Show UNION WILL BUY SOY I MORE COOP MilLS MILLS' I IB B By Leslie P. P Ei Eichel II N N. N E. E A. A Special Correspondence DETROIT April 17 Headquarters I i have been established here for the cooperative cooperative cooperative co co- co- co operative enterprises of the United Brotherhood of or Maintenance of Way Em- Em and Railway Shop Laborers ItIs It Itis Itis is intended by the brotherhood to spread its manufacturing supply stations stations stations sta sta- from Michigan to all parts of the United States where the brotherhood is represented The m members of our union wanted something visible done with their annual dues Orr C C. Trask manager of the industrial department said So we have purchased factories to strike at the system that is responsible responsible responsible sible for high Instead d of In Increased Increased increased In- In creased wages we believe the elimination elimination elimina elimina- tion of the middleman will solve the high cost of living Jiving OWN FIVE FACTORIES FACTORIES We We own and oper operate te five factories employing persons These factories are valued at and are in charge of the same superintendents who operated operated operated oper oper- them for their former owners owners- i 1 iA A E E. Bacon Toledo from Whom ws bought two glove factories at Toledo Isnow is isnow isnow now our superintendent of production We Ve have reduced hours to four forty-four a week and increased wages Our auditors audi audi- tors among tors-among among the best corporation auditors auditors auditors audi audi- tors in the United States States say say this has not decreased production CUT HOURS RAISED HOURS RAISED WAGES At Ypsilanti Mich when we reduced hours and raised wages a competing mill lost its It appealed to us Finally its ita president came to us He I offered to sell He showed appraisal figures of Our appraisers put the value at But we held beld out out out- and got the plant for Recently the output of two large plants plant plants one one ne a flour mill and another an overall factory was factory was offered to us on a plus cost-plus basis we ve to have our own auditors auditors auditors audi audi- tors in charge The brotherhood sells to its members without profit It has two retail stores in D Detroit and a a. distributing plant at BUY I H IN QUANTITY What we do not manufacture we buy in large quantities at good prices es We Wedo Wedo Wedo do not ask the manufacturer to give give- up any profit said Trask I Trask a lawyer was president of ot the I village of Mich and then became a manufacturer of knit goods The maintenance of way union made him assistant grand president last January He sold his mill to the union In Septem Septem- ber her 1919 The unions union's plants have a capacity of pairs of gloves union suits ant anI to pairs of hosiery daily besides besides besides be be- sides work shirts shirts' and overalls accordIng according accord accord- ing leg to Trask |