The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-13

NHS SCTSR%i dAANCo COUuCCI LnGfu~
selves with the masses. Thru the
partaking Of their everyday strua-
giles, the co-operatives in practical
way show that they are not only
purely business establishments, but
that they are a part of the working
class movement against capitalism.
"This will give strength to the CO.
operatives. The masses not only
see a better Store, but they realize
thru practical experience that it is
one of their own weapons with
which to fight. And then the COOP
erative will not only live, but grow
in power and influence under all
conditions"
Eskel Rom, the director Of the al
ready mentioned wholesale society,
the Cooperative Central Exchange in
Superior, writes another article for
the Year Book:
Cures headaches, rheumatism, as
thma, consumption, tuberculosis,
hernia, scarlet fever, humps, piles,
housemaid's knee, and all other dis
eases known or unknown to the med
ical profession"
This patent medicine advertise
ment always occurs to me when /
hear some of our good co-operators
advance the theory that cooperation
is the "cure-alP' that will abolish all
the social diseases and ills of man.
kind and lead us to that promised
land, the cooperative commonwealth
ut is plainly evident that present
society is composed of two opposing
classes, namely the working class, and
the capitalist class, whose interests
are Numerically opposed to each
other. There is no compromising be-
tween them. There can be no friend
ship between them, nothing but con-
slant conflict In this class con-
fiict the cooperative movement is a
mighty weapon in the hands of the
workers. A very brief study of the
history of the cooperative movement
will soon disclose the fact that it's
during the struggles of the workers
on the industrial field that they have
organized cooperative enterprises.
'It is the cooperative enterprises
which have been born amidst the tur-
moil of laborers' struggles that mean
something in this great movement. 1t
is they who work increasingly for the
ultimate aim of the cooperative move
ment. 1t is they who are not salts
fled with more paltry dividends. They
are the builders of new system of
society,""
A contribution Of DR.. Warbasse, the
president of the American Co-operat-
i've League, is on the other hand, con-
ceived more in the spirit of the "pat-
ent medicine co-operator" According
to this, the entire distribution is and
then also the entire production will
gradually pass into the hands of the
organized consumers and all this thru
cooperative organization.
The secretary of the American Co
operative League, Mrs. Agnes War
bass, devotes an article investigating
the reason why the cooperative move
ment in Europe has developed better
than in America. She sees the cause
Of this in the fact already emphasized
by other authors, that in America the
dollar hunt masters the psychology Of
large sections of the working class
masses. They do not think Of making
their relations better; they are always
on the lookout to find better relations.
To the natural question how to make
these relations better, Mrs. Warbass
gives only very vague reply. She
cites as an example the success OF
the live young cooperative organiza-
tons of the northern states. They
have already told the secret of their
success in other places in the Year
Book.
The first Year Book of the North.