The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-14
RATE OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.
TnE subiect OF oo.operation amonI Lyel

TIE subject OF cooperation among
workmen is by no means new, hut the
most singular association founded on
that system ofwhich we have yet heard,
is the Cooperative Building Society of
New York. This organization is said
to have already 1O7 members, and it is
intended to increase the number to 500.
Each member pays an initiation fee OF
fifty cents, and when the society is full
all the 500 members will begin to pay in
one dollar week, until s., 900 has been
lodged in the bank. Then lots will be
cast by all the members forthat amount,
and the lucky drawer OF the prize will
build or purchase house and begin to
pay the Interest on it quarterly, still
however continuing his weekly sub
scriptIon of one dollar like all the rest,
Another drawing will take place when
the second $1,000 has accumulated, and
this process will go on until every
member has a house, when the society,
having accomplished its objects, will
cease TO exist. - IL
Such Is the dazzling plan by which
800 worthy fathers OF families are going
TO acquire homesteads, and we read in
the report of the meeting that ''the
"worktngmen engaged In the move.
'ment appear to be- thinkers, and have
every confidence in the success of their
'project." II this society draws them
into, habits of frugality and not into
buying lottery tickets, it may do no
harm; but they would do well at the
start to spend some little time in reflect
Ing upon how long 1t would be necessa.
ry for these five hundred men to stick
together in order to enable everybody
to receive his share of the hoardings.
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q Do ANY of those workmen who lead
orjoin In trade strikes, or who combine
to enforce laws for reducing the hours
Of daily labor, ever seek to make
reckoning of the number of their fell
that have risen from the
condition Of employees to that of en-
ployers? If they could get at the his
tory OF such of them as have got beyond
the necessity Observing Others. we ven
ture to think they would find that the
prime question with the fortunate ones
$50 called) during their serviIude was
not whether they could trifie through
an eight or ten hours task without
aching bones, nor how tbey.should se-
cure legislative aid in getting ten hours
pay for eight hours work. Let the
NAHt UNIONS
make a keen inquest into this matter.
1t concerns their prospects in life far
more than even "A successful strike. II
they find that the leaders and organ
izers of strikes havs been the men in
maturer life to rise above the hardships
of daily manual toll, TO conduct great
requiring skill and inge-
nuity, and to attain to wealth and so.
ciat eminence, then they will find some
thing to encourage them OF positive
and practical kind, in seeking at once
to'iGnforee a universal rule or easy
hours for work and handsome pay, un-
der all conditions. II, on the other
hand, they find-as, we think, they
very likely wiIl-that nearly every one
who has risen in life socially, and won
esteem among his fellows, and become
Independent of the exactions OF daily
toll, has done so by steady, unremit-
ting application, by unWearieda and
exertion and by regards
ing capital as thing to be legitimately
acquired rather than to be defied and
conspired against, then the thinking
class belonging to Worktngmen's
Unions will naturally take a different
course from that which many of them
now pursue. - zillrii.t