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pace with the earlier years, but the
societies are maintaining the sales
averages and are showing a Healthy
and general growth.
These societies engage in almost
every known field of production and
distribution. There are retail cooper
ative societies, agricultural societies,
Wholesale societies and general ag-
ricultural organization society which
looks out for the interests OF the
smaller associations by helping them
in their contracts with common car
riers and business houses and by So
curing governmental assistance for
them.
Owned by Wage Farmers
The membership of the English co
operative societies il made up almost
exclusively of wage earners. They
are strongest in industrial centers,
such as Lancaster. They are organ.
lied and operated upon well-perfect.
ed code OF laws. All of them are
stock companies. In the smaller so
scieties person is required to buy
only one share of stock, which gen.
serally sells at So, to become a mem
Der In the larger societies he is us
alally asked to buy from two to five
shares. No one person by law is al
bowed to own over a thousand dol
n. ,,f la,
ave association. Some of them seek
to sell merchandise to their members
at cost prices; others, in fact most
OF them, do not attempt to sell UNI
der current prices, but return to their
members the profits they make in
the way of dividends. These divid-
ends throughout the United states
will average around per cent The
report which the president submits
10 congress gives an excellent idea
of the scope of the profits OF one
of the wholesale cooperative socie-
ties, called the Wholesale Coopera-
tive Society of England.
Great Activity Shown
some Of the activities OF this or
ga Aviation consist in manufacturing
boots and shoes, operating banks.
dry goods stores, insuring their mem-
bers, manufacturing soap, running
steamship lines, selling tea ard coli
fee, manufacturing cocoa and choco-
late, clothing, shirts, and corsets. hos
iery, and operating fluit ferms.
This society has branches establish
ed all over the world, ana buys goods
for its members at the best available
prices in tho world market Meai,
for instance, is bought in Austra..,a;
butter, eggs and bacon are bought in
Denmark and Canada, and grain and
fruit are bought in Canada and the
United States. The total importatioDs
in New England by the Manchester
Co cooperative Wholesale society dor
ing 1909 were valued at s3t,445,O7G
and originated in almost all tue L,i-
fesent countries of the globe This
wholesale society and the Wholesale
Society OF England boast the largest
and finest flour factories In Great
Britain.
Society at Leeds
In another part of the report 'hc
instance Of the growth of state as
ISOLATION is cited. This Is the Coop
seratiye Society of Leeds, England,
That society was started in 1S47 for
the sole purpose of securing cheap
flour for its members. 1t began its
operations by renting flour mill.
Later it branched into selling grocer
les, and then to dealing In meats,
boots, and shoes, dry goods and
clothes. II began to conduct series
of lectures to advance the co-opera-
tive idea. In 1869 1t became affiliat-
ed with one OF the Wholesale coop
eratiye societies, and the sixteen re-
tall stores which 1t at that time oper-
:sted began to buy from the one
wholesale society. Later 1t went in
60 the building business, advancing
loans to its members for the construc.
lion of homes; then 1t branched into
manufacturing, and established shoe
manufactures, and later clothing and
furniture manufactures, As far back
as 1878 1t took up the advance idea
of giving its employees an annual
holiday, and shortly afterwards be
gan to snake grants to various 10
cal charities. Now it operates a news
room and library, owns a coal warf
operates ships to carry the coal and
10 carry grain; 1t has womans guild
IL conducts school classes in cooking
and dressmaking, etc. 1t has purchas