There was also Jan Valasek from Myjava among them who was sentenced for one year and fined for ”provoking” in the pre-election campaign.
The decline of the home-made and craft production in the latter 19th century caused by the developing capitalist production, made the situation of the Myjava population worse because the land could not be sufficient to feed the increasing population. That is why many inhabitants of Myjava emigrated mainly to the USA since 1890. The immigrants settled both in big cities, New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and in smaller towns on the eastern beach in the states New York and Pennsylvania. In the North Dakota and in Texas there settled those who were interested in the agriculture and in work on farms. However, the small city Little Falls, N. Y., became the greatest centre of immigrants, called ”the second Myjava”.
The immigrants from Myjava tried to develop the national consciousness in the Union of the Physical Culture Sokol, in the Slovak Protestant Union, Slovak National Association, and they joined the economic life and social fights. In the Slovak League the main organization for the national liberation, Jan Samuel Bradac from Myjava, an outstanding representative of the Slovak national life in the USA, was one of 7 participants of the Slovak delegation who made a contract known as Pittsburgh Treaty.
From the centres of Myjava inhabitants living in the USA, a reviving capital was flowing to Myjava. It caused that the properties that were in debts came again to the hands of the original owners. In 1906, another Slovak bank - New Bank was founded in Myjava. But money made in the USA and put by in the Myjava banks came from the hard life experience, and not only once were they marked by hard destinies of many emigrants.
The World War I hindered Myjava from the economic development. The poverty of farmers and landless persons in many families was even multiplied by the lost of fathers and sons, because in the battlefields there died 286 men from Myjava. The establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic meant the end of the Hungarian oppression, and the Myjava inhabitants greeted enthusiastically the national liberation. The Matica slovenska was opened again, the national life developed in freedom, as well as the cultural and educational work, theatres, physical culture and sport.