7» The cooperative promoter private enterprise and helps to 

 preserve democratic institutions. Using the cooperative 

 as a tool, farmers learn to do for themselves many things 

 which they might otherwise insist that the Government do 

 for them at public expense e 



3. Even processors, who may be opposed to the cooperative in 

 its efforts to negotiate Drices, will recognize many 

 benefits which organization" among farmers brings to the 

 industry as a whole, •• Many problems in the industry can be 

 more effectively solved through joint attack in an organized 

 way, (disease and rest control, cultural practices, etc), 



9. Evidence indicates that grower-processor relations can be 

 improved and maintained on a better basis where growers 

 are strongly organized and can safeguard their interests. 



Where effective marketing control can be secured and when effective bar- 

 gaining techniques aie utilized the association can have considerable 

 influence in determining price and other contract provisions, Their 

 power to force temporary price increases that are unwise is their great- 

 est danger. Wise, well informed leadership is vitally important to their 

 continued success, 



If collective bargaining is to succeed in the long ran as a useful method 

 of negotiating contracts both sides must learn to negotiate in good faith, 

 They must each make forthright efforts to reach a settlement, The 

 negotiators must know xhe situation and look at the facts as they really 

 are„ If both sides conscientiously strive to meet these conditions 

 collective bargaining can be a fair and effective means of determining 

 price and other contractual arrangements « 



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