CO-OPERATIVE WOMEN

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7243, 24 August 1933, Page 2

CO-OPERATIVE WOMEN

Tho Women’s Co-operative Guild, which held a jubilee congress in London recently, is a refutation of tho professional humorist’s hackneyed joke about tho talkativeness of women, for tho congress, in the brevity and terseness of its speeches, set an admirable example to tho more practised orators of many masculine palavers (states an Englislrpapcr). Bcsolutions wero passed protesting against the militarisation of tho police and the way tho constabulary forces were used against the unemployed workers’ demonstrations; against the menace of Fascism and dictatorship; and against “the slow displacement of slum property, which is a national, disgrace.” A resolution in favour of direct marketing of agricultural produce through co-operative societies had been rclnforcod with an addition urging the Co-operative Wholesale Society to buy more farm land. This addendum was defeated when a Coventry delegate had stated the significant fact that many societies which had bought land had been compelled by heavy losses to sell again, and that the Coventry branch had lost £40,000 in such agricultural investment.