Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-07-16
THOUSANDS AT
GLENWOOD MEET
Fifteenth Anniversary of the Cooper.
ative Oil Movement is Oh.
served Appropriately.


eratives in Central and Southern Min
nesota, representatives of cooperative
associations from every part of the
United States and from Canadian and
Puerto Rican co-ops gathered at Glen
wood July for the 18th anniver-
sary of the cooperative oil movement
and the national celebration of Inter-
national Cooperative day.
Festooned coop oil trucks which
last year delivered more gas and oil
than any private profit company in
rural Minnesota led a long coopera-
tive parade. Members of the orig
inal board of directors of the first
American gas and oil coop, opened in
Cottonwood fifteen years ago, de-
scribed scenes from it's early history.
Other speakers told how, spreading
fan-like from Cottonwood, 1000 retail
gas and oil co-ops have created a
100000 cooperative industry.
Leaders of cooperative organiza-
tions throughout the country rededi-
Gated the movement to "ecopomic
emancipation and quoted the Inter
national Declaration of Co peration
as the basis for the extension of
democratic principles into business
and industry.
Good Speakers on Program.
DR.. j. P. Warbasse, president of
The Cooperative League of the U. S.
A, summarized the history of the
International Cooperative Alliance
and the aims and purposes of the
International Cooperative movement
whose members in 43 countries have
become a peaceful League of Peo-
PIES" Describing cooperative deveI-
opments in the United States were 1.
H. Hull, president of National Coop
eratives, Inc; Joseph Gilbert, eGitor
of the Midland Cooperator; James r.
Moore, Ohio Farm Bureau Cooperative
Association and E. G. Cort, manager
of Midland Cooperative Wholesale.
Significant events in the history of
the cooperative movement, including
the founding of the Rochdale Society
and the Cottonwood Oil Cooperative,
were dramatized with the aid of a
loud speaker system for the thousands
who had gathered for the celebration.
Make Plans for Expansion.
Preceding the celebration, the
boards of directors of the Cooperative
League of the U. S. A. and National
Cooperatives, Inc, and the Educa-
tional committee of the League spent
several days whipping into shape
plans for further expansion of the
Consumers Cooperative movement in
the United States. Outstanding was
the decision of National Cooperatives
purchasing federation of II coopera-
tive wholesale associations) to set up
a central office in Chicago with a
manager in charge of the combined
purchasing of the cooperatives. The
Cooperative League board moved to-
ward unification of the cooperative
movement in America by the adoption
of resolutions advocating changes in
the Constitution of the Cooperative
League which will meet existing
problems and relations, and approving
the recommendation of the coordinat-
ing committees that a permanent
joint committee of seven members be
created to coordinate activities of the
Cooperative League and National Co
operatives, Inc. The League board
made extensive plans for the Tenth
Biennial Congress- of tho Tooo,,o
which will be held at Columbus,
Ohio, October s, and 10.
Midland Cooperative Wholesale of
Minneapolis. the first cooperative gas
and oil wholesale in the United States,
acted as host to members of the CO.
operatives throughout the country at
the Glenwood celebration.