Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-21
MAKING A NEW
WORLD BY COOPER
ATIVE PRODUCTION
tBy ALBERT y. coYLE)
Executive Secretary, All American
Cooperative Commission, Editor,
locomotive Engineers journal.

Locomotive Engineers journal.
So much has been written In this
country about consumers co-opera.
tives that We are prone to overlook
the remarkable achievements Of work.
krs cooperative productive societies
both here and abroad. We are, OF
course, familiar with the success at
tanned by American farmers In co
operative production. The census oi
1920 shows that the products OF osel
one-half million farms valued abos'
one billion dollars are handled GO
operatively. Indeed. throughout tn
middle west, the most thriving forml
of cooperation are the producers
slaIries, creameries, cheese factories
elevators. ilnur mills, and meat pack
ing plants. While not discountint
the value of consumers cooperation
the farmer-pr producer has learned b,
years OF hard experience that 1T u
moro important for him to unite co
operatiyely TO get fair price for ths
products he has TO sell than II Is 4
effect a small saving in the goods ht
needs TO buy.
The workers of Europe are looking
more and more TO productive co-op'
GRAFTON as the basis for a just and
stable economic order. Decent met
are sick and tired of "A system II
which the sole motive for production
aud distribution Is greed for private
profits. They see all around them tho
social havoc wrought by running In
dustry ito make money" rather thar
TO serve the needs of their fellow
men. Even the dullest worker IL prod
ded out Of his indifference in times
of industrial depression, when he has
no work and his family has no breae
because the men who own the JOBS
close their factories until the need foi
goods Is so acute that society vii
again pay them the profits they de
mand.
These are the reasons why The
workers of Europe today are determ
med to build a new world In which
service and not greed Is the main
spring Of human action, In which gan
without labor shall no longer exist
This is the reason why American
workers are taking a new interest u
the possibilities Of cooperative pro
duction and are steadily increasing
| the number of successful producers
co-operatives. II Is the basis OF tn
Plumb Plan Of railway control es
noused by two and one-half millioi
American railroad employees. II Il
the essence Of the proposal OF th'
GOO, 900 United Mine Workers TO en'
anarchy in the coal industry foreye
by operating the mines Of the countr.
/ for service and not for profit. Tn
men who do the work of the worl'
are demanding not only a just wa1
and decent security Of employment
they are demanding that democrac,
+ be applied 10 industry as well as =
government, that they have a voice !
J the direction Of the enterprise i
which they have invested all that the
are and have--their labor and thei
! lives.
The supreme interest of men in li
IL not measured by what they con
sumo, but 10y what they produce. A
a consumer, man IL on a level WIT
All other forms of animal life. Lik
the pig at the trough, he can onl
consume so much and then ne
through. As producer, man exei
cises the highest talents intrusted
him By his Maker-the creative II
stinct, the desire to produce. This