The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-05
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housing entirely covered by sales
o o6e and or Sc 3 at 6e Il Tae of n
production and drilling activity this should be fully
their transport and freight charges will be very considerable
when the construction OF the pipe line to on the
Black Sea has been completed This work is already in hand
llI-Visit to Baku co-operatives
While at Baku the Delegation opportunity Of visit
ing the miners wholesale cooperative store This store which
only established few ago. is in the form Of long
into departments grocery drapery Everything
the shelves goods required by the different branch
There three cooperative societies in Baku The Cen
trial. the Miners (already mentioned and the "Azerbajan
which supplies outlying villages society whole
sale warehouse and altogether there 100 branch stores in
the city.
The first cooperative formed in Baku in 1914
branch store visited 5000 customers served daily
other proporonate In the city of Baku there
altogether 100000 the cooperative
cees This rapidly growing Cooperative Movement easily
accounted for by the primitive condition of large
small private shops The private shops very
the goods displayed disordery fashion, and
dirty OF the goods sold by all retail stores 70 per cent pro-
cured through the wholesale cooperative society 25 per
is bought privately claimed that these
societies have kept down the prices and able to compete
with the private trader IA
cooperative stores was that the emoye must be- member
the union of employ
than so employees there shop committees Adelegate
however appointed whose duty is to collect the contrbu
ons of the members general committee of the union carries
the work a9eo
impression made Delegation was that the
operative societies are steadily oustng the private trader and
and cleanliness is undoubted
W.-Visit to Tifis co-operatives ~
At Tfis visit paid the Office of the Russian
Union of Soviet and Commercial Employees the Palace of
Labor The Delegation saw one of the numerous clubs esab
shed for the recreation of the members the
children of the members of the Trade Union The children from
IA to Is years lodged
200 scholars There labor law that children should
be allowed to work till IA of and then only for four
hours day till they 16 The Delegation informed
that unfortunately respect young
regularly enforced that children still employed
from to years of though this strictly speaking illegal
There is at general compulsory education
authorities have not the provide schools for teaching
for all the children is this fact which makes the schools
opened by the Trade Unions of such Importance since they
providing for the children of the members who would
has ypewrng school, which visited Here again
charged for teaching and there reayso
In the boating of sports are pro-
vded free to all members of the Union Arrangements
made for visit number cooperative private
The United Workers Cooperative Society has hundred
stores in Tifs and membership of 100000
5000 customers served daily In addition
Workers Cooperative Society there is military cooperative
5000 MEMBERS the Transport Workers Union also
has cooperative with 1853 members
There two large agricultural cooperative societies.
for purchasing machinery the
for peasant farming and the other for retail supply
domestic requirements These societies have 5000
bers There also small general cooperative society with
about 5000 members.
visit paid the Central of the United Work
ers Cooperative Society," This society has general committee
of 10 members three of whom experts body
executive committee of five chosen three ordinary members
and two experts BY experts
OF the banking and finance departments The society
started in 1921 with small entrance This
been raised to roubes; the membership
and is rapidly increasing In October 1921 the
only $4,000 roubes but by the middle of 1924
100000 oubles The productive belong APP
popate union while the sales people members
Of the ARussian Union of Soviet and Commercial Employees
The number of clerks and administrators greatly
what would be considered in England for the
of business these cooperative grocery
provision departments have the largest turnover
Importance is the bakery and confectionery and thirdly
drapery.
At This in Baku the general untidness of the small
private shop noticeable while cooperative
are very tidy and clean, y