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- Bertha Kirki: They started it because the Finnish immigrants
wanted a newspaper of their own.
They came to this country 97% of them literate.
They yearned for news to be given to them
in their own language.
They were scattered throughout the country
and they needed a bond to tie them all together.
This was a way to do that.
Työmies means "the working man."
In their first issue they said they would be advancing
the cause of the working class.
It is the longest-running
Finnish language newspaper in this country,
and not because we got that much advertising,
but it was the intense commitment
of our readers, the devotion
and dedication that they had toward that paper.
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