A Manual of Distributive Co-operationWright & Potter Printing Company, 1885 - 111 halaman |
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MANUAL OF DISTRIBUTIVE CO-OPER Carroll Davidson 1840-1909 Wright,Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of L. Pratinjau tidak tersedia - 2016 |
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agricultural amount balance sheet benefit bers Britain capital invested cash cent Central Board Central Co-operative Board Co-operative Annual Co-operative Congress co-operative distribution co-operative movement co-operative production co-operative societies co-operative stores Co-operative Union Co-operative Wholesale Society Cochers committee competition conducted Congress consumers Crumpsall customers December 31 distributive co-operation distributive societies divide profits dividends division of profits employés England English wholesale established exist expenses Goole Heckmondwike increase joint stock companies labor Lancashire latter Leicester liability loan London makers Manchester manufacturing meetings membership ment number of members number of societies Oldham operative organization ouvriers paid payment people's banks present principles productive societies progress purchases registrar reserve fund retail stores Rochdale Pioneers Rochdale plan rules Scottish wholesale secure sell share capital share in profits shareholders and workers statistics storekeeper success supply Thomas Hughes tion tive total number United Kingdom Walter Morrison Workingmen Co-operators
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Halaman 18 - Inn, was able to interest many young and ardent lawyers, members of his congregation, in the progress of the working classes, and to impart to them his own firm conviction that cooperation was to be an important element in that progress. In 1850 a society for promoting workingmen's associations was formed, Mr. Maurice being at its head. Cooperation it declared to be " the practical application of Christianity to the purposes of trade and industry.
Halaman 65 - The conference districts of the sections are variously organized ; some have a chairman, secretary, and committee ; others have in addition a statistical secretary ; others have a secretary only, while a few have no officers. At the Congresses reports are presented upon the condition of the societies in the various sections, papers are read upon co-operative subjects, and the usual discussions ensue.
Halaman 43 - ... share capital, whether credit is allowed, and, if so, to what extent, and the amount of business done or probable amount which will be done by them. If not registered at time of application but in process of being so, cash is required with each order. After registration cash must be forwarded with the first order, and on subsequent orders payment must, be made within seven days from date of invoice. An application for shares from any society or company must be made by resolution of some general...
Halaman 29 - President of the society is sometimes elected by the members and sometimes by the committee ; the Secretary and Treasurer by the latter. Many societies dispense with a treasurer. Members of the committee are usually paid a small fee for attendance at the weekly business meetings. "It is most desirable, in fixing the scale of payment, to avoid the likelihood of men trying to get on to the committee simply for the sake of the fees. This is a danger to be carefully watched in the cooperative movement....
Halaman 40 - Stores will be enabled, through the agency, to purchase more economically than heretofore, by reaching the best markets. Small stores and new stores are at once put in...
Halaman 49 - ... shown by the record of the steamship '' Cambrian," on the Goole-Calais and Goole-Hamburg lines, which was sailed thirty-three voyages on charter at a total loss of over £533, and was then purchased by the society, her subsequent one hundred and four voyages returning a profit of more than £1,455. The extension of the shipping business is contemplated, and it would not be surprising if further productive enterprises were undertaken. For capital still continues to accumulate faster than trade...
Halaman 63 - It proposes to effect this purpose: (1) By the abolition of false dealing, either (a) direct, by representing any article produced or sold to be other than what it is known to the producer or vendor to be: or, (b) indirect, by concealing from the purchaser any fact known to the vendor material to be known by the purchaser, to enable him to judge of the value of the article purchased. (2) By conciliating the conflicting interests of the capitalist, the worker, and the purchaser...
Halaman 71 - In a conference just held, a resolution was passed asking ' the committee of the Labor Association to point out in a fraternal spirit to the Wholesale Co-operative Society the grave injury they are doing to the cause of co-operation by their failure to carry out co-operative principles in their productive works, and to offer their services in placing the wholesale workshops upon a true co-operative basis.
Halaman 98 - ... barrows, etc., and in many cases these were already possessed by the workmen. The plan of operation was simple. Large contracts are taken by the society at fixed rates, and sublet in sections to members, who work by the piece. By this plan individual remuneration is in proportion to the work performed. The workers become directly interested in the work and their efficiency is proportionately increased. The middleman is abolished, and the laborer is brought into immediate relations with the proprietor...
Halaman 7 - Co-operation, in the social sense of the word, is a new power of industry, constituted by the equitable combination of worker, capitalist and consumer, and a new means of commercial morality, by which honesty is rendered productive. It is the concert of many for compassing advantages impossible to be reached by one, in order that the gain may be fairly shared by all concerned in its attainment...