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0 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. Mer of minence among Delegates moet Among the delegates were men and women of distinction in many fields of activity-scholers, writers and clergymen, among them Rev. VINCENT BORKOVIOZ, who represented the ry Rev. Bishop STEFAN S, WOZNICKI > at the Congress, and delivered the opening invocation; Metropolitanshop Benjamin, of the Russian Orthodox Church; Most Rev. JOHN FAJNOVICH of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and RevAWLOWSKI, of Buffalo, New York. Among others present were JOSEPINWATTRAS, director of the Polish National Alliance of Pittsburgh; CHESTER A. ZDROJ, President of the Polish Central Citizens' Committee of Detroit; Judge N. CRONKOWSKI of Hantranch; Captain WELMAN, Polish War Veterans, Chicago; Dr. W. TOSOWSKI; chairman Michigan All Slav Committee, Detroit; Mrs. M.ESTEROWICZ, deer of Polish journalists, Buffalo, New York; ZLATKO BALOKOWICH, frmed Croatian violinist; FRANK GRIGORSKI, Assistant district attorney of Milwaukce and president of the Fulaski Council there; VINCENT KLEIN, Secretary Chrysler Local No. 17 of UAW-CIO; Michigan State Senator, STANLEY WOWAK; Prof. J. J.MAHAL, President of the Czechoslovak National Council; JOSEPH PARTINEK, Executive Secretary of the Czechoslovak National Council, Chicago; KAREDEROHAL, President of the American Sokol Union; ADOLFCER, President of the Czech american National alliance; VINCEVRDSKY, Secretary of the Czech American National Alliance; Rev. JAN S BRADAC, Honorary President of the Slovek National Alliance; Rev. ARNOST BIZKA of the Federation of American Czechoslovaks in Texas; NICOLAESLA, Serbian American inventor; ETBIN KRISTAN, prominent Slovenian writer; Dr. D. K.XATICH, firet vice-president Michigen all-Slav Committee; SAMUEL ERLINICH, President of the Serbian National Federation, Pittsburgh; Judge ANTHON LUCAS, Pittsburgh; Ohio StateSenator BOYD-BOICH; Judge GEORGE STEESY, Cleveland; 229