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Openings are available in the various branches of the committee for many different types of work. Some of the jobs offer a salary; among these are Institutional Service Units, which assist in the management of farm schools for delinquent teen-agers, a program which studies and works with the Co-op systems, and one which attacks industrial relations problems...
...decided to put some pet theories into practice. He sold Margaree townsfolk on the idea of a big new school. They raised the money for materials, built the school with free labor. Then Dr. Coady turned to the adults. He organized a study club, explained the co-op way of doing things. Out of that came the Margaree Producers' Association of 30 members...
...Scotia alone there were 35,000 fishermen, farmers, loggers, miners who could neither read nor write. In a year and a half, Dr. Coady's self-help doctrine ("seek, and ye shall find") had sprouted 1,000 adult study clubs with 10,000 members. With adult education came co-op stores, farm and fish producer groups. Impressed, St. F.X. set up a special extension department to carry on the work, put Dr. Coady at the head of it. The Dominion Government picked Dr. Coady to organize the badly exploited Maritime fishermen, some of whom got as little...
...debt-ridden fishermen, fed up to their sou'westers, started a cooperative: Syndicat des Pêcheurs de Grande Rivière. They bought their gear wholesale, sold their fish cooperatively, ended the year with $3,276 surplus or $109 apiece. By last year the co-op had 90 members and earned $39,984 surplus, better than $400 a man. A draft, now figured at 224 lbs., fetched $12. Wartime prices for cod had helped, but the big saving had been in fishing costs. In World War I, when prices generally were even higher, a draft fetched only...
Last week, well into the June-October fishing season, Grande Rivière's co-op fishermen were getting a cash advance of $6.72 a draft, with a co-op dividend to be added later. It looked like the best year...