Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-04-18
ORGANIZED LABOR
AND TRUCK SALES
PRESIDENT OF ILLINOIS Fedora
TION OF LABOR DISCUSSES co
OPERATIVE MARKETING FROM
ORGANIZED LABOR'S VIEWPOINT.
BOTH ENDS AFFECTED
PRODUCER AND CONSUMER ARE
BOTH AFFECTED BY COOPEEAT.
I'VE MARKETING. lie TELLS Ma
FIONA LCONFERENCE.
By associated PrcSsl.

Chicago. Ill. April cooperative
marketing from organized lahor's point
of view. not only affects the producer
but the consumer a. well. said John III.
Walker. president Of the Illinois FEEDER
alton Of Labor. in an address here TO-DAY
before the Second National Conference
ON Marketing and Farm Credits meet
ing in joint session with the Western
Economics Society. Mr.. Walker contin
ucd:
And while there is no intent on the
part of either the producer or consumer
To do any injustice To dic middle men,
manufacturers. wholesale men. comma.
sion men and iobhcrs. tran, portation ~
terminal corporations. still. a. compared
with The present situation. III we provide
for only allowing these men and ih>ti
tutions what they are Justly entitled
Ia, what their labor service 10 the con
sumner and producer is actually worth-
and that H. all they are entitled to-thcir
income - going to bc affected adversely
even more seriously than the producers
and consumers income IL increased. For
cooperative marketing. if proyi led for
AMI established. cannot help hu, mean
the establishment of Wholesale and mann
featuring departments. ~ well ~ 4 com
.snmcrS apartment. And with the powers
Of all three Of these associations used
as intclligcntly and effectively ~ possi-
bic To prevent themselves from being cx-
plotted uniusily from any other source
or agency. thai j. what the result will
be. y,18
Organized labor is in favor of copperat-
i've marketing by The producers because
hat means eliminating ahc uncertainty
Of selling their product aud the establish.
ing of "a reasonable and uniform price for
that product. In the very nature of things
when a price il established by that pro.
cess b, the producers fthc actual work
ers themsclvcsl. the relationship If the
real value Of the cost If production will
he u factor to establishing that price. ra-
Their than how much can we gouee osIt Of
il rs az present. Organized labor. however
goes farther than this. We believe that
in order to assure no one being done m
injustice. guaranteeing the impoSsibility
Of any one being taken advantage of
that the consumers should he part Of
that cooperative marketing association
We believe this is perfectly reasonable.
and logical because every producer l. IN
addition Il consumer. In fact. zach pro
Queer Is generally restricted Ia 4 very
few articles AZ producers. while the same
individuals are all Consumers in u much
greater degree: and if the producers as
well ~ the consumers are all i'm one as
ISOLATION. they would he much more apt
to fix Just rates. In fact self interest
will moi permit Of their allowing an IN
reasonable price 80 he fixed for any par
ticulal. phase Of the whole transaction.
As il is tcday. the producers where
~unorganizcd they being compelled 20 sell
their products to the wholesale BUYERS
and commissions men nj whatever prices
the middle mel may decide upon They
are also compelled 10 submit Ia extor
tionatc freight, transfer aud storage
rates. AMI Ia unreasonable conditions set
arbitrarily nv the concerns standing he
tween them and the consumers. There
are NJ least q dozen times the number
~ men employed in acting a. mediums
of exchange that would h. employed do
ing the same work under a proper SvS
tenn. and where these concerns are thor
ouehlv organized they add 10 the inius-
tHe II the situation by fixing rates 80
10 the producer. and 80 high for the
consumer that each one of these dozen
are getting much mere apiece than what
the one individual necessary to do tho
work undr n proper system would expect
or receive. even while getting paid every
Dcnnv that he was entitled 10.
Of course the organized labor move
mcnt Of America. like every other hum
Institution. il moved hv more sclf-in
tcrcst than pEilanthropic or altitruisiic