Speaker. I ask that this interesting article be included with my statement (By Dr. Peter Krehel) In late March 1964. the Harrisburg Patriot carried two articles on Eastern European immigrants which interpreted the 1960 Census Bureau statistics on the ethnic backgrounds of Pennsylvanias population. One article from the Congressional Quarterly examined the political. economic and religious factors which brought on the massive migrations from Eastern Europe before 1885 through 1925. The other story was that of Patriot Staff Writer Paul Beers who pointed out the dispersal of immigrants throughout Pennsylvanias counties and noted percentage factors of the various "nationalities." Neither the Congressional Quarterly article. nor Mr. Beers recital mentioned Ukrainians. although emigrations beginning in the 1880s from Eastern Europe had to be from either the Czarist Russian Empire. or the AustrianHungarian Empire. Thosd of us who live in the Greater Shamokin area are no strangers to the word "Ukrainian." despite the serious omission in the two articles discussed and the wide circulation they received in Central Pennsylvania. Let us look at this "mislabeling" and correct the aberrations before they are fixed as correct.
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