The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-02-26
CAPITALIST COOPERATION
By Vim. Bouck


daythe bringing about of industrial democracy to speak
by volunteer arrangement where those commodities we raise
and SELL those necessary supplies that others produce which
buy shall be sold bought collectively each tor all and
all for EACH at no PROFIT for anybody only COSI
shall be conseredand actual of transfer and Produc-
ton shall considered And goes father and by inference
cooperation that when into such arrange
with fellow that in everyday life we do the
samegve take profits and cooperate with them IN Po-
ca and we'll all others of the and social tunc-
ton of life.
Now let us bear in mind that the money and credit func
ton of country and indeed the world under the control
of proeers and pofeers they areand not only pro-
hteers the ordinary but when financial bucca-
neers it would in wise be exaggeraton
transportation is the
The distribution systems are the same.
Now cooperate
They tell us to start that we must consider the profit sys
tenn indeed take profit and pay dividends stockhod
Cooperation antproh its thesis and working out
Its human brotherhood exemplihed.
Now when into plan built under the capitalist
dea-a plan ourselves money and usher little spot
of brotherhood it work out in one of two ways.
First, pure capitalism, as the following:
We a dairy association We sign up in county
1000 dairy farmers We charge them dollars for every
We that working capital Say we have ten
thousand signed upthats hundred thousand dollars
Then must build condenser and issue stock
company Say stock is dollars per share We issue ten
thousand such sharesone million dollars We build great
condensing plant We can milk We make powdered milk.
We manufacture everything that of milk. We must
find sale for product
We have first had to take in several bankers float
fiscal agents
They tell us that in order to establish market for new
product will take least 100000 So issue bonds for
that amount which ultimately have to be doubled We pay
big interest. We employ VERY HIGHLY PAID statesmen,
and pay manager huge for salary When some
protest and that's cooperation banker friends and
clever politician who always hand and have few
and are ELECTED TO OFFICE ALWAYS because we
tell the honest farmers that they the that PUT
IL OVER. Well when protest and they get up in a big
meeting our unsophcated farmers and make great plea
eo If
and unframed farmers the farmers always fall for it and
elect them and the surbers who raised the fuss are dscre
ed and turned down.
Well it contnues-vve a purely and wholly profit
concern We must do business business is done, they
tell u.s. SO of course follow custom
Now, fellow anayze the above and of every
cooperative in America today-and you will have
short story of the for failure almost every time and in
every case. ITS NOT COOPERATION, ITS CAPITALIST
PROFIT BUSINESS CAMOUFLAGED as cooperation, and
1t tails the end and farmers say they robbed
fully IN the and become and and say
there IS no hope, and lay down and quit all efforts
Yet there is another course some take.
They try to be real cooperators turn down the banker
and pro6ttakinq methods
Their shorter than the Others as thew are
date put out OF business by banking and other credit
cern and not only that but told their friends
the bankers and papers that this boshevk crazy concern
that but crazy would try promote and surely
no intelligent farmer would help promote So its course is
short and gets where Its theory being correct and ano-
ht cannot live under profit SYSTEM where the promoters
themselves believe in taking profits they can get it.
Some who enter cooperative concerns do Because thew
want to place themselves in the other fellows shoes and steal
from them as they have stolen from through profit
and an honest cooperation refuses by its very psychology
be used tor such purposes and dies the death as it should
Look at some socaed profit cooperative concerns and
where they lead to-
axe tor instance: cooperative banks
hey operated exactly other banks in this country
and that they take all the interest thew can squeeze ont f
he patrons tor their promoters who labor men, Thew
loan four million dollars time to the c. NJ railwav-tbe
watered stock " ~ P ~
Cn>d 20 YOU HEAR THOSE WORKING MEN BANKERS
~ IN OOI AGAINST THIS INJUSTICE TO THE PUB
6lG AND ESPECIALLY FARMERS IN THE INCREASED
KA1ES CAUSED THEREBY AND ROBBERY AND PHI T.
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