Editing Josip Broz Tito (section)

===Communist agitator===
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Upon his return home, Broz was unable to gain employment as a metalworker in Kumrovec, so he and his wife moved briefly to Zagreb, where he worked as a waiter and took part in a waiter's strike. He also joined the CPY.{{sfn|Ridley|1994|pp=77–78}} The CPY's influence on the political life of Yugoslavia was growing rapidly. In the 1920 elections, it won 59 seats and became the third-strongest party.{{sfn|Vucinich|1969|p=7}} In light of difficult economic and social circumstances, the regime viewed the CPY as the main threat to the system of government.{{sfn|Calic|2019|p=82}} On 30 December, the government issued a Proclamation ({{lang|sh|[[Obznana]]}}) outlawing communist activities, which included bans on propaganda, assembly halls, stripping of civil service for servants and scholarships for students found to be communist.{{sfn|Mahmutović|2013|pp=268–269}} Its author, [[Milorad Drašković]], the Yugoslav Minister of the Interior, was assassinated by a young communist, [[Alija Alijagić]], on 2 August 1921. The CPY was then declared illegal under the Yugoslav State Security Act of 1921,{{sfn|Trbovich|2008|p=134}} and the regime proceeded to prosecute party members and sympathisers as [[political prisoners in Yugoslavia|political prisoners]].{{sfn|Mahmutović|2013|pp=268–269}}

Due to his overt communist links, Broz was fired from his employment.{{sfn|Swain|2010|p=9}} He and his wife then moved to the village of [[Veliko Trojstvo]] where he worked as a mill mechanic.{{sfn|West|1995|p=51}}{{sfn|Vinterhalter|1972|p=84}} After the arrest of the CPY leadership in January 1922, Stevo Sabić took over control of its operations. Sabić contacted Broz, who agreed to work illegally for the party, distributing leaflets and agitating among factory workers. In the contest of ideas between those that wanted to pursue moderate policies and those that advocated violent revolution, Broz sided with the latter. In 1924, Broz was elected to the CPY district committee, but after he gave a speech at a comrade's [[Catholic]] funeral, he was arrested when the priest complained. Paraded through the streets in chains, he was held for eight days and was eventually charged with creating a public disturbance. With the help of a [[Serbian Orthodox]] prosecutor who hated Catholics, Broz and his co-accused were acquitted.{{sfn|Ridley|1994|pp=80–82}} His brush with the law had marked him as a communist agitator, and his home was searched on an almost weekly basis. Since their arrival in Yugoslavia, Pelagija had lost three babies soon after their births and one daughter, Zlatica, at the age of two. Broz felt the loss of Zlatica deeply. In 1924, Pelagija gave birth to a boy, Žarko, who survived. In mid-1925, Broz's employer died, and the new mill owner gave him an ultimatum: give up his communist activities or lose his job. So, at age 33, Broz became a professional revolutionary.{{sfn|West|1995|p=54}}{{sfn|Ridley|1994|pp=83–85}}