Plug - A Newspaper For the Protection of Peasants' Interests

The author deals with the newspaper Plug, a bulletin of the Communist Party. According to its editor Milan Vinkovie, it was rather successful on the territory of the Nasice district in Slavonia. This was mainly due to the fact that there were many workers in the wood industry, inclined to the actions of the communist oriented trade unions. The paper functioned as a sort of a trade union organization and legal adviser for the victims of the abuses connected with the land reform in royal Yugoslavia. The paper was dealing even with the Croatian national question, and it supportcd the idea of the federation of free nations on the Balkans. The paper promoted solidarity between workers and peasants as well. Therefore, it is particularly interesting to note the extensive and strongly negative commentaries of Stjepan Radie's (leader of the Croatian Peasant Party) acceptance of the Yugoslav royal constitution, and his entering in the Beograd government in 1926. The regime suppressed the newspaper in that very same year, when the editors tried to bring the newspaper out from the local on the wider public scene, by publishing it in Cyrillic script.