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The delegates were mostly brawny men from coal mines, steel mills, machine shops-the men on whom the nation is counting for much of its war essential goods production and wholesome-looking women whose faces showed hardening lines of determination beneath war smiles.

Men of Eminence Among Delegates

Among the delegates were men and women of distinction in many fields of activity-scholars, writers and clergymen, among them Rev. VINCENT BORKOVICZ, who represented the Very Rev. Bishop STEFAN S. WOZNICKI at the Congress and delivered the opening invocation; Metropolitan Bishop Benjamin, of the Russian Orthodox Church; Most Rev. JOHN KRAJNOVICH of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Rev. PAWLOWSKI, of Buffalo, New York.

Among others present were JOSEPH WATTRAS, director of the Polish National Alliance of Pittsburgh; CHESTER A. KOZDROJ, President of the Polish Central Citizens' Committee of Detroit; Judge N. CRONKOWSKI of Hamtramch; Captain W. HETMAN, Polish War Veterans, Chicago; Dr. W. T. OSOWSKI; chairman Michigan All Slav Committee, Detroit; Mrs. M. NESTEROWICZ, dear of Polish journalists, Buffalo, New York; ZLATKO BALOKOWICH, famed Croatian violinist; FRANK GRIGORSKI, assistant district attorney of Milwaukee and president of the Pulaski Council there; VINCENT KLEIN, Secretary Chrysler Local No. 17 of UAW-CIO; Michigan State Senator, STANLEY NOWAK; Prof. J. J. ZMREAL, President of the Czechoslovak National Council; JOSEPH MARTINEK, Executive Secretary of the Czechoslovak National Council, Chicago; KAREL PRCHAL, President of the American Sokol Union; ADOLF KACER, President of the Czech American National Alliance; VINCENT VRDSKY, Secretary of the Czech American National Alliance; Rev. JAN S. BRADAC, Honorary President of the Slovak National Alliance; Rev. ARNOST ZIZKA of the Federation of American Czechoslovaks in Texas; NICOLA TESLA, Serbian American inventor; ETBIN KRISTAN, prominent Slovenian writer; Dr. D. K. YATICH, first vice-president Michigan All-Slav Committee; SAMUEL WERLINICH, President of the Serbian National Federation, Pittsburgh; Judge ANTHONY LUCAS, Pittsburgh; Ohio State Senator BOYD-BOICH; Judge GEORGE S. TENESY, Cleveland;