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few of us. Cooperation means that every man associated in the 

 industry shall share equitably in the control and in the profits of 

 that business. 



We must organize the producers in the country into local asso- 

 ciations. If the producers will organize themselves as they have 

 in some sections of the country, good and well; but I think it will 

 have to bo done systematically. We shall need men who under- 

 stand what cooperation means to go out into the country and 

 organize these ditferent units. ]\Iake a law so that a company or a 

 number of men associating themselves together for coojx^rative 

 work will have to subscribe to certain rules and regulations, and 

 do not let every fakir that comes along get in under the name of 

 cooperation. If they use the name cooperation, compel them to 

 come in uiuler this law. When we have our local association it 

 rnay need a shipping station, it may need a cold storage plant ; in 

 the devcloj^ment of the work it nmy require an evaporating plant. 

 You may require a plant for taking care of different kinds of 

 waste and excess matter, but that is something that will develop. 

 Then we have to have our central agency in the city representing 

 all of these cooperative units and being controlled by them. This 

 agency will keep every unit advised as to the condition of the 

 market, products and kind of products required, and this not only 

 in the City of Xew York but of Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Boston, 

 etc. The central agency would simply look after the selling. This 

 thing is being done over in Denmark as a business proposition. 

 It cannot be done in any loose-jointed associations, l)ut must be 

 done in an association where every man is a part of that unit and 

 has some function and some duty to that unit. He must live up to 

 it. It will not do if some commission man comes aloui*- and offers 

 you one per cent, more than the association, to throw the associa- 

 tion down and go to him. You have to pledge yourself at the 

 beginning to sell your prdduce through that organization. In that 

 way you will be doing cooperative work and will succeed. 



JMi;. Waiid: Is Senator Ivoosevelt's bill broad enough to cover 

 that ? 



]\I i;. Dii.i.o.x: vScnalor Ivoosevcirs bill is not intciidcd for that 

 purpose; it is intended to regulate the sale of goods through com- 

 missiou merchants. But a Itill is in preparation that would pro- 



