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AM CO-OP PEOPLE CUEER ?
From the "CO-OP IIAGAZIFE" published b
National Cooperatives, Inc., we pass on to
you the following:
A friend, who knew we were interested in co
ops, once asked us the question: "Are co“!°P
people queer^"
Go we had him in to dinner and spent an ev
ening talking over the cooperative way of
doing business in the grocery fiel'd, the
credit union and—in other parts of the
country—oil refining, farm products and
dozens of others.
'"hen we got all through he said, "You folks
are crazy, all right—like a fox.”
Supnose you see if what we do makes sense.
Here’s how we go at it:
1. Ne Let Everybody In On It. Nothing ex
clusive, All races, all religions, all shad
of politics, No passwords, no salutes, no
silver shirts, no rake-offs.
2. Each IJember Has One Vote, ’Tiether you own
*10 of the business or J500, you carry equal
weight in membership meetings on questions
of policy. No proxies, no stock control, no
"inside stuff
3„ Earnings Ns1 ong To The Members. If good
management and active members build a sur
plus (profits m conventional business),
that cash is the urorerty of the members,
.and as distributed must be in the fonr. of
natron are re fluid.
TTtat, friends, is the )64 iteml The money
you nay invest in the Co-op brings a fixed
rate of interest (a co-op has to have cap
ital, like any other business), but your
USE of the co-op may bring you a big par.t
of the "earnings
For instance, suppose Member Jones, a crabby
old crank with ulcers who lives by himself
with seven cats, buys all his food at the
Co-op—in a vear about .3250 worth•of cracker
and milk. You, on the other hand, have a
large far;ily--eight boys and one girl—and
you spent *2,000 at the Co-op for food and
other items. You eat well.
At the year's end the-members vote themselve
a patronage refund, let’s say. Member
Jones gets, back 37,50 of what he s"ent;
you get back *60. If you want to say it real
fancy, just say that the rewards of a suc
cessful co-op business are nassed out in
direct prooor$ion tp the amount of use made
of its service's.- Neat, ain't it"
There are other queer things about Co-ops,
but these will give you a rough idea* ^
you want to know more, just get hold of a
member somewhere and turn him loose on the
subject.