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Two articles of interest this month
are: the Constitution and By-Laws of the National Vending Ma
chine Operators’ Association and The Association o f American
Vending Machine Manufacturers respectively.
The operators have made considerable progress since the first
national convention at Chicago last March.
The manufacturers started off with a fine organization and have
greatly enlarged their activities during the past six months.
However, the organizations are, neither of them as yet, unani
mously representative.
No manufacturer, however large or small, should be without the
organization. For months various manufacturing interests urged
the Automatic Age to advocate a National Vending Machine body.
Many operators also voiced a desire to see the National Operators
Association enlarged to include every available local body, and to
become members of a mutually beneficial national body. The
Automatic Age gave its support to these good movements, and the
two branches started under way almost simultaneously. The re
sult was the two national conventions and the first big exposition
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