New Britain herald., 1919-08-04

| 'Nh {, a hurry call to the police to be pres | ent at the meeting of Ukrainlans at 1 Ukranian hall yesterday afternoon. ! Officers attended the meeting al the l start and left it, owing to the quiet 1 ness, They were called back when
 a crowd gathered outside the hall and 1 did take one man Into custOdy-for
 not having a motor vehicle operators ! license. The U1ranians stated that l several who were known to them and l who were suspected of d desire to 1 break up the meeting were not all 1 lowed to enter. Reports of trouble at the meeting are exaggerated. ! Detective Sergeant Johnson this l morning stated that he and Detective 1 Detective Sergeant Richardson close 1 tendance at the meeting and as peace reigned left. At , o'clock a hurry call ] was sent into the police headquarters 1 that riot was taking place at the 1 hall. Detective Sergeant Johnson and l Officers Mccarthy, Wagner, Rival, 1 Flynn and Carlson responded. Big Crowd Scattered.
 A large crowd which had gathered 1 in front of the hall was quickly dis persed. No arrests were made for the breach of the peace. Detective Sergeant Johnson, however, took Metro Sotnetshuk into custody for not having an automobile license and registration card. Sotnetshuk was pointed out to Detective Sergeant Johnson as the chief disturber, but as the man was behaving himself at the time that the police noticed him, no charges of breach of the peace were preferred against him in court this morning.
 Following court session today Detestive Sergeant Richardson close ly questioned Sotnetshuk concerning his Bolshevik tendencies. The man gave his residence Thomaston. Detective Sergeant Johnson on the witness stand testified that the man had recently come to this state from Ohio.
 Sotnetshuk said that he was at tending the convention and had travelled to New Britain in his car,
 forgetting his license and, registration
 card. He was fined s5 and costs
 At the meeting there were Ukrain- ians gathered from all over the state to voice protests against further in vasion and oppression of their Little Russia and East Galacia from foreign yoke, and demand that the 4O,OOO,- 900 Ukrainians in Europe be given the right to choose their own form of government
 Delegation composed of many Ukrainian societies about the state and notable speakers from Hartford. New Haven and New York added
 much interest to the meeting Stand
 ing room in the hall was at a prem
 ium and the. windows had to be
 thrown open so as the assem blaze on
 the outside could hear the speakers. Pastor Opens Meeting. inc exercises were opened by Rev. B. PelechoWicz, pastor of the local Okralnlan church, who gave a short address of welcome to the many or ganlzatlons Which had assem bled, urging them to do all in their power to protest against the imperialism that is now prevailing in Ukrainia. At the conclusion of his address o. Koval- sky, a professor in Columbia univer- sity, was introduced and he spoke as follows: II came here because I am an American and an ambitious work ] CT for the cause of democracy and America means freedom to the world and freedom to Ukrainia I am also nere to voice a protest against the inn l perlallstlc government of Russia and Poland, who are trying to denational- | ize the 40,0O0,OOO Ukrainians in Eu- rope"
 Prof. KOvalsky rccOunted the early history of Ukrainia, stating that Uk- rainia has been in the hands of imper- 1alistic governments for centuries also asserting that Ukrainia was the bull Wark of Christianity in Europe, which Io olo said: 'The Russian czars as well as Polish kings deceived Ukrainia and 1 partitioned her. and at the present l time she is influenced by the two countries that wronged her."
 Liberty OF Death.
 ! Referring to the treaty signed by l the Allies in which it is planned to l partition ukrainia among Poland, Ru- | mania and Russia, MT. Kovals<y de- 1 clared that the Ukrainians in this l country and in their native land will never consent to be governed hy mi 1 nority powers in their own country I We have resolved to have liberty in l our native land, or death," he de- l clared. The way the league of nations l covenant stands, the weaker peoples
 in Europe in the smaller countries will
 never he recognized. he said, and nev-
 ] CT will the Ukrainians in America,
 l adopt the league until the last of
 l Paderewski's troops are out of Uk-
 1 rainian territory. In conclusion he
 l urged all the Ukrainians to do their
 utmost in the support of the United
 States as this country was the one to
 l look forward to for independence.
 Postmaster Troup Speaks.
 After the heavy applause had ceas-
 1 ed at the conclusion of MT. koval-
 l sky's address, the chairman of the
 , meeting introduced Philip TrouD pres