Born in the village of
Brodski Varoš near
Slavonski Brod, in
Austria-Hungary's
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, to family of
Croat peasants, he moved to
Sarajevo in search of a job as a trained
metal worker at the age of 18, where, in November 1905, he joined the newly-formed Radical Movement Union, and took part in several strikes in the following years. His son Stjepan, who was born in
Sarajevo in 1912, also become a communist, and at the outbreak of
WWII he joined
partisans. In 1942 Stjepan was killed by the
Ustaše. At a gathering in the suburbs of Sarajevo, in early 1915, he raised his voice against the war, for which he was arrested and brought before a military court, which condemned him to death. He was later transferred to the jurisdiction of the civil court, who pardoned him and sentenced him to forced labor. After the war, Đuro Đaković's revolutionary activity began. At the end of February, he organised a general strike of the disadvantaged workers' class attended by 30,000 workers. He was committed to making the right to vote for women and all people who have reached the age of 20 and who lived in Sarajevo for more than six months. Đaković took part in the Unification Congress in which the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia was created, and due to participation in the preparation and holding of the May 1st celebration in Sarajevo, he was arrested and spent several months in custody. At the beginning of the 1920s, he began with active political work. He was elected to the parliamentary elections for the People's Assembly of the Constitutional Assembly of the
Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In June 1921 he travelled to
Moscow as a delegate at the Third Congress of
Comintern, and after returning to Yugoslavia he was again arrested and sentenced to ten months in prison for communist and unionist activities. Đaković continued with the revolutionary work, and after several more arrests in 1923, he was expelled from Sarajevo to his homeland. In 1927, he enrolled at
Moscow's
International Lenin School and stayed there until 1928. Under the pseudonym of Bosnić he returned to Yugoslavia and worked on setting up party organizations. Đaković actively opposed the
January 6 Dictatorship of
King Alexander I. Due to this, he was arrested in
Zagreb together with
Nikola Hećimović, secretary of the
International Red Aid. They were executed on the Yugoslav-Austrian border on April 25, 1929. In an exaggerated attempt to escape responsibility, authorities have tried to conceal the murder. After exhumation, it was found that the victims were fired at a small distance, which proved to be a murder. == Memory ==