New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-26
COOPERATION ABROAD.
SPAIN THE VIRGIN SOIL OF COOPERATION
STATISTICS OF THE MOVEMENT-CO-OPERA-

SPAIN THE VIRGIN SOIL OF COOPERATION
STATISTICS OF THE MOVEMENT-CO-OPERA-
TON APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE.
BARCELONA, Feb. 1S1O.-It was one of my
chief designs in coming Spain study the general idea
Of the Spanish labor movement by getting view Of its
methods in practice the peculiar conditions of the
Standards rendered this the virgin soil Of industrial or
canzaon The working of the movement ia remarka.
bic In Germany two factions, the great Sclulze De
Hsch system. Haudwerks genossenschaften and the
vet more powerful political system of Lassale, called the
veronc threaten TO convuse Europe.
In SPAIN purer specimens Of cooperation than
have in Germany, the Societies live in perfect
harmony In England, where cooperation has out.
stripped prejudice, and where Its beneficial results are
already mmortalzng the century, the powerful Trades
Union faction brings down upon its hammer Of radical
social opinion and declares cooperation which enrches
a nottingham with isolated ownership. to be contra
dictory 10 ITS but nicely defined idea of col
lectivitv or associated workmanship. In spain, Co
operation and Trades Unions all mean one thing.
Spain in state Of political ebulltion. The middle
classes who consider themselves above cooperation,
whose very suggests individual want, demand the
demolition ~ the Spanish arstOcracy which rules ITS
peoples 10y nfatuatng them with superstitionS. Bnt
they held IN check at this moment ny inns strange
conpoud of social organization, cooperation. ! snail
show by "A few figures forwarded me since coming to
Spain that cooperation IN Europe is no longer neon
siderable hut that it has already entered INTO the
lcdgcrs or commerce and must soon enGu me career oi
uerchangers ny altering the methods OF product ana
dStTihutOu Inc unions OF Resistance Which tl-
other way accomplish the same Obec-the elevation
of producers-S still greater. In Germany andInglaud
they are political while IN Spain they are also making
c0OperatOu POLITICAL 10y nnsng into il theories OF polt-
zeal transformation which seem absolutely necessary 10
According To the annual report OF SCnulZe
Desch there were in 1885, 199 associations OF coOpcra
tive In 1901 the number hdd increased
TO 36 and in 1865 The budgets OF IS of these
show an aggregate of $500 members and they turned
business Of S2,5l7,3l3 in 1865.
The German cooperative societies nave s'eaulIy mann
tanned this TeticeuCe, and it - not until recently tat
they have been constrained 10 take measesiOr FORMING
themselves into the General United German AssOca-
ton" Conventions and mass meetings nave recently
Prussan Rhenish provinces have combined agriculture
with cOCDeatOn ard buying steam engines ana ag-
ricultural implements There now 6ll woTklngmens
banks associations. OF these cas- are III Prussia,
of there AGO. 700 members VINO are working upon
a capital OF $l02O49J which is all their and Dor
rowed auxihary capital of s2Sss,142, from which
they make average clear gam OF per
cent "a year. Their total business IN 1869
shows an gain over last year OF
II per cent Some of these associations do not respond 10
h invitation TO their address, and reports are
consequently but lltle known but 80 far as Is known,
the entire cooperation societies NUMBER about
1850 with aggregate of 1O00OOO members ana Dis
ness not less than s2-0,OO00OO currency III 1865. -
| Such is the progress of German association In En-
srll greater France takes 10 cooperation
because resistance not allowed. Italy Belgium, and
Switzerland rapidly forming great CONGREGATION
for the establishment OF the United states OF Europe Tor
the demolition Of Notifications, ana the amin alton OF
armies and frontiers But III Spain, where there are
known TO be societies. with $4,000 members, dong an
aggregate of S22JOOOO year. the utmost harmony and
fnsloi OF methods prevail This reciprocity IS III spain
declared TO be the only by WHICH The Freedom Of
producers can be obtained and the cooperative assOca
lions are as for the Industrial party and tho
Eurupcan Democratic Confederation are the societies
of with which they do not hesitate TO combine.