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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN THIRTY YEARS On 2, 3 and 4 of (September will be held in Philadelphia the XI Convention of the Ukrainian Na tional Women’s League oif Amer ica which will also mark the 30th anniversary of founding and working- o-f our Organization. There are still many pioneers who had been working during- the founding period and who now will be glad to meet one another and to deliberate on the traversed course,. The UNWLA was established in 1925 when five Ukrainian wo men’s societies in New Yo-rk re solved to band logether into one central organization. The objective of UiNWLA is de scribed in its By-daws as follows : The object of the organization shall be to organize women o-f Ukrainian birth and extraction throughout America and bring them into relation of mutual help fulness. To further social, civic, cultural knowledge, domestic sci ence, welfare work and make combined actions .possible when deem'ed advisable. The members of UNWLA were young women who came to the United States not long back. They had no experience in social work and had to overcome the distrust of the community. Yet they were never disheartened. If they suc ceeded in one endeavor, they tried out# another venture even more daring. The exhibit of Ukrainian folk-art arranged in the Hotel As- to-r at New York under patronage of Women’s Art and Industries, was their first success on a larger scale. The activities of UNWLA un folded gradually. New groups of Ukrainian women were coming in. In 1932 the First Ukrainian Women’s Congress was called in New York. At that time UNIWLA had already 29 Branches. Ukrain ian women’s organization of Can ada sent likewise its delegates to the congress,. Many reports and lectures were delivered at the congress which proffered direc- The building of UNWLA at 909 N. Franklin St., Philadelphia, Pa. tives and objectives for Ukrainian organized women in the W-estern Hemisphere. The congress was greeted by the National Council of Women of United States, and by the International Women’s League for 'Peace and Freedom. The well known author Fannie Hurst addressed the congress. The congress passed a number of resolutions in which it clarified its attitude in regard to various problems. Above all, it gave n-ew encouragement to the masses of Ukrainian womanhood for more intensive work. Since that time the activities of UNWLA have been expanding ever wider. The members were becoming more experienced and vigorous in their projected tasks. They responded to all weighty events in Ukraine by organiz ing appropriate actions o-f many different sorts,. In time of the fraudulent famine forced on Uk rainian villages by bolshevik gov ernment in 1932-33 the UNWLA published a booklet setting forth the criminal policy of Kremlin. In 1938, when the government of Poland broke up the Alliance of Ukrainian Women of West Ukraine, the UNWLA called in New York a mass-meeting to pro test this haughty assault against the people of West Ukraine. The meeting sent protests to the League of Nations at Geneva and to the government of Poland. UNWLA has been actively tak ing par-t in public life of Ameri cans O'f Ukrainian birth. In 1933 і-t shared in setting up and man aging of the Ukrainian pavilion at the celebrated exposition of Cenjtury of Progress in Chicago, 111., as well as in the World Fair in New York in 1939. With the outbreak of World War II the connections of UN W LA with the old homeland were interrupted. However, the UN W LA devoted its efforts through its Branches toward cooperation with the United States Govern ment to win the war,. The Branch es were assisiting the American Red Cross and buying U. S. Sav ings Bonds.. When the war was over, the UNWLA was confronted with new tasks. The Iron Curtain has separated Ukraine from the Free World. Large numbers of patrio tic Ukrainian women abandoned their native land and emigrated to the West. The grave moment actuated mutual understanding among the Ukrainian women’s organizations in the Free World, as a result of which the World Congress of Uk-
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