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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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