# Cooperative Congress

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/cooperative-congress/
- Published: 1924-06-21T18:20:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T01:39:24+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/kaaperatyuny-zjezd.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/kooperativnyy-sezd.md

> On Saturday, 21 June, a congress of Belarusian cooperative members from the Union of Cooperatives is to assemble in Vilnia. The agenda is announced, together with a call not to let Polish nationalists take over the leadership.

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On Saturday, 21 June, the congress of representatives of the cooperatives belonging to the Union of Cooperatives (Mala Pahulianka 12) opens. The congress will be held in the premises of the Polish Klub Pracującej Inteligencji (Club of the Working Intelligentsia) (St. Anna Street No. 2) and will begin at 5 p.m.

Agenda:

1). Opening and election of the presidium.

2). Approval of the rules of procedure for the congress.

3). Reading of the minutes of the previous congress.

4). Report of the Board on the activity of the Union.

5). Report of the Supervisory Council.

6). Approval of the balance sheets and of the proposal for the distribution of the profit.

7). Plan of activity and budget of the Union for 1924.

8). The question of joining the Revision Union.

9). Changes in the statute.

10). The question of increasing the shares.

11). The question of the Fund of the Union's Employees.

12). Raising the amount of loans.

13). Elections of the Council and the Board.

14). Miscellaneous proposals.

From this list of items the importance of the congress is plain. It is at this congress, too, that the elections of the Council and the Board of the Union will take place.

Because the Polish cooperative members are trying to "smoke out" the Belarusian spirit from the Union and turn it into a "platform of Polishness", the Belarusian cooperative members must watch closely, so that they are not wronged and so that the Union is not seized by people who strive to Polonize it.

This must be watched especially at the elections of the Council and the Board, so that Polish nationalists, hostile to our peasantry, which makes up the greater part of the members of the cooperatives, do not get in there.