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Editor, The Fisherman:
With reference to your news-paper
article of January 28, "Who are terrorists?", there is
no truth to the accusations
against the Croatian people. The
allegations in the story are
presented without any reason or
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are they not charged with terror-ist
activities?
Croatian people formed the
first fishermen's union, and are still contributing members today.
When a newspaper makes a
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country of Canada, and those all
over the world, are harmed —
especially those in their home-land.
When attacking a country and
its people, staged events and
blame far incidents not related to
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To set the facts straight, the
article headed 'Who are terror-ists?'
did not originate with The
Fisherman but was reprinted in
full from the Yugoslav weekly
Nase Novine, published in
Toronto.
Far from being "allegations
. . . presented without reason or
proof," the article gave a detailed account of terrorist
activities in Ontario, among them
a fire, believed to have been set
deliberately, which destroyed the
Yugoslav hall in Hamilton last
December; repeated damage to
the Yugoslav hall at Stoney
Creek, south of Hamilton; a fire,
attributed to arson, which caused
$10,000 damage to Nase Novine's
own building in Scarborough;
and desecration of the grave of
Major William Jones, a Canadian
hero of the Yugoslav partisans'
struggle, at WiUiamsport.
These are not baseless allega-tions.
They are established facts.
The question as to why no arrests
have been made or charges laid
should properly be directed to the
appropriate law enforcement
agencies. Failure to make
arrests does not lessen the
crimes.
We would have expected a letter from union members,
regardless of the viewpoint ex-pressed,
to have repudiated such
terrorist activities. Instead, the
letter alludes to them as "staged
events".
Do the writers seriously
suggest that those in the
Yugoslav communities of Ham-ilton
and Toronto who have main-tained
their halls and their news-paper
at considerable self-sacrifi- ce
now have taken leave of
their senses and are burning
down their own buildings and
endangering their own lives in
order to discredit extremist
groups?
As pointed out by Nase Novine,
the existence of such extremist
groups in this country was
acknowledged by external affairs
minister Allan MacEachen when
he told Yugoslav foreign minister
Milos Minic in September, 1975:
"It is unfortunate that a small
minority has chosen to take
advantage of the freedom in Can-adian
society to further object-ives
inimical to the integrity of
your country."
To construe a denunciation of
terrorist activities in Canada
attributed to Croatian extremist
groups, among others, as an
attack on the Croatian people is
to suggest that all Canadians of
Croatian origin or descent con
their cause will not hinder their
goal. Croatian people are fighting
for their own self-determinati- on and freedom in their home
country, Croatia.
All Croatian people would
appreciate a published apology
from your newspaper for the
unwarranted attack, and would
like equal space in your paper to
present their case.
FRANK CIGIC
IBRAHIM MUJAGIC
PETAR BULIC
GEORGE LAUS
TONY BASURA
ROBERT KOVARIC
MIRKO CIGIC
JOHNODAK
IVOSANTIC
SLANKO ZORKA
FRANK BABIC
MILAN ZUBCIC
Croatian-Canadia- n UFAWU
members
Vancouver, B.C.
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done terrorism, when in fact the
overwhelming majority would
condemn it.
Our concern is not with the
"liberation" of Croatia. It's with
the democratic rig'Jji of Can- adians.
What prompted our reprinting
of the Nase Novine article was
the ugly pattern of violence dis-cernible
in the two bombing
attacks on the Russian People's
Home in Vancouver in 1972 and
1973 and the more recent fires set
in Yugoslav buildings in
Hamilton and Toronto.
All these attacks remain of-ficially
unsolved. If they continue
to be made with impunity, what
ethnic group, what labor or pro-gressive
organization, is secure?
Organized labor has reason to be
concerned, for it has been sub-jected
to terrorism and violence
throughout its history.
No matter for what high
sounding purpose it is waged,
terrorism is designed to intimi-date
and silence opponents, to
impose demands by force. When
the halls of ethnic groups in Van-couver,
Hamilton and Toronto
are attacked, the intent is to deny
those groups exercise of their
democratic rights as Canadians.
That's why all Canadians have
cause to be alarmed, and first
and foremost trade unionists who
have fought consistently to
defend and extend their rights to
freedom of speech, freedom of
assembly and freedom of the
press.
No one is more conscious than
ourselves of the contribution
made to union organization of the
fishing industry in British Colum-bia
by Croation immigrants.
We also are mindful of the fact
that in 1947 many of these same
immigrants who constituted the
backbone of the Salmon Purse
Seiners Union and helped to lay
the foundations of the UFAWU,
returned to Yugoslavia to partici-pate
in construction of a new
social order founded on the
equality of its peoples, Croatian,
Serbian, Slovenian and
Macedonian.
We believe that those Croatians
who carried their trade union
principles into the fishing, mining
and smelting industries of this
province, who were in the fore-front
of the struggle for union
organization in the thirties, would
applaud our stand against terror-ism
as a threat to the democratic
rights for which their struggle
was waged.
EDITOR
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