The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-11
20 OPERATIVE SOCIETY EXPERT
MENTS.

Of the many eXpeIllnoH
orot;on few if any have been i'ioie
s,,ccessfnl than that of NJ. Godln,s no"
san,ors community at Guise IN the De-
,or+,nent of Aisne. France, II was
founded in 1860, Godin holding mosI Vi
tbe stock, but the arrangement wac
,,cb that ne would have to sGrfeiiu0i
,,;s sbares by degrees. as they "eie
l nod NV members OF the commuhi'y'
: A renort of the operations OF the assn
c;otion has lately been publsneu, ~nu
o .s these experiments are always LUZ.
# .. inasmuch as their object Is
d roform or better adjustment OIL 'ne
e rolot;ons between capital and labor. we
nooLe a synopsis of the report. nne
e ,hors If the community are diVl--
o ded into five classes, members u cav"
@ class having the same rate Oh "ae. go
a oossociation. numbering about Law
u .a.sops owns and operates an iron
lie fonn Iry. The people live together IN d
he group of specially constructed houses
n and tits worthy of remark that oufine
It, +ho existence OF the commune, not one
n COCO Of serious crime has been commllIeu
all among them. The arrangement 10 una
"a 49, conital involved shall receive pre-
y, ferential interest at the rate Oh hVe PEI
ID, oo,,t NOR annum, and all profits aooV'
a This are divided among the workmeh
nd IT, interest or dividend paid to TN
of stockbo,ders in 1888 we're 100000 francs
nst while the profits given to the laoo rr,
las amounted to 1,8S0,0OO francs. Il
yer wares of the workmen are not all pai
nd in cash a certain percentage beng IT
VS.; +o;ned and placed to the credlt
act tbe laborer, until the sum thus saved
The eff oient to nav for share OF the stoci
the when that share is given to the worAiiia
ISL and he becomes holder OF the capita
las securing his five per cent. dlvldeh'
hat The aim is to fix the wages at IA
VS. sufficient to support the workman az
mas, enable him to lay aside the percentas
y that is applied to the purchase Oh s'oc
sly, thus making provision for his Ola d !.
W Sre 1S0sded 81 outside the society-that is
has saw. to one not a member of the asso
tent alton. Thus, the proprietorshlp &c
mi down from generation to generatlo
be In dividing the profits system Is e
roos ploved which takes into conslderatl
fur the abilities, conduct and seniority
that the workmen.
fail Tho true commune where there
will perfect equality in the manner Oh
Il let ing, in the price of labor and SO
start does not seem able to succeed. One
owls tbe most earnest and determined efic
and IN that direction was that OF
king Icarians, the main colony or "h
g." settled at Nauvoo, Illinois, after
reted Mormoas had peen driven from
es on city. Perhaps no more earnest II
was and women had ever engaged In
i've in attempt to form and maintain
,sage, equality society than those
ke the founded Icaria, yet after struggling
notice wears against hard fortune they tai
' here jealocies, new ideas, diffe
)f the notions of progress and
how vancement, combining to dc
he law in practice what.was very pretty in
three, ory. Disunion set in, and the las
rs who heard of the Icarlnas, a httie Aiio
IS any them we're endeavor;ng to live acc
r who ing to the original plan of the socie'
the, Iowa, while few others had settle
s en- a farm in California, where they
and struggling with a debt that threat
by a to swamp them.