The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-11-18
COOPERATIVE.

The successful applicants for the CITY
printing, are journeymen printers who have
reduced TO practice the theory Of cooper
alton as the best substitute for strikes.
During the printers great strike in this
city IN 1867, twenty-five jOurneymen. who
knew each other as good wOrkmen. and
had faith IN each other as men, agreed 10
organize cooperative printing association
as means Of gaining tor themselves az
least If not for the whole craft the prices
which they had demanded tor their labor.
In November 1867, the TWENTY-FIVE Journey
men met, and deposited o. each, and
agreed to deposit 81 a week each until they
accumulated fund sufficient for the pur-
chase of small Office. In April 1868. the
associates took out a charter under the
name of the Journeymen Printers Co
operative Association, with capital Of
IS 200; and soon thereafter, with the fund
which they had accumulated, they bought,
at bargain, small but well selected stock
Of materials that had been only a month in
use.
Then, with paid up capital Of only e.
200, they opened an office on William
street, and were thence forward in receipt
of the prices which they had demanded for
their labor Their disputes with employ
ers were ended. Recognizing the Printers
Union-the enforcement of whole scale
of prices was one of the objects aimed at
by the twenty-five associates in starting
their office-ihe Cooperative Printing or
fee at once became, through the Printers
Union, practically the official printing Of
fee Of the $4,000 society workingmen OF
New York and neighborhood. 1t was,
therefore, successful venture from the
start
The Associations business increased I'M
til it became too great for the narrow
quarters in William street; and in May
| 1870, the Association leased large building
in Beekman street, and still further en-
larged the capital and the stock ofmaterial
to meet the demands Of the increasing
business. The presses, types, and other
material now in the Office, cost about $780,
600, and the establishment is employing
about fifty workmen.
This rapid growth of a cooperative as
ISOLATION, started with a mere trifie of
money, ought to be an encouraging eX-
ample for other workingmen who may be
discussing the expediency of striking for
| higher wages. Let some of the eighthouT
theorists try co-operation.-N Y. Sun.
ANOTHER Cooperative boot and shoe
| factory has been started in New 1ork.
Thomas Ryan, the International Grand
Knight Of the Crispin organization, il one
Of the leading spirits. The address is los
Blocker street, New York.
THE officers of the Lynn Cooperative
shoe factory are as follows: President,
A. F. MathOs Vice President, d. S. Phil
lips Clerk, ID. w. Larned; Treasurer,
Gilbert Williams Directors, ID. ii. Eau
cett, James O'Connell, Albert jenkins and
George +. Bowles.
FROM the well known associative e.
pertinent called the Rochdale Society OF
Equitable Pioneers there has sprung corn
mill society, a cotton factory, three boot
and shoe stores, clothing and haber-
dashery store, five butchers shops, build
ing association, life insurance ONCE and
burial society, a steam corn mill and an
extensive library-all on the co-operatIVe
principle The primal investment was
9134; the capital at the end OF twenty-five
years, 100000
WHILE in Detroit, in August, we learned