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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN SLAVE LABOR Soon after the fact of the m as sacre of 500 women in the Soviet slave labor camp at Kingiri be came known in the Free W orld, the Ukrainians in. America began voicing their (protests against the abominable bolshevik crimes. A few decades back it seemed that barbarism , to rtu re and but chery of innocent people had been a thing of the rem ote D ark Ages to be found solely in the books. However, the facts of the Soviet reality are m anifesting before the -peoples of the Free W orld that the bolsheviki have descend ed to such depravation that they have been herding, ever since they seized the power, millions of innocent people into concen tration camps for torture, mass- killing and extorting pecuniary rew ard from their slave toiling. There are approxim ately 15,- 000,000, or 8% of the entire pop ulation, in the slave labor camps of USSR. Around 1,500,000 or 10% of the slave labor popula tion, are women. The exploitation of the people on .such a large scale was unknown in history up to 1917. There are thousands of camps throughout USSR, for the most part in Siberia and K azakh stan where the wretched political prisoners are forced to w ork in construction of new industrial projects and power stations, in building railroads, canals, and roads, as well as w orking in mines, w ithout any pay w hatso ever not only, but besides in the w orst dwelling conditions im ag inable, while receiving only small rations of dark bread and fish soup as their everyday food. Prior to bolshevik revolt of N o vember 7, 1917, there had been merely a negligible number of men and women exiled by the Czarist governm ent to Siberia as compared to the great masses of political prisoners sent by the So viet governm ent to concentration camps. 1,500,000 women in concentra tion camps alone form an unusu ally large slave labor population. And there are no considerations for them either. If they are equal wiith men, it pertains to hard work and suffering- They also work in the mines and quarries, in the forests cutting wood, and on the roads. They have likewise been forced to toil 10-12 hours a day, exclusive of the time spent for m arching1 to and from their camps to the places of work. W orking and walkinig in rags, sleeping w ithout shirts, 40 per sons in one cold and dark room with scarcely any apace betw een the beds full of lice and bed bugs, where else on this earth such a hell could be im agined! And above all no sanitary care is pro vided for the inmates. Even if there were a physician in a camp, he would dread to recommend a rest or cure for a slave laborer, a man or a woman, for he might also be persecuted for such dar ing. Thus he is forced to be in human like the rest of the offic ials and servants of the Soviet re gime. Morally the political prisoners in USSR are w orse off still than physically. And this pertains pri marily to women who are much more exposed to persecutions than men. The bolshevik autho rities do not care to provide even the most prim itive facilities for pregnant women and their chil dren are being taken away from them after a short period of time to be brought up separately in the governm ent institutions. The shocking news about the widespread strike which rolled over the slave labor camps in 1953-55, has manifested the grim reality of the slave labor and of resistance against the m ass-kill ing of human beings. True, the strike took many lives, yet it brought some relief in some way which, however, does not apply in all camps. W hat part in this wave of strikes was played by women, is attested to by the resistance and sacrifice of 500 women in Kingiri, K azakhstan. The repatriated nationna'ls of w estern nations testify that the number of Ukrainians in the slave labor camps varies between 50 and 75%. Dr. Varcony, who was repatriated from Kingiri, asserts th a t the U krainian women led the desperate resistance which cost 500 lives; of women slave laborers in that camp* These figures prove that it is the U krainians who offer the sternest resistance to the w orst enemies of mankind, and we may be sure th at they will carry on this uneven struggle until right will conquer might. FEMALE CHOIR IN MINNEAPOLIS The UNW LA Branch 16 of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has re cently organized a female choir composed of its members. The action was prompted by the 70th anniversary of Ukrainian femin ist movement which the Branch had observed last year using prac tically its own talents,. The m embers have found among themselves a musical dir ector as well as many good voices. A fter the first presentation prov ed a success, the singers have been continuing their good work. The choir has by now become an im portant musical unit in the U k rainian community of M inneapo lis, and has often been presenting its perform ances. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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