Conference paper
Milan Glumac’s Activities in the Social Democratic Party Prior to His Departure to America
Stana Vukovac
; Centre for the History of Slavonia and Baranja, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Abstract
This paper is an attempt at throwing light on the somewhat forgotten paths that were followed by our fighters for workers' rights in the region of Slavonia-Srijem. We could enumerate the names of the deserving, whose youth was given as a present to the struggle of the working class for socialism, accompanied with persecutions and arrests. Such misfortunes, that go hand in hand with combative people, were joined by a nasty disease – tuberculosis. The name of Milan Gumac cannot be avoided in the context of the continuity of workers tribunes' struggle at the turn of the century. His youth gave him strength, and his love for the deprived guided him along dangerous paths towards socialism. An experienced typographer, he felt the power of the written word at an early age, and this is why he decided in his short, thirty years’ life on the vocation of a journalist, editor and contributor to workers’ papers in his homeland first, and in America next. It is there that, besides starting the paper Radnička straža (Workingman’s Guard), he continued to propagate socialist ideas among workers, which he brought with him from his home country.
Keywords
workers’ rights; Social Democratic Party; Milan Glumac
Hrčak ID:
128159
URI
Publication date:
31.5.1988.
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