Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-14
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THE JUBILEE or COOPERATION.
An interesting c0ngICs8 was recently
held in Sunderland, England, when
representatives OF various cooperative
societies Of Grea, Britain mot, together
with depu,nii5ns from similar insiliu.
lions In France, Gofmnny and
Belgium. 10 was a jubilee gathering,
nny years having passed since tho
Inauguration of the movement On
England by the formation Of Tho
Roohdale Equitable pionocrs' society,
In the year 1888. This Institution
started with capital Of C IS bat IT,
career was truly phenomenal Aiior
twenty ata'cxistenco Il wasnccossary
10 employ host Of clerks aud assist
ants AMI the business done amounted
TO El6T.577. Tho members Of the or
ganiEiion allow their dividends ami
profits TO accumulate 10 thnir credit
and part Of tho profits Il regularly yet
apart for the maintainance Of an cdu'
oatIonal department.
The success Of this cooperative
society stimulated Others aud accord.
log TO tho report presented to the Sun
derland congress, there are at present
In the United Kingdom 65j societies,
comprising i,2os,6sI membeu. The
palcs the past year exceeded ESQ, 100000
with profit Of Ei.05s, QUA striking
illustration Of the progress during half
century OF correct plan carried out
with ekilrul management.
Cooperation Ia Utah IL not old
enough yet To celebrate n fitty.year
jubilee, but It dates back many years,
and has, We thlnE, proved quite a.
successful hero ~ on the other eide Of
the ocean. Tho principle was rocog.
niEtd a. a correct QUO by tho pioneers
and thelF leaders, and II was carried
out a. soon as practicable.
The greatest Importance Of the co.
operative movement, however, lies In the
fact that II IL a natural link between the
old order VI things aud tho Utoplau
condition Of mankind, 10 eagerly de-
sired by some modern ~ we'll as ancioal
philosophers. IL furnishes q starting
point for an evolutionary movement
which. n progressing without inter
Tuptlon, will ultimately load to the
happy solution o. all the troubles with
which soclalislic schools are ut present
concerned. IL shows what kind Of
uhion Of effort Is needed Tor eminent
success.
The Rochdale society commenced
by supplying ils members with
the necessaries Of Ito at cheaper
rate than that usually obtained,
Il mado the consumers their own
retail merchants A step beyond this
was taken In 1884 with THE lormat lou
Of the Nlgth OF Enylanl Cooperative
Wholesale society with the obrc, Of
furnishing cooperative stores with
goods At the lowest possible Wholesale
figutea Lately corporation has been
carried sin step further, by laboring
mon combining and establishing banks.
Insurance societies and-what ~ silll
more experimentation factories, f1ur
mills ami other manufacturing eslat-
llshmento. As yet cooperation 10
these branches has received but little
attention, but ills tho logical conse.
quence OF the principle, ani II is the
goal towards which It, advocates are
looking. There eau be no reason why
production should not DO carried ON on
a cooperative plan just ~ the die
tribution Of tho products now
IL being done. Tho neglect OF uniting
the laborers Tor the purpose OF produc.
ing the oomm1iites Of no IL pretty
generally looked upon as the weak
side Of cooperation as no far puutlccd,
but that defect will Go cIurse % time
be- remedicl olloctually. Aud when
finally tliu lah1tars themselves virtual.
BY own aud tIl tho farms, operate the
mines anu run the factories, Il would
seem that miIlgnuial happiness ought
TO prevail There could No no reason
aUle cause i1r labor troubles, no war
between capital AMI labor, both intur.
esls being represented by the same per.
SONS. rs It then too much 10 assume
that in this movement for unity Of Ia.
borer lies the true remedy for some
Of the evils under which tho world
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