History of the United Co-operative Baking Society Ltd. : $b A fifty years' record 1869–1919Reid, William
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History of the United Co-operative Baking Society Ltd. : $b A fifty years' record 1869–1919
Reid, William
United Co-operative Baking Society, Ltd., Glasgow
The members of the present board have served Co-operation well in many
capacities, and several of them have had long years of service on the
board of the Baking Society. Mr Buchanan, the present chairman, for
instance, was elected to the board of the Society in the year in which
Mr Bain became secretary. Mr M‘Lean has represented Glasgow Eastern
Society for many years, and Mr Young St Rollox for a long period. Mr
Monteith had done good work in St George Society before he came to
M‘Neil Street, while this is equally true of Mr M‘Lay’s connection with
Cowlairs. Mr Hamilton was for a number of years the representative of
Pollokshaws Society, and his untimely death while this book was being
written served to act as a reminder that “life is but a fleeting
vapour.” Another member of the group who has done good service to
Co-operation in his own society as well as in the Baking Society’s board
is Mr Cadiz, for a number of years the energetic secretary of the
Glasgow and Suburbs Conference Association. Mr Johnstone has done good
service in Shettleston Society, and Mr Simpson in London Road Society;
while Mr Walker, the “baby” of the board—he only joined it two months
before the end of the fiftieth year—has been well known for a number of
years as a representative of Clydebank Society.
Nor can we close this record of “men who wrought” without reference to
some of the men who, while not quite so prominent in its affairs as
others, yet had something to do with shaping the destinies of the
Society. Prominent amongst such was Mr Alexander, who represented
Paisley Provident Society on the board from the election of Mr Brown as
president until their society withdrew from the Federation. For the
greater part of the time he acted as treasurer of the Federation. Mr
Ballantyne, of Thornliebank, also was one of the earliest members of the
board, and continued to be associated with its work, as stable
inspector, for many years. The late Mr James M‘Murran, of Glasgow
Eastern, was the Federation’s last treasurer, the office being abolished
during his tenure. Nor must the names of the late Homer Robertson and
Michael Shiels be omitted. For a number of years Mr Robertson
represented St George Society on the board, while Mr Shiels was for long
the representative of Cowlairs Society, and both gentlemen died in
harness within a few months of each other. For a long time two gentlemen
very well known in another section of the Co-operative movement, Messrs
Robert Macintosh and Allan Gray, acted together as auditors of the
Society. Mr Wells, the respected secretary of Cambuslang Society, was an
auditor of later date, retiring when the amended Industrial and
Provident Societies Act of 1913 made it compulsory that auditors of
Co-operative societies must be public auditors. He was succeeded by Mr
John M. Biggar. The auditor who has served the members of the Society
for the longest period, however, is Mr William H. Jack, who has audited
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