The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15

The executive board also adopted
q resolution urging the forthcoming
Canadian Trades and Labor congress
to adopt a cooperative program to
be worked out in harmony and CO.
operation with the Cooperative
Union.
Cooperative Tailors Succeed in
Cleveland
Starting less than two years ago
with $500 in cash, the Cleveland Co
operative Tailors have successfully
overcome the many obstacles which
ABOUND IN any new cooperative field,
and have just announced a campaign
to provide hand tailored suits to the
public at price never before touched
by the private-profit tailors.
Like many other cooperative en-
terprises, the Cleveland Cooperative
Iallors grew out of a struggle of
the local Talors' Union with the
employers to maintain decent hours
of labor and living wage. 1t was
incorporated under the laws of
Ohio in November, 1920. with cap
ital of $4,000 divided into $lO
shares. The first six months it's
business reached $4,000. Although
SH~ SA'N4iS lIuuoIIldl Impression
temporarily held back its develop
ment, 1t Is now furnishing not only
suits, but shirts, collars, socks and
other articles of apparel. all union
made, at an appreciably lower price
than they can be purchased in pri-
vate stores.
Cooperative tailoring is almost
untrled IN this country, but has long
been established successfully in Rus.
sla and Germany, where some of the
largest establishments are conducted
entirely on the cooperative basis.
orlng shop was successfully founded
in Rochester, and more recently a
similar business was organized by
members of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers of America. The Cleve-
land Cooperative Tailors, however,
is the first of its kind in the coun-
try to be founded on the Rochdale
plan, whereby earnings are shared
with customers in proportion to the
amount of their purchases, the same
rate being paid to all, whether they
are shareholders in the enterprise
or not.
Groceries, meat, milk, bread, and
clothes-these are the prime neces-
sites of life which cooperation can
supply more successfully than can
private profit concerns because it's
aim is quality and service for the
consumer rather than the biggest
possible profits for the merchant.
Irish Government Aids Cooperation
The Irish Provisional government
has just granted $1,000 ($22,500) to
the Irish Agricultural Organization
Society for cooperative education
and research. The Agricultural Or
ganization Society is the Irish farm
ers' cooperative association founded
by Sir Horace Plunkett twenty years
ago. 1t now has 10000 farmer
members operating hundreds of CO.
operative creameries, stores, fac
tories, egg markets, and other enter
prises. The generous grant from
the new Irish government is a
recognition of the valuable services
being rendered by the society, as
we'll as a tribute to the Importance
of cooperation in the development
of the new Irish state.
Cooperative Cafeterias Differ
From opposite sides of the CONT
nent, the All-American Cooperative
Commission reports the founding of
two fundamentally different kinds of
cooperative" cafeterias-one hon
estly organized in Alexandria. Vo.,
and the other a simon-pure fake in
Los Angeles. The square cooper
alive cafeteria has been founded by
the workers in Alexandria, which is
just across the Potomac from Wash
ington, d. c.. in order to provide
themselves with noontime meals at
cost The cafeteria is operated
strictly on the Rochdale plan, re-
batting to the customers any savings
made. 1t is in competent hands. and
is sponsored by a local lodge of the
International Association of Ma
chinists.
Out in Los Angeles the California