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Thursday, June 23, 1921 The Kansas Leader, Salina, Kansas Page 4 The work of the Public Ownership League steadily increases from month to month. Last month was the biggest and busiest up to date. They handled 531 inquiries he iKattsas Waiter "The Farmers Paper" the largest number ever received up to date. 1 he inquiries received and answered were as follows Public Ownership General 36 Nationalization of Mines 17 State Owned Banks 121 Municipal Ownership General 9 Municipal Street Railways 11 Municipal Ice Plants 1 Municipal Gas Plants 12 Municipal Water Works 2 Public Ownership League and Literature 81 I Water Ways 1 Public Ownership Conference 11 I Initiative and Referendum 1 Miscellaneous Inquiries 92 League Memberships and Contributions 66 'Proportional Representation 2 Proceedings of Public Ownership Conference 6 tive enterprises, there is nothing magical about them. Able management, honest goods, and sales at reasonable prices with dividends rebates to members, are the sound co-operative principles that apply equally to the success of co-operative stores or lumberyards.

Co-operation puts an end to extortionate profits, and enables- the people to pay the legitimate profits in the lumber business to themselves. State Legislatures Consider Co-operative Banking Law The model Co-operative Banking Bill drafted by the All American Co-operative Commission has already been introduced in a number of state legislatures now in session. Legislative representatives of organized labor and of organized farmers are effectively urging its enactment. The Bill makes it safe and easy for the workers to mobilize their credit resources in banks co-operatively controlled. Copies of this model bill can be obtained from the headquarters of the Co-operative Commission, Bliss Building, Washington, D.

C. If War Between Nations is Hell, What is It Between Competing Businesses? War is armed international competition. Its usual purpose is to seize the trade and business and natural resources which your rival claims or possesses. During the recent World War, the riches and prosperity accumulated Published every week at 117 South Fifth Street, Salina, Kansas. Owned by The Kansas Leader Publishing Company, an organization whose entire capital stock is owned by farmers.

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St. Salina, Kansas. Public Utilities 2 Public Ownership News Letter 17 Municipal Electric Light Plant 27 Public Ownership of Railroads 16 CO-OPERATIVE NEWS SERVICE TOTAL i 531 One by one the organiaztions of labor, realizing that the great struggle for industrial democracy in North Dakota is the fight of all workers, whether on the farm or in the industries, are endorsing and investing in the bonds of the State of North Dakota. Here are the resolutions adopted by Local Union No. 401 of the Steam and Operating Engineers "Resolved, that Local 401 1.

U. of S. O. E. do hereby go on record as heartily supporting North Dakota in her great and noble fight, and be it further, "Resolved, that this Local instruct its treasurer to sell their Liberty Bonds in the sum of $1,200 and War Savings Stamps in the sum of $498 for the highest price obtainable, and that he re-invest the receipts of same in 6 per cent North Dakota Mill and Elevator Bonds." by two centuries of peaceful effort were wiped out at the rate of forty billion dollars a year.

Those of us who got more than a smell of powder over in Europe are agreed that was is hell, and, a lot of it. If civiliaztion is not to exhaust its wealth, drain its blood, and pitch headlong into an abyss of anarchy, we who suffer the costs of war must replace international conflict with international cooperation in order to end this, cut-throat competition between the great powers. Our whole economic system to-day is organized on a war basis. Business is a perpetual battle between competing rivals. Industry is divided into two hostile camps, capital and labor.

Sometimes, as in England to-day, thin disguises as swept aside, and the contending parties face each other for a finish fight. There are many employers and employes who cherish a kindly feeling towards, each other, just as there were many American soldiers who formed warm friendships with individual Germans. But underneath this veneer jof amiability there lurks an "inescapable conflict," between the interests of the two parties. If labor is stronger, then wages are higher and profits lower. If the employer is stronger, then profits take the cream, and wages are only high enough to keep the workers fed and fit to work.

Whoever wins, it is war, war to the end. It leaves it wreckage of broken, starved, and embittered victims. It, too, is hell, even though its ghastly results are not usually displayed on the front pages of the The Co-operative News Service instituted by the all American Co-operative Commission some weeks ago is now being used by 180 leading farm, labor, and liberal papers throughout the country, with over 2,000,000 readers. The Co-operative Movement is big news to-day to millions of American farmers and workers and the consuming public who are turning to it to save themselves from the exploitation of profiteers and monopoly control over the necessities of life. This is the only regular Co-operative News Service in the United States.

Their connections with the organized farmer and organized labor, and their direction of the national drive for direct trading between producers and consumers, make it possible for them to give us the first break on important news stories covering the progress of the co-operative movement in this country as well as in Europe and Asia. We. have arraigned with them to furnish us with their weekly news service and they will be glad to answer any inquiries on co-operation and direct trading that our readers address to them. The All American Co-operative Commission is headed by among the most capable and progressive men in the United States and we feel that great good is bound to come from this organization, for the benefit of our readers who might wish to know as to who the heads of this movement are we are giving their names as follows Pino rVvivilKr PicJlflTif Tim for? Formora rf A mpripfi CO-OPERATIVE NEWS SERVIC British Leaders Depend on Co-operative Bank in Strike Crisis The Daily Herald, the great London labor newspaper, announces the removal of its bank account from a capitalist bank to the Co-operative Wholesale Society' Bank. The Big British labor unions have also placed their ftvnAs in Vip Cn-nnerative Societv Bank, inere is a I newspapers reason.

Just as international co-operation is the sole remedy When the big British railway strike of 1919 broke, for war, so co-operation is the only path to industrial the capitalist banks refused to let the labor unions with-! peace and prosperity. And just as co-operation in inter-draw their funds for strike purposes. They simply refused national affairs will be impossible until the rich markets to honor the checks of the unions. The Co-operative So-land natural resources of the world are distributed equit- cietv's Bank came to the rescue over night. It extended ably among the nations or tne eartn according to men need, so in business and industry co-operation is inherent- credit to the labor unions, and the co-operators' printing plant hurriedly ran off special vouchers or checks which ly impossible until greed for profits is supplanted by the the unions used until the strike was satisfactorily settled, worthier incentive ot service to numaniuna.

No matter what strike emergency the next week may Competition is wasteful and extravagant. The best bring about in Britain, the labor unions know that their strength and time and wealth is squandered in fighting funds are safe in the Co-operative Society's Bank, and one's competitor. Competition uses the energies of so-that it will stand behind them to the limit. The Co-opera- ciety in rival efforts to destory one another. Co-operation tive Wholesale Society's Bank is one of the strongest fi- unites these energies in constructive endeavor for the com-nancial institutions in England.

It did a business of mon progress. Under competition a few nations and m- Vice Presidents L. E. Sheppard, President Order of Railway Conductors; Herbert F. Baker, President Farmers National Council; Wm.

H. Johnston, President International Association of Machinists; J. W. Kline, General President Intl. Brotherhood Blacksmith, Drop Forgers and Helpers of America; C.

H. Gustafson, President U. S. Grain Growers, Inc. General Manager George P.

Hampton, Managing Director, Farmers National Council. Treasurer Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief Engineer Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Acting Secretary Albert F. Coyle.

Director of Publicity and Legislation Benjamin C. Marsh, Executive Secretary People Reconstruction League. Executive Secretary on Banking and Credit rederic C. Howe Si 4 Executive Secretary W)mittee on Direct Trading C. R.

Cottrell. Executive Board The above officers and Wm. Bouck, Master Washington State Grange; Sidney Hillmah, President Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; Grant Slocum, President National Federation of Gleaners: Bert M. Jewell, President Railway Employers' Department, American Federation of Labor; J. Weller Long, Secretary United Farmers of America R.

W. H. Stone, President North Carolina Farmers' Union. Any one whd has been following the -progressive movements of the United States will recognize in the above, many very familiar and honored men, and we feel that the arrangements just made to secure their news service will be an added value to the Kansas Leader. M.

15. AMOS. 500 000 000 in 1920, numbering among its customers dividuals become ncn ana powenui, wnue uie hux Under cb-ooeration prosperity becomes the posses- Miiii T.rH fif Tin inns, ueiievmeiu suticuco, nuiaciii ici. co-operative organizations. sion of all who are willing to produce goods or render services for the satisfaction of the world's needs.

The ul-I timate goal of competition is a desolation of destruction a hell. The ultimate goal ot co-operation is tne co-operative commonwealth of the world. "We are the best producers in the world, but our sales system is very bad indeed. We must study every- thine whip im mnes uou nruuuceiuii aiiu uiic. uci- retary of Agriculture Henry C.

Wallace. Why not try co-operation, Brother Wallace. Put Your Ford in a Co-operative Garage. The farmers and workers in the two California cities of Modesto and Morganhill have established their own co-operative garages, and report a flourishing business. In San Jose, California, the bosses refused to discuss the question of wages with the automobile mechanics, who accordingly set up a garage of their own, charging lower prices than the bosses for expert work, and dividing the prof it among themselves.

Danish Co-operators Do A Huge Business The Co-operative Wholesale Society of Denmark reports a business of $55,000,000 in a country only a little larger than the state of Maryland. The Society owns a number of factories, whose products for the year totalled $11,000,000, or $3,000,000 more than the production for 1919. An idea of the rapid growth of co-operation in Europe since the war may be gained from the fact that the Danish co-operators did 50 per cent more business this year than last. The net surplus of the Danish Co-opera "The doors are closed" is the headline in a Salina paper speaking of the offices of the American Defense; League situated in the city hall of Salina, this is not to be wondered at when we take into consideration the old but true saying of Abraham Lincoln that "you can fool all the people part of the time and part of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all the It appears that the Defense League in organizing to fight the, League program which in substance it was fighting whenj it presumed to fight the Nonpartisan League leaders in; their work, could not fool a sufficient number, of people all the time to get sufficient funds with which to continue business operations, it appears that money came fast for. awhile as Langer is reported, it is said "on good author-1 ity," to have gotten $4,000 for his four or five weeks serv-, A TTolo 5S2 OHO fnr his time.

tive Wholesale now reaches $1,340,000. A Twpntv Dollar DroD in the Lumber Market A representative from the Co-operative Lumber of South St. Paul recently visited the neighboring Get Under a Co-operative Hat The United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers' Union co-operative hat factory. Three thousand members of the Union have subscribed $100,000 to finance the enterprise. Why not put a co-operative hat on the peak of your cranium? Co-operation in Mexico We used to believe from the newspaper accounts that Mexico was a land of hopeless laziness, filth, and ignorance, which could only be remedied when a few hundred thousand American soldiers crossed the border to bayonet the peon into intelligence and action.

The Pan American Labor Conference held a few months ago in Mexico City was a revelation to many American labor leaders. President Gompers of the A. F. of President Wm. H.

Johnston of the Machinists, John Lord of the United Mine Workers, and others who were present at this Congress, tell us that organized labor in Mexico is in some respects far in advance of the workers in this country. It owns its own co-operative newspapers, chief of which is the influential daily, La Lucha. It has its own Institute of Social Science, which receives support from the Government, yet is free to teach the truth about industrial economics and sociology to its 1,200 pupils. In Yucatan the Government supported the workers in organizing SO co-operative stores, of which nearly every male inhabitant in the Province became a member. And instead of allowing private profiteers to corner the principal industry, hemp, the co-operators formed a Hemp Sales Corporation to pool their product and market it collectively.

A simliar remarkable co-operative development has occurred in other provinces. Verily, all is not dirt, disorder, and disease in Mexico! corner of Wisconsin to take a lew oraers ior mmuei. When the local lumber dealers learned of his arrival, they kept the telephone wires hot and used up a lot of good crasnlinp nntifvinp- farmers that prices on lumber had sud denly dropped $20 per thousand feet. But the. prices of When a man is working for money instead of principal he will naturally stop working when the money stops coming in.

The League organizers and hundreds of farmers are working for principal, money consideration: is -not the driving; force, therefore they are not to be found laying down or sleeping at their post. THE LEAGUE PROGRAM WILL WIN and then many of those who fought the farmers in their effort will thank them for the better conditions brought about by that program. M. L. AMOS.

When asked as to the fundamental aim and purpose in the management of the state railways of Australia the ministers of the Austrian railway replied: TO SECURE THE BEST POSSIBLE SERVICE AT REASONABLE COST When asked as to the fundamental aim and purpose of the private railway managements of America the president of one of the greatest railway systems of America re-S "TO GET TRAFFIC AT RATES THAT WILL PAY SOMETHING." Profits. the Co-operative Lumber Excnange were even oeuw met figures, so the lumber men made a flat offer to sell shingles and bam boards lower than the best price the Co-operative Lumber Exchange could quote. One lumber man called up his customers three times in the same day to tell them that he had received telegrams advising him of sudden drops in the price of shingles. Funny how the bottom fell out of the lumber in a few hours As the Wall Street Journal warns us, "Coroperation is a signal failure for the profiteers. v2 Co-operative lumber yards have proved splendid successes in many northwestern cities.

Like other co-opera-.