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Show All Men Were Created to Cooperate ROCHDALE SYSTEM 100 YEARS OLD "We are made for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like upper up-per and lower teeth. To act against one another is contrary to nature." In 1944 it will be 100 years since a few half-starved and greatly under un-der paid weavers started the first Rochdale Cooperative at Toad Lane, England. From this small beginning it has grown into a world-wide busi. ness and but for war would soon have conquered the earth. It has seventy million members in 40 countries In the U, S. today it is doing an annual business of $750,000,000. All business should be conducted according to this plan, even banking and insurance. What enormous profits might -come to the people and benefit all instead of piling up fabulous fortunes for a few, who seek to keep the people from cooperating, and who rob with greater money power the people who support them. Every depositor in a bank, everyone who pays money to an insurance company should have his proportionate share of the profits. Man is civilized to the extent that he cooperates. How greatly life might be changed for the better by this sane and sensible plan of cooperation. Get together people and use it. |