Social Democratic Workers' Party in Subcarpathian Rus'
The Social Democratic Workers Party in Carpatho-Russia (Rusyn: Social-demokratična robitniča partia na Pidkarpats'kij Rusi, Template:Lang-cs) was a social democratic political party in Subcarpathian Rus, Czechoslovakia. The party was founded in 1919. At the party congress in September 1922 the party adopted a party programme which acknowledged the inclusion of Carpathian Ruthenia as an autonomous region in the Czechoslovak Republic.[1]The party obtained the support of the Gregory Zhatkovych, the first governor of Subcarpathian Rus, during his tenure 1920-1921.[2]
The main differentiation between the party and the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party (CSDSD) was that CSDSD supported the government in Prague, whilst the Subcarpathian party opposed it as the government did not support the formation of an autonomous region of all Rusyn-inhabited areas.[2]
Leading members of the party included Jacko Ostapčuk, Jaromír Nečas, Dmytro Nimčuk, Stephan Kločurak and János Horváth.[1]
The party had around 3,500 members. The party organization was based on individual memberships. The party activists came from working and middle class background, recruiting members from the Russian, Hungarian, Jewish and Czech communities. The highest organ of the party was the party congress.[1] The party established several cooperatives and trade unions, particularily in the lumber industry.[2]
In the Czechoslovak National Assembly elections, the party contested the elections in the Užhorod constituency (which had nine parliamentary seats) in alliance with CSDSD. The joint list won one of the nine Užhorod seats in the 1924, 1925 and 1929 elections; getting 23,800 votes (9.4% of the votes in Užhorod) in 1924, 18,200 votes (7.4%) in 1925 and 22,900 votes (8.6%) in 1929. In the 1924 and 1925 elections, the seat was won by Jaromir Necas of the Social Democratic Workers Party in Carpatho-Russia, in 1929 the seat was won by Julius Husnaj of the CSDSD.[1][2]
The party sent five delegates to the Prague joint conference of the Social Democratic parties in the Czechoslovak Republic January 28-29, 1928. The party congress of the Social Democratic Workers Party in Carpatho-Russia held in Chus on December 22, 1929 decided to merge the party into the CSDSD. The merger became effective in 1930, as the party became an territorial organization of CSDSD.[1]
The party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International from 1923 onwards.[1]
The party published four weekly newspapers; Vpered (initially published in Rusyn from 1921, later in Ukrainian language; edited by Klocurak) was published from Užhorod, Hlas východu (Czech language, published 1928-1932) published from Užhorod, Ruszinszkoi Népszava (Hungarian language, edited by Horváth) and Szabadság (Hungarian language) published from Berehovo).[1][2][3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Kowalski, Werner. Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 - 19. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. p. 330
- ^ a b c d e Magocsi, Paul R., and I. I. Pop. Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. p. 468
- ^ Magocsi, Paul R., and I. I. Pop. Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. p. 537