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Roosevelt announces govt financed rehabilitation program
session; const amended to cut exec council membership, laying basis to oust G F Browne, on trial for extortion; const amended to permit per capita tax revision on basis of union membership, following warning by J M Duffy that action may split AFL
new Govt expected to repeal ban on merchant ships arming; Pres de la Guardia pledges tie to U S; Roosevelt holds govt shift needs no U S recognition
Arnold warns of anti-trust action if contract is denied co; J L Lewis asks Truman com action on AFL-OPM accord; R Gray, AFL Bldg and Construction Trades Dept acting pres, asserts AFL based objection to contract award solely on Currier's past labor policy; CIO conv to ask Hillman removal; C F Palmer comment on case
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1941Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (died 1999)[†]
Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
1941Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (born 1879)[†]
Heinrich Gutkin was a trader and the Estonian National Assembly member.
1941Mihkel Pung, Estonian politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1876)[†]
Mihkel Pung was an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia and Speaker of the National Council from 21 April 1938 to 5 July 1940. Pung was Minister of Finance in 1931. He was arrested during the Soviet annexation of Estonia and sent to Sevurallag, a Soviet gulag in Sverdlovsk Oblast. He died in imprisonment in 1941.
1941Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.[†]
World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia started with the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. Under the pressure of the Yugoslav Partisan movement, part of the Macedonian communists began in October 1941 a political and military campaign to resist the occupation of Vardar Macedonia. Officially, the area was called then Vardar Banovina, because the use of very name Macedonia was avoided in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Most of its territory was occupied by Bulgaria, while its westernmost part was ceded to Albania, both aided by German and Italian troops. Initially, there was no organised resistance in the region because the majority of the Macedonian Slavs nurtured strong pro-Bulgarian sentiments, although this was an effect from the previous repressive Kingdom of Yugoslavia rule which had negative impact on the majority of the population. Even the local Communists, separated from the Yugoslav and joined the Bulgarian Communist Party. However, even those Macedonians who felt that they were Bulgarians soon discovered that the Bulgarians from Bulgaria were suspicious of them and considered them "backward Bulgarians" or second-class Bulgarians. In fact, Bulgarian authorities began a process of oppressive Bulgarianization as they realised that only part of the Macedonian population felt Bulgarian or was pro-Bulgarian. The occupation troops acted just as viciously and arrogantly toward the local population as did the officials. Thus, they soon became an object of disgust from the population, especially the great majority that felt themselves Macedonians developed strong resentment towards the Bulgarian regime as it acted the same way as the Serbian one before.