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REPORT THIRD LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE OF BUFFALO<br />
TRADES ADVISORY COMMITTEE<br />
TRADES ADVISORY The Trades Advisory Committee on whose branch of the Distribution<br />
COMMITTEE Department fell the burden of selling by far the major portion of<br />
bonds, and whose organization actually did sell an amount equal to<br />
the quota allotted to Buffalo, had at its head Charles L. Couch as Chairman, J. Q. Clarke,<br />
Vice-Chairman; Henry F. Russell, Secretary and A. B. Wilson, assistant secretary with<br />
John W. Cowper, E. B. Holmes, James N. Mandeville, William E. Robertson and Morris<br />
L. Tremaine as committee members. The five men last mentioned held the title of Trades<br />
Advisors, and to each of them were allotted about fifteen trades or professional committees,<br />
which had charge of the sales campaign in their respective trades and professions.<br />
The chairman of each trades committee reported daily to his trade advisor, the trade<br />
advisor reported to the Chairman of the Trades Advisory Committee, and he reported<br />
to Mr. McNulty, the director of Distribution. In distributing trades and professional<br />
committees among the trade advisors two plans were kept in mind; that of dividing<br />
the trades and professions into five groups, each of whose total quotas and probable<br />
subscriptions would be somewhat equal in amount, thus permitting of keen rivalry and<br />
competition among the five groups. It was also necessary to have in mind that certain<br />
trades and professions interlocked so closely that they could best be supervised by the same<br />
trade advisor. Each trade advisor was in direct contact with each chairman of the fifteen<br />
trades and professional committees allotted to his department. The advisor counseled with the<br />
chairman, watched the reports from the chairman as they arrived from day to day, speeded<br />
the committees in their work and, if any were lagging, a meeting was called of the chairman<br />
and his entire committee and the necessity of intensive work impressed upon them. The<br />
status of each committee's sales and the hourly progress of the campaign were graphically<br />
presented by a huge blackboard, occupying one entire side of the large store occupied by the<br />
Distribution Department. This showed the names of each selling unit. Opposite each<br />
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