TheCleveland Agreement (Czech:Clevelandská dohoda;Slovak:Clevelandská dohoda) was an agreement signed by representatives of theCzech andSlovak people on 22 October 1915, at theBohemian National Hall inCleveland,Ohio.[1] Its purpose was to show commitment to the fight for theself-determination of bothSlavic nations in an independentfederation, envisioned byTomáš Masaryk, the founding father ofCzechoslovakia.[2]
After several months of negotiations, the Cleveland Agreement was signed on 22 and 23 October 1915, in Cleveland's Bohemian National Hall, 4939 Broadway Ave. Signatories included representatives of theSlovak League, Ivan Daxner and Albert Pavol Mamatey, and the Czech National Association, Ludvík Fisher and Josef Tvrzický-Kramer. Mamatey was elected as Chairman,Emanuel Voska as Vice-Chairman,Štefan Osuský as Slovak Secretary, and J. Martínek as a Czech one. The agreement was about the conditions of Czech and Slovak cooperation and declared a common program with five points. Representatives of Slovaks participated on the condition that the future state will be a federation. In May 1918, it was replaced by thePittsburgh Agreement.[2]
The terms of the agreement were as follows: