Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-10-23
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would win the war, and how soon? pm
Free Speech Takes Beating
The American public this week asked some very pointed
questions about the right of the two large broadcasng
corporations to deny the cooperatves right
to buy time the air. The National Broadcastng Com
pany and the Columbia Broadcasng System have refused
TO sell time on stations they and manage The Coop
eratve League of the USA for its program Lets Get
Together Neighbor which financed by the contribu
uons of several thousand coop members-some from
Greenbet-who wished to tell America about the advan-
tages OF consumer cooperation. The program sched
ued to the air 80 stations from coast
for 13 weeks beginning Sunday, October II.
The national Catholic Weekly America" in a lead
editorial reviewing the action of the networks expresses the
opinion that "the question will probably be aired on the
floor of Congress-, and concluded:
Be f happen to have dominant nfoa
Gahde Gt Weekly journal of opinion in
its Forthcoming issue declares:
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cost and produced under good labor conditions have
The eraekdOSn BY big business being
hoped eonssn and sustain ' tSs
co-ops the Of the good"
Tide" magazine biweekly journal of advertising and
marketing in long review of the situation says pointedy:
1.-THE networks 10 official M a reasons differed Of
aatagonzg national Tvs was 0@Se0 on lear OF
'The Nation, in editorial entitled Caught in the
Networks that perhaps the broadcasng companies
not that the economic basis of cooper
alton is simple and unassaiable 1t points out that
Columbia which holds that co-ops controversial has
had requests for time to state the against
cooperation and calls this "a strange kind of controversy
The Nation editorial declares:
founded the reasonable that the ability
time should determine the
question the that
issue of this kind Who would like know has
challenged political
challenged their right eoven SUCH business on the
eS Sa 1s their fsPf right sS
to divide the profits themselves
amount Perhaps the broadcasting
companies that the economic basis of
sumers' cooperation and unassaiable
they do not know the extent of the the
it has friends public Columbia
nave learned this experience
the cooperative movement accordance with its policy
would have had alot
that wished
unfavorable reactions
by broadcasts cooperation.
'The Progressive, published by the LaFollettes in
Madison, Wisconsin, declares:
"Broadcastng company officials seems are reluctant
American people with of this heady
about business being for the benefit of the
public.
up until had the competitive
any legitimate business the rieht
acquaint the people with what it has %
This ruling of the radio a shocking
democratic ideals this
the Cooperative League does abandon
political aloofnes and mobilize forces helto-
breakfast fight in Washington this issue, will
be hurting itself irTeparably,
with all those who fighting with it
democratic dream true
AS of Greenbets cooperative enterprises this paper
is entering protests CBS NBC and Congress
Monday night Greenbets largest cooperative meets
hear noted Scotch coop leader and will have an