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PROGRESSIVE THOUGHT and DAWN of EQUITY. 7 IS THIS FOR YOU? LI1ERA11Y NOTICES. "Facts and Co-operator's Directory," is devoted to an impartial review of co-operative work in colonies or cities, both in this country and in Europe, together with plans of new societies, addresses of secretaries and organizers. Price fifteen cents. Address, Mrs.

Frances F. Alien, Pittsburg, Crawford Kansas. j3m tion. Their object is co-operative work and the issuing of Certificates of Deposit. Each is independent saye for mutual arrangements made with the other Branches, through the Central Office, for the good of all.

The Charter is the instrument which bestows the rights and privileges of The Labor Exchange Association upon each of the Branches it can be secured by an organization of L. E. members upon application at the Central Office and the payment of $2.50. Scrip or dne-bilis are checks without recording stubs and are used in making change where a check is presented and only a partial redemption in goods or services is required. Jates.

af JFatefie.s.t. An excellent location for the Co-operative School has been offered us in Texas, and it is probable that a school will be established there no matter how many may be started elsewhere. Any one interested in the school to the extent of desiring scholarships should apply at once to F. W. Cotton, Prog.

Thought Office, Olathe, Kaus. If you can't do much for your fellow creatures then do a little. If you can't organize a big L. E. Branch of several hundred members, at least become a member yourself.

If you can't afford to buy L. E. literature then remember that you can't afford to buy novels, daily papers or local gossip. If you think the E. doctrine isn't sound, hadn't you better study the subject a little bit so as to have some reason for your opinion If you have not thoroughly investigated the Labor Exchange then you don't know what it is and have no business to regard it as unimportant, If you have investigated it and know it to be a grand reform, then you are untrue to your own interests and negligent of your duty to your friends and humanity if you do not do something to advance the movement.

If you have no time for the Labor Exchange then you have no time for any reforms for this is the most important of all, you have no time to think of any special project, for the L.E. is the best project you can undertake, you have no time'even to earn a good living, for the L. E. teaches how you may soon earn a much better living with half the C. SOME ADVANTAGES OF THE LABOR EXCHANGE.

1. It leads poor men to form co-operative organizations and paves the way to the final abolishing of injurious competition. 2. It relieves men from the necessity of paying tribute to the money power hy enabling them to carry on exchanges without the use of money. 3.

It stimulates industry by employing the idle and by creating a demand for the material of production. 4. It keeps the profit of its enter prises iu the hands of those who furnish the labor and raw material, of turning it over to the capitalist who buys both at half price. 5. It Keeps the various Branches united in one general organization and pushes forward the work of organizing the nation and the world into a free union of producers who will possess their own capital and their own products.

6. It settles the question of 1 'overproduction" by giving the producers a full title to that which they produce enabling them to buy back the consumable products of their creation and to retain the uuconsumable as busi ness capital. 7. It interferes with no ideas of religion, government, education nor any other deeprooted conviction, but simply shows people how to better their circumstances by helping others to do the same. 8.

It attempts noarbitrary regulation of wages, follows custom in the matter of prices, puts power in the hands of the workers by enabling them to acquire and retain the means of production and settles moral problems by demonstrating, practically, that just dealing is the true road to success. THE ALTRUIST Is a monthly paper, partly In phonetic spelling, and devoted to common property, united labor, Community homes, and equal rights to all. 50 cents a year; specimen copy free. Address A. Longlky, Editor, 2 N.

Fourth St. Louis, Mo. THE UTOPIAN! FREE HOMES. Do you want a free home with the "Utopian Colony" In the state of Washington Just the place for eo-operative colonies. Transportation is cheap and natural resources ine.x-haustable, We have had enough of theory now let us do something practicable.

Hehd for THE UTOPIAN, a unique paper devoted to The Labor Exchange plan. 50 cts per year. It is nonpartisan and gets right at the root of our Industrial troubles. The remedy can br applied at once. The UTOPIAN Is the organ of The Labor Exchange in the Northwest and will keep you posted in all co-operative movements.

Wend for sample copies. The Utopian Pub. Sidney, Wash. A Life-Membership is $1.00 the World over without any dues. 43? Those who have not received their Membership Certificates TsLould let us know.

J6 The Organizer's Hand Book is the cheapest investment, and how is time, 25c each or 3 for 50c, newspaper friends should give the Hand Book as a premium. Send card lor our rates for clubbing. Get a charter by sending $2.50 to the Oeu'l Organizer, at Olathe, with a list of acknowledged members. The best place to get a practical knowledge is at the Progressive Thought Office. Intelligent persons can make rapid advancement at small cost in a week's time.

Write and enclose stamps for more information, if you can't come yourself. The quickest and cheapest way to get properly organized and started, is to send for a lecturer, cheap at any price. Only necessary charges made, and part of that can be taken out of the membership fees. Do not delay. Scores of good letters cannot be mentioned because of their length and the lack of help and space.

Write short and solid. It is discouraging to see many, who claim to be reformers, standing still and doing nothing practical but keep howling up the wrong stump and it's played out. It is encouraging to see that progressive thinkers are not satisfied with any kind of a trumped up claim, but continue to search further and deeper for facts, and such are the ones who are aiding and pushing the E. work because the more they understand its plans the better they are satisfied that this is the only real remedy for unjust conditions. Local organizers are wanted iu every county to put in one or two working branches, where they can be relied on to do honest and efficient work.

Who will be the first to apply from your locality and merit the prize. Two of the main features of the L. E. are, first, to produce wealth, and second, to use the checks for the convenient distribution of it. Where the wealth is already produced and money is lacking, there the checks should be used at once and the creation of more wealth will quickly follow and conditions rapidly improve.

Every reformer should have our 12 page circulars ready to send and hand out at every opportunity. They are full of valuable and instructive reading and we reduce the price far below the cost of publication, h'ent prepaid at 5c per dozen, and 30c a 1 00. The Labor Exchange has been planted in 15 states and territories in a very short time. Now let us hear who comes next. L.

E. DEFINITIONS. The Labor Exchange is a Beneficiary Association which organizes local Branches for co-operative production and exchange and keeps these Branches unified in a General Organization. The Labor Exchange check, otherwise known as the Certificate of Deposit, is a due-bill or portable credit accouut showing the value that a me'nber has deposited an L. E.

Branch. The check stub is a memorandum of the issue of a Labor Exchange check and indicates the proportional share of the permanent wealth or business capital which belongs to a depositor as shareholder. The Obligation is the written agreement which a member makes with The Labor Exchange to accept property or services for any or all value he deposits and not to demand legal tender in redemption of checks. The Certificate of Membership is the document which certifies that an individual has signed the Obligation, paid the membership fee, i a member in good standing and is entitled to the privileges and advantages of member-vship iu The Labor Exchange. The membership fee is the $1.00 which a person pays, upon becomiug member, for the knowledge he has gained, for the advantages he expects to receive through the spread of the movement and for the good he can do others by thus aiding the work of building up the Exchange.

The Geueral Organization is the Labor Exchange as a whole including all the the Branches it aims at general co-operation and the elevation of the entire human race. The Central Office is the place where the work of the General Organization is conducted. This work, at present, is maiuly the promulgation of the L.E. ideas and the organization of local Braauches. The Branches are the local organisations formed by L.

members and chartered by the General Organiza.