Jordan Nikolov Orce

Under his leadership in today North Macedonia, the first protests were undertaken, and the workers succeed for the first time to conclude collective contracts with the employers.

In August 1940 Orce Nikolov was arrested on account of the break-up of the 1st of May proclamation of Central Committee of CPY, and the organizing of the Ilinden uprising celebration in then Vardar Banovina.

[citation needed] While he was in prison, on the 5th earthy meeting he was chosen as a candidate for a member of CC of CPY.

On 22 August 1941, together with several other prisoners he escapes from captivity and manages to enter the free territory of the Republic of Užice where the supreme headquarters of the Yugoslav partisan forces was stationed.

[citation needed] He was given a task to go to the Bulgarian occupation zone of Yugoslavia and work on the organizing of an armed uprising.