The Social Democratic Workers' Party in Subcarpathian Rus (Ukrainian: áþÃÂÃÂðû-ôõüþúÃÂðÃÂøÃÂýð ÃÂþñÃÂÃÂýøÃÂð ÿðÃÂÃÂÃÂàýð ÃÂÃÂôúðÃÂÿðÃÂÃÂÃÂúÃÂù àÃÂÃÂÃÂ, Sotsial-demokratichna robitnicha partiya na Pidkarpats'kiy Rusi; ) was a social democratic political party in Carpathian Ruthenia (or Subcarpathian Rus') in 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. The party obtained the support of the Gregory à ½atkovich, the first governor of Subcarpathian Rus, during his tenure 1920âÂÂ1921.
The main difference between the party and the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party (ÃÂSDSD) was that ÃÂSDSD 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.
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 Rusyn, Hungarian, Jewish and Czech communities. The highest organ of the party was the party congress. The party established several cooperatives and trade unions, particularly in the lumber industry.
Leading members of the party included Jacko OstapÃÂuk, , JaromÃÂr NeÃÂas, Dmytro NimÃÂuk, Stephan KloÃÂurak and János Horváth.
In the Czechoslovak National Assembly elections, the party contested the elections in the Uà ¾horod constituency (which had nine parliamentary seats) in alliance with ÃÂSDSD. The joint list won one of the nine Uà ¾horod seats in the 1924, 1925 and 1929 elections; getting 23,800 votes (9.4% of the votes in Uà ¾horod) 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 JaromÃÂr NeÃÂas of the Social Democratic Workers Party in Subcarpathian Rus, in 1929 the seat was won by Julius Husnaj of the ÃÂSDSD.
The party sent five delegates to the Prague joint conference of the Social Democratic parties in the Czechoslovak Republic January 28âÂÂ29, 1928. The party congress of the Social Democratic Workers Party in Subcarpathian Rus held in Chust on December 22, 1929 decided to merge the party into the ÃÂSDSD. The merger became effective in 1930, as the party became a territorial organization of ÃÂSDSD.
The party published four weekly newspapers; Vpered (initially published in Rusyn from 1921, later in Ukrainian language; edited by Klocurak) was published from Uà ¾horod, Hlas východu (Czech language, published 1928âÂÂ1932) published from Uà ¾horod, Ruszinszkoi Népszava (Hungarian language, edited by Horváth) and Szabadság (Hungarian language, published from Berehovo).
The party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International from 1923 onwards.