WHAT CO-OPS ARE DOING
Co-op Leader Speaks On Norris Bill Secretary Anders Hedlierg of the central bodv ..i . operatives as he spoke before a sen.iir subcommittee hearing on the Norris bill to liberalize the farm...
...The report...
...Contributions should be directly to the Co-operative League of the USA...
...Co-op Leader Speaks On Norris Bill Secretary Anders Hedlierg of the central bodv ..i . operatives as he spoke before a sen.iir subcommittee hearing on the Norris bill to liberalize the farm credit act...
...Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, n possible candidate if Pres...
...Thomas E. Dewey, candidate for the Republican nomination for president, in an address outlining his farm program: Extension of the farm co-operative movement as a means of "cutting the cost of distribution and getting the farmers' products more directly to the consumer...
...Hedberg replied to a question as to what happened to private business in Sweden...
...with us...
...It should be encouraged still more by legislation and by sympathetic government assistance...
...Why did the trusts not undercut the co-operatives...
...You are absolutely right...
...Closing one department would not seriously affect K.F...
...Because we have 49 diversified departments," said Hedberg, "which include home supplies such as food and clothing and farm supplies such as feed and implements...
...American co-operatives, which have already given more than $10,000 to Finnish relief, arc particularly urged to give to the relief of their Finnish fellow co-operators in as much as public attention and general public contributions may fall off now that the war is over...
...Gov, John W. Bricker of Ohio said in addressing a rally of 20,000 members of Ohio co-opcratives in Columbus last fall that: "This exhibits the ability and eagerness of Ohio farm people to do things through co-rperatiou...
...There is no so-called fair trade law in Sweden to prevent price-cutting and no anti-trust law to prevent price-raising...
...RENEW APPEAL FOR AID FOR CO-OPS IN FINLAND CHICAGO, III.—The board of directors of the Co-operative League of the USA, meeting here for its quarterly meeting, voted to renew its appeal for contributions from American co-operatives and their members for the rehabilitation of co-operatives and the relief of co-operatives in war-torn Finland and other invaded countries...
...Senator Robert Taft...
...Hedberg, testifying at the request of the senate committee, told how K. F. entered the trustified electric light bulb field and lowered prices of 60 watt bulbs from 37 cents to 22 cents...
...B; lowering prices cooperatives have assisted in reducing unemployment...
...Gillette, George W. Norris, E. D. Smith, Hedlierg and Sail...
...Hedberg declared...
...167 Wst 12th St., New York City...
...As-ked about labor unions and unemployment, Mr...
...Co-operatives in Finland do more than 40 per cent of the retail trade of Finland and 38 per cent of the wholesale business of the country...
...What are the relations between purchasing and marketing co-operatives...
...In 1936 he appointed a committee of six to make a thorough study of cooperatives in the democratic countries in Europe...
...It is resulting In and will further result in a changing economic structure In America...
...Hedberg speaks, "No one speaks about being a union labor man in Sweden...
...The chairman of the senate agricultural and forestry committee, Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina, attended the close of the hearing and asked Hedberg why Sweden was so much further advanced co-operatively than America...
...Decrying any attempts to make comparisons between Sweden and America but pressed for a frank nn.swcr, Mr, Iledberp, replied, "The main foundation of producer or consumer organization is economic education...
...If ever the economic and social problems of America are solved, if ever peace and security and contentment are brought to the world...
...K.F...
...PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES JUMP ON THE CO-OPERATIVE BAND WAGON NEW YORK CITY—Presidential candidates are climbing the co-operative bandwagon early...
...Pres...
...The quicker this fact is recognized and all groups adjust theni-selv : to the change, the quicker will purchasing power and prosperity be restored to all...
...It will be done by the people joining hands and working together with the same aggressiveness,, fortitude and pioneering spirit as characterizes you—the farm people of Ohio...
...The need is greater now than ever before...
...K.F.'s financial strength has enabled it to assist farm marketing co-operatives in building slaughter houses and farm purchasing co-operatives by buying out super-phosphate and farm implement factories...
...said Senator Smith, "we don't yet know the economic value of co-opexatlon in America...
...Gov...
...asked Senator Norris...
...It is simply accepted by everyone...
...in an address in Springfield, O., 10 days earlier declared : "The co-operative movement has made great strides and cut down the margin between the producer and the consumer...
...One of the key points at issue in regard to the Norris amendments to the Farm Credit act Is the practicability of co-operatives handling both home and farm supplies...
...Private factories are not put out of business but are re-established by competition from the co-operatives which lowers prices and increases the market for commodities," Mr...
...Vaino Tanner, foreign minister in the government of Finland, is manager of the largest co-operative in the country and is president of the International Co-operative Alliance...
...i'tirpok* is Jo allow loans to cooperatives handling home ns well as fr-rm supplies...
...Funds will be transmitted Immediately to Finland through the International Co-operative Alliance...
...George D. Aiken of Vermont, often spoken of as a Republican dark horse, told the New England council, meeting in Boston last fall that: "The co-operative movement has gone too far to turn back now...
...Guy AX...
...has grown to financial independence," said Hedberg, "as a general co-operative handling both household and vocational supplies and with both farm and urban members...
...The present act limits the fields of activity of cooperatives borrowing through the Farm Credit administration...
...Roosevelt does not run again, stated in his book, "Whose Constitution," published more than a year ago, that: "In the economic world II is Is inevitable that more and more cmphmis is going to be laid on the idea of co-operation as distinguished from free competition...
...Wage scales are higher in co-oper..tives...
...What Co-ops Are Doing Timely Events in the Co-operative Movement SWEDISH CO-OP EXECUTIVE AT HEARINGS ON NORRIS BILL WASHINGTON, D.C.—A new aspect ^f the battle between the Swedish co-operatives and the trusts was revealed here last week when Anders Hedberg, secretary of international questions, of Kooperativa Forbundet, the central organization of the cooperatives in Sweden, testified before the senate sub-committee hearings on the Norris bill...
...In response Hedberg described the joint milk marketing co-operative of Mal-mo, Sweden, which is controlled equally by milk producers and consumers and fixes prices to both...
...Roosevelt, in his first message to congress, said: "We would encourage the slowly growing impulse among consumers to enter the industrial market place equipped with sufficient organization to insist on fair prices and honest sales...
...Left lo right: Sens...
...If the trust wanted to give their lamps away it would have been O.K...
...Lewi* B. Schwcllenbach...
...asked Senator George Norris...
...If they wanted to put a dollar in each bulb it would have been all the better...
...Inquiry on Co-operative Enterprise In Europe, 1037" is available through the superintendent of documents, Washington, D. C...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
