In Sombor the first TRADE UNION BRANCH OF BRICKLAYERS AND CARPENTERS was founded. At the time there were about 250 of them, and very interestingly, they were mostly Bunjevacs. This branch was based on the long tradition of artisan associations in Sombor; in 1878 the first Hungarian Artisans’ Association was founded, followed by the Serbian Craftsmen’s Cooperative, which were a decade later joined in the Basic Craftsmen’s Association, where there were 601 artisans, 881 journeymen and 650 apprentices. The bricklayers and carpenters were in this town organised in trade union by Blaško Marković, bricklayer and trade union activist of the 20th century, and above all, remembered as the author of the text and music of an unofficial anthem of Sombor “In This Town of Sombor”.
14.06.1941.
In the day when it was continuously raining, the persecution of inhabitants of Rastina and Aleksa Šantić to concentration camps in Hungary started. About 3 p.m., in waggons, about 800 inhabitants of Rastina were moved from the railway station in Gakovo, followed by some 60 policemen and insulting shouts of inhabitants. They left their houses, furniture, tools and cattle to new settlers from Bukovina, called Čangovi, and were allowed to take only their hand luggage. Their Rastina became Hadikfalva, which means War village. Similar things happened in Aleksa Šantić, the only difference being that it started about 5 a.m., when they in similar waggons joined their fellow sufferers from Mišićevo and Rata. 53 inhabitants of Rastina and 91 of Šantić stayed in Sarvar (Hungary) forever.
In Sombor the first TRADE UNION BRANCH OF BRICKLAYERS AND CARPENTERS was founded. At the time there were about 250 of them, and very interestingly, they were mostly Bunjevacs. This branch was based on the long tradition of artisan associations in Sombor; in 1878 the first Hungarian Artisans’ Association was founded, followed by the Serbian Craftsmen’s Cooperative, which were a decade later joined in the Basic Craftsmen’s Association, where there were 601 artisans, 881 journeymen and 650 apprentices. The bricklayers and carpenters were in this town organised in trade union by Blaško Marković, bricklayer and trade union activist of the 20th century, and above all, remembered as the author of the text and music of an unofficial anthem of Sombor “In This Town of Sombor”.