»Tabors« in Carinthia

Abstract

The author describes unfavourable conditions in which the mass meetings movement developed in Carinthia. The authorities opposed the Slovene efforts to achieve general ethnic equality of rights. The Carinthian Slovenes were at first mostly conservatively disposed, the circle of liberally oriented Slovenes, however, succeeded in putting themselves forward for some years. Their association — »Trdnjava« in Celovec/Klagenfurt — organized all three Carinthian mass meetings, where the Carinthian Slovenes declared themselves for »Zedinjena Slovenija« (United Slovenia). Those mass meetings found a deep resounding not only in Carinthia, but also in Vienna and Prague press which published detailed reports about those meetings. The author also describes six sessions of the Austrian Cabinet Council, where the Slovene mass meetings movement was discussed as well.