Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01

! that the farmers are facing relative to
marketing their milk.
! The net result of the meeting was
| the appointment of a permanent COM
| naittee which will supervise the organ
ization of locals" in about a dozen
| places in Windham county and the
! signing up of about a score of the milk
| producers as members of the Windram
! county branch of the n. E. Milk Pro-
/ ducers' union. These men paid in
| one dollar each. thereby making them
| selves eligible to be present at and
participate in the general meeting to
| be held at Springfield, probably in
| February but possibly sooner, for the
purpose of effecting a permanent CEN
| trail organization, adopting constitu
| ton and bylaws and other methods
| of procedure.
| The permanent committee named at
| Saturdays meeting is made up of Will
| lis Covel1, Pomfret: c. B. Pomeroy,
| WilIimantic; c. W. Durfee, Putnam
! This committee will have in charge
| the work OF supervising the work of
! the local organizations at Willimantic,
Hampton, Putnam, Pomfret. East
| lage, Jewett City. South Windham,
| Plain1eld and Moosup. This work
will be undertaken at once.
Among those who signed up satur-
day were w. S. Brown, A. G. Botham,
| Avery, Chester E. May. Willis, Wal
ter E. Brown. William Jennings, John
Stromberg, George Kimball. Nelson
Richardson. This group own 215
cows. 1.Si 44ri
Mr.. Embree's Address.
In the course of his address Mr..
Embree, who is one of the most sue
cessful orgnizer Of farmers cooper
alive movements in the United States
said:
I'm this movement we are not ask
| ing you to do any thing new. Every
problem that we talk to you about
| long since has been solved. We simply
ask you to do as others are doing-or-
ganize for your own protection; act
as your own middlemen.
''The splendid results of careful or
ganization and pooling of interests is
indicated in the striking successes
achieved in many lines of endeavor
The only successful method is to fol-
low in the wake of big business, and
farming is one of the greatest bust
nesses The New England states
farmers are not organized. We hold
the balance of power and we should
organize. not to ask for anything but
what is right. fer when we do more
than that we shall go down. We
simply need organized protection to
secure our rights. We are produc-
ing milk at a loss. We must find the
way through, organization, co-opera-
tive buying and careful selling to
make the milk pay us a profit.
"The worst clash yet is due between
the milk distributors and the milk pro-
ducers. When 1t comes we want an
organization to meet it and to be able
to cope with the situation. This clash
may come at any time and we must
be ready"
Made No Rash Promises.
Mr.. Embree was particular to say
to his audience that he was careful
of the statements he was making rel--
alive to helping solve the milk pro-
ducers' problems. He made no rash
promises or spread-eagie statements.
but very clearly and forcibly directed
attention to the cooperative move
ment as the only sure way for the
farmers to assure themselves of
achieving the. ends at which they are
aiming.
Mr. Embree's talk included refer
ences to the establishment of local sta
tion buildings In different towns and
other phases of the cooperative work.
but was chiefly to arouse interest in