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Progress Of Association. The Subjoined L...
been printed and widely circulated , I made also the following statement : — "As to the views of the Central Co-operative Agency , they were not , properly speaking-, founding a co-operative Store , but an institution intended to realize certain objects , among which he might single out as one of no ordinary importance , the education of an improved body of distributors , the first step _towarels a successful realization of the idea of a superior system of distribution . " Now , could they imagine that this class was not as
interesting as any other class of working men ? The trustees and partners felt , if not more , certainly the same , interest for this class as they did for any other class of Working men ; and , consequently , it was their intention to Admit such persons to participate in some benefits which they did not enjoy under the old system of trade . Though by the constitution of the new Central Agency they could not be made associates any more than the customers , yet an Association of Shopmen could be formed , and a Conference instituted to train them in the principles upon which the central agency intended to carry on business .
" The establishment would thus , by the stimulus of immediate self-interest , endeavour to show these young men that it was better to go on the new principle than the old one . " I have always considered the making of active efforts to carry out- the numbers 3 and 4 among the four principles above ) quoted , and to organize an association of shopmen , and a conference particularly devoted to the same class of people , as being my especial province in the institution , called the Central Co-operative Agency .
Without any view of underrating the great good ¦ which has already been done , and is still doing through the instrumentality of that establishment , I may say that the points just alluded to have been almost entirely omitted in the zealous and successful exertions made by the trustees and partners of the Co-operative Agency to promote its development . Had this not been , the unavoidable result of the capital of the establishment having other more immediate employment , of certain external obstacles , the principal responsibility of any fault should fall upon me , as I acknowledge that ' attending to those points was my especial duty in the management of the Cooperative Agency .
In fact , experience having shown that the two first items of our common views of commercial reform were carried out as satisfactorily as possible , in the present arrangements of the Co-operative Agency , whilst the other points remained forcibly unattended to , I felt myself bound , at the cost of some hardship , to try to do , in some other way , but to the profit of the general co-operative movement , what could not be elsewhere effected . Such have been , as far as public interest is concerned , the motives of my withdrawal .
Now , it was no slight difficulty for me to finel and to prepare the new framework of practical action , whereby I could promote the objects 1 have more particularly in view , in benefitting , at the same time , the existing Co-operative Steres anel associations of working men , whatever may be the defects of their present constitution . * After mature consideration , leaving for another especial eflbrt , what is to be eleuie rogareling the Provident Institution , anel Educational Conference for shopmen , I have resolved to take up anel to work out by means of a new institution , to be culled the Hoard of Supply and Demand , the third point set forth in thc programme of industrial reform which I have frnmeel , and which I will endeavour , by all proper means , to carry into execution . This third point is as _feillenvs .-
—" That the most legitimate anel efficient means which tho wealthier classes have for aieling the ; we > rking men , and both w <» rking men anil the wealthiest classes for aiding tho poor out of employment , is to secure the _; ir _cionsumptiem to co-operative establishments , by giving their orders through a regular e : hanne : l , acting under an especial responsibility feir the purpose . " I enclose tho first draft of Ihe _abovo-niimcel establishment , ( Hoard of Supply and Demand ) anel will be '
thankful in _receiving your friendly communications and suggestions . I beg to subscribe myself , Yours e > beelie : nlly , JlTl . KS LlCOHNVAT . IKK S'l _' . Afl l ) ll () , T . nt . o Manager e . f the Cruitrnl Oo-opemtivo Agency , at 7 < S , Charlotte _Btrool . Jjimdon , fl , Charles _Htrewt , Koho , July ISUh , 1 H _52 .
Wo have ; received n ce . py of Mr . Lochovidicr St . _Andres Plan , printed for private circulation . It is an application of the principle of bartering to trading operations ; _Jtnel nn n means of bringing cone-erf to bear on exchanges it is well worthy of oonsieleriitiem . We ; nha \\ have ; to give ; it _ene > _se : r attention at n future opportunity .
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CO-OPEBATIVE LEAGUE . Me . William Coningham occupied the chair at the evening meeting on Tuesday . Me . Lloyd Jones read a paper on " Co-operative Stores and Co-operative Workshops—their value in the Social Movement . " He noticed it as a distinctive feature of the social reformers , that they did not attach so much importance to what is called political freedom , although
he did not deny its necessity , as they did to the development of the self-controlling power of the individual members of the commonwealth—at the same time that there were great differences between them as to the means of affecting this object . Now in every end , there must be a proportion between the means and the end , and the means which we had to use for effecting the ends of social reforms , must be founded upon that which existed in the world as it is .
Co-operative Stores and Workshops appeared to him to be one of the best instruments hitherto devised to aid the masses of the community in working out their deliverance from the" tyranny now exercised over them by the evil actions of the material forces of the world . The Co-operative workshops gave the _forking man the control over his own work , and all profits , subject to any payment which he might agree to make for the use of capital . It did not follow that they would materially increase the demand for labour , except in so far as they might lead to the consumption of the profit , which would otherwise be only accumulated . Co-operative Workshops became much more important when connected with the Co-operative Store . The
essential idea of these institutions was the nmon of a number of persons for the purpose of supplying themselves with articles of ordinary consumption . This gave the benefit of greater cheapness , of freedom from adulteration , advantages not to be despised . But it gave also an opportunity of controlling and directing it , and the profit arising from it , an immense source of power which might be used to attain any of the higher ends which we might have in view : some looked down contemptuously , on trade , which it was th _^ . object of these institutions to carry on . But the nobility of the act depended upon the spirit in which it was done , and all the influential powers now in the world arose from the use of such means as those which in these
workshops and stores , placed in the reach of the working body of the population . Mr . Stiles gave an interesting account of the progress of a great store , formed in Westminster more than twenty years ago , of the great zeal displayed by the members for tbe education of tbeir children , of the immediate cause of the failure of the store in the want of business habits in the members , and in the absence of an organization like the Central Agency , for thc supply of trust-worthy material . Mr . Jcnnison , Mr . Coningham , Mr . Furnival , Mr . Saull , Mr . Woodin , Mr . Foreman , Mr . Arnaud , Mr . It . Cooper , and Mr . Vansittart Neale , also look paTt in tho discussion . '
Mr . Jones , in reply , noticed the great elifferonce in the constitution of tbe stores at present , from that of tho former stores , namely , that the profits were elivided amongst the buyers in proportion te . their purchases , paying a good interest to capital , while , in the old stores , the profit went only to tho capital .
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It may satisfy inquirers to know that we did not cxcluele thc report of the Co-operative Conferencewhich we ; hael prepared last week—because of its sectarian anel exclusive character , so damaging , as wo conceuve , to the interests aelvocateel by that Conference , but , simply from pressure upon our space , which _compelled us te > cxcluele the far me > ro important document of M . _Leedievalier .
_CO-OI'ISKATIVR CONFEKKNCK . A coNi'RitENOK of delegates from the various _boeliew . ongngeel in practical co-operation , commenced its sittings e . n Monday forenoon , in a new Hall attached to the premises of the Working _Taileirs' _Asseieiution , in Cast , hvstre _* e : t , Oxlbnl-street . The conference was culled by the ; Council of the Society tor Promoting Working _Mean ' s Asse > e : iafie ) iiH , feir the purpose of taking into e : _emsieleration various propositions _intenelenl to give strength unel unity to a movement whiedi appears to be spreading wieleiy throughout the _IJniteel Kiugdenn . Mr .
Smith , of the _IjiverjMiol Tailors' Association unel Institute , was _e-ulle'd te > the ediair ; anel there ; were ele ; le : gatea present from the ; Pimlico Wen-king Huilelors' _Assentation , the _Keliuburgh _Cooperative Society , the Galashiels Provision Store , the ; Hnulfbrel Co-operative Store , the ; Halifax _Co-eiperativo Store , the ; Manchester Wen-king Halters' _nnel Tailors' Association , the ; London Wen-king Pianoforte-miikorH' _Asseiciatiem , also from tho Metropolitan Working _Sheiemukers' , Taile . _rs _' , unel Printers' Associations ; the _Ooptfetril Iron-works , the North London Buildors , tho Smiths' Association , tho
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City Tailors , and the North London and Garratt ' s-road Manchester Stores , and the Ladies' Guild . The first business was to receive the reports of the delegates as to the position of the bodies they represented , from which it appeared they were , generally speaking , successful in a pecuniary point of viewthough they had to struggle against considerable diffi ! culties , in consequence of the want of legal protection and other causes now partially surmounted . The Conference then proceeded to take up the questions in the programme—the first of which was the propriety of all associations enrolling themselves under the new Act .
The next proposition was , that all co-operative establishments should make it a rule to sell all articles exactly for what they are . The Conference then proceeded to consider what steps could be advantageously taken for the establishment or extension of institutions for the purpose of giving security and force to the co-operative movement . A committee was appointed to draw up a code of rules for a Co-operative Friendly Society , with branches , after the model of the Odd Fellows and similar soci _eties . It was also remitted to the same committee to report as to the plans of a Co-operative Investment Society , and the expediency of co-operative societies entering into relations with it , and also to recommend toy other plan for establishing societies , to advance capital to co-operative bodies .
It was then agreed that the next anqgial Conference be held in Manchester , on the 15 th August , 1853 , and an executive committee was appointed to transact generally such business as may come before it during the ensuing year , connected with the interest of the cooperative movement , to prepare for the business of the next Conference , and to report . This closed the business , and after a vote of thanks to the chairman , the Conference terminated . AN ACT TO LEGALIZE THE FOBjttATION OT
INDUSTRIAL AND PBOVIDENT SOCIETIES , 15 and 16 , c . 31 . The Co-operative League has reprinted this important act , with some explanatory observations , as the second part of the Appendix to the second number of the _Transactions . It is sold in a separate form , and we may pronounce it an indispensable manual to every working association .
Coffee And Chicory. It Is Generally Unde...
COFFEE AND CHICORY . It is generally understood that the Treasury minute of 1840 , allowing the admixture of chicory with coffee , is rescinded ; and that the new regulations for the future sale of that article will be announced to tho trade by the excise , in the course of a few days . Subjoined is the Treasury order , which has just been issued , prohibiting the vending of chicory under the name of coffee , but leaving every dealer at liberty to dispose of each article under its proper name : —
" General Order . " August 3 , 1852 . " In pursuance of directions from the Right Hon . tho Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty ' s Treasury , dated tho 29 th ult ., " Ordered , —That tho general order of August 31 , 1840 , directing ' that no objection bo made , on the part of this revenue , to dealers in and sellers of coffee mixing chicory with coffee , or to their having the same ao mixeel in thetf possession , ' bo rescinded .
" That in futuro licensed elealors in coffee be allowed to keep and sell chicory , or other vegetable substances prepareel to resemble coffee , provideel that they be Sbld unmixed with coffee , in packages scaled or otherwise Secured , containing respectively not less than 2 oj .., and having posted thereon a printeel label , with thc name or firm of tho seller , tho exact weight , and true descrip tion of the article containcel therein ; anel provideel that no such arliclo he kept in a _looser state , or _eilhorwiso than in such packages as _aforosaiel , in any rexun ente : red lor the _etorcago or sale of _ceiffee . " That all lie : _enseel _elealers in coffee ho furnished with a copy of this orele : r , and informed that thoy must abide tho coiiHe : epie _: rie : e * s if , after the expiration of thrco inemths from the ; dato hore ; of , thoy continue te > sell _cetflbo mixed with any ingredient contrary to law .
"Koch e > fliccr must pre _; pare a scheme in his general entry book , in which ho must insert the name anel resieleuco of eve ; ry elealer in coffee in his station , anel tho elate <> f furnishing him with a e _* opy of this oreler , _aeleling therein his own signature in _proeifof tho ele ; livery of the saul _eireler .
The Philosophy Of Railway Accidents. Mit...
THE PHILOSOPHY OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS . Mit . _Samu'K'Ij Lai no , M . P ., Chairman of the London and _Ilrighton Railway , made : the _folleiwing _reinnrks on compciiHutiem for railway _accidents , at the h _.-ilf-yewty meeting , held em Memelay . It is ve : ry instructive :- - " With respect to the ; e : ompensatie _» n for _aceiielents , he reigre ; tte'd te say that thoy had had to pay 3 , f _»( M ) _J . on nceountct some ; _aewidunts , which it ; was neit known at the time hael beem _afteneleut with very _seirieius consequences . It did not be : e : e > mc him , as the head e . fa public , eoinpuny , te > comp _lm 1 _* of the ; law of the ; _limel ; but if eliel appear to him a great _harehihip upon railway companies that thoy should bu mftd °
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07081852/page/8/
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