STRENGTHEN BUYING AND SELLING CO-OPS AS LINK BETWEEN CITY AND VILLAGE

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• Publication Date: June 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic - Consumer cdoperatives
Daily newspaper
Tirana
3 Jan 1952
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The first Five-Year Plan calls for the development of cooperatives for
.buying and selling, and of trade activities in the village.
The party and governmerrt,following closely the principles of Marx and
Lenin, as well as Soviet experience in the operation of cooperitive.3, attach
considerable importance to the strengthening of these cooperatives, whichare
considered the basic link connecting the village with the city. Enver Hoxha,
in his report to the Uth Plenum of the Central Committee of the People's
Party of Albania, speaking or. the directives of the Five-Year Plan, asserted:
"Special importance must be attached to the 3xpansion'of trade in the village.
The supply of industrial goods to the village must be increased. The coopera-
tives for buying and selling must be strengthened to create a closer link
between city and village."
By supplying the villages with goods manufactured by the workers and, in
turn, by buying farm products from the villages, these cooperatives create a
vital bond between farmer and worker. Industrial and agricultural development
will be greatly strengthened by fulfilling the farmers' person,..l needs and their
needs for tools of production, on the one hand, and by more efficiently supply-
ing the city and w"king,.centers with farm and dairy products, on the other.
National economic development calls for better organizational methods in
order to strengthen the-relationship between city and village and to facilitate
the,_ exchange of goods:' However, in the operat]-)n of the cooperatives as-the
supplier between city and village, there sre still serious shortcomings which
have weakened seriously their role in strengthening the economy.' One of the
chief weaknesses is that the cooperatives' function as an economic collective
organization is not strongly enough felt. The organizational-prinMples on which
they are founded have often been violated or not followed:'The assemblies.and the
elected agencies of the cooperatives, such as the administrative and control
coudcils and store committees, have not met the' obligations stipulated by their
organization statutes. Nor have they presented reoorta of 41 the cooperatives'
activities to the organs responsible for discussion and Grit tcism. They have
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also failed to render regular accountings
t to members of the cooperatives. The
'resul has been that not all members have shown interest or ta'rea part .in the
affairs of their cooperatives, which they have come to look upon as mere busi-
ness stores and not as a form of collective trade in the fight against specu-
lators.
As a result of organizational weakness, the volume and development of trade
conducted by the cooperatives have not met the needs and purchasing power of
the rural workers. In.the cooperative stores the farmer has not always been
able to find the necessary agricultural implements and household goods. On the
other hand, the cooperatives for buying and selling have not insured that in-
dustry and handicraft produce according to the needs and preferences of the
farmers. At the same time, the cooperatives have not been able to buy from the
producing farmers, especially from those in the remoter agricultural regions,
all their surplus produce. This is because organizationally the cooperatives
have been weak as purchasers and, furthermore, they did not carry out the system
of contracting-properly,-nor did they organize properly to manage the process-
ing of farm products for manufacturing purposes.
The functioning of the cooperatives also depends on the initiative of the
personnel, as well as on the interest of members of the cooperatives. Con-
sequently, without the genuine interest and active participation of members in
the affairs of the cooperatives, these institutions cannot become strong. The
administrative bodies of the cooperatives, by carrying out their own obligations,
will teach the members to appreciate their membership and to value the advantages
of collective economy. Strengthening of the :ooperatives for buying and selling
is important in that it awakens in the villages the sense of collectivism.
Stalin teaches us: "Cooperation in the field of selling, cooperation in the
field of supply, and, lastly, cooperation in the field of credit and production
(agricultural cooperatives) is the only r-our.se that leads to the improvement of
the economic welfare of the village."
The cooperatives must not limit their activity to selling products brought
in from a distance, or goods supplied them by the state, but must seek to ac-
quire goods produced by local industry and handicraft enterprises produced under
the contract system. The cooperatives will of course by strengthened by the
expansion and introduction of a variety of enterprises in the village, including
small manufacturing plants, fruit-drying and mil$-processing establishments, etc.
Finally, it is important to point out that greater efforts must be made to
'tralnng personnel for the special-tasks c[ managing cooperatives for buying and
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