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THE FISHERMAN
Tuesday, March 7, 1950
Victoria Man's CabCo -op Grows
A cooperative transit system, organized by Max Poyntz of Victoria in St. John, Newfoundland, has received the stamp of approval from the city council.
The co-op bus service was started after the franchise of a coachline had been cancelled because of labor troubles.
Poyntz called 25 drivers together and started the co-op. The organization grew to 60 owner-drivers in 23 days, carried a peak load of 16,000, on December 16.
The co-op is being organized so that owners who also are drivers, are eligible for preferred stock, while the public have access to common stock.
Steps have already been taken to start a trucking business along the same lines as the bus service in Newfoundland and Labrador, where roads are being built at present.
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ROME: Ten members of Italy's parliament were given first aid treatment after a violent fight which broke out in the Chamber of Deputies February 14. The hour long scuffle was touched off when Premier Alcide de Gasperi spoke slightingly of the six strikers killed by government police January 9. and left-wing members surged toward the speaker's rostrum in indignation. After the fight, 189 deputies, representing the Communists, Left Socialists, Unitarian Socialists and other groups voted "no confidence" in the government against 340 for.   Liberal party de-
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BC Co-op Union Penticton Meeting Hears Report On British Movement
Over 70 delegates and representatives of cooperative organizations in British Columbia, from as far north as Prince Rupert and Prince George, and as far east as Kimberley, gathered in Penticton February 16, 17 and 18 for one of the most successful conferences in the history of the B.C. Co-op Union. Mr. Leslie Bright flew from Sas-
katchewan to address the Annual Banquet of the Co-op Union in the Inco'.a Hotel, Friday evening. Mr. Bright, who has just returned from a trip to Britain to work out reciprocal deals with the British, is Secretary of both the Saskatchewan Co-op Union and the Saskatchewan Federation of Agriculture. "In Britain,' he said, "the co-ops count their assets in billions. There are 10,000,000 co-op members and the rations of 13.000,000 people are distributed through the co-ops which shows the faith the people have in them. Thanks to Marshall Aid, the population is not undernourished, but their diet is deadly monotonous. Unless we solve the problem of moving surplus food from one place to another there can be nothing but trouble for their country and ours." In conclusion, Mr. Bright impressed his audience by stating "the freest of free enterprise   is   cooperation.   It allows
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everybody to go into business whether they have $10 or $10,000. The problems of this world are going to be solved by all the little people, not by a few big people."
Throughout the conference, the value of the Co-op Union was forcefully brought home to the delegates. Its services in safeguarding the protective legislation of the Cooperative Associations Act are invaluable. Attacks have been made and will continue to be made by selfish interests seeking to alter the Act to serve their own ends. At present, the operations of some 6,000 individual fishermen and their families will be affected by those who ask a change in the Act, which will weaken the binding power of contracts. At their annual meeting, members of the Co-op Union expressed their unanimous opposition to such an amendment.
The steady and persistent efforts of the Union in the field of cooperative education were better appreciated after the case of one of the largest co-ops in the U.S.A. was cited. With a surplus of $8,000,000 in 1948, this co-op decided to forego the expense of paying appropriate dues to its national union. In 1949 it was "in the red" largely because of a price war which undermined membership loyalty. Slashed prices offer fleeting advantages but cannot lure a membership informed by an adequate educational program.
During the panel discussion entitled "The Co-op Dynamic", Mr. J. Y. Towgood of the Summerland Co-op Growers Ass'n. defined the foundation stone of a cooperative as "a group of individuals with a
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common problem". As benefits from group action increase, and consideration must be given to long-term objectives of cooperation, such as its stabilizing influence in the marketing of members' produce. As the critic of co-ops Mr. Jas. English of the United Co-op Growers of Penticton, deplored the lack of advertising in co-ops and their lack of membership campaigning.
A lively discussion took place upon the merits of establishing Coop Life Insurance in B.C. CUNA Mutual is now available to all cooperatives merely by joining a credit union, but CUNA does not maintain agents. Co-op Life does maintain agents and would reach many cooperators who would not otherwise avail themselves of the advantages of cooperative insurance.
The new president of the B.C. Coop Union is Thos. J. Robertson of Ladner, an officer of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers. New directors include: Jas. English, United Co-op Growers, Penticton; J. E. Fry, of Kamloops, Secretary of the B.C. Livestock Producers' Ass'n and R. Whipple of Armstrong.
Delegates elected to attend the Canadian Co-op Congress next month in London, Ont., include J. R. Robinson, of the B.C. Central Credit Union, Morgan Berg and D. G. Macdonald of the Fishermen's Co-op Federation. Mr. Macdonald is the new director for British Columbia of the Co-op Union of Canada.
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— Germany —
BERLIN: Two U.S. Navy destroyers, the Power and the Stfin-aker, are moored alongside the Hamburg docks to intimidate union longshoremen who have refused to unload U.S. arms shipments to Europe, the Berlin radio charged on February 7. German unionists are participating in a Europe-wide peace movement, in which workers are refusing to manufacture or move weapons for the North Atlantic Pact, which they regard as war inciting. The movement is strongest in France, where arms shipments to the colonial war in Indo China have been severely curtailed and the General Confederation of Labor has decreed expulsion for any members helping to transport them.
— Japan —
TOKYO: Japanese labor was to go out on a 24-hour general strike for higher wages February 24. followed by go-slow movements which will reduce production by 30 percent on February 25, by 50 percent between February 26-28 and by 80 percent on March 1-4. This strategy was adopted by a "joint struggle committee" representing the majority of Japanese workers in a move-coordinated with political pressure within the Japanese Parliament. Railwaymen's, seamen's steel and other important unions have passed separate resolutions endorsing the decision and pledging full participation.
•— Soviet Union —
MOSCOW: By their suicidal policy of boycotting trade with the Soviet Union, ruling groups in the U.S. are still further undermining the position of America's foreign trade and speeding up the coming of a depression in the U.S. itself." a Moscow radio broadcast charged February 9. The broadcast said American governmental controls limiting trade with the USSR had not succeeded  in  their objectives
of slowing the pace of Soviet industrial construction, but had created unemployment at home. It cited a resolution of the Labor Conference for Peace held recently at Cleveland which said hundreds of thousands of jobless Ohians would be back at work if Washington removed restrictions on trade with the Soviet Union, eastern Europe and China.
— Indonesia —
JAKARTA: The Indonesian Trade Union Federation (SOBSI) has called on the government to restore its legal status, previously withdrawn under Dutch and U.S. pressure. The SOBSI statement called for repeal of all laws and regulations that "smell of colonialism" and for unity of all Indonesian labor. It also reiterated SOBSl's membership in the World Federation of Trade Unions. The SOBSI demand for legality coincided with a wave of strikes throughout the country. Latest among these are the walkout of Dutch Inter-Island Shipping Co. workers who are asking for better conditions, and of oilworkers at Medan who want a 50 percent wage increase. Other oilworkers in East Sumatra and bank workers throughout the republic have returned to work pending mediation but threaten to strike again if their demands are not met.
— Guatemala —
GUATEMALA CITY: The Guatemalan Federation of Labor (OGT) resolved January 30 to affiliate with the Latin American Federation of Labor (CTAL) and the World Federation of Trade Unions. Consisting of over 100 industrial and farm labor unions, the CTG explained its decision by saying that CTAL helps unite all Latin American workers against their traditional enemies, imperialism and domestic reaction, while the WFTU is "the parent organization of all the workers of the world."
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