CO-OPS KEEPS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
McMillin, Miles
The Cooperative Movement: Co-ops Keep The Record Straight By MILES McMILLIN WITH typical thoroughness and foresight, the cooperatives are exploring the problems involved in the disposal of...
...The Cooperative Digest, publication of the Cooperative League, cuts loose with a blast at the anti-co-op National Tax Equality Association in its April issue...
...The co-ops themselves, with their tremendous facilities, would be an excellent distributive channel...
...Nor are the co-ops impressed with all the big talk about a public housing program to follow this war...
...The Cooperative Movement: Co-ops Keep The Record Straight By MILES McMILLIN WITH typical thoroughness and foresight, the cooperatives are exploring the problems involved in the disposal of surplus goods by the armed services after the war...
...Charging that the Association is headed by old Chamber of Commerce propagandists and high-pressure men and subsidized by millionafres, the Digest calls it the "front" for a drive to wreck the co-op movement...
...The present proposal, like many others proposed by co-ops for handling urgent problems, is primarily to keep the record straight...
...They are petitioning the Government to retain Government war plants, military camps, and housing developments as public utilities after the war or to turn them over to farm cooperatives...
...They are asking that a commission, comprised of representatives of the co-ops, farm groups, labor, and business organizations, be established to handle the distribution of the surplus materials and to dispose of Government-financed plants...
...Farm organizations in Ontario, Canada, are up in arms at the Dominion Government's decision to levy income taxes on co-op patronage dividends...
...Love declares that if the attack against the farm co-ops gets more serious, the co-ops will have to appeal to the labor unions for support...
...It is their hope to recommend a plan that will provide for the most efficient disposition and yet avoid the disgraceful profiteering scandals that shook the country after the last war...
...In the new merchandising policy approved by National Cooperatives is this provision: "When our member associations could be better served by commodities or services other than our own to so advise them...
...They expect to get very little attention from Administration big-wigs whose inclinations these days are toward the big business and monopoly schemes of the Bernard Baruchs and Jesse Joneses...
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...Several AFL unions are following the lead of the CIO United Automobile Workers and are outlining a program of specific action to organize consumer cooperatives...
...Co-op Clippings The Centennial Cooperative Congress, marking the first 100 years of growth of the Rochdale Cooperatives, will be held in Chicago at.the Hotel Morrison, Oct...
...They are quietly going ahead with their own plans for an aggressive program of cooperative housing and have placed the responsibility for immediate steps along these lines in the hands of the executive committee of National Cooperatives...
...Co-op advertising will point out limitations as well as advantages of a given product...
...They aren't kidding themselves, however...
...In a series of articles on the co-ops, written for the conservative Scripps-Howard chain, John W. Love, Scripps-Howard writer, says that the new law requiring co-ops and unions to report incomes resulted from "the way business rivals have been gunning for the co-ops...
Vol. 8 • May 1944 • No. 19
