WHAT CO-OPS ARE DOING
What Co-ops Are Doing Timely Events in the Co-operative Movement CLAIMS DEMOCRACY IN BUSINESS IS "FIFTH COLUMN" By Co-op League News Service LINCOLN, Neb.—One of the world's greatest cooperative...
...and Mrs...
...Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium, all with thriving democratic cooperatives, have been overridden by dictatorship...
...Sales for 1939 were 49.4 per cent over 1938...
...What Co-ops Are Doing Timely Events in the Co-operative Movement CLAIMS DEMOCRACY IN BUSINESS IS "FIFTH COLUMN" By Co-op League News Service LINCOLN, Neb.—One of the world's greatest cooperative movements was destroyed when Hitler came to power in Germany...
...which liquidated all city co-ops in the USSR and transformed them into state stores...
...Kenneth Compton, New Jersey Consumers cooperative, Madison...
...New Jersey...
...Charles T. Douds, Al-legheney County Cooperative Ass'n., Pittsburgh, Pa., was elected for one year...
...A. S. Kazan, Amalgamated Cooperative...
...Board members with one year yet to serve are A. N. Rivers, United Cooperative Society...
...Cedric Long...
...and William Blaisdell, Rochdale Stores, Washington, D. C...
...Directors elected for two year terms by the delegates were: Hartley W. Cross, Springfield, Mass.: Arvo Mandelin...
...Mass...
...unfortunately, it cannot yet be said that this is true as a general rule...
...CO-OP WHOLESALE REPORTS 63 PER CENT VOLUME INCREASE NEW YORK CITY — While th3 wholesale grocery business in the country as a whole showed an increase of less than five per cent in the first quarter of 1940, the Eastern Cooperative Wholesale, a central purchasing service for 240 cooperatives along the Atlantic seaboard, reported a gain of 63 per cent for the first four months of this year over the same period last year...
...The report on policy decisions made and reviewed by the board of directors during the year was made by A. E. Kazan, president of the board of the wholesale who presided at the meeting...
...Maynard...
...when he said "Co-operators in a few Eastern towns have demonstrated that a consumer-owned store can be the cleanest, brightest, most attractive store in the community...
...It is time we got the best stores in town ourselves in our cooperatives...
...New York...
...We have high ideals for our movement, and we must have stores that exemplify our ideals...
...Evans declared...
...The delegates defeated by a narrow margin a proposal that the retail cooperatives supplement their present capital investments by interest bearing notes, bringing their investment up to 5 per cent of their estimated purchases for the year...
...The consumers have paid for all the good stores in the community," Mr...
...But this in itself calls for larger investment in the wholesale to meet operating needs...
...Cooperative leaders were stoned, some killed and many jailed when Mussolini took over the state in Italy...
...Mass., Q. A. Beckwith...
...During the last few years our growth has been phenomenal...
...In the face of all these facts Frederick W. Doremus of Rockford, 111., manager of the western department of the American Insurance Co., told the Nebraska insurance agents at their 33rd annual convention last week, that the consumer cooperative movement is the "fifth column" undermining the economic foundations that made this nation the richest and greatest in the world...
...New York...
...Houses, New York...
...L. E. Woodcock, manager of the consumer-owned wholesale, said in making his report to the members, that, "We can be encouraged by the prospect of a $1,500,000 volume this year when we remember that our wholesale is a depression baby—born in 1929—and that we have had warehouse facilities only since 1936...
...Consumers Cooperative Services...
...Cooperatives in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland have been destroyed or taken over by the Nazis—leaving a physical structure but eliminating democratic control by consumers— the heart of the cooperative movement...
...Brooklyn Cooperative Society...
...Nine million members of city cooperatives in Russia found their property confiscated by a decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in November, ' 1933...
...Brooklyn...
...Answering Mr...
...The need for larger invested capital in the wholesale to cover its rapidly expanding activities was urged upon the meeting by Werner Regli, head of the auditing department of the Cooperative League, in his report on the financial condition of the co-op wholesale...
...1938 was 34.5 per cent over 1937...
...United Cooperative society, Fitchburg...
...Doremus' charge, C. R. Hatten, manager of the Consumers Cooperative Association of Lincoln, characterized the statement as "careless, loose talk" and declared that "such statements connecting cooperatives with subversive elements are started by selfish business interests and are spread by persons not informed...
...v "We need to realize," he said, "that we as consumers cannot purchase a new economic society with one five dollar share of stock...
...The question we must ask ourselves is: When we hail the cooperative movement as the next step forward in economic organization for this country, should not our immediate goal be a standard in store appearance and efficiency which excels the community's present best...
...Herbert Evans, vice president of the Consumer Distribution corporation, established by the late Edward A. Filene, struck the keynote of the meeting in an address "What Standards for Our Stores...
...Delegates from local co-ops in 12 states crowded the auditorium of the New School for Social Research for their annual meeting here...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
