Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-09
DISCOVERED:
! SURE CURE
FOR STRIKES
lCo-operallye NeNs ssryleel


The workers are weary # listening
. al the patent panaeeas that have
been imposed upon them As eareaIis
Tor strikes. Everything from GEM
pany unions 70 profit sharing has
been PANIED oF b wily employers n
ortier 10 nail men 20 their Jobs and
hegtie them 50 that they VII have
10 possible means OF resisting ez-
ploitation. The clever [. s. Steel
Corporation and other h.g business
enterprises sell their stock Il en-
ployes on the inSsallment plan. With
The understanding thai they are not
q quit their jobs while buying the
stock. OF course these workers 30
not control the business; they mere
y Own enc OF Two per cent Of the
total stock Indeed. they are often
give Hpreferred stock with no voting
power at all.
But there IS a sure cure for strikes
which European workers are discover
ing IN increasing numbers. There Is
but one luStifiable reason for strikes;
To compel employers to grant decent
wages, hours. and conditions of labor.
Men do not strike and subject their
families TO deprivation without good
cause. The strike is the last resort,
used only after all negotiations have
failed. Ii Is necessary because enl-
ployers are obdurate, selfish, or stub
born
Suppose you had an employer who
never kept a cent for himself, but
turned over TO you the entire pro-
ceeds of the business An employer
who let YOU fix your own hours and
conditions of labor, whose sole inter
est was 10 serve your interest," You
would never strike, would YOU
Hundreds of thousands of workers
in Europe have found just such EN-
ployers-in their own cooperative
factories, mines, and mills. Co-opera-
tive shoe factories, printing plants,
cotton and linen mills, furniture fac
tories and machine shops are IN
ereasing with amazing rapidity. The
Belgian co-operators have just voted
a large loan to aid the French miners
in establishing their big cooperative
coal mine The British, Dutch, and
German cooperative building guilds,
building trades workers, have revolu-
owned and operated solely by the
tionized home building, and brought
down the cost of all other constrae-
ton work. Even in America where
cooperation has not yet found fair
start, the glove workers, the cigar
makers, the printers, the building
craftsmen, and host of other work.
ers have launched thriving co-opera-
tive enterprises.
Theer are no strikes in these CO.
operative industries because the work
ers are their own employers. Instead
of being hired by capital, they make
capital work for them, pay it the
market wage ca to &c interest) and
they secure efficient management and
technical direction without the pay
ment of huge salaries.
Strikes can be cured once and for
all by productive cooperation. The
All American Cooperative Commits
sion of Cleveland is now aiding a
number of groups of workers to found
their own cooperative enterprises.
This Commission, founded by the or
ganized farmers, workers and CO.
operators, declare that unemployment
is unnecessary, that service, not greed
for profits should dominate industry,
and that true cooperation cannot fail
because it is based upon all that is
best and most enduring in humna ex-
perience. For productive co-opera-
ton is not concerned with profit and
loss alone. Its main aim is to build
up a society of fraternally minded
men who will work together unself-
ishly to build better society and a
just and stable industrial order.