Evening star., 1946-09-12
Labor Medical
AgeneyWiIIBe
Launched Here
Cooperative Health
Federation Sponsors
New Organization

A new organization, the Labor
Project for Medical Care, will be
here within q few days
under direction Of the Co-opera-
tive Health Federation of America,
to help work out labor management
plans for medical service through
out the country.
This was announced today BY
Harry Becker, president of Group
Health Association Of Washington.
who has just returned from Co.
lumbus, Ohio, where he was named
chairman Of the so-called Labor
Project Committee of the fedora
ton. Headquarters for the labor
project will be in this city.
establishment of the new labor
project was one of the most i'm
portant steps taken by the Board
OF 1ncorporators of the federation
at Its meeting in Columbus, Mr..
Becker said.
His committee will include repre-
sentatives of both the American
Federation of Labor and the Con-
gress Of Industrial Organizations.
Minneapolis Temporary Base.
Articles of incorporation and by-
laws OF the federation were signed
at Columbus yesterday, Mr.. Becker
announced. John Carson, Washing
ton representative Of the Co-opera-
tive League of the United States.
was off1cially designated as agent"
to file the incorporation papers
within few days in District Court.
Minneapolis was selected as TEN
porary" headquarters for the new
federation, which had been author.
lied at a meeting in Two Harbors.
Mimi, about a month ago. bv a
meeting Of representatives of more
than 100000 users of medical and
hospital plans under consumers
auspices.
MIR. Becker also was named first
vice president of the Executive Com
mittee of the federation. Other OH
GERS include; DR.. Michael Shadid.
Elk City, Okla, a pioneer in the co..
operative medical movement, presi.
dent; George Jacobson, secretary
treasurer of Group Health Mutual in
Minneapolis, secretary treasurer: DR..
Elmer Richman, medical director of
Labor Health Institute, st. Louis,
second vice president, and Cecil
Crewes of Kansas City, Mo-, third
vice president.
This committee will meet October
SIS at st. Louis to plan an over all
organization and promotion cam
paign.
Will Reply to. ANA.
In reply to q recent editorial In
the oficial Journal of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, which crit
lclzed the new Cooperative Health
Federation, the Columbus meeting
OF incorporators authorized a com >
mittee to draft a letter to the ANA.
Dr.. Morris Fishbein, editor of the
journal. win be asked to publish
the reply in full.
In addition to the officers of the
Executive Committee, other mem
bers OF the board of directors of the
new federation include Ludwig An
derson, Washington representative.
National Co-operatives, Inc; Wins.
low Carleton, Group Health Co.
operative, Inc. New York: Harry
Culbreth, Ohio Farm Bureau Co.
operative Association, Columbus:
E. j. Loehr. Medical Cooperative.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada:
James L. Monroe, Hale County Hos
pital, Hale Center, Texas; Addison
Shoudy. Puget Sound Cooperative
Association, Seattle, Wash: Charles
Wilkinson, Community Health Cen.
ter, Two Harbors, MINI.
Other incorporators of the fed
Grafton include JAMES Carey, ma.
tional CIO secretary; Nelson Cruck-
shank. AFL social security director:
Gladys Talbot Edwards of the
Farmers Union: DR.. Dean Clark of
the Health Insurance Plan of New
York; DR.. John r. Lawrence of
st. Louis.
Officials of the new federation
predicted that expansion of medical
service programs could be expected
more rapidly in urban areas than
in the farm areas. But they indi-
Gated their belief that expansion Of
cooperative hospitals should be
much faster in the rural areas than
in the cities