The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-03-21
Co-opera tave Items.

OMAHA proposes 10 estaDHsh co-OPerauve
Builders Association similar to the one in
Burlington, Iowa. There Is strong talk now
Of establishing another society In the latter
city.
A company has been organized in Con-
nersville, Indiana, on the CO operative plan,
for the manufacture OF Cabinet furniture.
TIE store started in Hartford, Cenn., .
few weeks since, is progressing finely, not.
withdrawing the opposition of the enemies
OF the enterprise.
How Co-OPsxArfox WAS FoRKED. On q
gloomy November evening, 1874, in the back
room Of mean inn at Rochdale, Lancashire,
gland, dozen poor weavsrs were assem-
bIed to consult on the means OF raising
themselves out Of their wTe.ehed poverty
After rejecting the usual methods Of strikes
and political agitation, they resolved to save
a small pittanc- weekly cut OF their earn
ings, to form fund for the establishment Of
a comiaon store. In one year that number
had increased % twenty-eight and their saw
ngs amounted to about $lS5. Deducting
rent and store furniture, they commenced
business with a capital Of SIS, amidst the
neighborhood In 1865, after tw snty years.
operation, the society embraced !, s26 menu
quarterly sales being upward Of $3.50, 900,
with profit of over eleven per cent. In
1851, they established aour mill in 1856,
a cottoh factory; In 1853, building Associa-
ton, and life insurance and burial society
The entire working capital has thus In
creased from $13. TO 6 900 600. Not only
so. but >s the resalt If this first success
about one hundred cooperative societies
hays beer established al over England, en-
brscing over two hundred thousand members
With "A aggrek ste capital Of over So 200 900.
ana an annual business Of about $2S, 900,
600. 'e7As sY'8 ca
SCOTTISH MOULDERs In AMERICA.
The feilssing statements, We clip from
our old ceontry exchanges, possess more
than an ordinary interest TO most Of orr
rsaders; ~.a IT, .s'..is,sa, s,-4qss avg,
sGs M oPmkADELPHIA, Jan. IA 1868. a
% the 0Gesrs and Aembers u ths seottish Iron
~ Moridsrs' eociet 800
Gentlemen end Brothers. We, theaDdsr-
signed, members Of the Scottish Mouldsrs'
Society, came tn America expecting 10 fnd
plenty Of work ct our trade. We hsse been
here over ten weeks, aud, although We hare
made every effort 10 obtain employ nent, ue
have not yet fouad N hours work, and
there 10 no prospsct that We will We hare
tried to gst work - common lAboring work,
bat all branches OF labor are alike dull
We deem it our duty to make these facts
known - our brothers at home, thai others
may nei Be deceived ~ We have been, We
esiIed upon vi. W.. II. SyIvis. the Prcsident
q the Mouiders Society Of Auesics, and
he told ". that ne had WEittsn several letr
tsss to Mr.. Guile, Secretary Of the Enelish
Soeissy. scquainting him Of the state Of
trade, here, and that On Of his letters, To-
ssthsr with protest, siGled b. twelve
MEMBER 4 the Enelish S6cistJ, !. against
an more of onr members coming here, uas
ppblished 81 he SRI monthlJ rep1rt Of the
EprIish SocisI. He Was SURPRISED - fnd
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