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Show FARMPRODUGER.:; city co;isu;r,ERi GET TOGETHER 4 aaaaaB at ' Labor Unions Also IrmtetJ to Join to Cut Excess '. Profit. j j CLEVELAND, Feb. 11. The an-j an-j American cooperative commission waa given a new program for ths year at 1 the cooperative congress of farmer and I labor organisations, which closed, a three-day convention hers today. Ths program calls for establishment I of an exchange service to bring farmer producers and city consumers together .for direct marketing and suggests that i labor unions In cities and farm oritsn-Ixations oritsn-Ixations invite each other Into their meetings to discuss cooperative marketing. mar-keting. The principle of collectlvs bargaining bar-gaining "for farmers and labor alike- Is Indorsed snd the open shop campaign Is denounced. PACKER CONTROL. Resolutions were adopted favoring legislation to control ths meat packing Industry, to restore the railroads to unified uni-fied government operation and that freight and passenger rates be reduced to ths levels under federal operation. A high and rapidly progressive teg upon incomes, estates and excess profits, prof-its, until war coat is paid, and a federal fed-eral tax on ths value of sll Isnd and other natural resources, "speculatively held," is recommended. Ths congress opposea retail sales taxes ana Biner consumption taxes which. It was declared, de-clared, "will place ths heaviest burdeit of taxation upon those least abls ta pay." FOR RESOURCES. Control and development of all natural nat-ural resources by ths government-wsa urged. A report of ths committee on dU reet trading, which waa adopted, suggests sug-gests that consumers at ones establish, receiving- depots that can be used by Intercity truck service and parcel post until cooperative stores or municipal markets can be established. Central labor la-bor unions are asked to finance ths cost of such depots temporarily. Establishment Es-tablishment of peoples' cooperative banks, cooperative stores and cold storage plants to be operated at cost was recommended. |