page_title: Đuro Đaković
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Đuro Đaković / Life
caption_attribution_description: Hrvatski: Rodna kuća Đure Đakovića u Slavonskome Brodu.
context_page_description: Đuro Đaković was a Yugoslav metal worker, communist and revolutionary. Đaković was the organizational secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, from April 1928 to April 1929 and one of the most prominent fighters of the working class of Yugoslavia.
context_section_description: Born in the village of Brodski Varoš near Slavonski Brod, in Austria-Hungary's Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, at the age of 18 in search of a job as a metal worker he moved to Sarajevo. There, in November 1905 he joined the newly-formed Radical Movement union, and took part in several strikes in the following years. His son Stjepan was born in Sarajevo in 1912, who would become a communist and a partisan and later killed by the Ustaše in 1942.
  At a gathering in the suburbs of Sarajevo, in early 1915, he raised his voice against the war, for which he was arrested and brought before a military court, which condemned him to death. He was later transferred to the jurisdiction of the civil court, who pardoned him and sentenced him to forced labor.
  After the war, Đuro Đaković's revolutionary activity began. At the end of February, he organised a general strike of the disadvantaged workers' class attended by 30,000 workers. He was committed to making the right to vote for women and all people who have reached the age of 20 and who lived in Sarajevo for more than six months.
  Đaković took part in the Unification Congress in which the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was created, and due to participation in the preparation and holding of the May 1st celebration in Sarajevo, he was arrested and spent several months in custody. At the beginning of the 1920s, he began with active political work. He was elected to the parliamentary elections for the People's Assembly of the Constitutional Assembly of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In June 1921 he travelled to Moscow as a delegate at the Third Congress of Comintern, and after returning to Yugoslavia he was again arrested and sentenced to ten months in prison for communist and unionist activities.
  Đaković continued with the revolutionary work, and after several more arrests in 1923, he was expelled from Sarajevo to his homeland. In 1927, he enrolled at Moscow's International Lenin School and stayed there until 1928. Under the pseudonym of Bosnić he returned to Yugoslavia and worked on setting up party organizations.
  Đaković actively opposed the January 6 Dictatorship of King Alexander I. Due to this, he was arrested in Zagreb together with Nikola Hećimović, secretary of the International Red Aid. They were executed on the Yugoslav-Austrian border on April 25, 1929. In an exaggerated attempt to escape responsibility, authorities have tried to conceal the murder. After exhumation, it was found that the victims were fired at a small distance, which proved to be a murder.
caption: Birthplace of Đuro Đaković in Brodski Varoš
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