Show KEEP POLITICS OUT OF MARKETING PLAN where permitted to creep in discord follows among officers directors and bemb members ers by B E 11 director dairy marketing american farm bareau federation president ident J H R cloward says that the three most esse essential vitial things needed in co marketing in this country today are biallas binl bi allis ns brains and more brains this Is surely true we have lu in operative cooperative co marketing the development of a beil ness undertaking involving the human element represented in ili the membership together with the merchandising and manufacturing problems the best brains of the country are needed to keep these abes operative cooperative co to marketing organizations functioning as they should and to keep petty politics from creeping into the organization and causing discord among the alie human element reprise represented titell in the members phoso whoso products are being marketed co operatively to overcome petty politics we have hava witnessed in recent months an and d bears cars the destructive of petty political tendencies in secrata of f our operative cooperative co marketing marl eting eions factional difficulties have arisen within the group represented by the of officers liers and directors of those these cooperative marketing organizations and these differences have led to the building up within these marketing or danl athons of something like a political ring in city state and national affairs L each ach faction friction would attempt to mold the opinion of tile members of the marke marketing tin organization to its iti way vay of thinking the faction that succeeded in a good many cases managed to secure at least temporary control 4 of the organization should we not try now in the development of co marketing so BO to organize that all possible tendencies dennies towards politics may be kept out oatlie organization if in some soine way vay 0 ie o can give the lie membership more responsibility in the governing goer ning of the organization we will help to eliminate some of these ells in order to do this in large co organizations the members should be grouped in loe lopoo POO A p ia 1 11 c km 4 ell B heaton cal c it branches of the larger associations and these local loc tit groups should elect delegates who are responsible le for nil all of their actions to the local group when hen they go to represent them thein in icv be larger ar ger affairs of life central i 0 tion it I 1 the experienced irish it Is interesting to note how some of the co mai keUng orga organic iii latious zillions Zil lions in other countries try to pre f vent petty politic from enteria en terin in and the elli clency of their officers and board of directors lit in ireland there isa federation of ell cn operative cream eilts known as tile the C cu operative creamery limited this Is a central aig miniza tion under which the hie local or iolet les are arc gro grouped upA rule 45 of the ba b laws reads as follows collim 8 the office of tile fie committe enion sh shall a ll 11 be vacated a if lie hold any ollice cillie or ir place of profit under the society b it ft lie become it a bankrupt or solvent insolvent in or etani munds with ith ills his creditors c it if lie become of unsound mind or become a lunatic Itina tic d if lie he be convie teil of nt an indictable of tense e if he ceab to told hom the necessary qualifications to be a mem her of the committee f if lie absent abent abs ent himself froni from meetings of fit tile the society for a period of two consecutive months without special leave of absence from tie he other mem nien tiers ibers of tin the committee 9 it if lie gle ghe the hie committee one months notice lit in writing that he be resigns his office h if lie he it Is in or ar beur of 1 payment of tiny any call all or calls due an and payable on in his shares 1 it if lie enter into contract arrangement or dealing with fill the society out of which a profit may be realized but uny any act done don in good faith by a com biti oiti WItte ernau whose office e is vacated ns as aforesaid shall be aled unless prior tui the doing of such act written notice shall ahme been senad upon the secretary and to tile other members of f the committee or an entry shall have been made in it tile minute bool nt the committee stating that such commit committeeman teman has ceased to be b a member of the committee any member or members of the alie committee may be hemmed from office ocke by a resolution of a special pe cial general meeting mi subject i to the provisions of rule 26 rule itule 20 Is a provision relative to loans or when nhen a committee member becomes liable tor for any debt incurred on behalf of the society A special general meeting may be c called ailed by the committee at any time lima on its own authority or upon ti m addressed addi essed to the secretary and ami banned binned ld by not less than one fourth of tile the members of the society failure fall are of the secretary in three days to vall rail the meeting gives the signatories signa tories to the petition the right to call their own meeting at the expense of the society self perpetuating boards in some of our american co opera tive marketing organizations there lia has been a tendency for the board of dl directors once selected to use any and all means to continue their term of office I 1 find in the bylaws by laws of the danish operative cooperative co dairies and this athla Is true also of the federation or export society of De denmark amark that rule 20 says of the members of the committee directors one half liala resign every year the first time after drawing lots audi and later they resign by turn after baa X held office for two years ke ite can an take place but cannot be accepted by the person in question it he be liaa has not been out of office at least for a period equal to that in which lie held office last if and when the committee or some of its are to receive a salary it Is tu to be fixed by the general meet |