Foreign Language Federations (1890s - 1930) - Romanian

ROMANIAN FEDERATION

There were no primary party units of the United Communist Party that spoke Romanian according to the group's Dec. 1920 statistics.
In the fall of 1921 there was a publication published in Detroit called Desteptarea [Awakening], published and owned by the Romanian Socialist Federation, 4867 Russell Street, Detroit.
Officers of the Romanian Socialist Federation were I. Costea, General Secretary; T. Balash, Assistant Secretary and Librarian. W.C. Zamfir Escu, Editor of Desteptarea; Jacob Nicoara, Business Manager of Desteptarea; and an Executive Committee consisting of: I. Stan, E. Gillezan, A. George, and G. Suciu.

[fn: J.S. Apelman, Report for the Week ending Oct. 15, 1921, NARA M-1085, reel 939, case file 2026000-1689-42.]

 

There was a Romanian Socialist Federation of America in the early 1920s. The Secretary was "John Cortea."

[fn: Comintern Archive: f. 515, op. 1, d. 75, l. 158.]