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Show A report Issued by the British labor department on workmen's co-operative societies Is quite Interesting. It shows the wonderful growth of that movement. Between 1874 and 1899 the recorded membership of all classes of co-opcratlvo societies Incrcasdcd from 403,010 to 1,081,312, and their total yearly transactions Increased from 75 to 340 millions of dollars. Of the 82,000 persons employed by thoco-opcratlvesoclctles thoco-opcratlvesoclctles making returns, 47,-000 47,-000 aro engaged In tho'buslncss of distributing dis-tributing goods, while 25,000 more aro employed by tho distributive societies In their factories. There aro however only 3,800 poisons who aro co-operators In the sense of being capitalist and workman combined. |