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THE FISHERMAN
September 5, l^i
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Cooperators Cooperate
By LIN BROWN
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JD you know? Have you heard? A certain well-known cooperator did not know that Vancouver (Consumer's) Cooperative Society existed. Now, we are not saying that this was anybody's fault. We are just pointing it out to prove something or other. Perhaps the Vancouver Cooperative can't afford to advertise, and because it can't advertise it can't get more capital so it could advertise. And perhaps the "certain well-known cooperator" is so busy with the problems of his own cooperative that he can't take time to find out about other cooperatives and get help from them. It is a complicated world!
Be that as it may, the Vancouver Centennial Committee met and representatives of several cooperatives (who may or may not have known that each other existed) talked over plans for a celebration in honor of one-hundred years of cooperative progress.
The Rochdale Pioneers began their famous store in Toad Lane just one hundred years ago. Progress since then has been such that now one out of every four men, women, and children in Great Britain get their rationed goods from the "Co-op." In this country the greatest expansion has been in the rural field where, in 1941-1942, the average farm marketed $293 worth of produce through cooperative associations.
TN towns on our own coast cooperative organizations have . helped many of us to the realization that we, ordinary folk that we are, can take a greater part in the economic life of our community and country in truly effective and democratic ways. This arousal of self-confidence and independence in ordinary people is perhaps the most important contribution of the cooperative movement in our present disjointed world.
And having gained a new view of life and a new position in society, what man will not want to celebrate—a bit of a "pat on the back" for himself and a "thank you" to all the others who toiled with him and made his progress possible! Cooperative centennial celebrations will do two things. First: meetings, parties, dinners where cooperators get together and review cooperative achievements will greatly increase their pride in their organization. Second: these events will attract the attention of outsiders who up till then had not known the cooperative existed or had not realized its significance. Wherever possible cooperatives and credit unions in the same area should form centennial committees to put on a joint affair in celebration of the advance of their common movement. If there is only one organization in the area they can make up in enthusiasm for what they lack in numbers._
Geo. Coppin New Organizer For Shore Workers' Union
Appointment of George Copping as organizer for the Fish Cannery, Reduction Plant and Allied Workers' Union has been announced by General Secretary Alex Gordon.
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by Coppin will be the organization of seasonal women workers in the shore section of the fishing industry.
Coppin was elected second vice-president of the Fish Cannery Reduction Plant and Allied Workers at the annual conven- Geo. Coppin tion early this spring in recognition of his work for the organization. He has been directly employed in the fishing industry for the past nineteen years and as a result is well acquainted With all phases of the work. He is also a delegate to the Vancouver and New Westminster District Trades and Labor Council.
Protracted negotiations have made it impossible for General Secretary Alex Gordon to attend to many existing organizational problems, but it is expected that he will visit Prince Rupert about the middle of September.
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U.S. Co-op Celebrates In Big Way — Buys Town
Midland Cooperative Wholesale, distributor of groceries, farm equipment, machinery, petroleum products, fertilizer, and feed to 298 member retail co-ops in Minnesota and Wisconsin, last week took the ultimate step in consumer cooperation, celebrating the centennial of the Rochdale plan, under which groups organize for the purpose of cooperative buying and selling and sharing savings.
Midland's historic move was the purchase — lock, stock and barrel — of the sleepy little unincorporated village of Burkhardt, Wis. (pop. 53), on the Willow River 35 miles east of Midland's headquarters in Minneapolis. There it plans, in time, to establish a model cooperative community.
This program Is the culmination of 18 years of growth, which this year is expected to push Midland's sales over the $12,000,000 mark, one-third more than in 1943, and more than twice its volume in 1941.
At Burkhardt it will start other business services needed by the community — all on a cooperative basis. The 140 acres of farm land which went with the $29,500 deal ($6,000 for a badly needed feed mill and $23,500 for the rest of the town), will be used as a trial and proving grounds for fertilizer, seed and farm machinery, much of it produced in other plants in which Midland hokls an interest.
The 18-room mansion of the village's late founder will be used as a managers' and employees' training school; the picturesque wooded lawn and the river and lake nearby will be the scene of Cooperative conferences and outings.
WHAT IT COST.
In all, nine residences, a couple of two-story store buildings and assorted smaller structures, besides the mill, were included in the deal made with the nine daughters and one son of the village's founder, German-born Christian Burkhardt.
Not included were the church, parsonage, and a tavern. The Burkhardt family also retained a power plant further down the Willow River, which supplies seven surrounding communities with electricity.
The Burkhardt deal had its genesis a year ago when Midland, feeling the pinch of the tightening feed situation, bought the old Burkhardt flour mill in which to manufacture its own feed. Some 15 workers were recruited from the village and surrounding area.
The feed demand grew, but putting the mill on a two- or three-shift basis required additional workers. There was no place to house them in the village. Solu-
FRESH FISH
By BOB WULFF Manager, Fresh Fish Section, Vancouver Fishermen's Co-op
At our United Fishermen's Co-op meeting a week ago Saturday an extraordinary resolution was passed authorizing a $75,000 loan from Co-op members. The bond forms are now being printed and will be ready in a few days. The bonds will bear interest at the rate of 3 per cent and interest will be paid yearly. Starting in 1947, 1/10 of the bonds will be redeemed annually.
As we must have our liver operation moved by the end of the year it is up to the members to get their bonds as soon as possible to avoid more delay than necessary, as the time left will be crowded into getting the building erected and getting our plant equipment moved.
The bonds are in denominations of $50.00 and $100.00, so call, into the office and get yours or send the cash or cheque by mail and your bond will be forwarded.
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tion was found in buying the whole community.
Purchase of Burkhardt is only one in a series of giant strides Midland Co-op has taken in the past two years to control its sources of supply for the products sold to city and farmer members of the retail co-ops which own it. REPAID GAINS.
This year's expected gross business of $12,000,000 compares with $9,004,955 last year, $6,959,509 in 1942. And for all its expansion, the co-op netted $362,996 in 1943, paid patronage refunds of $273,353, while in 1942 its net was $149,503 with patronage refunds of $122,645.
Started in 1927 with 37 consumer co-operatives as members — most of them in the petroleum business — Midland grew steadily for a decade.' Its sales passed the million-dollar mark in 1933, the $3,000,000 level in 1936. That year it opened a warehouse and office in Milwaukee.
Early in 1943 it began acquiring production facilities in a program which it expects eventually will supply the major portion of the needs of its members.
First step was purchase of a small oil refinery at Cushing, Okla. Then it joined four other mid-western wholesale co-ops in organizing the National Cooperative. Refinery Assn. to buy and operate a $5,000,000 refinery at McPherson, Kan. Included were a 229-mile pipeline to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and a pipeline terminal there.
Midland put $25,000 capital into National Co-operatives, Inc., group buying agency for U.S. wholesale co-ops, to enable that organization to buy a milking machine factory, a chemical plant, and a shingle mill.
MACHINERY INTERESTS.
It invested $10,000 to qualify as a member of the National Farm Machinery Cooperative, Inc., and later added $25,000 to make possible acquisition of the Ohio Cultivator Co.
This year its major acquisitions have been a new warehouse in Minneapolis costing $190,000, and Burkhardt village.
To finance its 1943 expansion, Midland issued around $500,000 in preferred stock and subordinated debenture notes. Another $500,000 was raised through mortgages.
Some $6,000,000 of its 1943 gross of $9,000,000 was in sales of oils, gasoline, and grease. (Former customers of the two refineries are being served until the war emergency ends, so not all these sales were to member co-ops.) Groceries accounted for another $590,000, feed and flour for $568,000. The remainder embraced a wide assortment: tires and tubes, auto accessoriss, fly spray, paint, coal, hardware, electrical supplies. — Business Week.
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What does good water mean to you? The recent government laboratory test indicates that the water from our artesian well which suppiies the Sointula oil station is entirely free from all impurities. Drop in at Sointula and fill your tank with water that is REALLY PURE.
And don't forget that your dollars go further when you make your purchases at a ' "Co-op."
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