ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1956-06-13

March, 1856, emi-Annua| Report To
Members OF Society's Supreme Board
REPORT
Supreme President, v. L. Mandich, to the Supreme Board
At Its semi-Annua Session, March, 1856
of the Supreme Board:
We are met here today, at the first regular semi-an-
nual meeting of the Supreme Board of the Croatian Frater-
nal Union following the Ninth Convention. With todays
meeting, we are really starting a new 4-year period between
the last, Ninth Convention, and the future, Tenth ConVen-
ton, which will be held in Detroit in September, l9o9.
You will recall that l told you and the delegates at
the Ninth Convention, in taking leave after your oath OF
office, that the delegates, as the legal representat YG@;o o
placed in your hands the leadership of the greatest bene-
ficial, humanitarian and cultural organization OF free Gro
atians in the world. To be worthy of that great honor, TO-DAY
YOU cease being members of individual groups which car
ried you as their candidates for the position to winch you
were elected, and from this day forward, you are repre-
sentatives and defenders of the interests of the entire mem
bership and guardians of the wealth which the Society pos
sesses, and which was acquired through the contributions
and earnings of the membership and of those, whom you
have succeeded in the Societys Administration.
I am firmly convinced, fellow members of the Board,
that you are cognizant, of this great and a sign,f as r,d ,mhera,
of this important body seriously, conscentlously and mar
moniously.
the reports of the heads of the various departments on the
standing of our membership, funds, assets, etc, at the close
OF the wear lSSO, ana Will eSCdDlSn a very lue progress
in all branches of business of the Union for the PERIOD BE-
tween the Eighth and Ninth Conventions. Let the statistics
on the successful and harmonious work Of the supreme
be our guide in our future endeavors, that they may bear
even more plentiful fruit.
You must have in mind the strongest prerequisite for
success in the future, and that is, that we be III accord and
unified in all our tasks, imbued with the spirit of true, un-
adulterated and sincere fraternity, that our Croatian Fra
ternal Union may continue ever mightier, greater and rich
err. for the good of it's membership and to the honor of the
Croatian name and people here and abroad.
Acts of the Convention and Decisions of the Supreme Board
During the reorganizational meeting in November of
last year, a number of decisions of the Ninth Convention
were put into effect, which were necessary for the regular
conduction of business between the Supreme Office and the
membership, while some decisions will have to be discussed
seriously during this session, and put into action IN the
near future.
The Administration Expense Fund
The Supreme Secretary's report will show that, in &C
cordance with your decision, we established a Convention
Account in the Administration Fund, to which the sum OF
$35,OOO was transferred, $4,000 from the general Admin
i~stration Fund, and $4,000 from the Junior Orders Admin
istration Fund.
Also by your decision, we transferred from the Nor
tuary Surplus Fund to the Administration Fund, the sun
of $4,000 on account of the $50 increase OF mortuary col
lections from January, 1887, to the end OF December OF las
You authorized the Executive Board, in addition to the
amount mentioned, to transfer from the Mortuary Surplu:
Fund to the Administration Fund, up to five per cent o.
total receipts during the past year, if such transfer is ne
cessary. I am glad to report that we transferred only two
per cent of the total receipts, which in our estimation wa
entirely sufficient to meet the extraordinary disbursement
OF the past convention year, and tor the establishment o
a sufficient sum in the Administration Fund to cover tn
disbursements of the current year.
In addition to the transfer of the aforementioned sum
from the Mortuary Surplus Fund, we increased dividends t
our members in both orders, by 800, which expenditur
of itself represents the sum of $4,000. We spent the tire
mendous sum of over $175,O0O for the Ninth Convention
and still the Societys solvency dropped only 1.53, namely
from III. O6 in 1854, to 1O9 SO in 1855.
Our Administration Fund expenditures will be rels
lively constant for the next three years, rising only by
fraction of the sum which the laws of Pennsylvania wi
permit us to transfer from the Mortuary Surplus Fune
thereby alternating the threat of a deficit in the Admins
tration Fund, and leaving at least one problem completed
solved for some time, and which will not give us the period
headaches of the past.
The Croatian Brotherhood of Great Falls, Montana
We have brought to successful conclusion the ABSORB
ton of the Croatian Brotherhood of Montana into the rank
of the Croatian Fraternal Union. AS you no doubt learne
from my reports to the Executive Board, / visited Gres
Falls, Butte and Anaconda, Montana, the middle of Januar
of this year, and took possession, in behalf of the Unio
the assets and obligations of the Croatian Brotherhoo
The cash assets and accounts receivable amount to $167
766.78. The greatest portion of that amount was trans
ferred to the Mortuary Fund, i. e., $141, 209 40 for the adu
membership, and $4,55S67 for the Junior Order. The Sic
Benefit Fund received $~15,976.17, and the Disability an
Operation Fund $1,775. The Administration Fund receive
$4,247.45.
The Brotherhood assets which took over for til
Union, consist of $4,000 in federal obligations, $34, 795
loans on real estate to Brotherhood members, $20,OOO boo