The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-05-26

Tive principle in practice is proof that there
| is "somethlng in it."
1t fares badly with working bakers In
most places. Their wages are not high, and
their hours Of labor are perilously continu-
Gus. Those who have found their way tn
Australia are followed by, or meet
the same i'll fortune there. In Sidney
however, they propose to confront
liz as it might be confronted at home
by q Cooperative Association. The resi-
dent gentlemen favor the proposal, and sew
eral distinguished clergymen lent their ap-
lproval and support at the meeting held to
form the "Sidney Baking Company" 1t is
some time since this meeting was held.
The Rochdale results were quoted by Mr..
Parkes, the speaker who contributed the
greatest information to the audience and il
was clearly felt that it was as much the in
terest Of the inhabitants and consumers OF
bread in Sidney to have Cooperative man
ufactory of it there, as it was that of the
working bakers themselves. Cooperation
insures purity for the eater, rs well as better
wages for the journeymsn preparer Of it,
Mr.. Commissioner Hill, the Recorder Of
Birmingham, whose services to the cause Of
social progress exceed any praise Of ours,
show to the reader that the value Of the CO.
operative principle was discerned long ago
by shrewd people, whose name in connee-
ticn with Cooperate is seldom mentioned
unless by Mr.. Urquhart, whose remarkable,
out-of-t the-way knowledge is proverbial-we
alIude to the Greek merchants. Major
Cartwright-whose name only very old poll
ticians remember-oncc told Mr. D. Hill
that, in his youth, he major Cartwright
served in the royal navy, when among other
parts Of the world into which he cruised, he
found his way into the Mediterranean Sea,
at time when England was at war with
Turkey Greece being formerly a part of
Turkey, our cruisers had to give chase to
Greek merchant vessels, but they rarely if
ever made a capture. Major Cartwright,
who had an enquiring mind in oil latitudes,
Vas curiods to ascertain the cause Of these
clever Greek escapes and he discovered
that, after a wise Greek custom, every one
Of the crew, from the captain to the cabin
boy had share in the vessel. In fine, they
sailed and fought on the cooperative princi-
pie. Our English cruisers, sharp as they
were, could not catch a cooperative ship on
competitive principles. An ordinary observ-
er would declare at once that the fear of i'm
prisonment, aud probably death, would suf-
flee to make men sharp and brave; and II
such risks did not, nothing would Nine
persons out Of every ten would say so and
yet it proved, that having personal inter
est in the ship Itself kept the watch sharp
er, the arms nimbler, and the dash daring Of
the sailors higher in quality than the fear Of
the gaol or the bullet. Cooperation has
faculties for war as well as peace, and moves
men by motives stronger than the fear OF
death. The reader may be assured that Co
operation is motive power in industry, like
steam; and, like steam in Savsry's days, it
is only as yet seen issuing out Of the kettle
spout 1t has hardly been set to work. 1t
will turn strange, undreamt-of engines one
|day.-London Wcrtingmah