This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...thus adding less than 50 per cent. The aggregate capital of the consumers' Co-operative Movement in Great Britain at the end of 1920, allowing for duplications, can hardly have been less than 100,000,000, a truly remarkable aggregation of the savings of the four million Co-operators, and one constituting far and away ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...thus adding less than 50 per cent. The aggregate capital of the consumers' Co-operative Movement in Great Britain at the end of 1920, allowing for duplications, can hardly have been less than 100,000,000, a truly remarkable aggregation of the savings of the four million Co-operators, and one constituting far and away the largest business enterprise under the administration of the wage-earning class of any nation. (b) The Political Transformation Perhaps the most momentous effect of the Great War on the British Co-operative Movement has been the quickening of its political self-consciousness. Down to 1914 the Movement had remained, so far as any corporate manifestation was concerned, strictly non-political. Co-operators were, individually, Conservative, Liberal, or Labour in their political sympathies or affiliations, but the Co-operative society, as such, abstained from political partisanship. Now and again, when some action of Parliament or a government department was objected to, or when some alteration in law or administration was desired in the interest of the Movement itself, representations, public or CO-OPERATIVE POLITICS 245 private, would be made in the name of Co-operation; and in these representations Co-operators of all political sympathies would join. Probably a majority of the active Co-operators were attached to the Liberal Party, to which most of the leading members belonged. There were among them many Conservatives and a growing number of adherents of the Labour Party. Within the Movement itself there was, however, by common consent the very minimum of "party politics." By the end of the war a great change had occurred. The demand for representation of the Movement in the House of Commons had become widespread. What had move...
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