Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-14
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According to announcement, a conversation
on Co-Operation took place in the rooms Of the
Delaware Institute Of Mechanic Arts, on satur-
day evening, whichswas listened to with marked
attention by a large audience. 4-
William s. Hilles being the main speaker Of
| the evening, proceeded to review the benefits OF
go Operation ps Antagonism," in which the
former signihod cohesivsness and strength, and
| the latter pulling apart or weakness.
| A successful and VOL regulated family,,w
instanced to show the benefits OF Co-Operation,
while in another family, iaring, jealousy. envy
and dissensions show the weakness Of Antag-
onism.
Cooperation in the building of Rail Road,
| in which the speaker had some experience, was
necessary antagonsm would have defeated the
project. The banks, especially Savings Bank,
| or Loan Associations, show fully the advantages
| Of Co-Operation. Some persons had So, Others
800 Others still more, but too small III amount
to accomplish any great enterprise, but by club
| bng together their united amounts. business
| WAS put in motion and carried on, to the mutual
benefit OF each stockholder, and the general
i benefit Of the community at large. In Loan
i Association, no man upon small and limited
Il means could procure home at once, but by CO.
operation and clubbing together all the stock
i holders in due course Of time would be in pos
/ session OF a house, which wOnld never have been
| acquired under any other circumstances,
The government OF the City, with its City
/ Council, aud its necessary adjunctH,
i the police, water, street, and fire depart
i ment; also the Board OF Education and Board
/ OF Health, all working as u grand harmonious
whole, showed the benefits OF Cooperation.
/ Churches, Benevolent Associations, Secret So
/ cieties Homes for Friendless Children, Homes
/ for Aged Women were all conspicuous Instances
/ Of Cooperation.
War has been averted and peace established
/ by tue Cooperation Of phllanthroIists and good
i men in the successful settlement OF the Ala
/ bama Claims and the awards MADE by the Gene
i va Board OF Arb itratiOn.
MIR. Hilles also noticed the efforts made by
i the mechanics OF this city TO organize Coop
| erative Car-Building Association in which he
| hoped they would be successful, and with hearty
| and sincere cooperation, no reasons existed
| why they should not succeed.
| The lecturer then defined Antagonism TO be,
| like Ishmael, against every man, and every man
/ against him. II was represented by quarreng,
i strife aud war. The triting circumstance which
| brought on the terrible war between Rus ia and
/ Turkey, which eliminated at SeVastapoi, was IN
/ stanced, also the wars between Germany and
i France, as the results of Antagonism.
Slavery, now happily abolished, was the worst
kind of Antagonsm Il made the white man
/ and black man both selfish and antag-
/ onistic. A gentleman who had Travelled in the
South, and was fully indoclrinated with southern
| ideas, visited the powder works on the Brandy
/ wine, where he found Mr.. duPonts daughters
/ busy engaged in labelling boxes, and overy
/ man, woman, and child working together, filling
/ tnelr allotted spheres without antagonism, &C
/ knowledged the error into which he had fallen,
| and became a convert to cooperation. Mr. IL.
then wrote upon the blackboard ." Cooperation
| rs Antagonism' lilo now came to discuss the
| interesting question of Capital and Labor, and to
give his ideas a. to why they should not be AN
tagonistic and why in his opinion, the capitalist
| and aboring man should cooperate.
Tho product of cooperation is money, which
| OF itself was OF no value, and only made yaua =
BILE by the conjoint cooperation OF Capital and
Labor.
| iifra GOLD and ia guccpRHfu finding n
| ounce OF the precious metal He finds he can
| make more il he had more tools, 40 he purchases
| a steam engine for the crushing OF quartz, en-
ploys water facilities, and for time becomes a
| capitalist He returns to his search for gold
with enlarged facilities which are still the result
| OF Capital and Labor
The same results are shown in all branches Of
industry and Mr.. IL. again writes upon the black
board the following
Probe. To To Capital aPh.
The product OF year is much gold, wheat,
iron, &c. One part OF which is que to Capital
| and the other to Labor. Co operation increases
| the product: Anita gonism demolishes it.
The Island of Jamaica was instanced to show
the evils attending large land ownership. where
the owners squeezed all they could ont of the
i nj, aud left the lal orer no benefit but stint
cd exis tence.
Tie strikes in tho coal regions we're in part
attributable to the fact that tie operators or
owners generally lived at great distance from
ests in the invested capitol. The miners getting
nothing but their wages were in no way interest
ed except to do as little as possible for their
scanty wages.
Mr.. lilies the proceeded to recommend a sys.
tenn Of &c. Operative adopted by Whitall aud Fa-
TEN who carried on a large glass; blowing estAb'
ishment IN Alillvillo. New Jersey. In this bust
: ness, the usual antagOnism between Capital aud
= Labor was apparent until those gentlemen resol
we'd upon system of Go operation which has
worked satisfactorily and beuetcally to all con
! cerned, The firm in Nsw Jersey first establish
ed with the laborers standard OF wages. satis
1 factory to all parties Ine profits Of the estab
; lishment were fixed at SIX per cent as the
average standard, and which devideC
, amongst the laborers. In seasons WHOM
i the business not remuneratiye,
! deduction OF five per cent was mad'
J from the wages of the labOrers. In seasons O
unusual prosperity dividend OF ten per cen
was allowed the laborers. They have continue,
= this system for four years, and the extra inter
est taken by the laborers has made every year
r prosperous one, each labOrer receiving iron r6J
a to 800 year over and above the standard o
wages adopted The firm has made more mon.
oy. than under the old system, which wAs NOR
than compensated by the harmony which pre-
4 vailed and the determination of the men 4
i | make each year successful.
- Mr.. ii. believed in the system and thought
1 might be successfully carried out in all manufac
!, ring establishments, without any detriment I,
y | any but to the go. d and prosperity of ALL
n At the close OF Mr.. Hllles remarks, an invita-
tion was given for any person who felt 50 in
cined to give their views on the subject
= Lea Pussy made a few rom lrks inf4vor Of
" operation. aud instanced the fact that in man
"a of the cotton manufactures many of the opera
tiyss owned stock
i II b. Mcdonnell also spoke in favor OF &C
4 operation taking strong Temperance view q
a the subject.
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