Show OOOIKKATIVE CIGA71MAUEKS II 1 It is said that the striking New York cigar makers are contemplating a cooperative co-operative movement with the view to the transfer of the business of making and selling cigars to themselves The i Knights of Labor favor the idea and win enforce a vigorous boyco t to J sustain the men in case the plan shall be put into operation The scheme is to manufacture cigars to be disposed of at wholesale by a central agency It is not contemplated to establish large factories or pay regular day wages he work is to be done at the homes of the men the cigars to 1 be sold on commission by the ventral agency or purchased outright when it can be done The boycott is to DC applied to all dealers who refuse to bell the cigars The plan is a good one and ought to I work sncmsfoUy There are 9000 of the strikers and they comprise the mast expert of the cigar makers in the t figs It will quire little or no capital i 1 to put the scheme into operation A 1 1 t Jew dollars worth of tobacco is all that the individual will require to begin with indeed he will want only enough k tor two or three days work for with a vigorous boycott in operation titers would be a ready sale for the cigars and i j a quick turn of the money Iu a short r 1 time if the workmen are wise and in j dustrfcras instead of being controlled by a few capitalists they will control the cigar business and drive the present i g pres-ent manufacturers out of the industry t There should be a bright hint in this idea to laborers f f in other branches If workingmen 1f will combine into cooperative associations t i4 as-sociations and manuiactnro on their r ewn account there are many industries i which they can transfer from capital ista to themselves The plan would be much better than that which involves strikes which almost invariable coat the strikers much more than they do IT I employers |