The author discusses the views of the Yugoslav Social Democratic Party (the
JSDS) and some of its representatives on the dispute between the German-
Austrian and the Czech-Slavic Social Democratic parties regarding a centralist
or an autonomous form of Austrian trade organizations. He draws attention to
the fact that, in 1912, on the occasion of its seventh convention the JSDS unanimously
condemned the attainment of independence of the Czech Social Democrats
in the Austrian trade union movement. He establishes, however that
the JSDS overlooked the historic stand of the Czech-Slavic party which advocated
an independent policy in the class-struggle of a nation engaged in national liberation
movement thus manifesting that it was unaware of the national
role of the revolutionary labour party.