rai lroads,the r e be gan the i n l and m ar c h tothe sources of raw materials an destabl i shment of great industr ialenter prise s . ' The appl ication ofs te am to the c ot ton g i n wa s th eprincipal factor in the developmentof th e sys te m of hum an s l ave r y i n

the South whi c h c am e to an .e ndaf te r four ye a r s o f de vas tat i ngwar. _ Then th e appl ication ofsteam to looms and spindles pro-^ j i f f i ' n t h o r . s e c t i o n s O f ' t h ecountry an economic s lavery al most , i f not actual ly, as cruel .Mass production accentuated theevi l s of the sweat shops, already afixture in the needle trades andother non-mechanized industr ies .E m phas i s on the m ove m e nt toeradicate them brought legis lationdesigned to protect women and.c hi ld re n. | In the t e xt i l e i ndus tr y i t wasonce a common practice tha t th eslums of London were searched fororphan children* to tend the loomsand spindles in the mi l l s of Lan-castershire . They s lept two in abed, one gett ing up to go to workas another came home and droppedi nto e xhaus te d s l e e p .In the f irst text i le mi l l estab l i shed in .the United Sta tes ( inRhode Is land in 1790), SamuelSlater , the owner, predicted thatchi ldren might, the n b ecom e breadwinners and keep out of mischiefby te nd i ng th e l oom s . $$$[ W&;I t wasf t Massac huse t s s c hoolte ac he r , E l i .W hi tne y , who by asingle invention contr ibuted grea tly - to" the development of ma sspr oduc t i on i n the Uni ted S ta te s .H e invented the cotton gin whi letinkering', in th e blac ksm ith s ho pon th e plantation of the iReyolu-t ipnary hero, General Nath anie l.Greene 14 miles up the river fromSavan nah, Georgia. I t was a s imp l e gadge t wi th sp i ke s m ounte d ona revolvin g cyl inder wh ich -pul ledthe l i n t 4 f r om the c ot ton se e d ..Geor ge .W ashi ngton wa s . s t i l l thePresident, . and Alexander .- Hamil ton and Thomas Jefferson were engage d i n the i r m om e ntous s tr uggl eover prop erty versu s human r ights;th e .Jesui t Pries ts s t i l l were th eprincipal white people in the vastJNorthwest Terri tojrK^when Eh"$ probably, 'but jthey were sett in g in motionthe sys te m of m ass pr oduc t i onwhich wa s ' to . revolutionize in - ,dus tr ia l . .> c onsum pt i on , an d . theh a b i t s ' ; a n d p i c u s t o m s : of pe op l e ,e ve r ywhe r e ; and to c r e ate i n 'America undreamed of weal th

through quanti ty production, bythe appl ication of sc ien ce to indus tr y .This industr ial system was tohav e ful l play, on th e Am ericanscene for twos generation s beforethe publ ic conscience was arousedby the abu ses to -humanity w hichwas the col lateral product of a t h emachine age . Then .humanitarianl e ade r s ' be gan to c ons ide r for m sfor the regulation' , ' of fa cto rymethods and the pjrotectum ofworkers . Two moret generations-were to fol low before the C ongressof the United States would enactinto ' the law of the land that i ti s the pol icy of the Republ ic thatthere shal l be a "minimum stan dard of - l iving necessary for thehealth,- efficiency an d' genera l well-being of American workers ."Minimum wage legis lation wasborn in Austral ia in t $e 1890's a ndspread f irst to England and thenceto Europe. I t was late in comingto the United Stat es and - evenwhen i t came, i t wa s so bi tter lycontested by those in control ofth e mass production industr ies thatthat t ime an d again the decis ionsof the courts upheld the theorythat- property r ights came beforehuman rights.W hat T he W age A nd Hour L awMeans To Ameriean Workers

Ne w Z e al and passe d a l aw forcompulsory arbi tration of labord i spute s i n 1894 , w hi c h , gave theDistr ict Conci l iat ion Boards power to f ix minimum wag es. In 1909,agi tation brought the passage inEngland of a Trade Boards Act,providing for wa ge/ boards t oestabl i sh minimum .wages for al lemployees in any given industry.By 1921 there w ere 63 boards inoperation. .In Am erica the wide-spreaddemand for minimum wage legislat ion which started as early as1 8 9 0 , was g i ve n m uc h i m pe tus bythe "Triangle Fire" of 1910 inwhich 148 gir l employees of aswe a t shop we r e bur ne d to de athin ' Ne^JT ork City. Spon sors of them ove m e nt fought on unt i l thepassage o f the F ai r L abor S tandards A ct in 1938. In the inter im,seventeen state laws were enacted,but of the se three we re repealedand f ive were held unconsti tutionalby the c our ts . . U l t i m ate l y , theSupr e m e Cour t o f the Uni te d S tate swhich had declared the minimumwage law for women in the District of Columbia, unconstitutional,was to reverse itself.Massac huse t t s pas se d the -firsttnininwiy wa ge law in 1912. In-the fol lowing year , Cal i fornia,Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska,Or e gon , Utah , W ashi ngton andWisconsin fol lowed the example ofthe Bay State , and in 1915, Arkansas and K ansas jo i ne d theprocess ion. The first Ac t passedby Congress for t i)e Distr ict ofColumbia in 1918, was later dec lared unconsti tutional , but in1 9 1 9 , Nor th Dakota , T e xas and-P ue r to . Ri c o passe d m i n im um wag elegis lation, and South Dakota fol l owe d i n 1923 .The Fair Labor Standards. Ac tof .1938. .was passed after ,a. bi tterbattle^' tfs Con gress , and wa s innumerous respects di fferent fromthe legis lation as i t or iginal ly wasintroduced in 1937. |Concededly, the Act was notperfect and i ts most ardent champions o nly c laimed for i t . that i t.Was a reasona ble beginning towardthe ul t imate objective of a l ivingwage and some securi ty in employment* for al l American s. The immediate resul t of this would be ani nc r e ase d pur c has i ng powe r forthe m ass o f wor ke r s . T hus sur plus production of /our . factorieswould be absorbed by the increasedearnin gs of" An^pricfn workers .More" Am erican . .workers-: wouldhave .. autom obi les and f .Jnîtheirhom e s the r e woul d be m or e , m e chanical refr igerators , radios , washing machines and other e lectr icalappl iances . More jobs would becreated by this demand unti l ul timately thejaverage vjprker wouldenj oy luxu ries "that Ktois pa ren tsand gr andpa r e nts ) f lr jf fl jr oed .of possess ing;-"And with a.shorterworkweek the workers would have

more tim e to. enjo y th ese cpih-veniences .The law begins with this s tatem e nt : -..* 5 B "T he Congr e s s he r e by . fm ds H hatthe existence , in industr i$e*engagedi n c om m e r c e or i n the î bduc | i onof go od s f or commer% L /of Tabor -,,- con dit ion s d etrim enta l to>-the nftrtn- j,-tenance of the minimffi i3tan45rd :-of l iving necessary fo^ Jbg al th,^ *- ftciency, an d gene ral wett- being Of .wo rker s (1 ) cau ses conrrfterce -ana "\the channels and instcumentaJi t iee of commerce to be use*dHo spread and perpetu ate suc h lab or Condi- '.t ions a mon g the w orkers of ,$he-several States; (2) burdens'îom- 'merce and the free flfe&'Pf goodsin com merc e; (3) constitutes^j&nunfair method of coStp^Qtiwîncommerce; (4) leads tQ dispute s bur de n i ng and' dbe tr uc t i t i gcomm erce a nd the free flpWj\u>fgood s in commerce;* and (5) interferes with the orderly and fair f-marketihg of goo ds in comm erte ."It is hereby declared to b e * the 'policy .of this A ct, th rou gh th e jjexer cise by C ong ress of its pow er >to regulate commerce among theseveral States , to correct and asrapidly as practicable to e l iminate -the condit ions above referred to insuch industr ies wi thout substantial ly curtai l ing employm ent orearning power." > The ja w a ppl ies only to Workerse ngage d i n i n te r s tate c om m e r c e or .in the production of goods for intersta te comm erce . I t prescr ibedtha t the se "c ove r ed" wor ke r s m us tbe paid no less than 25 Cents anhour the f irst year (from October2 4 , 1938, to October 24, 1939), notless than 30 cents an hour fromOctober 24, 1939, to October 24,1 9 4 5 , and not less than 40 centsan hour af te r Oc tobe r 24 , . 1947 .It prescr ibes a ma ximu m workweek of 44 hours from October *2 4 , 1938, to October 24, 1939; of42 hours from October 24, 1939,to O ctober 24, 1940, and. 40 hour safter October 24, 1940.An e m pl oye e m ay wor k l onge rthan ti ie prescribed maximum'workweek provided he i s paid t imeand a hal f his regular rate of payfor overtime. The overtime pay i snot base d upon the' m i n i m um wage ,but upon the regular rate of pay.If the worker i s regularly paid $1an hour, then he i s ent i t ied _to$1.5 0. an hour fo r each hour ofovertime -worked. -Where an employee i s employed ,on a piecework basis , the regularhour ly rate of pay i s the total . -earnings per week ( inc luding production bonuses , i f any) dividedby the number of hours work ed.Thus, i f the total earning in anyworkweek of 48 hours are $24,the regular hourly rate of pay i s50 cents , th e compensation foreach of the last four hours i s 75c e n t s - and t i ie total wage $25( 4 4 x 5 0 p l u s 4 x 7 5 ) .If the rate, of pay is $22- for a44-hour workweek (agreed or custom ar y ) , the ; hour l y r ate i s 50c e nts and , whe r e the : e m pl oye eworks 48 hours , he wi l l rece ive 75cents for each of the last fourhours, or a total w age of $2 5.(T o be c ont i nue d)IJ J ..!,!! ' . ' .1 ' " ' T NEWARK, N . -&;S*aj&-jjgTHIRD ANNUAL DANCE sponsoredby the Dr. Yankowict Association andLadies Auxiliary of Newark, N. J., to _be held at Ukrainian C e n t e r , 1 8 0 - 1 8 6 r^'ir"William St. , NewarkT N. J., SAT UR- ,DAY Eve., OCTOBER 21at, 1939.Music by Carl Groll & His Orchestra. 4Com. 8:30 P. M. Admission 4 0 .Benefit for the Christmas Fund. Havea wonderful Time for good cause.* ^ 0 * ~^ . NEW YORK 4 ^ JUMPIN* JEHOSOPHAT! ALMOSTFORGOT! There's gto beleUme Ndoings at the Ukrainian Civic CenterANNUAL HALLOWEEN PARTY onSATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1939, atthe International Institute, 341 EiJ 7th S t., at 8 P . M . ' be - cdfftWstalks, hay, apple duckipg, w itche Jj^ . .-to haunt you , black cats" to leer atyou and pumkins with : horrible faces.Music for all kinds of dancing:- sw ipg lro und and sq ua re d an ces, ; *^ ,.waltzes and peppy.polkapi Don't .:.*^?-dare com e dressed up.*- Overalls," . ^ e :ginghams and outlandish^ getups will ^be the sty le.' Hoj#Vttnlcpi;iTÂll^fiK:-3 5 . $?'*You sure will .regret ^pff m l s s , ^ ^

our Halliween Party, sarctrmeron. down-' r -;and join the gang. Oh, yes we willhave refreshments too. 233 ,-


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: u f e i ^ J A ^ f e E a ^ ^ B B P t P A Y , $ &{ ' . . ^ ^ ^'^ ^ ^ ^ ^ & . - of E l iza b e t h , N.S 5 ^ J 3 h e n - a s k e d J o hn- Ro m a n i t io n , ret ir ing pres ident of the L ea g u e , to explain the- f o l lo win g s t a t em en t^ cred i t ed t$ him in the S ep t em b er^ s a ^ o s B is su e of the N e w a r k Sun-

^d a y ' . L e d g e r j "We [ t h e * | 6 e a g u e ]t a k e no p a r i in the a g i t a t io n fortbe res torat ion of the a u t o n o m y ofUk ra in ia . iT h a t is a m a t t er we aren o t ^ f e r e e t e d in."

. - - M E Ronianit ion rep l ied that he*j?Sd I! beenr misquoted by the re-^ o r t e r ^ s n d t h a t a few d a y s la t er-The-L edger "printed his correct ion ,wh ich rea d as f o l l o w s : . "I wish tomakfe ' correct ion in a n ews i t em, Jthat appeared'in The L ed g er theaether day; T h ere was a s t a t em en t .*o the effect that the Ukrain ian^Youths League of No rt h Am er icais not in teres ted in the res torat ion :of ^ ^ i n d e p e n d e n t U k r a i n e .T h i s s t a t em en t is not s t r i c t ly ' t ru eb e c a u s e -in* a- recent resolut ion the, ' r^ f e^ g u e^ e^ ra Fca l ly p led g ed it s f u l l. . : , ? s u p p o rt to those oppressed k ins -? m en a cro s s the s ea s who are l iv ing; ^ und er the Fa s c i s t and Co m m u n is td i c t a t o r s h i p s . . , "S t ep h en S h u m ey k o of Irvington ,N . J. n ex t a s k ed Mr. Romanit ionw h y had he and Miss Anne Zado-rosne gone-..* t o . New York World 's -Fair of fic ia ls and demanded of t h ema n s wers to s u ch q u es t io n s as fo ll o w s : (1) How is it t h a t the Uk-rain ian-American Expos it ion As*- , : sociat ion [committee in ch a rg e of- Ukrain ian Day at the F a i r ] was.able, to get permiss ion to h a v e a' Uk rainia n prog ram at the Fa ir ,When permiss ion was denied by theFair officials to the New Yo rkDaily Mirror to allow Ukrain ians toa p p ea r at its Folk Fes t ival prog ra m at. the Fa ir on May .7, 1939;(2) S ince the World's Fair officialshad refused The Mirror permiss ionto include Ukrain ians in its FolkFes t iv a l p ro g ra m on the b a s i s ofthe contract between the Fa ir andthe Soviet Pavi l ion (which con*tract contained a provis ion reservin g for. the S o v ie t s the ex c lu s iv er i g h t of rep res en t in g at the Fa iral l nat ional it ies with in their borders , including the U k r a i n i a n s ) , .a n d s in ce the- Ukrain ian-AmericanExpos it ion Associat ion did m a n a g et o get permiss ion for its Uk ra in ia n Day program, then does thatm ea n t h a t the contract provis ionin quest ion between the S o v ie t s andt h e F a i r has been modified or hasi t been s tricken out en t i re ly ? ;( 3 ) Do es the Fair adminis trat ionk n o w how m u ch m o n ey the Ukrain ian-American Expos it ion As sociat ion has raised for the Ukrainian Day p r o g r a m ? ; (4) D o e sthe Ukrain ian-Am erican Exp os it ionAs s o c ia t io n s u b m it to the Fa ir adminis trat ion reports of how m u chmoney it* is col lect ing for t h a tp u rp o s e? S u ch q u es t ion s , Mr. S h u meyko said , asked on the -eve ofthe Ukrain ian Day program at theFair, by an "officer of the L ea g u ean d an editor of its official organ,-* tended to;, further complicate thedifficulties, involved in overcomingthe various-obstacles p laced by theS o v ie t s a n d - , o t h ers in an a t t em p tto prevent- the a rra n g in g of theUkrain ian , Day program, at theFair, .which" was des igned to acq u a in t the m a n y t en s of t h o u s a n d sof visitors J x > ; the Fa ir wi t h s o m eof the finer' aspects of Uk ra in ia nCulture. ^ vMichael Piznak, chairman of theconvent ionjtdeclared here that the

revelation -Concerning Mr. Romani-t ion 's and Miss Zadorsne's tr ip tothe Fair for the p u rp o s e o f - a s k in gthese ques t ion was m a d e to him.personally by the official whom thetw o had s een , a Mr. S ch wa rt zm a n ,of the S p ec ia l E v en t s Dep a rt m en ta t the Fair. The lat ter himself,s a id Mr. Piznak, was surprisedthat such quest ions were asked of' h im, for the quest ions appeared toh im as an a t t em p t to discredit thework of the Ukrain ian-AmericanExpos it ion Associat ion . ~* In rep ly to all fhis> Mr. Romanit ion explained that he and MissZadorsne had gone to see the Fa irofficials not to discredit anyone orhinder' anyth ing , but merely to obta in from them an in terview for

The Trend, League organ, especia l-

'435s?*3' '*- '-"8? ";- ''At'-l y on t b e io u es Oo n of the F a i r - r ^ o -viet^cojitf-act in quest ion . . Mr,- Rom a n i t io n f u r t h er d ec la red t h a t hehad-., t h o u g h t it" utterly unfair fort h e f F a i r ^ r ef u se th e Uk ra in ia n sfrom appearing 6n~the*Mirror pro-gra gi,~ an d therefor** -jhad wan tedto knoW whjr the Ukrain ian Day program h>d been aUowed. He furtherdenied? that e ither he .or his companion4 bacL askSd'' .any . .questionswhich might Have tended to dis-creditSuie- work of , th Ukrain ian-' American Expo s it ion Or hinderedits ef forts to p ro m o t e the U k r a i n ia n .. Day program at the* Fair.Final ly) Mr. Romanit ion announcedh i s - rea d in es s to go with Mr. Piznak;-* to. s ee j Mj \ "S ch wa rt zm a n forthe.purpose^f- .having. thg tru^th inth is m atter prevai l . S imilar rem a r k s : were -made by Mis s Zad o rs n e ! ~ :'*$ !& .& ^ 'Mr.? Charyna -'.of- B o s t o n t h entook the floor, with the s t a t em en tt h a t in his opin ion th is d iscuss ionconcerning th e Ukrain ian Day pro-- g ra m -- a t t h e - F a i r was v ery un-in teres t ing for those who* l ive farouts ide theVenvirons of New YorkCity : and should therefore beb ro u g h t .to enclose/ Upon motionm a d e by' John' Roberts of Brookl y n , discuss ion on th is subject wasbrought :, to ' 'a " close.A motion to give Mr. Ro m a n i tion a"s retiring" president of theL ea g u e a v o t e of t h a n k s for hiswo rk in office during the past- year,wa s m a d e by Mr. Ch a ry n a andseconded by Metro Staroschak ofMcKees Ro ck s , Pa. It was carried ,b y a v o t e o f . 5 2 * 0 38.

Chairman Piznak announced thatal l should bear in m in d t h a t thevarioirg opinions and crit ic ismsoffered by the s p ea k ers were t h e irow n and m a d e on their own volit ion . Only he who m a d e -a s t a t e m e n t - c o u l d be held respons ib leforjt,- - ^ ^ 1He then opened d iscuss ion ont h e rep o r t s of the Misses PearlZorena, Recording Secretary from.'Arn o ld , Pa., and Dola Malevich ,Corresponding Secretary from.Pit tsburgh. Upon motion made byJ o s ep h Uh o rch a k of. Jersey Cityand seconded by S t ep h en J a rem ao f New York City , the d e leg a t es ,unanimous ly accepted the reports. of the two ret ir ing secre taries , witha vote of thanks . ' ' 'Similarly , the reports of .S tephenMarusevich and David Chmelyk ,ret ir ing mus ic d irector and public relat ions d irector resp ect ively , wereunanimous ly g iven with a v o t e oft h a n k s .The floor was then opened todiscuss ion of Miss Zadorsne's report as E d i t o r o f > T h e T ren d .In her rep o r t a s - ed i t o r of TheTrend, Miss Anne Zadorsne i l lus trated by m e a n s of several excerpts from various magazine art ic les on Uk ra in e ( Nin e t een t h Cen tury and After," Jan. 1939; TheCo m m o n wea l , S ep t 1938; CurrentHis tory, Apri l , 1939; CatholicWorld; May, 1939; Harper's Matgazine, June, 1939; Scholas t ic , Ju ly ,1 9 3 9 ; T im e , Au g u s t , 1939; N e w sWeek* etc .) how- "all over theworld today, men. and wo m en arewield ing their pens , and express ingideas concerning the l i f e of theUkrain ian peoples . . . '" Similarly,t h e T ren d bag also tried , she said ,to acquaint Americans , bes idesy o u n g Uk ra in ia n - Am er ica n s t h em selves,' with the t ru t h a b o u t Uk--rain ians both here and abroad.' ' How much more Interes t ing theTrend could be," she said , "If wereceived less news reports concerning club socia l act iv it ies and m o refrank and challenging opin ions ."The Trend ed itoria ls , she cont inued ,pr e not written to please itself,b u t are "moulded a long the l ine'of news received from its readers?!..Therefore, she pointed out," "ify o u wis h - Am er ica n s to "see. youand your j fatheref in a clearer perspect ive then you m u s t put a l i t t lem o re of yourself into your writifiS-'t^t o t h e" T ren d . She. recommendedt h e - s lo g a n for s l l "Keep Uk ra in eIn t*he News7'-r;*uatbis connection,she recommended writ ing to A m e r ican'dal l ies and periodicals, and offered to help ed it such writ ingsfor publicat ion in t h e m . N e x t she

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In the September 30th I ssue ofthe U krain ian Weekly^ an article''appeared ent it led "A P r o t e s t " c o n t a in in g a s t a t em en t . wh ich f ee l .n eed s to be clearedJBfi "by an answ er. ^ - In effect the s tatement .declarest h a t 'the World's Fair tr ips ;whichwere a p a rt of the convent ion program were ignored or ^bungled:";;T h e f a c t s in the case ar e t h a ta p p ro x im a t e ly six and t h ree week srespect ively prior to the convenr' t ion , not ices were-mailed to L ea g u eclubs and i tems appeared fn thevarious Ukrain ian newspapers andtheir E nglish su ppleme nts , s tat ing athat W orld 's Fair r ides w ere, p lan?n ed for those' at tending the con^vent ion and t h a t all those" whointended

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