Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-17

Inere are establishments In France ON
aco-operative basis. Cooperative ahons
are frequent In London for differ.
ent branches Of the public service, the
uiplomatic, colonial, army and navy.
and tho ct urch.
why may not capital and labor be
made to stand In the relation OF eoual
dependence and mutual respect
Would not both be better Off for the
new. relation The capitalist share
holder would know that every blow
oil the workman was given in the
interest OF both, and the workman
would know that every good bargain
OF the capitalist tended to the increase
OF his daily bread and the advance
ment OF his family. Let us picture In
imagination such an establishment,
Let us make a sketch that, IL 1t
amounts TO nothing In itself,
NAY All LEAST SUGGEST SOMETHING
BETTER.
| suppose manufacturing corporation
to be formed with a capital OF half a
million dollars, divided into shares of
five dollars each, three-fifths OF them
payable in cash and the other
two-hfths in prospective labor
the former to be invested In
land, buildings, machinery, materials
Tor manufacture, and supplies for the
consumption Of the working share
holders, 100 w0rkmen to be received
as members Of the corporation, the
skilled workmen to be allowed wages,
say las often now IS day, the others
VI 81, and each one to be Inscribed in
the books for 400 shares. II the earn
ings were 9 per cent. on the capital,
each skilled workman would be cred
tied In twelve months with about nine
hundred dollars for wages and Sl20 for
profit. Deducting $500 for his sup
plies-that is to say, food, clothing and
lodging-there would be left net bal
ance TO his credit at the end OF
the year $500, which would pay
for l0l shares of the stock.
he would then have had his
living and have become In the year the
owner OF 10i shares of marketable
stock. Next year he would acquire
104 mere shares, and in less than four
yeers he would have paid for all the
400. The fixing OF the rate of wages,
the purchase Of supplies, the admission
or dismissal Of working members, and
the discipline of the establishment
should be vested in the hands Of all
the men bers, whether actual or ex'
pectant shareholders; but the inan
cial department, the purchases and
sales, should be in the hands Of the
actual shareholders, The great OH ec'
is to bring capital and labor into clOsel
communion, TO
MAKE THIN LEAN ON EACH OTHER
: strengthening the capitalist and en-
abllng the workman who has no CAPT
tai TO acquire an industrial establish
ment 10y becoming co.worker anC
participant upon the pledge of his Ia
Dor. To this end the requirements o
a cash or property capital must be II
part dispensed with, and instead of /
| an engagement TO labor accepted. Tit
workman must have the means OF liv
ing while he is earning the price o
! his shares. He must thus be enables
to live as cheaply as possible, by hav
Ing all his supplies furnished at tin
3 lowest price. He must have fai
wages, cheap living, the prospect o
lettering his condition from PARTED
3 patton in the profits Of the capital an
e labor combined But all concerne
should have the power Of superintend
/ ing the conduct OF the workmen, dis
J missing the idle or incompetent, AM
NAbOsluR bSbWttii ullcISub hHIiiboAhi
l An accou nj would be kept with ever
} member, charging him with his SUI
plies and crediting him with hi
| wages and proportion Of profits
q Among the provisions for workme
F.. a reading-room and library might we
! be included.
: How many persons would such
: scheme benefit? According TO the Ger
= sns Of 1850 thepopulation of the Unite
e States was then little over 81, 900 00'
!. being about % 800 600 males aud "A
4 500 600 females OF the males nearl
: 10000 900 were under fifteen years {
age, leaving Is, 100000 above it. SUI
Y tracing from these the criminals
r confinement, the hopelessly intlrn
Q and the paupers supp )Fted at publ
expense, there remain u little mo-
Y than Is 600, 600 or these over Z, 0O0,0
are put down IA occupied In agrlcultul
= and over 5000, 600 In manufactures.
l. host, IAN exceeding great army 81
= gagged in the workshops and factori,
: OF the country, would thus bespeciall
e benefited by the scheme proposed,