''Tiesa'' (truth) was a

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newspaper published by the Association of Lithuanian Workers ( lt, Lietuvių darbininkų susivienijimas), a

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, from 1930 to 2006 when the association merged into the Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum. The full collection of ''Tiesa'' issues is preserved at the

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format. The Association of Lithuanian Workers was established in June 1930 as a communist-leaning splinter of the Lithuanian Alliance of America. The new society established its own publication, ''Tiesa'', which was distributed to association's members free of charge. The association was based in

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, then

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, and since 1982 in Middletown, New York. The editors were Rojus Miraza (1930–37), who went on to become editor of '' Laisvė'', Jonas Gasiūnas (1937–50), Jonas Siurba (1950–83), Emilija Juškevičienė (1983–?). Initially, ''Tiesa'' was published twice a month, but in 1955 it switched to a monthly schedule. The last issues of ''Tiesa'' were published in newsletter format. The publication reported on activities of the association (board resolutions, financial reports, results of association's athletic teams, etc.), published bits of Lithuanian culture (poetry, songs, recipes, language lessons), and offered advice (health, finances, travel). Early issues also included general news of United States, Lithuania, and the world. As of 2003, advertising was not accepted.

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, year=1977 , issue=22 , volume=1 , url=http://www.lituanus.org/1976/76_1_02.htm , issn=0024-5089 {{cite journal , first=Edward L. , last=Bell , url=http://www.nycarchivists.org/Resources/Documents/2010_1.pdf , title=Preserving Tiesa: Historical Lithuanian Newspaper Microfilmed by New York University Libraries , journal=Metropolitan Archivist , issn=1546-3125 , year=2010 , issue=16 , volume=1 , pages=13–14, 20 {{cite web, url=http://flps.newberry.org/article/5423970_3_1062 , title=Record Books of the Lithuanian Workers' Alliance , publisher=Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture , work=Foreign Language Press Survey , accessdate=2014-06-22 {{cite journal , journal=Statistics of Fraternal Benefit Societies , title=Association of Lithuanian Workers , url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=Z2umU4biBIGcyASAqoCoDQ&id=ztXuAAAAMAAJ&dq=tiesa , publisher=National Fraternal Congress of America , year=2003 , issn=0532-6109 , page=116 {{cite encyclopedia , editor=Jonas Zinkus, encyclopedia=Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija , title=Tiesa , year=1985–1988 , publisher=Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija , volume=4 , location=Vilnius, Lithuania , oclc=20017802 , page=314, display-editors=etal Defunct newspapers published in New York (state) Defunct Lithuanian-language newspapers published in the United States Newspapers established in 1930 Publications disestablished in 2006 Non-English-language newspapers published in New York (state)