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    THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL. 201

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    .. * • Part Ii. Co-Operation. Neail The ...

    market value . It will be most interesting to watch , tlie progress of these co-operative establishmentsand the part taken in them

    , have by the most working important classes consequences , to -whom a to new their field well is - open being which and their

    mayindependence of character . # _•& * _•& -X- it *

    "An examination of the report and balance-sheet of the Leeds Industrial Society , for the half-year ending December , 1859 , shows

    that the business done amounted to £ 19 , 516 , or about £ 750 per week , and the profit was £ 1 , 012 , which the , after members paying of the 2 working sack

    on expenses flour , , 2 allowed s . 6 d . in a the distribution pound on amongst grocery , and 8 d . per pound s . on per clothingThe LeedsPudsey & cSocietis just struggling into

    pros-. , , , y profit perity of after £ 360 a , first and year a prospect of loss , of its gr balance eat futur -sheet e success for others 1859 . Ther shows e is a a

    store in Manchester with three branchesand two just opening they of £ . 3 have , Its 457 report , a or news about for -room the £ 266 quarter at per the week ending central . June There and , , 1860 another are 600 , shows members at one a business of , and the

    pound branch , and stores carried . They a divided small balance , for the forward last quarter . There , Is is . 8 c a ? . second in the

    store £ 130 in per the week Hulme in a shop townshi where p of an Manchester ordinary this tradesman store turning also would over divide about think

    he did well if he took £ 20 per week . At they result quarterl of y these about establishments Is . 6 d . to Is . 9 d . in the therefore pound . to The be to practical enable appears

    the members to secure unadulterated food , at the , prices generally charged for the adulteratedand to ive also from seven and a half

    , g to ten a per par cent with , discount the richest ; in other so far words as , the they purchas put the e poorest of food man and

    upon , done dail clothing y for consumption land are concerned and houses what ; , freehold they they do sell for land by the retail and article at buildin wholesale s of g the interest societies workman prices have ; but £ ' 1 s

    they and upwards do also more in the than shape this , of by shares offering , and 5 per giving cent , a voice in on the ments management and they of the educate concern in self , they -government stimulate the to most prudential important invest as

    factories well as , most carry numerous on this class education of societ by y increasing ; and the the co-operative workman manu ' s in - - h of

    duty terest along in the with quality the feeling of his productions of independence , promoting arising a from hig the sense fact establishment

    that the man is working for the character of his own , for H his aving own no ultimate more sp competency ace for extracts as well from as Mr for . W present atts' most wages valuable . _" b

    paper femal came e , strong I labor will l . y just A impressed business say that with managed in the the discussion app on co licability -operat which iv of e princi the followed princi ples , p is I le de to e - -

    prived of half its strain . If twenty people club together to purchase

    The Opinions Of John Stuart Mill. 201

    THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL . 201

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/57/