The name of the Lechita Society is taken from the Slavic legend of the three brothers who founded the three great branches of Slavs: Czech, Rus, and Lech, who founded the Poles. Among the activities of the Society was the payment of sick fund benefits to members; at a meeting in December 1980 members voted to discontinue such benefit payments with the exhaustion of the existing sick fund, making the organization purely social in nature. The Lechita Society was never federated with any other or similar fraternal organizations.
