Husino uprising

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The Husino uprising ( Serbo-Croatian  Хусинска буна / Husinska buna ) broke out in the course of the general strike of the miners of Kreka , near the Bosnian industrial city of Tuzla in the kingdom, organized by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPJ) and lasting from December 21 to 28, 1920 of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .

Monument to the Husino Uprising in Tuzla (2009).

In the former socialist Yugoslavia , the uprising has been described as one of the most important historical events in Yugoslavia and cited as an example of the class struggle against injustice and oppression.

prehistory

The uprising got its name from the mining village Husino, also located near Tuzla. The cause of the strike was the government's breach of contract, in which the government cut the daily wages of workers sharply. Although this was a clear breach of the contract signed by the government, the government declared the subsequent strike illegal. Over 7,000 workers took part in the strike, organized by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia through the workers' union. These 7,000 workers came from all over Yugoslavia, and so the government decided to strip the workers of their state housing in the hope that they would go home and it would be easier for the locals to be forced to return to work. In order to cope with the situation, the government began to take workers who lived in state apartments on the street on the first day. Over 300 families were evicted. These, however, were accepted by the families of the miners from Husino and some other villages near Tuzla.

The main actors in the uprising were Jure Kerošević (Guja), Osman Đulović (Topčo), Mujo Đulović (Mujko), Karlo Železnik, Ivan Brcun, Franjo Marić, Marko Fidler, Božo Mrkić, Simo Topalović and Mijo Tomić.

course

On December 27, 1920, the district chief Dimitrije Grudić sent 12 police officers to arrest the families in hiding and deport them. Armed with a few revolvers and rifles, the workers awaited this unit, and in the ensuing confrontation, 3 police officers were captured and one was fatally injured. Thereupon Grudić mobilized two infantry battalions, armed with machine guns, 50 police officers and 20 members of the "People's Guard" and went to Husino. The attack occurred at midnight between December 27 and 28. By the morning of that day the Husino uprising was choked in blood.

The retaliatory action, which was mainly carried out by the “People's Guard”, fell victim to 35 people over the next few days. Thirteen months later, the Husino uprising got its epilogue in a major court case in Tuzla in which 350 workers were indicted. Most received prison sentences, Juro Kerošević, who was charged with the murder of the policeman, received the maximum sentence of "death by hanging". Workers launched nationwide action against the trial and against the execution of the death penalty on Kerosevic. Foreign countries also joined the debate, so the government was forced to convert the death penalty to 20 years in prison.

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  1. ↑ Ludevit Tomić u. a .; Generalni Štrajk Rudara Bosne i Hercegovine i Husinska Buna 1920; Universal Tuzla 1984.
  2. ^ Milan Gavrić, in Enciklopedia Jugoslavije Volume 4, Izdanje i Naklada Leksikografskogzavoda FNRJ, Zagreb 1955