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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN Landmarks of progress of Ukrainian women (Continued) 1919—The period iof Ukrainian statehood was noted as the time of growth of organized life of Uk rainian women. Women's societies were springing up all over Ukraine. In Lviw, W est Ukraine, a periodical "Nasha Meta” (Our Aim) was being published. It was edited by Daria Shukhevich Starosolska. ^ The Ukrainian women’s organizations began their connections with international women’s orga nizations. 1920—The Ukrainian National Council of W o men was formed in the city of Kamianet's Podolsky, as a central gathering body for Ukkrainian women’s societies. It was headed by Sophia Russova. It was admitted as a full-fledged member by the Interna tional Council of Women at its congress at Oslo, Norway, where the UNCW was represented by Mrs. Hanna Chikalenko Keller. The Ukrainian Women’s Association of Lviw became a member of the International Women’s Al liance which was conducting a campaign for votes for women. Mrs. Chikalenko was sent by UWA as its representative to the congress of the Alliance at Geneva, Switzerland. A Ukrainian section of the International W o men’s League for Peace and Freedom was formed in Lviw. It was led by Mrs. Blanca Baranova. 1921—The bolshevik government dissolved all Ukrainian women’s organizations within the limits of Ukraine it' had occupied. The Ukrainian Council of Women then left Ukraine for Prague, Czechoslo vakia. The Ukrainian women were henceforth un able to continue their organized activities in Uk raine. Instead they succeeded in engaging in scienc es, art, professonal life, and still they were trying, together with men, to uphold the right of the Uk rainian people to its own self-rule. Since then an organized movement of Ukrain ian women was possible only in W est Ukraine — in Galicia, western Volhynia, Bukovina and Carpatho- Ukra'ne. The Ukrainian women’s organizations called a congress to Lviw in order to elaborate a plan for joint action of these organizations. How ever, this congress was dissolved by Polish police in the middle of its proceedings. The participants left for their homes with stem resolve to continue and to widen their work. 1923—Their resolution to work even harder within their separate provinces under foreign do mination led to rebuild and restore their organized life in W est Ukraine. The women of the western Volhynia succeeded in electing a Ukrainian patriot Olena Levchanivska to the Polish senate. The Ukrainian women took part in the congress of the International Women’s Alliance in Rome. The delegation of 6 was led by Sofia Russova. 1924—Yet the conditions in Poland were exact ing for the Ukrainian people. An active social work er and member of the Ukrainian Military Organiza tion, Olga Basarab, was tortured and murdered by the Polish police. The Ukrainian women’s organiza tions were striving to voice protests against this act of savagery at international forums. The tortured Olga Basarab became a symbol of a heroine and martyr who is commemorated every year by Uk rainian women. 1925—A popular Ukrainian magazine '‘Zinocha Dola” (Women’s Destiny) began to appear in Kolo- meya, W est Ukraine, edited by Olena Kisilevska. It readily served the interests of the Ukrainian Wo men’s Association of Lviw, the central organization of women’s societies. It was for the most part de voted to educational purposes and was widely read all over Ukrainian provinces under Poland as well as in other countries, except USSR. In the same year a Ukrainian cooperative ‘The Ukrainian Folk Art” was organized in Lviw which had as its objective to work for the development of handicraft of Ukrainian women. Its chief organ izers were Irene Pavlikovska and Stephanie Chy- zovich. A congress of national minorities was held in Bucharest, Rumania, in which Olga Huzar, a repre sentative of Women’s Center of Czernowitz took part. A council of the International Council of Wo men was held at Washington, D. C., in which Uk rainian delegates, Hanna Chikalenko Keller and He len Lototsky participated. In the same year the Ukrainian National Wo men’s League was organized in New York, as well as the Ukrainian Women’s Association the next year in Canada. Subsequently also the Ukrainian women of Argentina and Brazil formed their national wo men’s organizations. The Ukrainian section of the International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom took part
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