Show COOPERATION WILL ILL SLASH COST OF 1 OF LIVING F Foundation for System to toBe toBe Be Laid C Consumers Se See W Way a O Out t CLEVELAND March 5 Because Because cooperation sl slashes th the post past of JIving living living liv liv- ing by eliminating the profiteering middleman the movement is is' is spreadIng spreading spreading spread- spread Ing rapidly throughout the Hie United States Fifteen to twenty ri new cooperative businesses are launched each week American cooperators numbering 5 did a dollar billion-dollar business last st year in cooperative enter enter- r The governments government's failure to curb profiteers is c causing the common man an anand and his wife wiCe who are tired of the futile struggle to make both ends meet to turn hopefully to this practical practical practical and understandable plan of own the business business' and share f the profits I t 1 Six hundred delegates from all aU parts parts- of the United States represent representing enting ent ent- ing the farmer and producer anxious to receive more for their products and arid tl the e working man striving to buy the necessities of oC life for tor less ess F will meet In Chicago February 15 12 tolay tolay to tolay lay the foundation for a national cooperative cooperative co cooperative co- co operative system f PROFITEER TAKES ADVANTAGE Cooperation is regarded as a a foe by most competitive business d dealing aling Advantage has with lifes life's necessities s. s been e n taken by the profiteer in an the thep p past st of the l lack ck ot of skill o of c opert- opert ors to W wreck eck nineteen cooperative ventures out out of gi every twenty This has taught cooperators the value of unification n Today Ui they y plan a nationwIde nationwide nationwide na na- na- na organization to guide cooperators cooperators coop coop- in shrewd business and them strength to fight the middle J men Cooper Cooperators fought a losing fight in other countries until they formed national national national na na- na- na alliance Now in many European European European Eu Eu- countries England countries England Russia Norway Sweden and D Denmark the Denmark the cooperators tors dominate trade Through his producers' producers union the Russian peasant reaps the full profit on the sale of ot his goods to a Russian cooperative cooperative co cooperative co- co operative retailer PROFITS TURNED BACK I The retailer sells at a market pr price ce which the pr profit Cit taking competitors help to fix but the profits are are turned back each quarter to the thousands of ot shareholders who are the ultimate consumers Russia learned long ago that competitive competitive competitive com com- busl business ess did not train mento mento men mento to be cooperative managers managers Hence the cooperators maintain schools where the p principles of ot cooperative business are taught These elements are th those se that must mustI be taught to the people of ot the United States and the Chicago meetIng meeting meeting meet meet- I ing Is the first step according to Warren S S. S Stone chief of ot the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Engi Engl I and a father fathe of the cooperative nee rs e movement t ement u I STONE STRONG TRONG FOR IT I Poor management and the lack Jack of I protection the small cooperative business has had against its competitors competitors com- com has been responsible for tor p past st I failures says Stone The Chicago meeting delegates will represent cooperative businesses and thirty sev en wholesale cooperatives We want to establish a a strong cooperative wholesale system and reduce the management of or the local businesses I to the scientific Rochdale basis Every business element has combined combined combined com com- to defeat cooperation Jobbers Jobbers Job Job- bers hers have overstocked with unseasonable unseasonable unseasonable able goods cooperative stores and merchants have combined In price wars Then Jobbers have refused to sell seU to cooperators With a wholesale wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale organization we can guarantee that the little fellow tellow receives seasonable seasonable season season- f able goods in saleable amounts If I he has sales at all he cant can't fall fail with I this system SEES GOVERNMENT LING Stone looks to a time when the link between producer r and consumer r will be the government It It is a dream now he sa says s that some some day the farmer will load his goods at his door dool on a government truck and receive a receipt for tor them These products will then be turned over to the government owned railways railways railways rail rail- ways and sold later through cooperative cooperative cooperative coop coop- markets In five tive years I be believe believe be- be lieve cooperation will be the biggest biggest biggest big big- gest factor In American life life liCe |