Speaker. I would like to take this opportunity to ask my colleagues to join me in paying tribute to the Polish National Alliance on the occasion of their 90th anniversary. The founding of the Polish National Alliance in 1880 by a group of leading Polish immigrants was inspired as the unification of numerous Polish organizations scattered throughout the United States. At their first Sejm in Chicago In September of 1880. the delegates adopted a declaration stating the purposes of the Polish National Alliance: To lay foundation for material and moral growth of the Polish element in the United States through development fund which is to be the sole property of the Alliance and from which Polish Homes. Schools and other welfare projects are to be financed. To provide protection for the Polish immigration. To provide political enlightment to the Polish immigrants. as citizens of the United States. To commemorate Polands historic anniversaries. With these purposes in mind. the alliance set out to serve the best interests of the Polish immigrants and to aid Poland in her struggle for freedom and independence. Today. the Polish National Alliance embraces more than 326.332 members in 1.458 local groups. The alliance engages in fraternal. educational. charitable. and life insurance activities. and publishes a Polish daily called Zgoda. a semimonthly. and a biennial youth magazine entitled Promien.
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