Co-operative Ideals and ProblemsCo-operative Union, 1926 - 143 pages |
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according activities actually advantage association capital Cartel central organisations classification Co-operation co-operative form co-operative movement co-operative society co-operative undertaking Co-operative Wholesale Society Committee considered consumers countries decisions definite democracy democratic desire difficulty direct district meetings economic effective efficiency effort employees enterprise equal voting rights example existence extent factory form of undertaking free competition household economy human idea individual industry International Co-operative Alliance JOHN DOWNIE kind kronor Labour interests labour power machinery Manchester Liberals manufacturers margarine means membership ment monopolist monopoly necessary needs operations Owenite possible principles private trade problem procure production profit profit-seeking progress proprietors purchasers purpose question result retail Robert Owen Rochdale principles Rochdale rules Sale Societies sell social specialisation Stockholm sumers supply surplus Sweden Swedish Co-operative Union tion tive to-day Trade Union wages Wholesale Society workers
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Page 126 - The International Co-operative Alliance, in continuance of the work of the Rochdale Pioneers and in accordance with their Principles, seeks, in complete independence and by its own methods, to substitute for the profitmaking regime a co-operative system organised in the interests of the whole community and based upon mutual self-help.
Page 106 - The object of this Association is to effect peaceably, and by reason alone, an entire change in the character and condition of mankind, by establishing over the world, in principle and practice, the religion of charity for the opinions, feelings, and conduct of all individuals, without distinction of sex, class, sect, party, country, or colour, combined with a well-devised, equitable, and natural system of united property...
Page 2 - Let it be universally understood that the grand ultimate object of all co-operative societies, whether engaged in trading, manufacturing, or agricultural pursuits, is community on land.
Page 106 - Secondly, by the central association and its branches, creating a new public opinion in favour of this entire change in the character and condition of man, by public meetings, lectures, discussions, missionaries, cheap publications, mutual exchanges of productions upon equitable principles, without individual competition; and finally, by founding, as soon as possible, COMMUNITIES OF UNITED INTEREST...
Page 47 - Co-operation has at its disposal excellent machinery for the distribution and sale of goods. Existing solely to promote its members' economy in the home, it stands, if the members have been shrewd enough to build and work according to Rochdale principles, safe from any external financial influence. A private competitive undertaking, such as occasionally still starts up within departments of manufacture dominated...
Page 31 - The Scottish rule was as follows : " Each society shall have one vote in virtue of being a member of the society, one additional vote for the first one thousand five hundred pounds worth of goods purchased, and one other vote for every complete three thousand pounds worth of purchases from the society thereafter. The representation of each society to be based on its net purchases for the quarter immediately...
Page 48 - I. by monopolies, exists simply to create profits for its founder and has, therefore, rarely any objection against selling out to a monopoly should the offer be sufficiently attractive. The competitive undertaking created by associations of consumers is protected against that risk. Its object is to bring down and hold down the price of commodities. Once...
Page 127 - It subordinates itself loyally and readily to national jurisdiction and considers... that some such compulsory organization as the State is, and always will be, indispensable for the protection of right and justice in the broadest sense, for ordinary education, for care of the sick and feeble, and for a number of other similar duties. But at the same time it considers free co-operation of the people to be preferable to compulsory organization for the satisfaction of human...
Page 47 - The State is scarcely in a position to revive the necessary competition ; it lacks the most essential apparatus of all for the task — selling facilities. These the State could procure only by establishing a public monopoly to displace the private monopoly and so, and in similar fashion, compelling retailers to submit now to its dominance.
Page 35 - Sweden, who saw in cooperative enterprise an adaptation of the old, self-sufficing family economy of earlier rural life to the modern machine age. He said: "While everyone else openly proclaimed as an essential to human existence that individuals should strive with might and main to win each to himself the utmost possible gain at the expense of others, cooperatives set up as their lodestar that households should work in harmony together so that, by good organization and machinery, they might procure...