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contact on Mr.. Nordby's part with the
educational activities of the cooper
atives all thru the states of Minnesota.
~ S. ALANNE, executive secretary
v of the Northern States League
land formerly educational director of
the Cooperative Central Exchange,
later of the Franklin Cooperative
Creamery Association is the best
known co-operator in the North Cen
trail territory. For five or six years
he has been constantly in touch with
various groups of cooperative So
cieties, as his work took him from one
central organization to another.
A w. WARINNER, educational
a. director Of the Central States
Cooperative League, has background
of cooperative experience as varied
and as interesting as that of Alanne.
He served as manager Of several
stores in Missouri. New Mexico and
Kansas; then went with the Central
States Cooperative Wholesale Society
in 1922; and when the Central States
League finally supplanted the Whole
slae, became the executive of that. He
will be one Of the most active men on
the floor Of the congress.
Albert S. Goss, president of the
Washington State Grange, is one of
the very soundest practical economists
in the agricultural field today. He adj
dresses the congress on Relation Of
Consumers Cooperation to Co-opera-
tive Marketing"
ESKEL ROM is (like all of the
~ men above mentioned), also a
member Of the board of directors of
the Cooperative League. But he is
probably better known to the man
ayers and directors Of hundred
stores in the North Central territory
as the hustling and relentless manager
Of the Cooperative Central (Whole-
sale) Exchange Of Superior, Wis.
Since Mr.. Rom took this manager
ship, annual sales have increased from
figure Of about 100000 to approx
imately $1,o00,0O0 in 1926 There is no
cooperative store in the northern
parts of those three OF four states
which has not heard often the voice
Of Mr.. Rom, urging them to loyalty
to the cooperative Wholesale. He
speaks at the congress on the sub
ject OF "Credit In the Cooperative
Stare Movement.
|NOLONEL SMITH W. BROOK
- HART, who addresses the dele
gates on Cooperative Banking, is well
known thrueut the country, thanks to
the press, as the militant senator from
Iowa. But land again we can blame
the capitalist press) he IS not so well
known as a thoro-going co.operator
and one who is not only one of the
|country's first experts on cooperative
banking, but equally we'll versed in the
history and theory Of other phases of
he cooperative movement,
THREE of the best known speakers
L from the labor field are John F.
McNamee, editor OF the magazine of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
ginemen and Firemen; A. A, Siegler
of the labor movement of Duluth, and
George Halonen, now educational
director of the Cooperative Central
Exchange of Wisconsin. These men
will take the lead in the session where
the delegates discuss "The Relation of
Consumers Cooperation to the Gen.
eral Labor Movement
IT v, NURMI and W. W. Regli are
LIZ two of the chief accountants for
consumers co-operatives. The former
has been head accountant and auditor
for the Central Exchange stores for
eight years, and he is in no small
measure responsible for the fact that
there are practically no failures among
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