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    WOMEN AND CO-OPERATION. 373

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    what existing dangers " will show threaten how them such enterprises as they approach should success "be begu . n , Such and

    societies and one ( of associations jewellers ouvrihres founded ) _, in were 1834 first is established still flourishing in France ; the ,

    members , have accumulated , a capital , and , make fair profits which weekl are annuall y wages y divided they have amongst received the workmen for p founded iece in work proportion b . the The to Piano the

    perseverance Makers exertion ' Association and of self fourteen -denial , also in raised working France at , length men was , who the , sum by y of the £ untiring 40 utmost with

    , three which in to number commence possessing operations - a l ; arge the freehold members m are anufactory now twenty , and

    of workmen cap the ital most to on the ordinary flourishing amount , terms of of . the £ 6520 An trade Association , besides , in Paris emp of ; Builders it loy numbers ing several is 000 one 81

    m and embers owning , transacting £ 10 , 000 business capital , yearl raised y to the entirel amount y by of their £ 52 , own , exertions since their establishment in 1848 . In 1856 an

    Association for Manufacturing Cotton was founded at Rochdale , under the auspices of the energetic Pioneers , and has passed than

    most through rivate the trials mills of there the cotton is also famine a Spinning more and triump Manufacturing hantly

    Co-operative p Society ; in Manchester , together with one of Tailors and Hatters . In Londonseveral attempts have been made

    widespread princi since capital 1850 , le is of going to succes beg establish inning on s ; one well simil business , , of , and ar Shoemakers concerns another on a scal , , , but based e started commensurate as yet on with without the borrowed sounder to very its

    real mean p sis progressing rapidly . This last , that of the Gilders of lied , Lion Sareis a fair tical specimen of such

    undertakings , as its success qu , , though decided yp , was not procured at onceand would still perhaps disappoint extravagant

    expectb ations only weekl the . , essential It subscri was begun qualities ptions b they y of five perseverance raised journ £ eym 8 with and en g mutual which ilders , to confidence possessing furnish a ;

    room y and y then began to take in work ; at first they had some transactions difficulty , in maintaining and sustained the some ready losses -money but on character the whole of their th ey

    kep at present t in more , , they regular members have work raised have than their onl is cap general received , ital from in their £ 8 trade to £ , , 200 and . ,

    Plithertothe y , ordinary wages , besides their business 5 , per cent increases , interest it is on intended their invested to divide savings the , s but lus as urp

    profits Such equall are a y few amongst details the , concerning members the . rise and progress of the

    most successful and most meritorious of Co-operative association s

    for general trade . They suggest three points in particular ,

    Women And Co-Operation. 373

    WOMEN AND CO-OPERATION . 373

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/13/