Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-12
SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.

traitors All matters in dispute be-
tween co-operators, or between CO.
operators and the Cooperative
Brotherhood, will be referred to
this Board, whose decision in all cases
shall be final, and no recourse shall
be made to the courts.
RELIGION AND POLITICAL OPINIONS.
The Cooperative Brotherhood will
in no way interfere with the free
exercise of individual tastes, desires
or preferences in religious, political or
domestic affairs.
LOCAL UNIONS
May be formed by three or more
members, providing they are author
lied so to do by the Board of
Directors.
The officers of a local union are
Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer.
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER.
The COOPERATIVE Brotherhood will
publish 1.-THE Co. OPERATOR" in
which the news of the Cooperative
movements of the world, and espe-
cially of the Cooperative Brother
hood, will be published. The sub
scription price is fifty cents per year.
OUR POLICY.
The policy of the Cooperative
Brotherhood will be constant and in
definite expansion. Ours is not the
cause of a few hundred or a few
thousand-it is the cause of all
Humanity. But we are not now, nor
can we be for many months, prepared
to receive and care for all; but as soon
as we can accumulate or create the
wealth necessary for the purpose, we
pledge the world we will turn no
worthy man or woman from our door,
but will give EMPLOYMENT AND A
HOME TO ALL.
Some may think we are attempting
the impossible. Let us see:
The average number of deaths each
year in the United States is 124 out of
every 1000.
1t follows, therefore, that if we ex-
ercise little care, and secure men,
bership of average physical sound
ness, we will not have more than, say,
thirteen families out of each 1000,
after two years, thrown on US to care
for by reason of the death of mem
bers. Those totally and permanently
incapacitated by sickness or accident
will be less than seven per thousand.
This would make but twenty fami-
lies per one thousand that we might
be required to provide for each year
after the second. But as each mem
Der of all of these families is subject
to the same regulations as to service
as all other co-operators, they will,
on an average, sustain themselves by
their own labor. This is conclusively
demonstrated by the records of the
poor farms of the country. In many
instances, the entire expenses, includ-
ing salary of superintendent and
assistants, are paid out of the pro
ceeds of the farm. All the work
on these farms is done by paupers
who, as rule, are old men and
women or cripples. How much more
easily would they sustain themselves
under our system, with no high salar-
les to pay to superintendent and
assistants, and besides, with us, they
would not be paupers.
AT the end of ten years, part of
each 1000 members in good standing
will still be on paying basis outside,
and would not care to come in as CO.
operators; but even should all present
themselves we could easily be pre-
pared to receive them, since they will
then have paid in $4,000, and we
will have had it an average of five
years, and if judiciously invested in
machinery, will by that
time have more than doubled and will
supply ample employment for all of
the / 1000 members.
The Modern Woodmen of America
was organized in 1888. They now
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