WHAT CO-OPS ARE DOING
Cooley, Oscar
What Co-ops Are Doing Timely Events in the Co-operative Movement BY OSCAR C'OOLEY (Editor, Co-operative Builder) SUPERIOR, Wis.—With a record year behind them, the delegates to the 23rd annual...
...In their annual report to the membership stressing "the importance of being bigger," de-rlnred that "judged by the indices which are ordinarily used to determine the health of a merchandising enterprise, CD Is doing well enough...
...Most of the criticism of co-operatives comes from people who "seem to ignore Franklin's emphasis on thrift...
...In closer harmony than the principles and the practices oi the movements which have not yet examined co-operatives with open minds...
...RE"WAMINES CO-+OPERATION LOS ANGELES, Calif.—"Out Of 95 years of concrete and varied expediences under a variety of severe and far reaching conditions . . . the cooperative movement has evolved principles which commend the thoughtful attention of all open-minded people...
...Panels and round table discussions were conducted on formation of cooperatives, administration and finance, co-operative education and the study of co-op book stores...
...balance of th...
...Emory S. Bogardus, eminent American sociologist and head of the department of sociology at the University of Southern California...
...net income, some $22,000 will be transferred to reserves...
...And we are considerably behind the rate of increase of certain other branches of the cooperative movement...
...Writing in "Consumers' Co-operation," official organ of the consumer co-operative movement in the United States, Dr...
...The rapidly growing distribution of co-op feeds would provide an outlet for the by-products of such a mill...
...but with Its directors dissatisfied that CD had not kept pace with the rate of growth of the co-operative movement as a whole and urging increased efforts for expansion next year...
...The directors...
...This Is the conclusion of Dr...
...The delegates instructed the directors to Investigate the feasibility of the CCW establishing its own flour mill...
...The federal government," the resolution declared, "should promote the general welfare by carrying on an extensive educational and research program on the economies of production and distribution and the co-operative principles applicable thereto...
...A model laboratory on co-operative recreation proved to be an interesting feature...
...31, 1940, were $96,811, a gain of $3,051 over the previous year...
...Central Co-op Wholesale's volume for 1939 totaled 53,426.458 and net savings on wholesale business were $85,-982, both record figures, The delegates endorsed the recommendation of the board that the net savings be prorated to member co-operatives on the basis of 1.7 per cent of their purchases during 1939...
...What Co-ops Are Doing Timely Events in the Co-operative Movement BY OSCAR C'OOLEY (Editor, Co-operative Builder) SUPERIOR, Wis.—With a record year behind them, the delegates to the 23rd annual meeting of the Central Co-operative Wholesale signalled full speed ahead by voting an amendment to the by-laws which provides for a greater retention of expansion capital, and by authorizing the board of directors to spend S30.000 to $35,000 immediately for additions to the co-op wholesale's main feed mill in Superior...
...Upon motion from the floor, the delegates voted that the wholesale contribute another $1.-000 to the fund...
...MAIL ORDER CO-OP REPORTS NEW York CITY...
...Mildred Cowger of the Palo Alto Consumers' Co-operative...
...CONVENTION ENDORSES CO-OP WASHINGTON D. t:.-"-The Socialist party, at Its national convention, approved a resolution endorsing the co-operative movement and warning that "the triumph ol Fascism or Communism means the violent destruction of co-operative Institutions" and declaring that "the interests of the cooperatives and thosr of American capitalist controlled democracy can never be reconciled...
...A record attendance of 3B9 delegates representing 83 per cpnt of the 45,056 individual members of the CCW "family" approved the recommendations...
...Plans were made for the Summer conference of the Pacific Coast League of Student Co-operatives which will be held at University of Oregon in Eugene, June Ills inclusive...
...But we have barely tapped the potentialities of growth and service which should be ours...
...Bogardus' declares that "Virtually a century of diversified experiences in many lands gives cooperative principles a bulwark of reliability...
...in fact...
...Bogardus lashes out at uninformed critics of the movement who have recently launched vlscious and unwarranted attacks on the cooperatives...
...The new capital plan provides that in the future 50 per cent patronage refunds will be in shares and 50 per cent in cash...
...Co-operative Distributors, the national mail order co-operative, wound up its seventh year of operation with business $3,000 ahead of last year, its operations in the black and showing a net "profit" of 0.7 per cent...
...Arnold Ronn, assistant manager, stressing the large gains which the local co-ops have reaped from their wholesale during its 23 years of operation, pointed out that, the co-ops have only invested $18,000 in cash and have received in return total net gains of $548,368 or more than $30 for every dollar invested...
...HOLD STATE-WIDE CONVENTION BERKLEY, Calif.—Seventy delegates from 21 student co-operatives in California met at Oxford hall here for the first state-wide conference of campus co-ops, student groups from co-ops at the University of California: University of California at Los Angeles: Chico State college, University of San Francisco, College of the Pacific, Occidental college, San Francisco Junior college, San Francisco State college, and San Jose State collage attended...
...Obstacles to the incorporation and operation of co-operatives on equal terms with private enterprise should be removed by legislation...
...The resolution described in detail the Socialist interpretation of the relation of the state to co-operatives and urged the federal government to give the co-operative movement an even break with ordinary business in matters pertaining to research and information, taxation and finance...
...With these expressions of our forefathers, co-operative principles arp in harmonv...
...Before regrouping co-operative basic working princpiles as a sociologist sees them, Dr...
...The total fund for Finnish relief collected through CCW to date Is about $8,500...
...500 was contributed in January...
...our constitution's concern for establishing justice, insuring domestic tranquility, and promoting the general welfare...
...At CD's annual meeting at the Russell Sage auditorium, Miss Olga Hour-wich, general manager, reported total sales for the year ending Jan...
...by, and for the people...
...The annual meeting also unanimously approved the board's action In sponsoring collection of funds to aid co-operators in Finland...
...Washington's stress on "the perfect security of liberty...
...and Lincoln's devotion to a government of...
...The government should make capital available to co-operatives on terms at least as advantageous as those on which it is now available to private profit enterprise from government and other sources...
...CD serves 3.600 individual members and clubs through Its mall order service and New York store, and acts as wholesaler for drugs and cosmetics for retail co-op stores...
...Keynote speaker of the conference was Mrs...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
