The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-29
Co-oPhATIoN ABROAD.
What the System hus Accomplished In
Europe.

A Manchester (EnglandD correspondent oi
the New York Tribune writes, under date ol
June9:
For four days the Co-operators OF Manches.
ter have held congress In building known
as Memorial Hail. Albert square.
Mr.. Morrison gave sketch OF the actual
position of cooperation in Europe. America,
he said, was likely to distinguish itself in co.
operation as 1t did In most things. He found
In New York statement that the objects Qi
cooperation should supersede those of strikes,
which view of cooperative policy needed 10 0e
acted upon here. In Denmark there are 81
stores on the Rochdale system, and they were
successful The Danish and the Rochdale
were doing something in the way of stores
especially Switzerland. In Austria there arc
231 cooperative stores, and l6 productive as
sociations; in SaXony 81 cooperative socie-
ties, and Is manufacturing; in WllrtemburS, lG
stores were In operation. Mr.. Morrison added
that the work England has mainly before 1t is
the development of productive cooperation:
ITS cooperative stores had no startling or wild
history, but presented the pleasant tameness
Of success.
The French report was made by Mr.. Morrl-
son from NJ SallerOuX's paper. In France,
they have the three forms of cooperation
production, consumption and credit. They
call trades unions by the ingenious name OF
:. workingmen's chambers Of commerce;"
only they stop all commerce when they take
to strikes.
A visitor to the congress remarked that In
America, as on the Continent, there existed
u practical Interest in international co-0pera-
tiOn.
In America, there was fertility Of idea,
they made new applications OF principle fas-
ter than In England, and journalists commits
stoned representatives to explore cooperative
fields in Europe. There was no similar enter
prise among lis In England, and intercourse
was needed between opposite nalionalities
Cooperation needed TO be supplemented by
cosmOpolitanism.
An object for some time In contemplation
was also advanced, the establishment of q CEN
trail cooperative board, which should be a cen
ire of communication with co-operators abroad
as we'll US at home.
the congress is that OF great cooperative
bank-a dllicult subject to get understood or
adopted. A critical letter from banker of eX-
pcrence was produced and read One speak
er said the testimony came from hand too
friendly. The plan should be submitted TO a
hostile banker, and his opinion had. No friend
was half as valuable as good enemy for guild
ing criticism where confidence was to be the
source of action and strength. Better to hear
the voice OF the enemy before commencing
than after. The co-operators are not f1nan-
ciers IN the banking Sense of the term, and if,
when they commence banking. some great
authority can see any error in their proceed
ing, there will be q panic. Better to take the
panic before they begin than after
There Is q cooperative printing society here
in Manchester which does good work, and
seems likely to make good profits. The Arti-
san Laborers and General Dwellings Company
an excellent society with terrible long
name-has some Of the best buildings 10 show
In the cty. It has an intelligent and nven-
tive representative in Mr. Malcomb Mac
leod, who superintends the erection Of streets
of houses ere-honestly-built houses, with
several devices and inventions for COM
fort-houses which come into possession of
the tenants, their rents being counted as pay
ment OF capital after the manner OF good build
ing societies.