[1] Stalzer and Schneider founded also a Workers’ Co-operative of the Port, whose influence proved to be much greater than that of the Communist Party itself.
Albino Stalzer however proved instrumental in providing working class support to the autonomists of Riccardo Zanella.
Thanks to the Workers’ Co-operative of the Port the strike continued motu proprio, forcing the "Exceptional Government" of "dictator" Gigante to resign and allow the entry of the Alpine troops into Fiume, as requested by the Italian plenipotentiary Carlo Caccia Dominioni.
The normalisation of the situation that followed the inauguration of the Zanella government in October 1921 enabled the holding of a Fiume Socialist Congress in November, where (as happened in Italy) a Communist Party was formed.
The unitarians adopted Lenin's "Twenty-one Conditions", but stated their will to preserve the old name of "Socialist Party", and omitted the intention to eliminate the reformers and the centrists.
The party declared its will to participate in elections, but only whilst keeping its "revolutionary purpose" of overthrowing "bourgeois democracy" well in mind.
The party issued several articles in the Lavoratore of Trieste and Lo Stato operaio of Milan, not a single one being published in the Yugoslav communist press, since the organization turned to Italy for its inspiration and guidelines.
The funeral of Cesare Seassaro, was the only mass meeting ever organised by the Communist Party of the Free State of Fiume, where several speakers participated.
The Young Communist International was represented at the meeting by a speaker – the Italian delegate Secondino Tranquilli, later known as Ignazio Silone.
That was his last action in Fiume, before leaving for Portorè, where he joined Zanella in exile, later living an isolated private life on the edge of misery and oblivion.
[11] The Party’s last statements were published in the Milanese paper "Lo Stato Operaio", after the wrecking of the Il Lavoratore offices in Trieste.
With the communique of the Executive committee, dated November the 1st 1923, the Milanese paper become (as it was for Italy) the official press organ for the Communist Party of Fiume.
[14] Distrust of the League of Nations was openly proclaimed, it asked for protection by Soviet Russia and called for action by the international proletariat against the “imperialism of Italy and Yugoslavia”.