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THE
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE
SOCIETIES LIMITED.
ANNUAL
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PublislHTby
THE CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY
LIMITED,
1, Balloon Street, Manchester ; and
THE SCOTTISH CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE
SOCIETY LIMITED,
95, Morrison Street, Glasgow.
PREFACE.
IN the present volume an innovation will be noticed, which
will be found to add interest to the illustrations that have
formed so prominent a feature of the "Annual" for many ye
Opposite each view a brief description appears, that will, in
conjunction with the plate, afford a more complete conception
of the operations of the Wholesale Societies than could be gained
from either separately.
The special articles are four in number. The first, on "Cotton
Growing Witliin the British Empire," is by Mr. J. Howard Eeed,
whose name is now familiar to the readers of the "Annual." Mr.
Eeed's previous contributions, however, have been concerned with
affairs in Egypt, African Gold Fields, &c. , but in none of them
has any topic been dealt with of more importance to our home
population. Startling figures are given and comparisons made to
show that the present position is, to a great extent, due to the
enormous increase in consumption of cotton, by the Continent of
Europe and the Tinted States in the last t& y&rs. It is pointed
out that the cotton industry employs close upoif 500,000, therefore
the number of per\pfis directly dependen^tnpn it must be several
millions, and that, s the chief source ofJsupply is America, "in
the event of a famine, \herefore, or evenyof a very serious shortage,
we should probably lose the whole of our Americ :ui supply, as
naturally those on the si ')j get the first call upon the
supplies grown in their own%imtfy. It is to safeguard ourselves
against so serious and appalling a catastrophe that it has in recent
years become imperative that something should be done; and it
was the realisation of this necessity on the part of a few far-seeing
men that some years back brought into being the British Cotton
Growing Association, which has ever since devoted its attention
most assiduously and loyally to the problem set before it." The
work accomplished by the Association is then recounted and
possibilities of future achievements estimated.
III.
PKEFACE.
Mr. W. M. J. Williams' article on "Lords and Commons"
should prove of distinct interest at the present time, when
insistent demands are being made that the powers and limitations
of those powers should be strictly denned. The historic survey
Hint the author gives us commences with the signing of the Great
Charter in 1215, and, as far as limit of space permits, the steady
growth of the Commons as a political force is traced from reign
to reign. The article is well worth study, and a knowledge of
the facts therein contained may well prove of service in many a
strenuous argument.
At first sight the title of Mr. Fletcher's article, "The
Co-operative Movement in Relation to Literature and Art," will
no doubt arouse curiosity as to the nature of the connection to" be
established. The opening sentences seern to admit that the
relationship is but slender, but by a liberal interpretation of the
term "Co-operation" Mr. Fletcher finds ample ground for
enlarging upon the presence of purely human influence in
literature and art. We have been able to include reproductions
of four of the pictures referred to, thus enabling the reader to
follow more closely the thread of the argument.
Articles on various aspects of the Land Question have appeared
in previous issues of the "Annual," but Mr. Edwards' contribution
is none the less valuable on that account. The article is headed
by an apt quotation from J. R. Lowell, beginning "Let us speak
plain," and Mr. Edwards' article reveals on every page his
agreement with that injunction. He is an enthusiast on the
subject, and as a consequence writes upon it in a style trenchant
and outspoken. The article is longer than is usually the case, but
bearing in mind the vast importance of the subject we think our
readers will not deem the space it occupies excessive.
THE COMMITTEE.
IV.
LIST OF MAPS, DIAGRAMS, PLATES, &c.
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY.
Diagrams
Comparison of the Sales of Wholesale and
Retail Co-operation.
Forty-seven Years' Progress of Co-operation.
Forty-six Years' Progress of the Co-opera-
tive Wholesale Society Limited.
Map of the World, showing Foreign and
Colonial Depots.
Map of the United Kingdom, showing Depots,
Ac., of the Wholesale Societies.
Manchester
Bird's Eye View of Central Premises.
Mitchell Memorial Hall, Boardroom, Offices,
Ac., Corporation Street.
Balloon Street and Garden Street.
Drapery Warehouse, Balloon Street.
Dantzic Street.
Trafford Bacon Factory and Wharf.
Newcastle
West Blandford Street.
Waterloo Street and Thornton Street.
Quayside Warehouse. Stowell Street.
Pelaw : Bird's Eye View.
Drug and Drysaltery Works.
Cabinet Works. Clothing Factory.
Printing Works.
London
Leman Street. Clothing Factory.
Bacon Stoves. Tea Department.
Silvertown: Bird's Eye View.
Bristol Dep6t.
Brislington Butter Factory.
Cardiff Depot.
Northampton Saleroom.
Nottingham Saleroom.
Birmingham Saleroom.
Huddersfield Saleroom.
Limerick Dep6t.
Armagh Depot.
Tralee Egg and Butter Depot.
Bacon Factory.
Typical Irish Creamery.
Crumpsall Biscuit, Sweet, &c., Works.
Middleton Junction Preserve, &c., Works.
Middleton Junction Vinegar Brewery and
Pickle and Sauce Factory.
Wisbech Fruit Depot.
Leicester Wheatsheaf Boot and Shoe Works.
Duns Lane Boot and Shoe Works.
Enderby Boot and Shoe Works. Works.
Heckmondwike Boot, Shoe, and Currying
Rushden Boot and Shoe Works.
Irlam Soap, Candle, and Glycerine Works.
Silvertown (London) Soap Works.
Dunston-on-Tyne Soap Works.
Batley Woollen Cloth Factory.
Leeds Clothing Factory.
Brush and Mat Works.
Luton Cocoa and Chocolate Works.
Dunston-on-Tyne Flour Mill.
Silvertown (London) Flour Mill. [Wharf.
Sun Flour and Provender Mills, Trafford
Star Flour Mill, Oldham.
Avonmouth (Bristol) Flour Mill.
Silvertown (London) Productive Factory.
Broughton (Manchester) Cabinet, Tailoring,
Mantle, Shirt, Underclothing, &c.,
Factories.
Desborough Corset Factory.
Longsight (Manchester) Printing Works.
Leicester Printing Works.
Hartlepool Lard Refinery.
Littleborough Flannel Factory.
Manchester Tobacco Factory.
Hucknall Huthwaite Hosiery Factory.
Bury Weaving Shed.
Keighley Ironworks.
Dudley Bucket and Fender Works.
Birtley Tinplate Works.
Longton Crockery Dep6t.
Pontefract Fellmongering Works.
Esbjerg (Denmark) Depot.
Odense (Denmark) Depot.
Herning Bacon Factory.
Sydney Oil and Tallow Factory.
Denia (Spain) Depot.
S.S. " Fraternity." S.S. " New Pioneer."
Roden Convalescent Home.
Tomato Houses.
Nugawella Tea Factory.
Weliganga Tea Estate.
Bungalow.
SCOTTISH CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY.
(Following page 96.)
Grocery and Provision Warehouse, 119,
Paisley Road, Glasgow.
Registered Office and Furniture Warehouse,
95, Morrison Street, Glasgow.
Grocery and Provision Warehouse, Links
Place, Leith.
Grocery and Provision Warehouse, Grange
Place, Kilmarnock.
Grocery and Provision Warehouse, Seagate,
Dundee.
Enniskillen Branch Central Premises.
Drapery Warehouse, Dundas Street, Wallace
Street, and Paterson Street, Glasgow.
Furniture and Furnishing Showrooms,
Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
Productive Works, Shieldhall, Govan.
New Frontage and Printing Department,
Shieldhall.
Boot Factory, Shieldhall.
Cabinet Factory, Shieldhall.
Dining-rooms and Ready-made Clothing
Factory, Shieldhall.
Chancelot Roller Flour Mills, Edinburgh.
Junction Meal and Flour Mills, Leith.
Regent Roller Flour Mills, Glasgow,
(irain Elevators, Winnipeg, Canada.
Ettrick Tweed and Blanket Mills, Selkirk.
Soap Works, Grangemouth.
Dress Shirt Factory, Leith.
Creamery and Margarine Factory, Bladnoch,
Wigtownshire.
Fish-Curing Works, Aberdeen.
Calderwood Castle and Estate.
V.
INDEX.
PAGE.
ACCIDENTS, Railway 328
Administrations from December, 1783 301
Art, The Co-operative Movement in Relation to Literature and. By
A. E. Fletcher 199
ARTICLES:
Co-operative Movement in Relation to Literature and Art, The. By
A. E. Fletcher 199
Cotton Growing Within the British Empire. By J, Howard Reed,
F.R.G.S 151
Land and Taxation, The Fraudulent Relations of : Their Responsibility
for the Long-continued Existence of Radically Unjust Social
Conditions. By Joseph Edwards 219
Lords and Commons in Legislation, Specially as Regards Finance.
By W. M. J. Williams 177
BANK Holidays 332
Barometer Instructions 306
Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Registers of 332
CALENDAR for 1911 333
Calendar, Principal Articles of 331
Commons, Lords and, in Legislation, Specially as Regards Finance.
By W. M. J. Williams 177
Congresses, Co-operative 131
Consolidated Stock, Average Price of 284
Contributions which have appeared in " The Co-operative Wholesale
Societies' Annual " from 1885 to 1911 334
Co-operative Congresses 131
International 146
Papers read at 134
Movement in Relation to Literature and Art, The. By
A. E. Fletcher 199
Progress, 1862 to 1908 (United Kingdom) 267
Societies, Summary of Law relating to 148
Union : Its Principles and Constitution 147
PAGE.
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETIES :
English. Scottish.
Annual Return, Abstract of, for Year ended December
25th, 1909 36 ..
Artisan Clothing Factory . . 109
Advantages of Membership . . 96
Auditors, Past 28
Biscuits, Sweets, &c., Works, Crumpsall 46
Bonus to Labour . . 128
Boot and Shoe Department 39, 81 . . 105
Factory . . Ill
Works, Leicester 68
Boot and Shoe Works, Heckmondwike 70 . .
Rushden 70
Brush Factories 72 . . 114
Bucket and Fender Works, Dudley 74
Business Notices, &c . . 93-96
VI.
INDEX.
PAGE.
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETIES (continued) : English * Scottish
Business Premises, &c 1-6 . . 89-90
Cabinet Works 72, 76 . . 112
Ceylon Tea Estates. Particulars of Rainfall for Five
Years, 1905 to 1909, in Months 316
Coal Department 80
Committees, Auditors, and Scrutineers 7 . . 91
Committees, Past Members of 24-26 . .
Committee, Members of, who Died during Office 27
Confectionery Works . . 117
Corset Factory, Desborough 62
Creameries, Bladnoch and Whithorn . . 125
Drapery Department 39, 81 . . 104
Events in connection with the Wholesale Society in 1911,
Coming 10
Events, Principal 17-19 ..
Employes in Departments 13-15 . . 126
Fish Curing Works . . 121
Flannel Mills 60
Flour Mills Dunston 52
Silvertown 52
Manchester Sun Flour 54
OldhamStar 54 ..
Chancelot . . 119
Junction . . 123
Regent . . 124
Furnishing Department 40, 81 . . 106
Grocery Department 38, 80 . .100-103
Hosiery Factory 62 . . 113
Ironworks, Keighley 74
Lard Refinery 56
London Branch 42-45, 79, 84-85 . .
Mantle Factory . . 110
Newcastle Branch 40-42,79,82-83 ..
Officers and Departments 8-12 . . 92
Preserve, &c., Works 48 . . 116
Printing Works 58-61 . . 115
Progress of the Wholesale Societies 30 . . 88, 98
Reserve Fund Account 34
Shirt Factories 64 . . 108
Soap, Candle, &c., Works 48-51 . . 122
Tailoring Factory . . 107
Leeds 66 ..
Broughton 68 . .
Pelaw 76 ..
Telegraphic Addresses 20
Telephonic Communication 22
Tinplate Works, Birtley 74
Tobacco Factory 56 . . 118
Trade Terms, Conditions of Membership, &c . . 95
Underclothing Factory . . 120
Union Bank of Scotland, Branches . . 97
Weaving Shed 66
Woollen Department 39, 81
Mills, Batley 64 . .
VII.
INDEX.
PAGE.
Cotton Growing Within the British Empire. ByJ. HowardReed, F.R.G.S. 151
Customs Tariff 280
DEATH Duties, The 288
Discount, Average Minimum Rate per Cent, of 285
Duties, Customs, in the United Kingdom 280
ECLIPSES 332
Edwards, Joseph. The Fraudulent Relations of Land and Taxation :
Their Responsibility for the Long-continued Existence of Radically
Unjust Social Conditions 219
Expectation of Life 296
FLETCHER, A. E. The Co-operative Movement in Relation to Literature
and Art 199
QOODEY, The Late Mr. J. F 264
H OLIDAYS, Bank 332
IMPORTS and Exports (1889-1909) 324-325
Income Tax 283
Income and Expenditure of the United Kingdom, year ending March
31st, 1910 : 279
Income under Review by Inland Revenue 305
Intestate, Rules by which the Personal Estates of Persons Dying, are
Distributed 291
Intestate, Rules of Division according to the Law of Scotland of the
Movable Estate of a Person who has Died 293
KlNG and Royal Family 300
LAND and Taxation, The Fraudulent Relations of : Their Responsibility
for the Long-continued Existence of Radically Unjust Social
Conditions. By Joseph Edwards 219
Land, Dealings with 286
Law Relating to Societies, Summary of the 148
Law Sittings 332
Life, Expectation of 296
Lords and Commons in Legislation, Specially as Regards Finance. By
W. M. J. Williams 177
METEOROLOGICAL Tables 309-314
PARLIAMENTS of the United Kingdom 300
Presidents of the United States of America 302
Price of Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Consolidated Stock 284
Progress of Co-operation (United Kingdom) 267
Public Acts Passed 1910 278
VTII.
INDEX.
PAGE.
KAILWAY Accidents 328
Rainfall, Tabulated Statements of 315-319
Reed, J. Howard, P. R.G.S. Cotton Growing Within the British Empire 151
Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 332
Royal Family, The King and 300
Rules by which the Personal Estates of Persons Dying Intestate are
Distributed 291
Rules of Division according to the Law of Scotland of the Movable
Estate of a Person who has Died Intestate 293
lABLE Showing Number of Days from any Day of one Month to same
Day of any other Month 329
Table Showing the Number of Days between any Two Dates 326
Taxation, The Fraudulent Relations of Land and : Their Responsibility
for the Long-continued Existence of Radically Unjust Social
Conditions. By Joseph Edwards 219
Terms and Abbreviations Commonly Used in Business 330
Tide Table, Liverpool 320
Goole 322
Time all over the World 305
U NION, Co-operative, its Principles and an Account of 147
United Kingdom, the Public Income and Expenditure, year ending
March 31st, 1910 279
United Kingdom, Customs Tariff of the 280
Parliaments of the 300
States, Presidents of 302
WILLIAMS, W. M. J. Lords and Commons in Legislation, Specially
as Regards Finance 177
Wrecks, United Kingdom 303-4
Comparative Progress of Wholesale and Retail
Co-operative Societies in the United Kingdom.
(YEARS 62 3 4 5 6 78 9701 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9801 2 3 4 5 6 7 8990 1 2345 6 78 919 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
SALES.
YEARS.
1862 .... 2,333523
SALES.
YEARS.
1886 32 730745
1863 2,673,778
1887 34 483 771
1864 2,836,606
1888 37 793903
1865 3,373,847
1889 40674673
1866 4,462,676
1890 43731 669
1867 6,001,153
1891 ... . 49024 171
1868 7,122,360
1892 51 060854
1869 7,353,363
1893 .... 51 803836
1870 8,201,685
1894 52 110800
1871 9,463,771
1895 ... 55 100249
1872 13,012,120
1896 ... 59951 635
1873 15,639,714
1897 ... 64956049
1874 16,374,053
1898 ... 68 523 969
1875 18,499,901
1899 ... 73 533 686
1876 19,921,054
1900 ... 81 020428
1877 21,390,447
1901 ... 85 872 706
1878 21,402,219
1902 ... 89 772923
1879 20,382,772
1903 ... 93 384 799
1880 23,248,314
1904 ... 96263 328
1881 24,945,063
1905 . 98 002 565
1882 27,541,212
1906 102 408 120
1883 29,336,028
1907 . Ill 239503
1884 30,424,101
1908 113 090 337
1885 31,305,910
TOTAL SALES IN THE FORTY-SEVEN} ^^ rico -rork oor
YEARS, 1862 TO 1908 j * j*fO35/oU, 389
TOTAL PROFITS IN THE FORTY- SEVEN ) ty<tQfiK/t<*c*AQ
YEARS, 1862 TO 1908 ( * 1 O,C>^3,^IO
STATISTICAL POSITION OF CO-OPERATIVE
SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,
DECEMBER 31sT, 1908.
Compiled from tJie Returns made by Societies to the Registrar and
Co-operative Union.
Number of Members 2,701,123
Share Capital .... ... 35,075112
Loan Capital 17,649,071
Sales for 1908 113,090,337
Net Profits for 1908 10.99fi.7fi9
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CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY LIMITED.
YEARS.
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870 ( W "J
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1872
1873
1874
1875
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120,754
175,489
331,744
412,240
507,217
677,734
758,764
1,153,132
1,636,950
1,964,829
2,247,395
2,697,366
2,827,052
2,705,625
2,645,331
3,339,681
3,574,095
4,038,238
4,546,889
4,675,371
4,793,151
5,223,179
YEARS.
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
BALKS.
5,713,235
6,200,074
7,028,944
7,429,073
8,766,430
9,300,904
9,526,167
9,443,938
10,141,917
11,115,056
11,920,143
12,574,748
14,212,375
16,043,889
17,642,082
18,397,559
19,333,142
19,809,196
20,785,469
22,510,035
24,786,568
24,902,842
25,675,938
TOTAL SALES IN THE FORTY-SIX)
YEARS, 1864 TO 1909 }
TOTAL PROFITS IN THE FORTY-SIX)
YEARS, 1864 TO 1909 j
384,363,807
6,163,694
STATISTICAL POSITION OF THE CO-OPERATIVE
WHOLESALE SOCIETY LIMITED,
DECEMBER 25TH, 1909.
Number of Societies holding Shares... 1,163
Number of Members belonging to Shareholders, 1,925,517
Share Capital (Paid up) 1,657,305
Loans and Deposits 3,276,733
Eeserve Fund Trade and Bank 468,602
Insurance Fund 742,381
Sales for the Year 1909 25,675,938
Net Profits for Year 1909 ... ; .. 549,080
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BUSINESS PREMISES
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OWNED BY
THE CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE
SOCIETY LIMITED.
Central Premises.
Original Balloon Street Premises.
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IN 1869 the Co-operative Wholesale Society bought the premises
shown in the illustration heading this page, in which to carry
on its fast-growing business. Since 1863, when the Society's
career began, its work was performed in rented buildings, but
when the trade reached nearly 300,000 per annum the Committee
felt emboldened to the extent of buying the Balloon Street
property. At that time the only other C.W.S. buildings existing
were small depots for the purchasing of butter at Tipperary and
Kilmallock, in Ireland.
In forty-seven years the business has made rapid strides;
almost every year has seen extensions, developments, or new
enterprises launched, and now all the premises portrayed on the
following pages are the property of the C.W.S.
In the second illustration Balloon Street runs up between the
two main blocks, and the original building is that at the top of
the street on the right-hand side surmounted by a glass dome. Up
to the year 1885 this warehouse towered above an environment of
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slum property. At the rear was "Clock Alley," a court lined with
old cottages, and leading to Corporation Street ; little public-houses
and coal yards, a cotton-waste warehouse and miscellaneous small
buildings were adjacent. All these have been supplanted by the
buildings of the C.W.S. In the right-hand block the Bank
occupies a considerable portion of the ground floor ; above this
the grocery saleroom and buyers' offices will be situated, and
the remainder of the premises will house part of the Furnishing
and the Stationery Departments. The furnishing showrooms
exhibit samples of practically every article that can be included
under that denomination, from suites for the drawing-room to
flat-irons, literally too numerous to mention. Societies in the
vicinity of Manchester are able to send prospective customers to
inspect the stocks, thus enabling the members of a small village
Store to gain the same advantages as are enjoyed by city folk.
Carpets, rugs, plate, and jewellery are all to be found here. The
Stationery Department supplies Societies with wrapping paper,
twine, and paper bags, besides all kinds of fancy stationery.
Recreation is also dealt in, for this department will provide
concerts, or organise excursions for holiday makers.
The buildings on the left of Balloon Street are shown on a
larger scale in the illustration opposite. Here, again, several
mean and insanitary courts and alleys have been demolished to
give place to a fine pile facing Corporation Street. At the top
is the Mitchell Memorial Hall, named after Mr. J. T. W. Mitchell,
who died in 1895, having been Chairman of the C.W.S. for
twenty-one years. The Hall is 107ft. long, 67ft. wide, and 33ft.
in height; it will seat 1,200 persons. The first Quarterly Meeting
held here was in September, 1907. The floors below the Hall
are occupied by the Board and Committee Booms, the Secretary's
and General Offices, and the basement provides a commodious
Dining-hall, rendered bright and attractive by dint of many mirrors
and white enamel paint.
The Architects' Department is located in this building. A
large and efficient staff is constantly occupied with work for the
C.W.S. and retail Societies.
Balloon Street and Garden Street.
ON either side of this building will be noticed the words
"Co-operative Wholesale Society;" these mark the limits
of the warehouse acquired in 1869. The Grocery Department
is in possession of the major portion of this block. Here are held
stocks of all goods coming under the head of grocery, in variety
too great to enumerate. An extensive trade is done in packed
goods, and a small regiment of damsels is kept busily occupied in
filling packets of convenient size with rice, tapioca, canary seed,
linseed, oatmeal, and self-raising flour; 100 tons of this latter
commodity is the average weekly output.
On the ground floor at the extreme left the generating plant
for the supply of light and power is placed in lofty rooms second
to none in space or equipment. Situated on the upper floors
and basement of the building fronting Balloon Street is the Boot
and Shoe Department. Here one may find 220,000 pairs of
footgear for men, women, boys, girls, and infants in immense
variety of patterns.
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Drapery Warehouse, Balloon Street,
CHIS warehouse is at the corner of Balloon Street and
Federation Street, a thoroughfare created by the C.W.S., and
a name conferred upon it that has a deep significance to all
Co-operators.
From the topmost floor to the basement it is stocked with a
huge variety of goods, including everything that should find a
place in a well-equipped Drapery Store.
The vagaries of fashion are kept closely in view by the buyers
in the various departments, and hard indeed to satisfy would be
the customer whose requirements the C.W.S. failed to meet.
This remark applies not only to the bewildering variety of
materials drawn from world-wide sources, but also with equal
force to the productions made in the C.W.S. Factories. There is
also the added satisfaction in this respect that the C.W.S. goods
are made under known conditions of healthy surroundings. It
may be of interest to state that the trade for the year ended
June, 1910, in Drapery, Woollens, and Ready-mades was
1,199,335 in the Manchester district.
Drapery, &c., Departments, Dantzic Street,
Original Dantzic Street Premises.
CHE C.W.S. entered into the drapery trade in 1873, and
with such success that a warehouse in Dantzic Street was
secured in 1875. At this time the business in drapery and
woollen cloth amounted to 114,000 annually. Additions were
constantly made to adapt the premises to the growing demands
until the building reached its present dimensions. It was not
long, however, before the cry was again raised for more room,
and the fine drapery warehouse in Balloon Street was erected
and opened in 1904. Even then the Millinery, Mantle, and
Costume Departments had to be left at Dantzic Street.
Two of the floors here are occupied by the Woollens and
Ready-mades Department. The ready-mades are all from the
C.W.S. Factories at Broughton or Leeds, and the cloth from
various sources, amongst others the C.W.S. Batley Mill and the
Scottish C.W.S. Ettrick Mills. From this department the male
Co-operator can be completely supplied with all the articles
demanded bv necessity or custom.
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Bacon Factory, Trafford Wharf.
BACON rolling and smoking was carried on in the Balloon
Street warehouse for many years until the exigencies of space
made it necessary to find better accommodation. With this
end in view, a plot of land was secured on the banks of the Ship
Canal, adjacent to the Sun Mill, and here a factory was built,
which has now been in use about five years.
The Trafford Wharf Factory is not a curing house. So far
as the C.W.S. is concerned, curing is done at the C.W.S.
Factories in Tralee (Ireland) and Herning (Denmark). At Tralee
every week about 1,000 pigs are killed and twice as many sides
of bacon cured. These are despatched to the C.W.S. at Trafford
Wharf, London, Bristol, Cardiff, and Newcastle. To meet the
demand for smoked bacon there are eighteen stoves of the latest
and best pattern.
There are about 70 employes engaged mainly in the making
of rolls, and the weight of bacon and hams dealt with weekly
varies from 100 tons to 120 tons.
THE TRANSPORT WAREHOUSE AND WHARF
has a frontage to the canal of 460 feet, the buildings occupying
360ft. by 60ft. The premises and site were acquired in July,
1903, arid the warehouse is now well equipped for receiving,
storing, and despatching the various commodities. Five electric
cranes lift the goods from the hold of ship or barge to the
warehouse, and deposit them in railway wagons on the quayside
or transfer them to lurries. The permanent staff of 23 is
augmented by casual labour at busy times, as in the dried fruit
season, until as many as 200 workers may be employed, and these
deal with an average of 15,000 tons of merchandise yearly. The
C.W.S. is, we believe, the only firm which possesses its own
accommodation at the Manchester docks.
THE ENGINEERING WORKS
is the latest addition to the Trafford Park group. It was originally
a repair shop, but now deals mostly with new work, and modern
tools have been installed for undertaking general engineering,
electrical work, and millwrighting in all its branches. The staff
of 23 employes promises to be rapidly increased. The Engineers'
Department at Balloon Street act as consulting mechanical,
electrical, and heating and ventilating engineers for complete
installations, reports being made on existing work, and plans
and specifications prepared for repairs or new work.
Newcastle Branch.
Newcastle Branch, Waterloo Street, in 1876.
IN 1871, eight years after the C.W.S. had commenced operations
in Manchester, a number of Co-operators in the north-east,
inspired by the success of the new institution, met at Newcastle
to discuss the establishment of a similar Society there. It was
almost unanimously decided to open a branch of the C.W.S. in
Newcastle, and to that end a small warehouse of four rooms was
taken, and business begun on November 26th, 1871. The usual
rapid growth attended the venture, and iu 1876 the Waterloo
Street warehouse was ready for occupation. Since then constant
building went on until eventually the handsome pile in West
Blandford Street was completed. The offices, boardroom, and
meeting-hall are here situated, and the remainder of the building
is devoted to various departments. The basement, first and third
floors accommodate the Boot and Shoe Department, which sells
annually upwards of 775,000 pairs of boots and shoes, besides
268,000 pairs of slippers. In West Blandford Street at the back
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of the building are situated the Dress, Heavy Drapery, Ready-
made Clothing, and Woollen Departments. All the stocks are
of the latest design and cut, and the Co-operator who cannot
be suited with the material shown here must be fastidious indeed.
The Paper, Stationery, and Twine Department also has its home
here, and sends out annually some 1,500 tons of paper and
paper bags, besides large quantities of twine and stationery.
Here also is found the Provision Department, dealing with bacon,
lard, cheese, &c. Meats are washed and dried and rolled in
spacious rooms on the ground floor.
WATERLOO AND THORNTON STREETS.
On the left, as indicated by the name, stands the Furnishing
Department. Practically every article that could contribute to
the usefulness or decoration of a home may be seen here. Among
the stocks are, of course, many articles of C.W.S. make, such
as suites for bed and sitting rooms, sideboards, bedsteads in
wood and metal, washing and wringing machines, fenders,
buckets, tinware, &c., &c.
The building in the centre accommodates the Jewellery and
Fancy Hardware Departments and the Fancy Drapery, which
includes mantles, shawls, hats, caps, umbrellas, and all kinds
of underclothing and hosiery made by the C.W.S. The Jewellery,
&c., Department embraces a wide range of useful and ornamental
goods too numerous to detail. An expert optician undertakes sight
testing, and all kinds of errors of vision are rectified. There are
also musical instruments and cycles, cutlery, &c., and a large
assortment of engravings, paintings, and so on, in connection with
an efficient picture-framing factory.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Quayside Warehouse.
CHE erection of this building was commenced in 1900, and
completed in 1902. It originally consisted of eight floors,
but in 1909 an extension became necessary, and the roof, which
had hitherto been flat, was covered in. The building is 90 feet
wide by 120 feet long, and the height from floor to ceiling on
each flat is a little over 11 feet. The space thus provided is
capable of warehousing between 7,000 and 8,000 tons. At present
there are forty men employed.
Being conveniently situated to the river and in close proximity
to that part of the quay where the London, Continental, and other
regular lines of steamers discharge their cargo, it has been found
to be a great boon to the departments which it serves, especially
when large quantities of goods arriving by steamer have to be dealt
with. One of the floors is used as a bonded warehouse, in which
all dutiable goods are stored, and is opened and closed by the
hours regulating all bonds. It has also discharging and loading
platforms fronting to the quayside, and also at the back, which
opens out on to Sandgate. All goods on account of the grocery,
butter, and No. 1 Grain Department are dealt with by the staff,
in addition to which machinery has been installed for cleaning
fruit, grain, &c., and for putting together the various grains and
ingredients used in pigeon and fowl mixtures.
Green Fruit and Potato Department,
Stowell Street,
CHESE premises are situated in close proximity to the
Newcastle fruit and vegetable markets. The building was
completed in the year 1909, and consists of the basement, ground,
No. 1, and No. 2 floors. In the basement we have the banana
room, specially constructed for the ripening of Canary and
Jamaica bananas, now a very popular fruit with all classes.
On the ground floor the despatch and receiving of goods is
transacted. Special facilities are offered here in the shape _ of
two large dock-ways enabling four vehicles to be given attention
at the same time.
On the first floor the offices are situated, consisting of the
manager's, assistants', and general offices. A portion of this floor
is also used as the saleroom.
No 2 floor is a large and spacious compartment principally
used for the storage of goods of a keeping quality, such as the
various kinds of nuts, figs, &c.
Pelaw: Bird's Eye View*
CHE policy of the C.W.S. and, indeed, of the Co-operative
movement throughout is to produce for the consumer the
necessaries of life at the least possible cost consistent with the
best possible conditions for the workers.
It is a noticeable fact that the productive works of the
Wholesale were nearly all centred in and around Manchester,
until, in pursuit of the policy above referred to, it was found
that the goods there produced could not be supplied to the
consumers in the Newcastle district at the least possible cost,
consequent upon the enormous carriage they had to bear. As a
remedy the Newcastle Branch Committee considered that their
duty lay in the direction of establishing productive works in their
own district, so they at once set about to find a suitable place
wherein to commence operations. In their endeavours to do this
they had in view the heavy rates, taxes, &c., the factories would
be called upon to pay if they were established in Newcastle,
and it was for this reason partly that Pelaw was chosen as the
venue of productive effort by 'the Newcastle Branch. Another
reason which animated them in their selection of Pelaw as the
ground on which their victories should be won was that the land
could be procured at a very small cost; and, again, the sites
available were adjacent to the railway, thus saving the heavy
charges for cartage to and from the station.
Illustrations of the separate works will be found following,
with one exception. This is the electric generating station. The
grouping together of a number of factories affords a splendid
opportunity of effecting a very great economy in power supply,
and this has been taken full advantage of at Pelaw. The whole
of the power, light, and steam for heating and boiling purposes
is supplied from a central generating station to the four factories.
In addition there is an Engineering Works for the purpose of
attending to repairs of present machinery and the erection of
new to cater for the wants of Societies in connection with
electric and other plant.
There is also a commodious dining-room, which is found to be
a great convenience, as the greater number of the employes come
from considerable distances.
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Drug and Drysaltery Works, Pelaw.
WITH a view to supplying Societies with drug and drysaltery
articles of the best quality, and to place in the hands of
Co-operators goods of a chemical nature which should be
absolutely pure, the Directors decided in 1896 to commence this
branch of business. From the beginning the growth of the
department has been exceptionally rapid. Work was commenced
in 1896 with five packing girls and two men for manufacturing,
but soon this staff had to be largely increased. The one room
in West Blandford Street premises allotted to the new venture
was soon insufficient until the space necessary for the department
was increased five-fold.
The development of the department was too great for the
allocation of the additional space necessary to it, so the Directors
had to look out for a more suitable place where the department
could make further progress, and Pelaw was the place chosen,
giving birth to Pelaw specialities, notably Pelaw Polish, &c.
Handsome buildings covering exactly one acre were soon
erected, specially designed and fitted for the economical working
of a department of this character. When it is mentioned that no
less than 200 to 300 different articles are manufactured and
packed it will be seen that great attention was requisite to obtain
the best facilities for economical working, with the result that the
works are the best equipped for their purpose in the country.
A visitor cannot leave these works without being impressed
with the well-lighted and general airy appearance of this building
two important considerations to the employes. Cleanliness of the
workpeople in their pink print costumes and caps to match,
which are provided by the Society, adds to the picturesque scene,
and the great facilities for coping with a big volume of trade
are evident everywhere.
Cabinet Factory, Pelaw*
CHE arrangement of these buildings has been made with the
greatest care and forethought. Economy in transit,
unloading, and storage are followed by a carefully-planned system
of putting the work through inside the factory; from the rough
log to the finished article no point is missed. At the back of the
factory one looks down from the level of the yard on to the
railway siding, into which the wagons of timber are shunted. A
travelling electric crane here renders great service by directly
transporting the logs from the railway to the timber store and
saw shed.
Every possible precaution is taken to ensure the proper drying
of the wood, and the heat from the boilers of the power-house is
utilised for this purpose. The factory is replete with the most
recent inventions in the way of machinery, and in addition is
fitted with a system of exhaust pipes which suck the dust and
shavings from the machines and deposit it in the boiler-house.
There are no productions of the C.W.S. more worthy the support
of the Societies, as an inspection of the showrooms at Newcastle
would prove.
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Clothing Factory, Pelaw.
CHE building bearing the name of "Tailoring Factory"
contains four departments; on the ground floor the kersey
department, wherein is manufactured miners' and artisans'
clothing; the tailoring department, for the production of bespoke
clothing; the top floor is devoted to the manufacture of men's
woollen shirts and ladies' underclothing; the first floor is the
cutting-room for tailoring, shirts, and underclothing, and stockroom
for the above departments.
All machines are of the high-speed type and electrically driven,
like all the machinery at Pelaw. The girls use patent adjustable
seats, which add much to their comfort ; the workrooms are light
and airy, and labour is lightened by the use of machinery in every
direction. Wages are fixed by piece work, and also hour work,
the rates being above the average in the district.
Shirtmaking was started at Pelaw, eight years ago, in a
small way, but now 242 machines are employed in the four
departments.
Printing Works, Pelaw.
CHIS department commenced at West Blandford Street in the
spring of 1898, in connection with the paper department
which had been started previously, and in July, 1902, a removal
took place to the new works at Pelaw, where the paper and
printing departments were carried on jointly up to June, 1908,
when, consequent on the necessity for a greater development of
the two branches of business, it was deemed advisable to separate
the two departments, and leave the printing and allied trades the
full use of the Pelaw Works.
As in most of the C.W.S. factories, white glazed bricks are
used to line the walls inside. The lighting of the rooms is thus
very much improved, while cleaning is a matter of the greatest
ease. Not merely is dirt less liable to lodge on the porcelain
surface, but it shows itself to the eye at once when there. The
rooms are all heated and ventilated by the Sirocco system. Large
air ducts lead from the heating apparatus, which is in a small
separate building, to each room. A powerful fan drives the warm
air through these pipes into each room. The air supplied has
the normal amount of moisture in it, and is much more healthy
to breathe and work in than the dry heat of a room warmed by
radiation from hot pipes or metal surfaces.
The equipment of the works is of the most modern character,
a large addition having been made to the plant during the past
two years. The works, which are lighted and machinery driven
by electricity, cater for the full requirements of the C.W.S. works
and departments, as well as Societies in the North, for every
description of printing, bookbinding, cardboard box-making, &c.
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London: Leman Street.
CHIS fine block of buildings is the headquarters of the London
Branch. The older part of the building, with the clock tower,
was erected in 18.87, and the new wing for the accommodation
of the drapery department was opened for business in 1910. The
general office, boardroom, conference-hall, dining-rooms, and
kitchen are all in the older building, where also the grocery
saleroom and buyers' offices are situated. The basement serves
the purpose of a storeroom for provisions cheese, butter, eggs,
lard, &c. ; while the upper floors are devoted to the grocery and
boot and shoe departments, access being given both to the new
wing and to a still older building not shown in the illustration,
where the furnishing, ironmongery, carpets, and stationery
departments are situated.
The new wing is devoted to the heavy and fancy drapery,
millinery, and ready-mades departments, the basement being
used for a joint packing-room. At the top of the building is a
telephonic exchange, which connects all the departments in
London, Northampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle,
and the productive works in various parts of the country.
The building, which is 333 feet in length, is of fireproof
construction, the floors being built of steel and concrete, an
automatic fire-extinguishing apparatus being installed throughout.
Besides three stone staircases for business purposes, iron stairways
provide extra exit in case of fire. There are two electric passenger
lifts, besides numerous lifts for the conveyance of goods. Electric
light is provided throughout, and the building is warmed by low-
pressure hot-water pipes. An efficiently-drilled fire brigade
composed of members of the staff afford additional security against
fire.
London : Bacon Stoves, &c.
CONSIGNMENTS of green bacon are here received from
various pig slaughtering centres. The English, Irish, and
Danish meat arrives packed in bales, the Canadian in boxes, the
C.W.S. supplies to Societies being sent out in crates. A large
proportion of the meat comes from the C.W.S. bacon factory in
Herning, Denmark ; while supplies are also received from the
C.W.S. bacon factory at Tralee, Ireland. The green bacon is
put into the stoves, of which there are nine, with a capacity of
2,034 sides. The smoking process takes three days, so that
there is a nominal capacity of over 4,000 sides per week.
Above the bacon stoves is a storeroom for C.W.S. brushes
from the Leeds factory ; and in connection with the London
Branch Furnishing Department are workrooms for French
polishing, upholstering, and the manufacture of bedding. The
leather and grindery department occupies a portion of the building.
Here are kept large stocks of butts and bends of leather in the
various tannages suitable for repairing, besides numerous requisites
for the boot trade, such as nails, rivets, rubber heels, laces, socks,
and leggings.
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clothing factory, situated in Grove Street, London, E.,
is five minutes' walk from the central premises of the London
Branch, and caters for the bespoke and ready-made clothing trade
of the Societies in the London district, including the West of
England and South Wales. It gives employment to fourteen
expert cutters, whose labours are assisted by a power-driven
band-knife. There are also fifty power-driven sewing and
buttonhole machines. The pressing is done by men, using self-
heating gas-irons. The cutting-room occupies the ground floor,
and the trousers and vests are machined on the floor above. On
the second floor is the sorting and examining room, while the
machines in the room above are devoted to coat making. The
factory employs a staff of 132 hands. Two stone staircases, one
at each end of the building, give adequate means of exit in case
of fire; the air space is ample, and the sanitary arrangements
all that can be desired. The wages paid are the best London
rates, and a general air of contentment pervades the factory,
while the workers, the pick of their class, all look the picture of
health.
The smaller building, conveniently situated next to the tailoring
factory, is used as a woollen cloth warehouse, where the
productions of Batley Mill are to be found.
Tea Department, London.
CHE Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa Departments are worked as a
joint business by the English and Scottish Wholesale
Societies. The premises are immediately opposite those of the
C.W.S. in Leman Street, and are also conveniently near the
bonded warehouses. It was in 1882 that the two great federations
decided to join in the supplying of tea. The first warehouse was
a small one, close to Leman Street how small may be guessed
from the fact that it employed only four warehousemen and
half a dozen boys. By the end of 1885, however, the business
was so important that when a disastrous fire occurred on December
30th it was sufficient to cause a loss of 35,000. No further
calamity marred the steady growth of the business in the
succeeding years. In 1897 the present large premises in Leman
Street were opened, but within a short time it was found that
much more space would be required, and extensions have recently
been completed that will afford much greater facilities for the
business. The factory is splendidly equipped with numerous
labour-saving appliances, and the most up-to-date weighing and
packing machinery is installed, which arouses wonder and
admiration from every one who is privileged to see it. The
latest figures published at the time of writing give the total annual
sales of tea to be 21,000,000 Ibs.
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Silvertown Mill and Factories.
CHIS bird's-eye view is inserted for the purpose of showing
the relative positions of the Flour Mill, Productive, and
Soap Works. Other plates, which will be found in their places,
give the separate buildings with a brief account of the particular
work carried on.
Bristol Depot.
CHE architectural style of this building is a free treatment
of English Eenaissance. Due attention has been given to the
provision of light and air at every portion of the premises,
including the basement. It is situated in the most central part of
the city, the Floating Harbour forming the boundary on one side,
thus bringing water communication direct to the building. An
area of about 2,231 square yards is occupied, consisting of
basement and six floors.
The total height of the building from the street to the ridge
of the roof is 86 feet; to clock tower top, 130 feet. The present
floor space is about 100,000 square feet, ultimately to be increased
to 150,000 square feet.
The foundations and basement for extension portion are
completed, and ready for the superstructure.
The building has a commanding entrance from the Quay,
surmounted by sculptural figures, illustrating two of the local
industries mining and agriculture and is fitted with electrically-
driven passenger lift running through the well-hole, which gives
rapid means of access to every floor. Similar hoists communicate
direct with all the departments, i.e., grocery, drapery, boots,
furnishing, ready-mades and woollen cloth, and grocery sundry
packing.
The internal structure is fire resisting, the columns being of
iron and the floor of steel girders, filled in with cement concrete
and covered with pine flooring.
The power and light is electrical. Heat is by low-pressure hot
water apparatus, radiators being fixed in the various rooms.
Every precaution has been taken against fire, the building
being fitted throughout with an installation of automatic fire
sprinklers of the "Grinnell" pattern.
A complete system of telephones is installed for communication
between all departments.
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Brislington Butter Factory.
CHIS factory has been erected at Brislington, Somersetshire,
with the primary object, not of producing butter itself, but
to blend and pack the butter obtained from various sources to
meet the requirements of numerous Societies. We distinguish
such blending places as "factories" as against "creameries"
where the butter is actually produced straight from the cream.
It is a distinction worth noting, as the two terms are often
confused, but are not in any way synonymous.
Business commenced in June, 1904, when the trade for the
half year was 12,000. The sales have steadily increased, and
the trade for the half year ended June, 1910, totalled almost
82,000.
The productions of the factory have met with the approval
of Societies to such an extent that during the past twelve months
the increasing demand has necessitated the duplicating of plant
and buildings, which are now nearing completion. With these
additions the factory will have far greater facilities to cope with
the increasing output.
The motive power is different to that usually employed in
butter factories, the various machines being driven by electric
motors. The capacity of the factory when completed will be
about 60 tons per week.
Cardiff Depot.
CHE building, which faces Bute Terrace and Mary Ann Street,
was erected by the Building Department, London Branch,
from the designs of our architect at Balloon Street. It consists
of basement, ground, first, second, third, and fourth floors. The
basement floor is 7ft. below pavement level, and the ground floor
is 12ft. high, the walls being built with ivory white-glazed bricks.
The floor space is about 110ft. by 44ft. On the first floor are the
saleroom, general offices, manager's office, and the usual lavatory
accommodation. Part of the third floor is used for departmental
showrooms, and the fourth floor is occupied by the Drapery
Department. The main staircase, which runs from the basement
to the top floor, is surmounted by a tower about 14ft. high, and
flag staff. The building is fitted up with electric light, the
supply being taken from the Corporation mains. The heating
arrangements are carried out by hot-water pipes and radiators
situated at convenient points.
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Northampton Depot.
CHE front part of the larger building was built in 1897 by
the C.W.S.'s own Building Department, and afterwards
extended to meet the increased trade. It is used for the
distribution of groceries to the small Societies in the district.
(Previously two small rooms were occupied, which were opened
in October, 1890, for use as a saleroom only.) There is also
a large General Office, some of the clerks being engaged wholly
in audit work, in the supervision of Societies' accounts.
The smaller building is used as a bacon warehouse, containing
smoke stoves. There is a large trade done in Irish and Danish
sides (smoked and plain), cured in our own slaughteries, and
smoked on the premises ; also a considerable quantity of American
bacon is sold, consisting of Cumberland cuts, bellies, hams, also
smoked and plain rolls. The rolling is done on the premises, and
the bacon is bought principally direct through our New York
house.
The Saleroom, or Depot, is situated about 100 yards from the
Town Hall, and the same distance from the Midland Eailway
Station, and stands midway between the two points.
The district covered by the Depot is Northamptonshire and
Huntingdonshire; also part of Warwickshire, Bedfordshire,
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Cambridgeshire.
Nottingham Saleroom.
CHIS Saleroom is situated in Friar Lane, a thoroughfare leading
from the Market Place to the Castle. It will be obvious to
the reader from the first glance at the illustration that this
ecclesiastical-looking building was not originally intended for a
saleroom. Still, its interior provides the C.\V.S. with an ideal
sale and sample room.
The building was previously a Congregational Chapel, supported
mainly by well-to-do people, but these gradually migrated to the
suburbs, leaving the services only meagrely attended.
The building was offered for sale and was purchased by the
C.W.S. in 1899. The change necessitated many internal
alterations; the organ, pulpit, pews, &c., were all removed.
On entering, there is a clear floor space of 48ft. by 42ft. The
ground floor is occupied by the grocery and grocery productive
departments, and a representative display of samples is tastefully
arranged on counters and tables, while handsome showcases are
placed throughout. What was originally the vestry is now the
manager's office.
A wide staircase leads to the gallery which completely encircles
the room. This is occupied by the drapery, woollens, boots,
furnishing, and crockery departments. The millinery and mantles
have a special room on the ground floor at the rear of the building
Nottingham Saleroom; Friar Lane.
Birmingham Saleroom : 16, Pershore Street.
Birmingham Saleroom and Cycle Depot.
CHE handsome block of buildings seen in the illustration have
been completed since the last issue of the "Annual."
Previously the premises at Birmingham consisted of only the
two-storeyed building seen on the left-hand side of the illustration,
and was used solely for saleroom purposes, the ground floor being
occupied by the Grocery Saleroom, the room above having to
suffice for all other departments. It had long been felt to be
an impossibility to make a display in the limited room at the
disposal of the drapery and allied departments, so on the decision
of the Committee to form a Cycle Depot at Birmingham it was
decided to take in the two blocks of premises adjacent, which were
already in the possession of the C.W.S., and erect a building which
would give more saleroom space, and also could be utilised for a
Cycle Depot. Operations were commenced, and resulted in the
building seen on the opposite page. The premises have a fine
frontage on Pershore Street, and are well within five minutes' walk
from New Street Station. The older portion of the building is
now used for Grocery Sale and Sample Room on the ground floor,
and the upper floor is the Showroom for the Boots, Furnishing,
Hardware, and Crockery Departments. In the new buildings the
whole of the first floor is occupied by the drapery and allied
departments, and gives plenty of room for a grand display. The
Cycle Department occupies the basement and upper room as
warehouses, the ground floor being used for offices and showrooms.
The Grocery Department and Cycle Depot are open for business
every day.
Huddersfield Saleroom.
CHIS Saleroom was first originated in 1885. Business was
commenced in the Boardroom of the Industrial Society.
A room in Lion Arcade was taken a little later, and samples of
grocery were first shown; eventually the boots and shoes and
drapery representatives commenced to attend every two months,
and another room adjoining was taken. After many years of
growing business it was removed to much larger premises in
1898, at 4, Railway Street, where we occupied three floors
the ground floor for office, and first floor for grocery, drapery, and
boots; second floor for crockery, mantles, and furnishing. The
drapery and boots representatives, owing to increasing trade, now
attended weekly, and these premises soon began to show signs
of being too small for the business.
In 1904 the Huddersfield Brush Factory was taken over, and
in 1906 the business was transferred to the Leeds Brush Factory.
The premises were then reconstructed and converted into the
present saleroom. These premises were opened for business in
October, 1907, and consist of three floors and basement.
The basement is utilised for washing hams and storing empties ;
on the ground floor are the manager's office and warehouse, where
a stock of hams, cheese, bacon, potatoes, onions, and green
fruit are kept. The grocery saleroom is also on this flat. The
first floor is occupied by boots and shoes, ready-mades, furnishing,
crockery, and brushes; the second floor, which is a well-lighted
room, being lighted from the roof, is used for drapery, mantles,
and millinery.
There is a smokeroom ; also an electric hoist and electric
lights throughout. The trade has increased considerably since
occupying these premises.
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Limerick Depot*
CHIS Depot was established in 1869 for the purchase of butter.
It has a frontage in Mulgrave Street of twenty yards,
comprising the offices, which consist of the manager's, general,
typists', engineers, and shipping office. The total staff at the
Depot is twenty.
The store is divided, one portion being used as a butter store,
where all butter is received, graded, coopered, &c., as many as
80,000 packages passing through in the year, the value being
about 300,000.
Another part of the store is occupied by the cold storage
chambers, the inner chamber being reserved for the C.W.S.
Societies. The outer chamber is utilised in a general way in
connection with the butter arriving at the Depot, and in here,
during the warm weather, this is placed to give it the desired
firmness before shipping. The capacity of both chambers is 250
tons. The dimension of store and chambers together is 40 by
20 yards.
The third portion of the store is taken up with a testing room
and fitters' shop. In the former is tested as many as 15,000
samples per annum of milk received at the creameries under the
control of this Depot. Here also are tested samples of all butters
received, to ascertain the amount of moisture. About 3,000
samples are taken yearly.
At the rear of the stores is the engine-room, where a 12-horse
power gas engine is erected, the gas for same being supplied by
our own gas suction plant.
Here is also a refrigerating machine (Halls') in connection with
the cold chamber. A dynamo is also erected, and the offices and
stores are lighted with our own electric light.
Armagh Depot.
SITUATED in the midst of the finest agricultural district in
Ireland, it is also the largest egg distributing centre in the
movement. On the premises eighty large concrete tanks have
been laid down for the purpose of preserving eggs in pickle for the
winter requirements of Societies, the accommodation providing for
over 4,000,000 eggs.
There are also large box-making departments, in which all
the packages required for butter and eggs are made.
Large quantities of butter are manufactured at the Depot,
which is fitted up with a large refrigerating plant and cold stores
in connection with the extensive butter trade carried on.
The Depot occupies a unique position for the shipment of
large quantities of fruit, the district being the largest fruit-raising
centre in Ireland.
It also supplies Societies with large quantities of poultry for
their Christmas requirements.
The operations of the Depot extend all over the North and
West of Ireland.
The premises are very extensive, covering an area of 25,000
square feet, of which two-thirds are under cover, and are lighted
with electricity throughout.
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Tralee Egg and Butter Depot,
CHE buildings in the foreground of plate comprise property on
rental offices and boxmaking department. At the left are
the creamery and butter blending factory. The long building at
the rear is occupied by power house, fitter's shop, &c. The
building in the centre of the block contains butter cellars and
roll room, with timber drying, &c., lofts overhead. The vacant
space between these two latter groups is now mainly occupied by
new cold stores and suction gas plant recently erected. The larger
group of buildings at right of illustration comprises cooperage at
rear, store lofts in centre, and egg pickling department. There
is also land available for purposes of extension, &c. , at the rear
of the buildings shown of at least equal area to that already built
on. Most of the erections are fairly recent, as the property was
purchased in 1896. The original Depot opened in 1874, now
exclusively used for the purchase and packing of eggs, is at the
other side of Pembroke Street fronting the premises illustrated,
and is not shown in plate. In the background of illustration
the position of Tralee Bacon Factory is indicated, and the
boundaries of both premises are practically contiguous.
Tralee Bacon Factory.
CHIS factory, which is about two minutes' walk from the
railway station, is mainly constructed of local sandstone,
and in design is practically a one-storeyed building.
It was originally equipped to handle about 500 pigs weekly,
but, as this quantity proved totally inadequate to supply the
requirements of Societies, who were quick to recognise the
excellence of the Wheatsheaf brand of Tralee bacon, lard, and
sausages, some slight structural alterations had to be made in the
year 1907, and 1,000 pigs weekly can now be dealt with by the
various departments.
The pigs, which are mostly procured in the Kerry district,
are driven in batches into the sticking-pen. They are there
shackled by one of the hind legs, hoisted on to a running bar,
and killed. They are next plunged into the scalding tank, and
pass on from that to the scuttling table, where most of the hair
is removed, the balance disappearing during the short time they
are exposed to the extreme heat of the singeing furnace. They
next get a cold bath, and are again raised to the running bars,
where they are scraped quite clean, disembowelled, weighed,
removed to chill-room, and finally to the curing-cellars, where
they remain for about twelve days. They next reach the packing
department, and are shipped from there in four, five, and six-side
bales to suit the requirements of the various districts.
The lard, sausage meat, &c., are all dealt with in their
respective departments, and from this, and the short foregoing
description of the factory, the careful reader will observe that
the "squeal" is the only item which, up to the time of going
to press, has not proved of marketable value.
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Bunkay Bridge Creamery.
CHIS creamery is a fair type of the up-to-date Irish creamery.
It has one auxiliary, the latter receiving and separating
only, and forwarding the cream to Bunkay for churning.
Bunkay has about 70 suppliers and Killoscully (the auxiliary)
about 75, and the average daily supply to both is about 2,500
gallons. The milk supply for the year would be about 600,000
gallons, value 10,000, and weight of butter produced about 75
tons. The number of cows owned by suppliers, 1,200.
The building is solid masonry, and the dimensions about 30
by 15 yards, and contains engine-room, milk receiving platform,
dairy, creamery-room, storeroom, milk delivery platform, and
office. The total staff at both places is 10.
Milk is received twice daily in summer, and every second day
in winter. In the dairy are two Alfa separators, which have
bowls revolving at a speed of 6,000 per minute, the centrifugal
force separating cream from milk. These separators skim 660
gallons each in an hour. It takes about 2^ gallons of milk to
lib. of butter. After the milk is received it is weighed, and
a sample of each party's supply is tested with milk tester and
paid for according to the amount of butter fat contained. A 3 per
cent standard is the lowest limit.
After weighing, separation takes place, and the cream is taken
off into a cream vat, and the separated milk returned to suppliers.
The cream is allowed to stand for 24 hours until it is ripened,
and then 35 gallons churned at a time, which process takes 35
minutes. The butter is washed, salted, packed, and railed to
Limerick Depot.
Biscuit, &c., Works, Crumpsall, Manchester*
CHESE works enjoy the distinction of being the first productive
enterprise of the C.W.S. The works had been the property
of private manufacturers, but were purchased by the Wholesale
Society in January, 1873.
It was proposed to produce biscuits, sweets, jam, soap, and
tobacco, but the latter commodity had to wait for many years.
The total value of the productions for the year ending October,
1874, was 12,632, with a profit of 252. Not twenty employes
were then occupied, and for the sake of comparison we note that
in 1909 the output reached 183,390, with profits 18,708 and
employes 505.
Scarcely a corner remains of the original buildings ; additional
ground has been purchased from time to time and covered with
substantial buildings, spacious and airy, in every respect
constituting a model factory.
At the present time the works are manufacturing biscuits,
sweets, cakes, and grocers' sundries. Jam and soap have
demanded separate premises for several years.
Over 200 varieties of biscuits are made at Crumpsall, and
fresh designs and flavours are constantly being introduced. It is
almost needless to say that scrupulous care is exercised in the
selection of ingredients, in the manufacture, and in every process
involved. The girls are provided with overalls and caps, frequently
renewed.
In the cake bakery fifteen large ovens are occupied in turning
out huge quantities of toothsome cakes, from the plain currant loaf
to bridecakes of rich delight.
Boiled sweets have a department to themselves. Here, again,
a visitor would be convinced of the purity of Crumpsall products.
He would see kegs of pure butter, cans of new milk, bags of cane
sugar, essences of flavour harmless, and of the best quality.
In the Drugs and Drysaltery Department are made and packed
such articles as baking powder, blancmange powder, custard and
egg powders, &c., &c.
Last, but not least, we have at Crumpsall the only biscuit
factory in England working an eight-hour day.
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Middleton Junction Preserve Works,
CHE C.W.S. first began to make jams and marmalade at
Crumpsall Works in 1888. The department succeeded so
well that it was formed into a separate branch of manufacture, and
was housed in the factory which the C.W.S. built on ground
acquired at Middleton Junction. In June, 1896, with the fruit
season of that year in view, work was commenced, and some 3,000
tons of jam were made in the first twelve months. Several
extensions have been added, and in 1909 the removal of the pickle
and sauce department to the adjacent vinegar brewery secured
the whole of the original building to the manufacture of jams,
marmalade, mincemeat, and peel. There is also a good trade in
tinned fruits and potted fish and meats. At the present time the
yearly output of jams and marmalade exceeds 7,000 tons. The
permanent staff here consists of 600 employes, but this is
increased during the season by four or five hundred workers
engaged in picking and sorting fruit.
The works are admirably placed for dealing expeditiously with
the traffic, being close to the main line of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Eailway, to which there is direct communication by
sidings. In July and August it is no uncommon event for two or
three train loads of twenty wagons each to arrive at the works.
Considerable quantities of the fruit come from the C.W.S. fruit
farms at Roden and Harden and their Depot at Wisbech.
The marmalade trade consumes five or six hundred tons of
Seville oranges, which are bought direct by the C.W.S., and
mainly shipped by their own Depot at Denia in Spain.
In the other departments of the factory, i.e., those devoted
to the production of candied peel, mincemeat, tinned fruit, and
potted meat, there is the same careful supervision of detail that
ensures the purity and excellence of the comestibles sold by the
C.W.S.
Vinegar Brewery and Pickle Factory,
Middleton Junction.
EXTEEMES met in the C.W.S. Jam Works at Middleton
Junction for many years, as both preserves and pickles were
there manufactured. When, however, the Committee decided to
erect a vinegar brewery, it was obvious that pickles would properly
form an adjunct thereto. The brewery is of the very latest
type, and contains a complete equipment of plant of the most
approved type for the production of a high-class vinegar. The
provision made for storage is convincing proof that the brewery
will prove equal to the demand for some years to come; for
instance, the maturing vats in one room alone will contain
'600,000 gallons.
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Wisbech Fruit Depot.
CHE Wisbech Fruit Depot is an unpretentious building, but
forms an important link between the agricultural industry
of the Eastern Counties and the C.W.S., acting as a collecting
and distributing station for fruit and vegetables grown so
abundantly in this locality. The Depot was first started in
connection with the purchases of potatoes, in which a large
business is done, while vegetables for pickling are despatched to
Middleton, Silvertown, and Pelaw factories. In the winter months
employment is given to some seventy women at pea picking in
connection with the dried-pea trade. During the summer, daily
consignments of fruit are received from the fruit growers in the
neighbourhood, the bulk of this being immediately despatched to
the Middleton Preserve Works for jam. An increasing trade
with the C.W.S. is that of canned fruits, and in order to preserve
the strawberries, raspberries, &c., while absolutely fresh, the fruit
is heated in retorts and canned the same day that it arrives from
the farmers, and is afterwards sent by rail to Middleton, where
it is labelled and distributed. Green fruit is also collected and
despatched to the various warehouses of the C.W.S., and also
to the Scottish Wholesale Society.
The building is 133 feet long by 30 feet wide, but the site
provides ample room for extension as the business develops.
The Depot is well situated for the ready despatch of produce, the
railway siding in connection wth the Great Eastern Eailway giving
convenient access to all the distributive centres and productive
works.
Wheatsheaf Boot and Shoe Works, Leicester.
CHE same year that witnessed the purchase of CrumpsalJ
Works for the production of luxuries also saw the C.W.S.
established as boot manufacturers. This action was not taken
without considerable opposition from a section of Co-operators,
who maintained that the function of the C.W.S. should be solely
distributive. The results after thirty-seven years' working are
the best comment on the wisdom of the decision then made.
The total profit realised by the Leicester Works up to June,
1910, was 155,831, and the sum devoted in interest and
depreciation was 210,488.
The factory purchased in 1873 was in the west end of the
town, in Duns Lane, but the premises early proved inadequate
for the trade, and extensions were opened in 1876 and again in
1884.
However, the business continued to grow with such rapidity
that in December, 1889, the delegates were asked to sanction the
purchase of six acres of land on which to erect a modern and
capacious factory. A large majority decided in the affirmative,
and on November 4th, 1891, the new factory Wheatsheaf Works
was opened. Covering something like two acres of ground, the
building, viewed from the Midland Railway main line, presents
a striking appearance, and is by far the largest in the kingdom. A
glance at the illustration will show the general plan of construction,
' the principal feature of which is the main room occupying the
centre of the building, roofed with iron and glass, the actual area
of which is 6,600 square yards.
In every department may be seen the most ingenious and
modern machines invented for the boot and shoe trade, and the
management is constantly on the alert for any improvement in
this direction that can possibly add to the efficiency of the works.
How extensively machinery enters into boot production may be
gathered from the fact that there is not a department into which
it has not been introduced. As a hint to Co-operators who do
not insist on getting Wheatsheaf boots or shoes, it may be
mentioned that the factory is capable of turning out 50,000 pairs
weekly, instead of 32,000, which quantity represents the present
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Leicester (Duns Lane) Boot and Shoe Works,
CHE factory, which was purchased and opened by the C.W.S.
in 1873, is of five storeys, and has a floor space of over
10,000 square feet. It is triangular in shape, with one of the
long sides of the triangle fronting Duns Lane. The leather is
first dealt with on the top floor, where are the clicking, skiving,
and machinery departments. Shoes, slippers, and "nursery
goods" are the specialities, a large quantity of "enamel leather"
being used in the latter. For the carpet slippers remnants
from the C.W.S. Furnishing Departments are requisitioned, and
various cotton materials imitating felt and velvety cloths are in
demand. In brief, every kind of shoe and slipper is turned out,
from the canvas shoes that suggest holidays, the open air, and
health, to "ward shoes," with rubber heels, designed for nurses
amongst beds of sickness.
Enderby Boot and Shoe Works.
ENDEEBY is some four and a half miles from Leicester, and
rather less across country from the Wheatsheaf Works.
The route is across the green vale of the Soar, past the pretty
Aylestone Church, where Dorothy Vernon was married after the
famous elopement from Haddon Hall, in Derbyshire, and thence
up gently-sloping ground to the large, but clean and quiet, village
of Enderby. There are thatched cottages and a thirteenth-century
church, recently restored, and at least one little street of red-brick
houses, wherein is the C.W.S. factory.
In the appearance of the building outside there is nothing
remarkable, and inside one finds machinery similar to that at the
Wheatsheaf Works. Along the street runs a two-storey building,
an extension of which is almost complete at the time of writing ;
behind it is a one-storey room with iron and glass roof. On the
ground floor of the first is an office, with machinists employed
above, and the second is alive with men stamping soles, riveting,
scouring, and so on. The factory is devoted to the manufacture
of strong riveted boots for women and girls.
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Heckmondwike Boot, Shoe, and
Currying Works.
IN the West Eiding of Yorkshire, in the heart of the industrial
area of the broad acres, lies the small factory centre of
Heckmondwike, and here is situated the substantial structure
above-named. The factory is in two portions, the older acquired
in 1880 forming one-half of a square, and the newer erected in
1896 making a square within the angle of the old.
Currying, first begun by the C.W.S. in 1887, is done, in the
older portion. Before being exported the hides are sun dried, shorn
of hair, purified, softened, and partially tanned. On reaching the
Heckmondwike Works the hides undergo a long series of operations
trimming, soaking, softening, shaving, splitting, tanning,
scouring, graining, &c., &c. all performed with characteristic
thoroughness.
The newer building is devoted to boot making, heavy work
being the speciality. Without pursuing our "leather hunting"
through the various processes, in which fifty different machines
perform as many different operations, a visit to the sample
showroom reveals a remarkable collection of footwear. Newcastle
colliers, Welsh miners, farmers, policemen, carters, quarrymen,
and navvies are all catered for, and the lighter but none the less
wear-resisting boots for healthy and restless school children are
turned out.
Some 400 persons are normally employed, and these enjoy,
in addition to the trade union standard of hours, rates of pay
that are slightly above those paid in the district.
Rushden Boot and Shoe Works.
NORTHAMPTON, fifteen miles from Kushden, was noted for
the boot trade in very ancient times, and although Leicester
and other towns have established themselves as powerful rivals,
still Northamptonshire has a reputation as producer of men's boots,
particularly of a good medium quality. For some considerable
time supplies had been drawn from the district by the C.W.S.,
and when the trade justified the venture a factory was purchased
and work commenced in March, 1900. Building operations
were begun, and eventually this fine and spacious factory was
completed. The old factory is now used only for offices and
storerooms, the manufacturing being done on the two floors, each
containing some 600 to 700 square yards, of the new works.
Even these, by the way, were not constructed as they now are;
there have been two extensions, but so neatly have the additions
'been incorporated with the original premises that the whole has
now the appearance of a single erection. The simplicity of the
building favours a perfect organisation of work from start to
finish.
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Soap, Candle, Glycerine, Lard, and Starch
Works, Warn.
CHE group of factories at Irlam have not come together in any
haphazard way, but because of certain features which
distinguished them from most of the other C.W.S. productive
enterprises. Here the soap, candle, starch, and lard factories are
distinctly branches of chemical industry, in which the highest
degree of specialised knowledge is required.
Thirty-five years ago the C.W.S. bought a small factory
originally occupied by candle factors and began to make soap.
Progress was slow owing to prejudice on the part of Societies.
For the first complete year of working, 1875, the sales were only
8,900, and in ten years after this amount was not even doubled.
The construction of the Manchester Ship Canal afforded a
unique opportunity for the erection of a soap factory upon its
banks, and the C.W.S. acquired thirteen acres of land at Irlam,
eight miles from Manchester, and started erecting the works
which were opened in October, 1895. A lay-by or quay was
also constructed, thus enabling vessels to bring their cargoes
direct to the doors of the factory.
Every kind of soap is made at Irlam, for domestic and toilet
purposes, disinfectant soaps, polishing soaps, and all under the
constant supervision of practical chemists.
The increased space available at Irlam offered sufficient
accommodation for the additional manufacture of candles, starch,
and lard refining, all of which products enjoy a constantly
growing popularity among the constituent Societies.
Soap Works, Silvertown,
IN 1906 a proposal by certain soap firms to form a combination for
trade purposes aroused strong feelings against the introduction
of Trust methods into Great Britain. Co-operators were in a
position, as soap makers, to defy the attack, and as a consequence
of the agitation the demand for C.W.S. soap rose from an average
of 250 tons weekly to 750 tons.
It became impossible for the Irlam works to supply so great
a quantity, and as soon as possible the Soap Works at Silvertown
and Dunston were built. The memory of the public is proverbially
short, and Co-operators are, as a section of the public, liable to
the same weakness, and the increased trade has not been fully
maintained. Still, the production of soap is much greater than
might otherwise have been the case, for the output from the
three works in the half year ended June, 1910, averaged 501 tons
per week.
The site of the building alongside the Thames affords facilities
for the direct delivery of tallow, oils, &c., from barges to the
works. On the other side of the buildings is the Great Eastern
Eailway, with C.W.S. sidings running into the loading ways on
either side, and a C.W.S. shunting engine to bring and take the
trucks. All machinery at Silvertown is electrically driven, there
being one generation of power for the whole of the works.
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Soap Works, Dunston*
OEIGINALLY it was intended to build the Newcastle District
soap works on a larger stretch of ground at Pelaw, but
eventually it became necessary to fall back upon the Dunston site.
At Dunston, however, considerably less than an acre of land was
available. The river, a road, and a railway, the C.W.S.'s own
flour mill, and a ferry pier formed on all sides irremovable
boundaries; but, in the end, a works has resulted which is
extremely compact, and yet is light and roomy and pleasing
within and without.
The basement of the works a kind of modern crypt under
the frame-room is level with the wharf. On the latter is an
electric crane for hoisting out barrels of tallow or other materials
coming by water. Liquids, such as tallow, after being melted
in the basement, or the caustic solution, are pumped up from
below to the pan-room (on the highest floor of the works), to which
solid materials are taken by lifts. From there the materials
descend in the course of manufacture to the ground floor, level
with the trucks that run on a railway siding into the loading-way.
It will be seen from this that neither time, space, nor power is
wasted.
Woollen Mills, Batlcy.
CHE original mill was started in 1874 as a workers' Productive
Society, which after a period of prosperity succumbed through
bad trade, and in 1886 the concern was taken over by the C.W.S.
Standing in the mill-yard, the original stone building can be seen
almost embedded in the brick, for considerable extensions have
been made to meet the increase of trade ; the new portions, with
their ample provision for light and air, contrasting strongly with
the antiquated ideas of forty years back.
A constant effort is made to keep abreast of the changes of
fashion, and to that end designers are continually engaged in
producing new combinations and variations of pattern and colour.
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Clothing Factory, Leeds,
CHE manufacture of ready-made clothing was first begun by
the C.W.S. in 1888 as a department of the Batley Mill.
But it quickly outgrew the accommodation there, and in 1890
the work was transferred to Leeds, the natural centre of the
ready-made clothing trade.
For the last fourteen years the factory has been working on
the 48-hour week. Like all who have to do with the tailoring
trade the management has to contend with seasons, but in
accordance with Co-operative principles everything is done to
anticipate and regulate the work. As evidence of the satisfactory
conditions obtaining in the factory, it may be stated that during
the twenty years the factory has been running no one has willingly
quitted the C.W.S. to seek another employer.
Leeds Brush and Mat Works,
CHE C.W.S. first began to make brushes in connection with
the Furnishing Department at the London Branch. In
1904 the industry, for various reasons, was removed to Leeds
and reorganised. About the same time the Co-operative Brush
Society in Huddersfield was taken over, and later was incorporated
with the Leeds factory. First situated at the Mint, Holbeck, the
works were afterwards removed to Hunslet, on the south side
of the city, where there is plenty of room for expansion. Fostered
under careful management, the factory has made rapid headway,
and it now claims to be the most up to date of its kind in the
country.
The housewife's brush, though not an aid to the highest
artistic expression, is a homely and useful article, and all the
quarters of the globe are under contribution to the manufacturers
of the various kinds. Beech is the chief wood, but chestnut, lime,
alder, sycamore, and Swedish silver birch are also used. Bristle,
in addition to the home supply, comes to us from France,
Germany, Poland, Roumania, Russia, Siberia, and China; bass
is produced chiefly in Brazil and Africa, and bassine in Ceylon.
Besides these two materials others fibres are used Mexican
whisk, French whisk, Italian sedge, and cocoanut fibre. Both
by hand and machine these materials are manipulated until they
assume the various forms of bass brooms, banisters, shoe,
blacklead, and other brush shapes.
Mats are also made here. Woven of cocoanut fibre or yarn,
the manufacture has hitherto been done by hand, but after eighteen
months' experimenting a practical loom has been installed which
will enable the factory the better to compete with the Belgian
gaol-made article. Whilst having the virtual monopoly of this
contrivance, it is necessary to remember that the aims and results
of collective ownership are altogether different to those of individual
proprietorship.
Notwithstanding Continental competition, made severe by
means of cheap labour, the 200 employes are paid union wages
indeed, the women machine workers are remunerated at higher
rates than are paid in the outside trade.
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Luton Cocoa and Chocolate Works.
IN September, 1902, this new industry was established in Luton
by the opening of a factory by the Joint Committee of the
English and Scottish Wholesale Societies. The manufacture of
cocoa and chocolate, however, had been carried on by the two
Societies in connection with the Tea Department at Leman
Street, London, since November, 1887. Thus at the time it was
taken from Whitechapel into the country the business was in its
fifteenth year. The reasons of removal, will be easily understood.
On one hand, in London, a congested district with high rates
and high values generally ; on the other, at the edge of Luton,
open country, a dry, chalk subsoil, and economies all round.
Hence the present factory at Luton.
The building stands nearly 400 feet above the sea level, and
commands a view of the greater part of the town and the
Chiltern Hills beyond. It is of two storeys, with a basement cut
in the chalk. At the back runs the Great Northern branch line
from the main line at Hatfield to Dunstable.
Here one finds all the essentials for a pure food product in
a light, spacious factory, equipped with the best machinery for
making a range of cocoas equal to any other make, British or
foreign.
All the girls, and there are a great number, are attired in
scrupulously clean dresses and caps provided by the C.W.S.
Considerable extensions have been made, but there is still room for
additional buildings when the loyalty of Co-operators to their
own cocoas shall warrant their erection.
Flour Mills, Dunston.
CHE question of flour milling by the C.W.S. was first discussed
in 1883, as the quantity of flour consumed in the Newcastle
district was then held to justify such a venture. Finally, it was
decided in 1886 to proceed, and the site purchased at Dunston-on-
Tyne. Although many obstacles hindered the progress of the
work, it went steadily forward, and on April 18th, 1891, the
mills were opened.
The building containing the flour milling machinery is situate
in the background of the view, and the new circular grain silos
are close to the river front, while to the immediate right is to be
seen the building containing the wheat cleaning, &c., machinery.
The mills are divided into three distinct plants, giving a total
milling capacity of about 75 sacks of flour per hour. The circular
grain silos have a storage capacity of 15,000 tons of wheat, and
vessels come direct alongside the premises, where the wheat is.
'discharged by means of powerful ship-elevators., Along the side
of the premises opposite to the river is the railway siding with
three sets of railway lines, giving facilities for loading a train
consisting of 35 wagons. The whole of the machinery is driven
by electric power.
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Flour Mill, Silvertown.
ILVERTOWN" is a suggestive name, but it, must be confessed
that, unless it is the broad Thames by moonlight, or coin
of the realm in the hands of its workers, there is in the place
no hint of silver. History is equally barren. At no idyllic period
had this Thames-side stretch any special connection with the
lustrous metal. As a prosaic matter of fact the name was formed
in recent times by the simple addition of "town" to the patronymic
of the founder of a huge firm of telegraph cable and rubber
manufacturers. Beyond the Isle of Dogs, between the river and
the privately-owned Vict6ria and Albert Docks, there is a
railway-traversed, factory-lined strip of shore, and that is
Silvertown. If there exists anywhere a citadel of private enterprise
it is here. Yet, with the C.W.S. Flour Mill, Grocery Productive
Factory, and new Soap Works, there is now to be found on this
river bank a Co-operative settlement.
\Yhen the demand arose for a Flour Mill in the South it
was this position, full on the Thames, with railway and road in
the rear, that induced the C.W.S. Committee to purchase five acres
of freehold land at Silvertown. If we remember how many of the
large Societies in the South of England are in towns situated on
tidal waters, we shall see that, apart from the facilities for
receiving sea-borne wheat, the water communication has for the
Silvertown Mill an especial value. To build, however, on the light
gravel of the river bank was not a simple matter. Sixty five-foot
cylinders, in 300 six-foot sections, had to be sunk through the
surface drift and filled in with concrete. On this solid foundation
the mill was erected by the C.W.S. Building Department, London.
The Great Eastern Railway added a siding communicating vid
Stratford with the great main lines, and on June 20th, 1900, the
mill was formally opened. Six hundred delegates from all parts
of the country witnessed the ceremony and afterwards inspected
the mill.
At the start the capacity of the machinery was 12 sacks of
2801bs. each per hour. It is now 50 sacks per hour.
The Silvertown output rose from 1,500 sacks weekly at the
start to over 7,000, and to supply the distant and special
constituencies of South Wales and the West a new mill became
necessary. For this purpose a site was secured at Avonmouth, the
port which is being energetically developed by the Corporation of
Bristol, and Western Co-operators now have in their midst a mill
of which they should be as proud as they already are of the
C.W.S. Bristol Depot.
The Sun Mills, Manchester,
WE need not dwell here on the interest taken by the
Co-operative movement and the C.W.S. in flour milling,
since the importance of bread to the workers as an article of
consumption is obvious. The poor people of Hull who, in 1795,
built a Co-operative Corn Mill to save themselves from highly-
priced and adulterated flour, began a series of reforms which to-day
reach a culminating point in the establishment of the C.W.S. as
the greatest milling firm in England, with a capacity of over
41,000 sacks per week from its five mills at Manchester, Oldham,
Dunston, Silvertown, and Avonmouth.
The C.W.S. Directors, when looking for a suitable site for
a large mill for the Manchester district, were fortunate enough to
secure the Sun Mill in 1906, which had only just been built, and
was fully equipped with perfectly new machinery of the latest
type. The mill is on the Ship Canal at Trafford Wharf, and
adjoins the C.W.S. Transport Shed and Bacon Warehouse, so that
we have the triple advantage of perfect transport facilities,
proximity to Balloon Street, and increased convenience for
extension by having all our land in one block.
The mill buildings consist of two oblong blocks parallel with
the canal and connected with it by a bridge running across the
roadway from the grain elevator and enclosing the band conveyors.
The offices are situated in a separate block. The elevator has 21
feet of water alongside. At present the wheat comes in large
barges or flats up to 200 tons, and the elevator sucks it up at the
rate of 60 tons per hour, passes it through a ton weighing machine
and on to a 30-inch travelling band, which runs it into the silos or
granary. A 40-ton bulk wagon also delivers wheat from the
Ship Canal elevator and discharges it by a travelling band. The
first block of buildings on the canal front contains a large
provender mill which deals with grain, cake, and feeding stuffs for
cattle and horses. Next beyond the entrance to the yard comes a
huge block containing the warehouse and covered loading ways for
rail, motor, and horse traction, and in the further half the wheat
silos, capable of storing over 6,000 tons. Behind is the engine-
house with two sets of inverted vertical triple expansion engines
for the flour mill.
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The Star Mill, Oldham.
CHE Star Mill at Oldham, which was founded in 1868, was
started by the two great Societies in the town to supply their
own needs and those of a few neighbouring Societies. The Joint
Committee that drew up the rules met on the banks of the
Sheepwashes Brook to sign them, and, having no table at hand,
used the broad back of one John Hilditch in the emergency.
Up to 1883 the flour was made by the old-fashioned millstones,
but a roller plant was then put in, and has since been remodelled
on several occasions to keep it abreast of the times. Stones are
still used in the mill to grind barley, beans, peas, &c., and also to
make a special quality of wholemeal flour which is highly
recommended. It is ground direct from the wheat, and is in no
way interfered with except that the large bran is sifted out. Other
items in the general plant are a "three-high" maize mill for
producing Indian meal, and rollers for crushing oats, maize, &c.
In 1889, just when half the mill had been remodelled and
refitted with machinery, and work was about to start on the other
half, a disastrous fire occurred, which totally destroyed both the
mill and warehouse.
Although the mill was fully insured, owing to the stocks of
flour being higher than the average there was a loss from the
fire of 3,500. The present buildings were erected in 1890, and
the new mill was entirely fitted by the well-known firm of milling
engineers, Messrs. Robinson (of Eochdale). The plant has had
improvements added as they came out during the last eighteen
years, and has been kept in a highly efficient state. The capacity
of the mill is 32 sacks of 2801bs. each per hour.
The wheat is conveyed to the mill by wagons from the railway
yard just across the road, and the flour and other products are
removed by the Crumpsall motor lurry, Societies' own carts, or
the mill lurries to the railway goods yard. Although not enjoying
the quite exceptional advantages of the Sun Mill, where we have
road, rail, and water at the door, the Star Mill has the best facilities
of any inland mill we are aware of. Furthermore, as the best
customers the mill possesses are the two great distributive
Societies that first started it and held the controlling interest in
it until the C.W.S. took it over in 1906, the apparent disadvantage
of the position practically vanishes.
Flour Mill, Avonmouth.
CHIS fine mill, formally opened on April 27th, 1910, stands
on some three acres of land leased from the Bristol
Corporation, and adjoins the Corporation granary and warehouse.
The value of the situation of the mill is almost immediately
obvious. A network of Midland and Great Western railway lines
surrounds it ; the grey ferro-concrete granary stands besides it ; and
the deep dock is at hand from which the great Australian and
Canadian wheatships, laden with their thousands of quarters, can
discharge direct into the mill silos. Further, only a few miles
east, there is the fine C.W.S. Bristol Depot to attract the
Southern and Western Societies' buyers; while the Welsh hills,
rising so clearly beyond the Severn, tell how near one is by water
to the South Wales ports and mining towns, with their growing
hosts of Co-operators. Five thousand sacks per week is the
capacity of this mill, and, granted a whole-hearted support from
the Societies in the district, it should enjoy a successful future.
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Productive Factory, Silvertown.
A VISITOR approaching these premises from the station will
observe before him the great flour mill fronting the river ;
to the right the new soap works ; to the left, and close at
hand, the confectionery and sundries works, a big, square,
unpretentious pile, suggestive of work rather than show. The
space shut in by the three blocks is largely devoted to C.W.S.
siding accommodation, where a handsome Co-operative engine is'
busy all the day.
The Silvertown Grocery Productive Works, like most C.W.S.
factories, has grown rapidly from small beginnings. Established
in 1904, and opening out fresh departments from time to time, the
need for extension was met by the commodious building which has
recently been added to the original pile, partly on the site of the
old boiler-house and engine-room which had been discarded in
favour of electrical power from West Ham.
The manufacture of confectionery of all kinds is carried on
here. Boiled sugars, gums, fondants, and innumerable varieties
in shape, colour, and flavour are turned out in ever-growing
quantities. Other departments are occupied with the packing, in
convenient sizes, of all kinds of groceries, such as Cremo oats,
baking powder, spice, &c., &c.
One of the branches of Silvertown trade which has received
special and increasing attention during recent years is the seed
department, 'which is in the hands of a thoroughly qualified expert,
and provides reliable seeds of vegetables and flowers, to the
general satisfaction of purchasers.
The Broughton Factories.
CHE manufacturers of furniture with sound material and
well-paid trade union labour and in decent factories have to
compete with goods made under wretched conditions, with sweated
labour, and unfortunately it is not always easy to persuade a
customer that cheapness must entail hardship. Undeterred by the
vicissitudes of the trade, the C.W.S. has gone steadily forward
in its policy of producing goods combining quality with fair
treatment of workers, and by dint of much perseverance the
Cabinet Factory, commenced in 1893, continues to make headway.
In 1892 clothing was made in an unpretentious workroom in the
vicinity of Balloon Street, but in 1897 this was transferred to the
long, high building seen at the back. Here, in light and lofty
workrooms, 550 to 600 workers are fully employed, with the
exception of slight seasonal slackness. Amidst all the difficulties
surrounding this trade the factory is making steady progress.
The Mantle Department was, in 1896, commenced in a corner
of the Shirt Factory, but after various changes was moved to the
structure shown in the front bearing the Society's name. The
loyalty of our lady members has increased to such an extent,
however, that early next year further additions and extensions
will have made it 2^- times its present size. Beginning operations
with six employes, these now number 150, and their labours are
chiefly confined to the bespoke trade.
The rectangular building shown in the right foreground is
devoted to the making of shirts, and was occupied in 1896, but
'there have been many considerable extensions in the last nine
years, including the addition of another storey. Enjoying the
48-hour week, and paid piecework wages at a higher rate than
is paid by outside firms, and without stoppages for needles, thread,
&c., 400 workers are kept busily employed in meeting the
demands of organised consumers. These remarks also apply to
the Underclothing Factory, which is an extension to the right.
At present 100 workers are employed.
The motor garage is seen on the extreme left. The Traffic
Department began the delivery of goods to Societies two years ago,
and are specialising in the quick delivery of perishable goods and
the direct conveyance of fragile goods to save handling and
vibration.
The timber stores and joiners' shop, and stonemasons' yard in
connection with the Building Department, as well as the laundry,
are also located at Broughton.
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Desborough Corset Factory,
CHE Corset Factory was originally a member of the Broughton
group, and it began operations on October 20th, 1898. A few
years sufficed to prove that at some time in the future larger
premises would be required, and the attention of the Wholesale
Committee was drawn to Desborough. The Northamptonshire
township had a claim to be considered as a corset-making centre,
and it made also a strong Co-operative appeal. The distributive
Co-operative Society at Desborough, besides enrolling the greater
number of the inhabitants, had attained a unique position. With
the help of a loan secured from the C.W.S. it had purchased (in
1898) a freehold estate of over 400 acres, carrying with it the
local Manor House. Under 80 acres of this land a bed of iron
ore, sufficiently valuable to recoup the Society for the whole first
cost, was afterwards found. The Desborough Co-operators decided
to work this themselves; and, under the circumstances, to find
employment for the girls and women of the village, they were
ready to offer the C.W.S. special terms. At the Quarterly
Meetings in December, 1904, the Wholesale Committee obtained
approval for a purchase of 7,556 square yards of building land,
fronting on the Eothwell Eoad, Desborough; 500 square yards
adjoining were afterwards bought. Meanwhile the existing
Desborough Corset Manufacturing Society was taken over, and
finally on July 3rd, 1905, the whole of the business was
transferred to the fine new factory which by that time had been
erected on the Eothwell Eoad site.
Longsight Printing Works.
WHEN the annual sales of the C.W.S. approached 10,000,000
the question presented itself whether the demand for
printing, books, and stationery consequent upon such a huge
business could not be met by the Society itself. The question
received an affirmative answer, and in 1895 work was begun in
a small way in a warehouse that stood upon part of the site
now covered by the Bank. The venture proved successful in so
many ways that it was realised that the available accommodation
would speedily prove inadequate. Building operations were then
begun on a plot of land at Longsight, already owned by the
C.W.S., and close to the tram route. The new works were ready
in 1898, and the 100 employes then engaged had ample space
for the performance of their duties. Now, in 1910, the staff
exceeds 1,000, a fact that testifies eloquently to the progress of
the works. In 1902 an extension to the works was made, and in
1906 another wing of five storeys was opened.
The whole of the allied trades connected with the printing
business are engaged in these works, and thus the diversity of
work carried on is too great to specify in detail. Besides the
production of account books for the C.W.S. and its constituent
Societies, and balance sheets, the works have dealt with many
jubilee histories for a large number of Societies, in quantities
ranging from 30,000 books of 700 pages each to small orders of
one or two thousand. Here also is produced the "Wheatsheaf,"
a monthly journal published for about 500 Societies, who
contribute pages of local interest to their special editions. A total
circulation of 380,000 monthly has now been reached. A fine
range of lithographic machinery is always busy with box labels,
&c., and towards Christmas with many thousands of almanacs.
Box-making is also an important feature of the works, as the
extent and variety of the C.W.S. industries call for an incessant
supply of boxes literally by millions.
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Leicester Printing Works.
CHESE premises were originally occupied as the hosiery factory,
but when the new factory at Huthwaite was completed and
the business transferred it was decided to utilise the building
as an auxiliary printing works. To this end certain necessary
alterations were made and modern machinery installed, and a
start was made in March, 1909. The works can now execute
orders for all kinds of printing, bookbinding, ruling, and boxmaking.
Already in the last-named industry over 50,000 boxes are turned
out weekly for our own boot works.
Hartlepool Lard Refinery, &c.
CHESE modern premises (which are situated at the corner of
Oxford and Baltic Streets, the main entrance being from
Oxford Street) were specially erected for the process of lard
refining, and are equipped with the most up-to-date appliances
for this business, capable of a weekly output of 100 tons. They
are fitted throughout with electric light, motors, &c., and among
other advantages there are cold storage chambers in which all
refined lard is warehoused. The refinery is within easy access
of the docks, there being a continuous line of railway up to the
works, running into a large covered shed at the back of the
premises, so that goods can be both despatched from and received
at the works in trucks, all loading and discharging being done
under -cover. In addition to the above premises there is also
a very large building adjoining same, at present being used for the
pickling, &c., of eggs.
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CHE manufacture of flannel in Lancashire dates back to the
reign of Edward III., when certain Flemish weavers, exiled
by troubles at home, settled down in the wild and lofty moorland
between Lancashire and Yorkshire. From them in part were
descended the famous hand-loom flannel weavers of Rochdale who
began the Co-operative movement.
In 1872 Co-operators in the neighbourhood formed the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Productive Society, and began to make
flannel at Hare Hill Mill. The venture, however, was not a
success, and in 1878 it went into voluntary liquidation. In 1898
the business was purchased by the C.W.S., and has since taken
its place as a profit-earning department.
Tobacco Factory, Manchester.
FOR many years the demand for tobacco had been steadily
growing, and about 1896 the Directors of the C.W.S. felt
that the time was opportune for embarking on the manufacture
of the fragrant weed. A factory was bought in Sharp Street, a
few minutes' walk from Balloon Street, and a start made in
1898. Instant success attended the enterprise, and within four
years a trade of 300,000 per annum was reached. Alterations
and additions proceeded rapidly, until the buildings now cover
the ground to the extent shown in the illustration, the total floor
space being well over 10,000 square yards. As an indication of
the strenuous efforts made to meet the varied tastes of the
consumers, it may be mentioned that the factory turns out a
hundred separate kinds of shag and twenty-eight of flake. The
annual production amounts to 1,450 tons tobacco, 2,750,000 cigars,
and 26,000,000 cigarettes.
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Hosiery Factory, Huthwaite.
CHE connection of the C.W.S. with hosiery began in 1903,
when the Leicester Hosiery Factory, which had previously
been run as a copartnership works, was taken over as a going
concern. For about five years operations were carried on in the
old building, but in 1908 the business was transferred to a new
and commodious factory designed and erected by the C.W.S. at
Hucknall Huthwaite, fourteen miles from Nottingham.
The building, which lies just behind the main road from
Sutton to Huthwaite, is of two storeys without a basement.
It takes the shape of an L, with the engine-house and other
incidental buildings grouped in an angle. From one extreme of
the L to the other it is one lofty hall, lit from roof and sides.
The factory produces all kinds of hosiery, such as stockings
suitable for all varieties of extremities; socks also, and
underclothing, cardigans, &c.
All that modern machinery can do, guided by expert
management, is brought to bear upon the work, with the result
that the C.W.S. hosiery is second to none.
Weaving Shed, Bury,
CHIS factory, opened in February, 1905, is situated at Springs,
Bury, about ten miles from Manchester, and, being directly
connected with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Eailway, is
conveniently placed with regard to traffic facilities. As may
be seen from the illustration, ample provision is made for a full
volume of light, and the floor space gives ample room for each
branch of the work. There are about 900 looms at work making
domestics, Wigans, sheetings, &c. The material woven here is
dyed and finished elsewhere, these operations being distinct and
separate trades. The bulk of it reappears as lining or pocketing,
the "Sataline" fabric being in considerable favour amongst the
Societies.
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Keighley Ironworks,
CHE inception of these works was due to the local Co-operators,
who in 1885 had under consideration a proposition to enter
into a local industry. Eventually a Society was formed and
registered, premises taken, and work commenced.
In 1907 negotiations were promoted with a view to the
acquirement of the Society by the C.W.S., and in 1908 the
transfer was an accomplished fact.
The principal articles of manufacture are washing machines
and wringers, bedsteads of iron and brass, and wire mattresses.
Dudley Bucket and Fender Works.
CHESE works were established in 1888 as an independent
Productive Society, and after twenty years of steady progress
the works were taken over by the C.W.S. at the same time as
the Keighley Ironworks.
The main products of the factory are fenders, fire-irons (curb,
brass, and antique), and fire brasses. These are of a great variety
in design, as new patterns are constantly in demand. Iron, steel,
brass, and copper are all brought into requisition, singly or in
combination, to produce attractive articles of furniture. The less
ornamental but often more useful bucket is also made in large
quantities and many sizes. Galvanised goods, such as buckets,
baths, waterloos, &c., also constitute a large proportion of the
trade.
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Birtley Tinplate Works,
CHESE are the largest works of the kind in the north of
England devoted to the production of tinware, steel, and
sheet metal goods of every description.
The works are situated in the south-west of Birtley, adjoining
the main line of the North-Eastern Eailway, six miles south of
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The building is a brick structure, composed of single and
two-storey buildings, and, with the various outbuildings, covers
close on an acre of land.
The machine and general workshop is fitted up with modern
machinery, with power presses for all classes of work, and
automatic machinery for the production of sheet metal goods.
Domestic tinware is here made in large quantities and of great
variety, over 500 various articles being made in this department.
Special flour bins and shoots are made for the storage of all
kinds of flour, meal, and grain. In this department are also
manufactured the noted steel panel trunks. There are also
manufactured ventilators, flour mill spouts and hoppers, &c., to
suit the requirements of the various productive departments.
All the machinery is worked by electric motors, and the
conditions of labour are all that could be desired.
Longton Crockery Depot.
CHE pottery trade first engaged the attention of the Wholesale
Society in 1886, when the increasing business in this class of
goods gave rise to the suggestion to establish a Depot in the
manufacturing district for the purpose of collecting and distributing
the articles suitable for Co-operative trade.
The result of thus aggregating the needs of Societies has been
very successful, for the business connections and extensive dealing
of the C.W.S. with the local manufacturers enables them to supply
small orders with much advantage to the retail Society, and large
ones on same terms as makers.
At the commencement premises were rented, but growth of
trade justified the erection of a building, and in 1889 the new
place was occupied. Sufficient land was acquired at the same
time to admit of future developments, and from time to time
additions have been made.
About 1898 the C.W.S. decided to start a decorating
department and build a kiln, so that Societies could have the
satisfaction of purchasing an article finished under healthy
conditions. Now there are two kilns, and nearly 1,000 per year
is paid in wages to this department.
Goods sold from Longton are drawn from sources where the
best conditions of labour prevail, and a large quantity are dipped
in either low solubility or leadless glaze.
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Fellmongering, Fat, and Bones Department,
Pontefract.
CHE buildings shown on the opposite page are where the
C.W.S. conduct their fellmongering business, and also their
fat and bone business. In the foreground is the fellmongering
department.
Fellmongering is that process by which wool is separated
from the sheep skins. There are several ways of doing this, and
that employed by us is by applying to the flesh side of the skin
a mixture of lime and sulphide of sodium ; the skins are allowed
to lie two days with this mixture on them ; they are then washed,
and the wool after the treatment leaves the skin (or pelt, as it is
called in the trade) readily. It has to be pulled off by hand,
because on every skin there are several qualities of wool, and this
has to be carefully sorted by hand as it is pulled off. The wool is
then to be dried, and stored in the large building shown on
illustration for sale.
During the year ended August 31st, 1909, we treated 300,000
skins in this department and employed forty men.
The bone department (which is in the background) extracts
grease from bones and then grinds the bones into bone meal,
which is sold for manure. The grease is extracted by putting
the bones, after being roughly broken, into large tanks; the tanks
are then sealed, and by means of a pipe benzine is run into these
tanks. The benzine is driven off again by means of steam and
recovered for future charges ; the bones are then ready for grinding.
All these departments are worked in conjunction with the
Hide and Skin Department.
Esbjerg Butter Depot*
CHE land is freehold, and covers a total area of 1,889 square
yards. Situated in a fifteen years old garden stands the house
occupied by the manager, adjacent to cool butter cellars of about
100 square yards.
In conjunction with these cellars, on the right side of the
yard is the principal butter warehouse one large room of about
235 square yards, fitted with refrigerating arrangements and
facilities for handling the butter properly ; through these cellars
about 2,400 casks of Danish butter pass weekly.
Opposite to the cellars stands the office building, containing
three nice, light, and spacious office rooms, in which the clerks
are employed.
Well paved and otherwise kept in good order, and with flowers
and trees espaliered along the railings and the whitewashed
walls, the establishment is an attractive advertisement for the
C.W.S. in Denmark.
Odense Depot,
CHIS Depot for butter, eggs, and bacon commenced business
on June 26th, 1898. The newly-erected butter warehouse
is built at the harbour on leasehold land belonging to the Odense
Town Council, and covers an area of 800 square yards.
A railway siding, connected with the main line, runs along
in close proximity to the western side of the building, giving
the best facilities for the receiving and despatching of goods by
rail. The east side of the building faces the quay, and the berth
of the steamers to Great Britain is exactly opposite and only a
few yards distant from the warehouse.
The premises in every way satisfy modern requirements, the
butter cellars being equipped with refrigerating plant, and the
offices with hot-water heating installation, with electric light over
the whole building.
The whole arrangement is ideal, and a further testimony to
the endeavours of the C.W.S. to supply Co-operators with articles
made and distributed under the most perfect conditions.
Herning Bacon Factory,
CHIS factory was purchased in 1900, and business commenced
immediately after reconstruction and the additions to the
buildings were completed.
The front building on the right of the entrance comprises the
manager's and clerks' offices. On the left is the weighing-room
for live hogs, which leads into the sties. Adjoining the sties is
the horse stable. In continuation, we reach the sticking-pen,
and, turning to the right, the slaughter-house, in which will be
found the scalding-tank, singeing-stove, and destruction-room.
In the same building, but on the right, is the sausage-room and
smoking-stove, with large shaft, and the lard melting-room.
Close behind the slaughtery building on the left is the gut-
house, and on the extreme left, with the large shaft, is the
engine-room, boiler-house, and refrigerating machinery; the
condenser belonging to this can be seen standing on top of the
roof.
The large building at the back contains the curing-room,
cooling-room, hanging-room, and baling-room.
. Parallel with the baling-room will be seen a fence which runs
along the passage where the pigs are unloaded from the railway
trucks, the railway line running close by this building, with easy
access for loading and unloading of goods.
The front buildings face towards the north, and are built
of red brick and slate roof ; all the other buildings are of red
bricks with tarred felt roofs, which are whitewashed during the
spring for the summer season.
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Sydney Tallow Works,
CHESE works, for the production of tallow and cccoanut oil for
use in our various soap works, are erected on a suitable and
excellent site in Sydney, the position having been specially
selected as being particularly adapted to the receiving of the
raw materials and the despatch of the manufactured products.
They were specially designed and built for those particular
manufactures, all the machinery being of the latest and up-to-date
description.
Fruit Packing Depot, Denia.
CHIS substantially-built warehouse is the C.W.S. Depot
for the packing and exportation of Spanish produce.
Denia is situated about seventy miles south of Valencia on the
Mediterranean coast, and is the principal port of shipment of
Valencia raisins. Co-operators' requirements of the latter
commodity having greatly increased in recent years, the old rented
property was found inadequate, and it became necessary to make
other provision for carrying on the business efficiently. Land was
bought in a central position near to rail and quay, and a large,
handsome building erected, 75 yards by 45 yards. The nuevo
edificio is looked upon by the natives as doing credit to the town,
and without doubt is second to none in that part of Spain.
The interior is light and airy, and, with ample sanitary
accommodation on the very latest hygienic principles, the C.W.S.
is keeping up its reputation for looking after the interest of its
workers. No one arriving in Denia can fail to notice the words
"Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd.," as the warehouse abuts
on a square adjacent to the station.
The walls are of thick rubble, and the columns, girders, and
'roof principals of iron. The bottom floor, which is used for
making up, is tiled, and the upper storey, which serves as the
picking department, is concreted.
During the excavations much blasting had to be done, remains
of old Moorish foundations being discovered probably those of
buildings connected with the ancient castle or convent close by.
In the season upwards of 600 persons are employed in
picking, packing, and shipping Co-operators' requirements.
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CHE Garston and Eouen service was started by the Society
with a fortnightly steamer in the early part of 1879, and in
1894, on the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal, a separate
fortnightly service was commenced between Manchester and
Rouen, the s.s. "Pioneer" being the first boat to land inward
foreign cargo direct on to the Manchester quay.
The two steamers called at Swansea on the outward voyage
to fill up with coal and goods.
In 1905 the service was rendered more efficient by making it
weekly from each port, instead of fortnightly.
The sailing days are from Manchester every Tuesday ; from
Garston, Wednesday; and from Swansea, Friday, arriving at
Rouen Sunday. The homeward sailings are from Rouen every
Wednesday, arriving at Manchester on Sunday. Two steamers
are at present engaged in the service, viz., the s.s. "Fraternity"
and "New Pioneer."
S.S. FRATERNITY."
The "Fraternity" was built at Glasgow in 1903. Dimensions,
180ft. 2in. x 28ft. lin. x 15ft. Gin. ; net tonnage, 269. She
carries 650 tons cargo and 100 tons bunkers. The crew consists
of 15 hands ; master, Captain R. Bell.
S.S. "New Pioneer,'
CHE "New Pioneer" was built at Walker-on-Tyne, December,
1905, to replace the original "Pioneer," sold in 1906.
Dimensions, 193ft. x 29ft. Gin. x 12ft. 4in. ; net tonnage, 320.
She carries 750 tons cargo and 100 tons bunkers. The crew
consists of 15 hands; master, Captain J. T. Gemmell.
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The Roden Convalescent Home,
CHE Eoden Estate, purchased by the C.W.S. in 1896, included
the Eoden Hall, a small modern country house standing in
its own grounds. After alterations and enlargements the house
was opened in July, 1901, as a Convalescent Home. It has
accommodation for fifty persons. The house includes a men's
sitting-room, a billiard-room, a library, a handsome dining-room,
which is used also for concerts and dances, a ladies' sitting-room,
a conservatory, separate bedrooms, and also bedrooms for married
couples as well as the matron's apartments, kitchens, &c. The
Home has its own kitchen garden and tennis courts. A bowling
green and cricket ground adjacent is used jointly by visitors and
the employes of the estate. The Home is open, first, for
convalescents, who, being recommended by a Co-operative Society
federated with the C.W.S., and not suffering from infectious
disease, are received at a charge of 12s. 6d. per week. When
there is room visitors are also received at 25s. per week, or for a
week-end for 12s. The official receiving day for convalescents is
Tuesday, when a physician attends at the Home.
The Roden Estate.
CHE C.W.S. Eoden Estate, in Shropshire, consists of 742
acres on the banks of the little river Eoden, and is situated
six miles north-east of Shrewsbury. Of this land 204 acres are
farmed by the C.W.S., the remainder being mainly let to
farmers. Forty-six acres are (summer, 1910) under fruit, seventy
acres are mowing and grazing land, and the rest is planted with
peas, roots, and cereals. Besides the fruit farm there are the
glasshouses, the total length of which amounts to over a mile
and a half. Tomatoes, cucumbers, and grapes are chiefly grown.
Thirty-four men are employed on the farm, and thirty-one in the
glasshouses ; while in the fruit-picking season a large temporary
staff is recruited from the Wellington and Oakengates districts.
The fruit picked is taken daily three and a half miles to
Crudgington Station, on the Wellington and Market Dray ton line,
by steam lurry. The lurry does the work of seven horses, and
there are fourteen horses kept on the farm. Modern cottages have
been built for employes, and are let at a rent of 2s. 6d. weekly.
An institute, with lending library and reading and billiard rooms,
has also been provided by the C.W.S., and in this building
religious services are held every Sunday. The estate has its
own water supply by means of a pumping station, and its owi,
plant for electric lighting. The estate was acquired in 1896.
Tea Estates, Ceylon,
IT was in 1882 the English and Scottish Wholesale Societies
combined to establish a joint Tea Department in London,
adjacent to the dock warehouses and brokers' offices that
constitute the great tea market of the country. At the same
time tea planting was beginning in the central mountainous
districts of Ceylon. The superbly beautiful, winterless island,
with its warm steamy atmosphere in the mountain regions round
Kandy, is now one of the chief sources of supply, and when
the Wholesale Societies decided to follow the trade outside the
bounds of this country, and to become tea planters themselves,
it was to Ceylon they went. In 1902 the Nugawella and
Weliganga estates were bought, and to these properties the
Mahavilla and Dambagalla estates have since been added.
Altogether, through their Wholesales, English and Scottish
Co-operators own 813 acres of Cingalese ground.
The Co-operative
Wholesale Society Limited.
ENROLLED AUGUST llth, 1863,
under the Provisions of the Industrial and Provident Societies Act,
25 and 26 Viet., cap. 87, sec. 15, 1862.
BUSINESS COMMENCED MARCH 14th. 1864.
SHARES, 5 EACH, TRANSFERABLE.
Wholesale General Dealers, Manufacturers, Bankers, Millers, Printers,
Bookbinders, Boxmakers, Lithographers, Shipowners, Butter
Factors, Lard Refiners, Bacon Curers, Fruit Growers, Drysalters,
Spice Grinders, Saddlers, Curriers, Iron Founders, and Tinplate
Workers, Tea Growers, Blenders, Packers, and Importers,
Dealers in Grocery and Provisions, Drapery, Woollens, Ready-
made Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Brushes, Crockery, Carpets,
Furniture, Coal, &c., <&c., <&c.
Manufacturers of Flour, Butter, Biscuits, Sweets, Preserves, Pickles,
Candied Peel, Cocoa, Chocolate, Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes,
Snuff, Soap, Candles, Glycerine, Starch, Boots and Shoes,
Saddlery, Woollens, Clothing, Flannels, Shirts, Mantles, Under-
clothing, Corsets, Millinery, Hosiery, Silesias, Pants, Ladies'
Underwear, Cardigans, Furniture, Brushes, General Hardware,
Bedsteads, Wire Mattresses, Mats, &c.
CENTRAL OFFICES,
BANK, SHIPPING. AND COAL DEPARTMENT. GROCERY AND PROVISION.
AND BOOT AND SHOE WAREHOUSES:
Balloon Street, Manchester.
DRAPERY WAREHOUSES:
Balloon Street and Dantzic Street,
Manchester.
WOOLLEN CLOTH AND READY-MADES
WAREHOUSE:
Dantzic Street, Manchester.
FURNISHING WAREHOUSE:
Balloon Street, Manchester.
STATIONERY DEPARTMENT AND
SADDLERY DEPARTMENT:
Balloon Street, Manchester.
HIDE AND SKIN WAREHOUSES:
Elm Street, Manchester; Copley Hill,
Leeds; and Beeston, Nottingham.
FELLMONGERING DEPARTMENT:
Pontefract.
BRANCHES:
West Blandford St., Newcastle-on-Tyne,
AND
Leman Street, London, E.
SALEROOMS:
LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, NOTTINGHAM, BLACKBURN,
AND BIRMINGHAM.
PURCHASING AND FORWARDING DEPOTS.
England :
LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, BRISTOL, LONGTON, GOOLE, GARSTON
CARDIFF, AND NORTHAMPTON.
Ireland :
CORK, LIMERICK, TRALEE, AND ARMAGH.
America : NEW YORK.
Canada : MONTREAL.
France : ROUEN.
Spain: DENIA.
Denmark : COPENHAGEN,
Denmark : AARHUS,
ODENSE,
HERNING,
ESBJERG.
Sweden : GOTHENBURG.
ANNACARTY.
BALLYBRICKEN.
BILBOA.
BUNKAY BRIDGE.
COACHFORD.
CUTTEEN.
IRISH CREAMERIES
DOONAHA.
DROMCLOUGH.
GORMANSTOWN.
GRANTSTOWN.
GREYBRIDGE.
GURTAGARRY.
And 30 Auxiliaries.
KILCOMMON.
TARMON.
TERELTON.
TRALEE.
PRODUCTIVE WORKS AND DEPARTMENTS.
Biscuits, Sweets, and Drysaltery Works:
CRUMPSALL, NEAR MANCHESTER.
Boot and Shoe Works :
LEICESTER, HECKMONDWIKE, AND RUSHDEN.
Soap, Candle, Glycerine, Lard, and Starch Works :
IRLAM, NEAR MANCHESTER,
SILVERTOWN (LONDON), AND DUNSTON-ON-TYNE.
Tallow and Oil Works :
SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA).
Woollen Cloth Works:
LIVINGSTONE MILL, BATLEY.
Clothing Factories:
HOLBECK (LEEDS), BROUGHTON (MANCHESTER),
AND PELAW-ON-TYNE.
Cocoa and Chocolate Works:
DALLOW ROAD, LUTON.
Flour Mills:
DUNSTON-ON-TYNE, SILVERTOWN (LONDON), OLDHAM,
MANCHESTER, AND AVONMOUTH (BRISTOL).
Furniture Factories:
BROUGHTON (MANCHESTER) AND PELAW-ON-TYNE.
Printing, Bookbinding, Boxmaking, and
Lithographic Works:
LONGSIGHT (MANCHESTER), PELAW-ON-TYNE, AND LEICESTER.
Preserve, Candied Peel, and Pickle Works,
also Vinegar Brewery:
MIDDLETON JUNCTION, NEAR MANCHESTER.
PRODUCTIVE WORKS AND DEPARTMENTS contd.
Shirts, Mantles, and Underclothing:
BROUGHTON (MANCHESTER).
Millinery:
MANCHESTER.
Cabinet, Paper, Tailoring, Shirts, Kerseys, Drugs, &c. :
PELAW-ON-TYNE.
Tailoring and Bedding:
LONDON.
Bacon Factories :
TRALEE (IRELAND) AND HERNING (DENMARK).
Lard Refineries:
WEST HARTLEPOOL AND IRLAM.
Tobacco, Cigar, Cigarette, and Snuff Factory:
SHARP STREET, MANCHESTER.
Pepper Factory:
HANOVER STREET, MANCHESTER.
Flannel Factory:
HARE HILL MILLS, LITTLEBORO'.
Corset Factory: Hosiery, &c., Factory:
DESBOROUGH. HUTHWAITE, NOTTS.
Tea Gardens:
CEYLON.
Weaving Shed: Brush and Mat Works:
GIGG, BURY. HUNSLET, LEEDS.
Fruit Farms:
RODEN (SHROPSHIRE), MARDEN (HEREFORD).
General Hardware, Bedstead, Wire Mattress, and
Tinplate Works:
DUDLEY, BIRTLEY, AND KEIGHLEY.
Butter Factory :
BRISLINGTON, BRISTOL.
SHIPOWNERS AND SHIPPERS
BETWEEN
GARSTON AND ROUEN ; MANCHESTER AND ROUEN.
STEAMSHIPS OWNED BY THE SOCIETY:
"FRATERNITY," "NEW PIONEER," "DINAH,"
AND "BRITON."
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Agencies:
THE LONDON COUNTY AND WESTMINSTER BANK LIMITED.
THE MANCHESTER AND COUNTY BANK LIMITED.
THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND LIMITED.
THE MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANK LIMITED.
THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE BANK LIMITED.
THE UNION BANK OF MANCHESTER LIMITED.
THE LONDON CITY AND MIDLAND BANK LIMITED.
WILLIAMS DEACON'S BANK LIMITED.
BARCLAY AND CO. LIMITED, LONDON AND BRANCHES.
LLOYD'S BANK LIMITED (LAMBTON'S BRANCH),
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE AND BRANCHES.
UNITED COUNTIES BANK LIMITED, BARNSLEY AND BRANCHES.
LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK' (LATE YORK CITY AND COUNTY
BANK LIMITED), YORK AND BRANCHES.
UNION OP LONDON AND SMITH'S, BARNSLEY AND BRANCHES.
CAPITAL AND COUNTIES BANK, LONDON AND BRANCHES.
PARRS BANK, MANCHESTER AND BRANCHES.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE UNION BANK, RUSHDEN AND BRANCHES.
THE COMMITTEE.
ADAMS, Mr. THOMAS, 12, Park View, Stockton-on-Tees.
CIAPPESSONI, Mr. FRANCIS A., George Street, Carlisle.
COLEY, Mr. PHILIP, 22, Stansfield Street, Sunderland.
DEANS, Mr. ADAM, The Limes, Belle Grove, Welling, Kent.
ELSEY, Mr. HENRY, Bickleigh, Festing Grove, Festing Road, Southsea.
ENGLISH, Mr. JOSEPH, Tyneholme, Birtley, R.S.O., Co. Durham.
FAIRCLOUGH, Mr. JAMES, 33, Sackville Street, Barnsley.
GOODEY, Mr. JAMES F., Holmsmuir, 133, Lower Addiscombe Road,
Croydon.
GRAHAM, Mr. WILLIAM D., 123, Bede Burn Road, Jarrow-on-Tyne.
GRINDROD, Mr. EMMANUEL, 13, Holker Street, Keighley.
HAYHURST, Mr. GEO., 45. Tremellen Street, Accrington.
HEMINGWAY, Mr. WASHINGTON, 108, Bolton Road, Pendleton,
Manchester.
HIND, Mr. THOMAS, 53, St. Peter's Road, Leicester.
HOLT, Mr. ROBERT, Brier Crest, Deeplish Road, Rochdale.
JOHNS, Mr. JOHN ERNEST, Westgate, Eldon Road, Reading.
KILLON, Mr. THOMAS, 7, Tenterden Street, Bury.
LANDER, Mr. WILLIAM, 32, Grosvenor Street, Bolton.
MARSHALL, Mr. CHARLES, 30, Markham Street, York.
Mc.INNES, Mr. DUNCAN, Hamilton Road, Lincoln.
MOORHOUSE, Mr. THOMAS E., Reporter Office, Delph.
MORT, Mr. ISAAC, 233, High Road, Leyton, Essex.
PARKES, Mr. MILES, 16, Heathfield Avenue, Crewe.
PINGSTONE, Mr. HENRY C., Yew Bank, Brook Road, Heaton Chapel,
Manchester.
SHILLITO, Mr. JOHN (President), 4, Park View, Hop wood Lane, Halifax.
SHOTTON, Mr. THOMAS E., Summerhill, Shotley Bridge, Durham.
THORPE, Mr. GEORGE, 6, Northfield, Highroyd, Dewsbury.
THREADGILL, Mr. A. E., 4, Sherfield Road, Grays, Essex.
TWEDDELL, Mr. THOMAS (Vice-President), Lyndenhurst, Button
Avenue, West Hartlepool.
WARWICK, Mr. JOSEPH, 7, Waterville Terrace, North Shields.
WILKINS, Mr. H. J. A., 35, Hamilton Gardens, Mutley, Plymouth.
WOODHOUSE, Mr. GEORGE, The Laurels, 27, Renals Street, Derby.
YOUNGS, Mr. H. J., 6, Portland Place, Old Palace Road, Norwich.
SCRUTINEERS:
Mr. F. HARDERN, Oldham. | Mr. J. J. BARSTOW, Dewsbury.
AUDITORS:
Mr. THOS. J. BAYLIS, Masborough.
Mr. THOMAS WOOD, Manchester.
Mr. C. J. BECKETT, Darwen.
Mr. B. TETLOW, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Mr. P. G. REDFEARN, Birstall.
Died October 5th, 1910. The vacancy was not filled at the time of going to press.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
Secretary and Accountant :
Mr. THOMAS BRODRICK.
Bank Manager and Cashier
Mr. THOMAS GOODWIN.
BUYERS, SALESMEN, <&c.
Manchester Grocery and Provisions :
Mr. JAS. MASTIN.
Mr. A. W. LOBB.
Mr. LEWIS WILSON.
Mr. JOSEPH HOLDEN.
Mr. R. TURNER.
Manchester Paper, Twine, <&c.
Mr. H. WIGGINS.
Mr. J. C. FODEN.
Mr. A. ACKROYD.
Mr. C. MARKLAND.
Mr. P. RYDER.
Manchester Drapery :
Mr. G. TOMLINSON.
Mr. J. BLOMELEY.
Mr. J. BOWDEN.
Mr. E. LEES.
Mr. E. C. REVETT.
Manchester Woollens, Boots, and Furniture:
Woollens and Ready-mades Mr. W. GIBSON.
Boots and Shoes and Saddlery Mr. HENRY JACKSON.
General Furnishing Mr. T. R. ALLEN.
Furniture Mr. F. E. HOWARTH.
Shipping Department :
Mr. A. E. MENZIES.
Coal Department:
Mr. S. ALLEN.
BUYERS, SALESMEN, <&c. continued.
Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, and Beeston Hides and Skins:
Mr. R. ASHTON.
Pontefract Fellmongering :
Mr. E. ASHTON.
Shipping and Forwarding Depots :
Rouen (France) Mr. JAMES MARQUIS.
Goole Mr. E. W. RAPER.
London :
Tea and Coffee Mr. W. B. PRICE.
Luton :
Cocoa and Chocolate . . .Mr. E. J. STAFFORD.
Liverpool :
Grocery and Provisions .Mr. WM. L. KEWLEY.
Salerooms :
Leeds Mr. WM. POLLARD.
Nottingham Mr. A. DELVES.
Huddersfield Mr. J. O'BRIEN.
Birmingham Mr. J. BARLOW.
Blackburn Mr. H. SHELMERDINE.
Longton :
Crockery Depot Mr. J. RHODES.
Birmingham :
Cycle Depot Mr. H. H. BAILEY.
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BUYERS, SALESMEN, &c continued.
Newcastle :
Chief Clerk Mr. H. R. BAILEY.
Grocery and Provisions Mr. ROBT. WILKINSON.
Mr. T. WEATHERSON.
Greengrocery Mr. JOSEPH ATKINSON.
Drugs, Drysaltery, &c Mr. R. A. WALLIS.
Paper, Twine, &c Mr. H. GLENNY.
Dress Mr. J. LEE.
Manchester and Greys Mr. W. STODDART.
Hosiery, Millinery, Fancy, and Mantles Mr. T. TOWNS.
Woollens and Ready -mades Mr. J. THOMPSON.
Boots and Shoes Mr. O. JACKSON.
Furniture Mr. J. W. TAYLOR.
Jewellery and Fancy Hardware Mr. H. H. BAILEY.
Coal Mr. E. NELSON.
Cattle . .Mr. E. JONES.
London :
Chief Clerk Mr. W. E. S. COCK.
Grocery and Provisions Mr. WM. OPENSHAW.
Manchester, Greys,Mercery, Haberdashery, ) Mr p WADDIN QTON
and Hosiery )
Millinery, Dress, Fancy, and Mantles Mr. J. W. FORSTER.
Woollens and Ready-mades Mr. GEORGE HAY.
Boots and Shoes Mr. ALFRED PARTRIDGE.
Furnishing Mr. F. LING.
Coal.. ..Mr. J. BURGESS.
Bristol Depot :
Chief Clerk Mr. J. WHITE.
Grocery and Provisions Mr. J. W. JUSTHAM.
Drapery Mr. W. J. SHEPHARD.
Woollens and Ready-mades Mr. G. H. BARNES.
Boots '. Mr. M. WALFORD.
Furnishing .Mr. G. BLANSHARD.
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BUYERS, SALESMEN, &c continued.
Cardiff Depot:
Grocery. .Mr. .TAS. F. JAMES.
Drapery Mr. W. J. SHEPHARD.
Northampton Depot:
Mr. A. BAKER.
IRISH DEPOTS:
BUTTER AND EGGS, ALSO BACON FACTORY.
Limerick :
Mr. PATRICK HURLEY.
Tralee :
Mr. J. J. Mc.CARTHY.
Cork :
Mr. JAMES TURNBULL.
Armagh :
Mr. P. O'NEILL.
Tralee Bacon Factory :
Mr. J. ROBINSON.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN DEPOTS:
New York (America) :
Mr. JOHN GLEDHILL.
Copenhagen (Denmark) :
Mr. WM. DILWORTH, JUNR.
Aarhus (Denmark) :
Mr. H. J. W. MADSEN.
Esbjerg (Denmark) :
Mr. H. C. KONGSTAD.
Odense (Denmark) :
Mr. C. W. KIRCHHOFP.
Denia (Spain) :
Mr. W. J. PIPER.
Herning (Denmark) :
Mr. A. MADSEN.
Montreal (Canada) :
Mr. A. C. WIELAND.
Gothenburg (Sweden) :
Mr. W. JOHNSON.
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MANAGERS, PRODUCTIVE, &c., WORKS.
ARCHITECT Mr. F. E. L. HARRIS,
A.R.I.B.A.
AVONMO.UTH FLOUR MILL Mr. A. H. HOBLEY.
BATLEY WOOLLEN CLOTH WORKS Mr. S. BOOTHROYD.
BIKTLEY TINPLATE WORKS Mr. A. THORP.
BHODGHTON CABINET FACTORY Mr. F. E. HOWARTH.
BROUGHTON CLOTHING FACTORY Mr. A. GRIERSON.
BROUGHTON SHIRT FACTORY Mr. T. J. SHAW.
BUILDING DEPARTMENT Mr. P. HEYHURST.
BURY WEAVING SHED Mr. H. BLACKBURN.
CRUMPSALL BISCUIT, &c., WORKS Mr. GEORGE BRILL.
DESBOROUGH CORSET FACTORY Mr. P. THOMAS.
DUDLEY GENERAL HARDWARE Mr. J. ROUNDS.
DUNSTON FLOUR MILL Mr. TOM PARKINSON.
DUNSTON SOAP WORKS Mr. J. E. GREEN.
ENGINEER Mr. R. L. GASS.
HECKMONDWIKE BOOT AND SHOE WORKS . . Mr. JOHN HAIGH.
HUTHWAITE HOSIERY FACTORY Mr. H. FRANCE.
IRLAM SOAP, CANDLE, GLYCERINE, LARD,,
AND STARCH WORKS Mr. J. E. GREEN.
KEIGHLEY IRONWORKS Mr. H. WHALLEY.
LEEDS BRUSH AND MAT FACTORY Mr. A. W. SAUNDERS.
LEEDS CLOTHING FACTORY Mr. WILLIAM UTTLEY.
LEICESTER BOOT AND SHOE WORKS Mr. T. E. HUBBARD.
LEICESTER PRINTING AND BOXMAKING
WORKS Mr. G. BREARLEY.
LITTLEBORO' FLANNEL FACTORY Mr. W. H. GREENWOOD.
MANCHESTER PRINTING, BOOKBINDING, BOX-
MAKING, AND LITHOGRAPHIC WORKS .. Mr. G. BREARLEY.
MANCHESTER TOBACCO, CIGAR, CIGARETTE,
AND SNUFF FACTORY Mr. J. C. CRAGG.
MANCHESTER (TRAFFORD PARK) PROVENDER
MILL Mr. W. H. SLAWSON.
MANCHESTER (TRAFFORD PARK) SUN)
FLOUR MILL I Mr. W. MATTHEWS.
OLDHAM STAR FLOUR MILL j
MIDDLETON JUNCTION PRESERVE AND
CANDIED PEEL WORKS Mr. W. J. HOWARD.
MIDDLETON JUNCTION PICKLE WORKS AND
VINEGAR BREWERY Mr. GEO. REEVE.
PELAW DRUG AND SUNDRIES WORKS Mr. R. A. WALLIS.
PELAW CABINET WORKS Mr. W. KERSHAW.
PELAW ENGINEERING WORKS Mr. WM. FLETCHER.
PELAW PRINTING WORKS Mr. G. BREARLEY.
PELAW TAILORING, KERSEY, AND SHIRT Mr. S. BOTTOMLEY.
RUSHDEN BOOT AND SHOE WORKS Mr. F. BALLARD.
SILVERTOWN FLOUR MILL Mr. G. V. CHAPMAN.
SILVERTOWN PACKING Mr. R. A. WALLIS.
SILVERTOWN SOAP WORKS Mr. R. COWBURN.
SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) TALLOW & OIL WORKS Mr. LOXLEY MEGGITT.
WEST HARTLEPOOL LARD FACTORY . Mr. W. HOLLAND.
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EMPLOYES.
NUMBEK OF EMPLOYES, OCTOBER, 1910.
DISTEIBUTIVE DEPARTMENTS.
Collective
Totals.
General, Drapery, Woollens, Boot and Shoe, and Fur-
nishing Offices Manchester 572
Bank 41
Architect's Office 19
Grocery Department 333
Old Trafford Wharf, Bacon and Coffee 82
Paper, Twine, and Stationery Department Warehouse . . 16
Drapery Department 254
Woollen Cloth Department 60
Boot and Shoe, and Saddlery Department 68
Furnishing Department 98
Coal 6
Hides and Skins 10
Building 528
Dining-room 53
Engineers' 48
Traffic 47
Other ' . 74
2,309
BRANCHES.
Newcastle Offices 170
Departments ; 443
Building Department 17
Pelaw Drug and Drysaltery 359
Paper and Printing 134
Cabinet Works 190
Engineering Shop 67
Dining-room 5
Clothing Factory 303
Traffic 104
- 1,792
London Offices 140
Departments 281
Tailoring 146
Bedding and Upholstery and Polishing 20
Building 82
Traffic 38
Engineers 38
Silvertown Factory 301
3,046
JOINT ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH C.W.S.
London Tea and Coffee Department 409
Tea Estates 445
854
Carried forward 6,001
NUMBEE OF EMPLOYES, OCTOBEE, 1910.
Collective
Totals.
Brought forward 6,001
DEPOTS.
Bristol 249
Cardiff 78
Northampton 31
358
PURCHASING DEPOTS.
Goole , 6
Liverpool Branch Grocery and Shipping 99
Longton Crockery 66
Irish Branches 118
Creameries 180
Tralee Bacon Factory 70
Leeds Hides and Skins 11
Beeston 9
Stockton 4
Newcastle , 11
Birmingham Cycle 10
584
FOREIGN PURCHASING DEPOTS.
New York 8
Montreal 4
Copenhagen 19
Aarhus 15
Gothenburg 11
Odense 11
Denia 3
Sydney 8
Herning 28
Esbjerg 13
120
SALEROOMS.
Leeds 5
Nottingham 3
Birmingham 2
Huddersfield 3
Blackburn 1
j^
SHIPPING OFFICES.
Garston 1
Rouen 15
16
STEAMSHIPS.
" New Pioneer " 15
" Fraternity" 15
" Dinah " 3
" Briton " 3
36
Carried forward 7,129
15
NUMBEE OF EMPLOYES, OCTOBEK, 1910.
Collective
Totals.
Brought forward 7,129
PRODUCTIVE WORKS.
Avomnouth Flour Mill 67
Batley Woollen Mill 250
Birtley Tinplate Works 38
Brislington Butter Factory 34
Broughton Cabinet Factory 212
Mantle 180
Shirt , 486
Tailoring ; 536 .
Underclothing Factory 98
Millinery 18
Bury Weaving Shed 340
Crumpsall Biscuit Works 505
Desboro' Corset Factory 288
Dudley Bucket and Fender Works 150
Dunston Corn Mill 179
Soap Works 93
Enderby Boot and Shoe Works 213
Heckmondwike Currying Department 21
Shoe Works 325
Huthwaite Hosiery Factory 448
Irlam Soap Works 642
Keighley Ironworks 80
Leeds Ready-Mades 693
Brush Factory 200
Leicester Shoe Works, Knighton Fields 1,499
Duns Lane 443
Printing Works 107
Littleborough Flannel Factory 94
Longsight Printing Works 1,028
Luton Cocoa Works (Joint English and Scottish C.W.S.) 277
Manchester Tobacco Factory 696
Sun Corn Mill '. 139
Provender Mill 12
Middleton Junction Preserve, Pickle, and Vinegar Works 630
Oldham Star Corn Mill 76
Pontef ract Fellmongering 44
Bushden Boot Factory 514
Silvertown Corn Mill 106
Soap Works 129
Sydney Tallow Factory 35
West Hartlepool Lard Refinery 26
Wisbech Fruit Depot 74
12,015
Roden Estate 64
,, Convalescent Home 8
Marden Fruit Farm 31
Total 19,247
16
MEETINGS AND OTHER COMING EVENTS
IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOCIETY IN 1911.
Feb. 4 SATURDAY Nomination Lists: Last day for receiving.
Mar. 7 TUESDAY Voting Lists: Last day for receiving.
11 SATURDAY .... Divisional Quarterly Meetings.
18 SATURDAY General Quarterly Meeting Manchester.
May 6 SATURDAY Nomination Lists : Last day for receiving.
June g TUESDAY ....Voting Lists: Last day for receiving.
10 SATURDAY Divisional Quarterly Meetings.
17 SATURDAY General Quarterly Meeting Manchester.
,, 24 SATURDAY .... Half-yearly Stocktaking.
Aug. 5 SATURDAY .... Nomination Lists : Last day for receiving.
Sept. 5 TUESDAY Voting Lists: Last day for receiving.
9 SATURDAY Divisional Quarterly Meetings.
1Q SATURDAY General Quarterly Meeting Manchester.
Nov. 4 SATURDAY .... Nomination Lists : Last day for receiving.
Dec. 5 TUESDAY .... Voting Lists : Last day for receiving.
9 SATURDAY Divisional Quarterly Meetings.
16 SATURDAY.. . .General Quarterly Meeting Manchester.
23 SATURDAY Half-yearly Stocktaking.
17
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY
SINCE ITS COMMENCEMENT.
YEAR
1863
1864
1866
1868
1869
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1879
H
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
DAY. EVENTS.
Aug. 11 . . Co-operative Wholesale Society enrolled.
Mar. 14 Co-operative Wholesale Society commenced business.
April 24 Tipperary Depot opened.
June 1 Kilmallock Depot opened.
Mar. 1 Balloon Street Warehouse opened.
July 12 Limerick Depot opened.
Nov. 26 Newcastle-on-Tyne Depot opened.
July 1 Manchester Boot and Shoe Department commenced.
Oct. 14 Bank Department commenced.
Jan. 13 Crumpsall Works purchased.
April 14 Armagh Depot opened.
June 2 Manchester Drapery Department established.
July 14 Waterford Depot opened.
Aug. 4 Cheshire Depot opened.
,, 4 Leicester Works purchased.
16 Insurance Fund established.
Sept. 15 Leicester Works commenced.
Feb. 2 Tralee Depot opened.
Mar. 9 London Branch established.
Oct. 5 Durham Soap Works commenced.
April 2 Liverpool Purchasing Department commenced.
June 15 Manchester Drapery Warehouse, Dantzic Street, opened.
Feb. 14 Newcastle Branch Buildings, Waterloo Street, opened.
21 New York Depot established.
May 24 S.S. " Plover " purchased.
July 16 Manchester Furnishing Department commenced.
Aug. 5 Leicester Works first Extensions opened.
Jan. 15 Cork Depot established.
Oct. 25 Land in Liverpool purchased.
Feb. 21 S.S. "Pioneer," Launch of.
Mar. 24 Rouen Depot opened.
Mar. 29 S.S. "Pioneer," Trial trip.
June 30 Goole Forwarding Department opened.
Jan. 30 S.S. "Plover" sold.
July 27 S.S. "Cambrian" purchased.
Aug. 14 Heckmondwike Boot and Shoe Works commenced.
Sept. 27 London Drapery Department commenced in new premises,
99, Leman Street.
June 6 Copenhagen Depot opened.
Jan. 18 Garston Forwarding Depot commenced.
Oct. 31 Leeds Saleroom opened.
Nov. 1 London Tea and Coffee Department commenced.
July 21 S.S. "Marianne Briggs" purchased.
April 7 Hamburg Depot commenced.
May 31 Leicester Works second Extensions opened.
June 25 Newcastle Branch New Drapery Warehouse opened.
Sept. 13 Commemoration of the Society's Twenty-first Anniversary
at Newcastle-on-Tyne and London.
20 .. Commemoration of the Society's Twenty-first Anniversary
at Manchester.
18
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY
SINCE ITS COMMENCEMENT continued.
YEAR.
DAY.
1884
Sept. 29
Oct. 6
1885
Aug. 25
Dec. 30
1886
April 22
Aug. 25
Oct. 12
1887
Mar. 14
June 1
u
July 21
Aug. 29
Nov. 2
2
1888
July 7
Sept. 8
Sept. 27
Oct. 14
1889
Feb. 18
)(
Nov. 11
1890
Mar. 10
May 16
June 10
Oct. 22
1891
April 18
Oct. 22
(|
Nov. 4
4
Dec. 24
1892
1893
May 5
8
1894
June 29
1895
Jan. 23
Aug. 5
Oct. 2
M
10
1896
April 24
June 13
1897
26
July 1
Feb. 10
Mar. 1
u
1898
,, 1
22
Aug. 7
Sept. 16
April 1
May 9
July 11
Oct. 20
1900
Jan. 19
EVENTS.
Bristol Dep6t commenced.
S.S. "Progress," Launch of.
Huddersfield Saleroom opened.
Fire Tea Department, London.
Nottingham Saleroom opened.
Longton Crockery Dep&t opened.
S.S. "Federation," Launch of.
Batley Mill commenced.
S.S. "Progress" damaged by fire at Hamburg.
Manchester New Furnishing Warehouse opened.
Heckmondwike Currying Department commenced.
London Branch New Warehouse opened.
Manufacture of Cocoa and Chocolate commenced.
S.S. " Equity," Launch of.
S.S. " Equity," Trial trip.
S.S. "Cambrian" sold.
Fire Newcastle Branch.
Enderby Extension opened.
Longton Depot New Premises opened.
S.S. " Liberty," Trial trip.
Blackburn Saleroom opened.
Leeds Clothing Factory commenced.
Northampton Saleroom opened.
Dunston Corn Mill opened.
Cardiff Saleroom opened.
Leicester New Works opened.
Aarhus Depot opened.
Fire at Crumpsall Works.
Birmingham Saleroom* opened.
Broughton Cabinet Factory opened.
Montreal Depot opened.
Printing Department commenced.
Gothenburg Depot opened.
Irlam Soap Works opened.
Loss of the S.S. " Unity."
West Hartlepool Refinery purchased.
Roden Estate purchased.
Middleton Preserve Works commenced.
" Wheatsheaf " Record first publication.
New Northampton Saleroom opened.
Manufacture of Candles commenced at Irlam.
Broughton Tailoring Factory opened.
New Tea Department Buildings opened.
Sydney Depot commenced.
Banbury Creamery opened.
Littleboro' Flannel Mill acquired.
Tobacco Factory commenced.
Longsight Printing Works commenced.
Corset Factory commenced.
Herning Slagteri purchased.
19
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY
SINCE ITS COMMENCEMENT continued.
YEAR.
1900 .
1901 '.
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
)
1907
1908
1909
1910
DAY.
Mar. 24
June 20
April 30
July 27
Sept. 3
Oct. 9
April 9
25
May 1
Sept. 8
Nov. 1
July 1
Oct. 24
Feb. 20
AprillS
May 30
June 20
July 1
Aug. 24
Feb. 15
Feb. 13
27
July 3
Sept. 5
Oct. 26
Jan. 1
Mar. 31
April 28
May 16
Nov. 19
Sept. 14
19
Oct. 1
Feb. 4
8
June 13
29
29
29
Feb. 15
22
April 5
Sept. 13
May 7
July 19
EVENTS.
Rushden Factory commenced.
Silvertown Flour Mill opened.
Sydney Tallow Factory purchased.
Roden Convalescent Home opened.
Tralee Bacon Factory commenced.
Rushden New Factory opened.
New Birmingham Saleroom opened.
Fire at Newcastle Branch (Drapery Department).
Work commenced at Pelaw.
Luton Cocoa Works opened.
Launch of New Steamer, " Unity," Greenock.
Leicester Hosiery Factory taken over.
Launch of New Steamer, "Fraternity."
Marden Fruit Farm purchased.
New Drapery Buildings, Manchester, opened.
Newcastle Hide and Skin Depot commenced.
Brislington Butter Factory commenced.
Huddersfield Brush Factory taken over.
Stockton Hide and Skin Depot commenced.
Bury Weaving Shed commenced.
Starch Manufacture commenced at Irlam.
'Lard
Desborough Corset Factory commenced.
Esbjerg Dep6t opened.
Launch of " New Pioneer."
Rochdale Flour Mill taken over.
Oldham Star Flour Mill taken over.
Sun Flour Mill taken over.
Bristol New Depot opened.
Manchester Ride and Skin Depot commenced.
Mitchell Memorial Hall opened.
Leeds Hide and Skin Depot commenced.
New Huddersfield Saleroom opened.
Huthwaite Hosiery Factory commenced.
Birmingham Cycle Depot opened. .
Silvertown Soap Works commenced.
Keighley Iron Works taken over.
Dudley Bucket and Fender Society taken over.
Birtley Tin Plate Society taken over.
Dunston-on-Tyne Soap Works opened.
Pontefract Fellmongering commenced.
Leicester Printing Works commenced.
Beeston Hide and Skin Depot commenced.
Avonmouth Flour Mill commenced.
New Extensions, London, opened.
20
LIST OF TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES.
ARMAGH DEp6i: "WHOLESALE, ARMAGH."
AVONMOUTH FLOUR MILL: "WHOLESALE, AVONMOUTH."
BATLEY WOOLLEN MILL: "WHOLESALE, BATLEY."
BEESTON HIDE AND SKIN DEPARTMENT: "WHOLESALE, BEESTON,
NOTTS."
BIRMINGHAM CYCLE DEP&T: "CO-OPERATE, BIRMINGHAM."
BIRMINGHAM SALEROOM: "CO-OPERATE, BIRMINGHAM."
BIRTLEY TINPLATE WORKS : "WHOLESALE, BIRTLEY."
BLACKBURN SALEROOM: "WHOLESALE, BLACKBURN."
BRISLING-TON BUTTER FACTORY: "FACTORY, BRISLINGTON."
BRISTOL DEPOT : "WHOLESALE, BRISTOL."
BBOUGHTON CABINET FACTORY: "CO-OPERATOR, MANCHESTER."
BROUGHTON SHIRT, UNDERCLOTHING, AND MANTLE FACTORY :
"JACKETS, MANCHESTER."
BROUGHTON TAILORING FACTORY : " TAILORING, MANCHESTER."
BURY WEAVING SHED: "WHOLESALE, BURY."
CARDIFF SALEROOM: "WHOLESALE, CARDIFF."
CENTRAL, MANCHESTER: "WHOLESALE, MANCHESTER."
CORK DEPOT: "WHOLESALE, CORK."
CRUMPSALL WORKS : "BISCUIT, MANCHESTER."
DESBORO' CORSET FACTORY: "WHOLESALE, DESBORO'."
DUDLEY BUCKET WORKS: "WHOLESALE, DUDLEY."
DUNSTON-ON-TYNE SOAP WORKS: "SOAP, DUNSTON-ON-TYNE."
DUNSTON-ON-TYNE CORN MILL : "WHOLESALE, GATESHEAD." .
GOOLE DEP6T: "WHOLESALE, GOOLE."
HARTLEPOOL LARD REFINERY : " WHOLESALE, WEST HARTLEPOOL.
HECKMONDWIKE SHOE WORKS: "WHOLESALE, HECKMONDWIKE."
HUDDERSFIELD SALEROOM: "WHOLESALE, HUDDERSFIELD."
HUTHWAITE HOSIERY FACTORY: "WHOLESALE, HUTHWAITE."
IRLAM SOAP WORKS: "WHOLESALE, CADISHEAD."
KEIGHLEY IRONWORKS : " WHOLESALE, KEIGHLEY."
LEEDS BRUSH FACTORY: "BROOMS, LEEDS."
LEEDS READY-MADES FACTORY: "SOCIETY, LEEDS."
LEEDS SALE AND SAMPLE ROOMS: "WHOLESALE, LEEDS."
LIST OF TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES continued.
LEEDS HIDE AND SKIN DEPARTMENT: "SKINS, LEEDS."
LEICESTER PRINTING WORMS: "TYPOGRAPHY, LEICESTER."
LEICESTER SHOE WORKS: "WHOLESALE, LEICESTER."
LIMERICK DEPOT: "WHOLESALE, LIMERICK."
LIVERPOOL OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE: "WHOLESALE, LIVERPOOL."
LONDON BRANCH: "WHOLESALE, LONDON."
LONGSIGHT PRINTING WORKS: "TYPOGRAPHY, MANCHESTER."
LONGTON CROCKERY DEPOT: "WHOLESALE, LONGTON (STAFFS.)."
LUTON COCOA WORKS: "WHOLESALE, LUTON."
MANCHESTER CENTRAL: "WHOLESALE, MANCHESTER."
MANCHESTER HIDE AND SKIN DEPARTMENT: "SKINS, MANCHESTER."
MANCHESTER SUN MILL : " SUNLIKE, MANCHESTER."
MARDEN FRUIT FARM : "WHOLESALE, MARDEN, HEREFORD."
MIDDLETON PRESERVE WORKS : " WHOLESALE, MIDDLETON
JUNCTION."
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: "WHOLESALE, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE."
NEWCASTLE BRANCH, PELAW: "WHOLESALE, BILL-QUAY."
NEWCASTLE BRANCH, CATTLE DEPARTMENT : " KYLOE, NEWCASTLE."
NEWCASTLE BRANCH, GREENGROCERY (STOWELL STREET) : " LOYALTY,
NEWCASTLE.
NORTHAMPTON SALEROOM: "WHOLESALE, NORTHAMPTON."
NOTTINGHAM SALEROOM: "WHOLESALE, NOTTINGHAM."
OLDHAM STAR MILL: "STAR, OLDHAM."
PONTEFRACT FELLMONGERING : "WHOLESALE, PONTEFRACT."
RODEN ESTATE: " WHOLESALE, RODEN."
RUSHDEN BOOT WORKS : "WHOLESALE, RUSHDEN."
SILVERTOWN FLOUR MILL: " CO-OPERATIF, LONDON."
SILVERTOWN PRODUCTIVE: "PRODUCTIVO, LONDON."
SILVERTOWN SOAP WORKS: "OPERSAPO, LONDON."
TEA DEPARTMENT: "LOOMIGER, LONDON."
TOBACCO FACTORY: "TOBACCO, MANCHESTER."
TRALEE BACON FACTORY: "BACON, TRALEE."
TRALEE DEPOT: "WHOLESALE, TRALEE."
WISBECH FRUIT DEPOT: "WHOLESALE, WISBECH."
22
TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION.
Our Premises in the following towns are directly connected
with the Local Telephone System :
Nos.
MANCHESTER GENERAL OFFICES
DRAPERY DEPARTMENT
BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT ...
FURNISHING DEPARTMENT I 61,
*CRUMPSALL '"City.
*LONGSIGHT
*TOBACCO
BROUGHTON CABINET WORKS, &c. .. J
HIDE & SKIN DEPARTMENT.. CENTRAL 5180
NEWCASTLE WATERLOO STREET 284f
WEST BLANDFORD STREET 1787
1260
1989
2506
2507
498
SADDLERY DEPT. (West Blandford Street) 2116
GREENGROCERY DEPT. (Stowell Street).. 1524
(New Bridge Street) 2423
QUAYSIDE WAREHOUSE 2670
564
PELAW WORKS GATKSHEAD 121
() NEWCASTLE 2806
HIDES AND SKINS (St. Andrew's Street) .. 2907
LONDON GENERAL OFFICE
GROCERY SALEROOM
DRAPERY
GROVE STREET
READY-MADES I 1390, f
TEA DEPARTMENT City.
GENERAL OFFICE ....
FURNISHING AND BOOT DEPARTMENT .
BUILDING AND ENGINEERING DEPT. . . ,
TRAFFIC
AVONMOUTH FLOUR MILL 51 & 52
BATLEY 101
BEESTON HIDE AND SKIN DEPARTMENT 55
BIRMINGHAM CYCLE DEPOT MIDLAND 838
BIRMINGHAM SALEROOM MIDLAND 838
BIRTLEY TINPLATE WORKS .. 15
* Sub. to Manchester General Offices.
t Post Office System. All others National Telephone Company.
23
TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION continued.
Nos.
BRISTOL ................................................ 1913
................................................ 1914
................................................ 1915
................................................ 1916
BRISLINGTON ................................ 1643
BURY .................................................... 179
CARDIFF ................................................ 563f
DUDLEY BUCKET WORKS ............................ 22
DUNSTON FLOUR MILL .......... CENTRAL, NEWCASTLE 1261
SOAP WORKS .................... GATESHEAD 426
...................... DUNSTON llf
ENDERBY ...................................... NABBORO' 32
GARSTON .............................. ................... 6
GOOLE .................................................. 2
HECKMONDWIKE ...................................... 112
HUDDERSFIELD ........................................ 310
HUTHWAITE HOSIERY ..." ........... SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD 36
IRLAM .......................................... URMSTON 65
KEIGHLEY IRONWORKS .............................. 160
LEEDS SALEROOM ............................ CENTRAL 2098
READY-MADES, HOLBECK ............ 1648
BRUSH FACTORY ............................ 4035
HIDE AND SKIN DEPARTMENT .............. 4314
LEICESTER WHEATSHEAF WORKS .................. 1132
.................. 235
DUNS LANE .............................. 1829
PRINTING WORKS ........................ 1144
LITTLEBOROUGH FLANNEL FACTORY ................ 63
LIVERPOOL VICTORIA STREET .............. CENTRAL 7862
REGENT ROAD .................. 5861
LONGTON .............................................. 16
LUTON .................................................. 113
MANCHESTER SUN MILL ................ TRAFFORD PARK 27
................ 218
MIDDLETON PRESERVE WORKS .......... FAILSWOHTH 33
NORTHAMPTON SALEROOM ............................ 2C6
NOTTINGHAM SALEROOM .............................. 2106
OLDHAM STAR MILL .................................. 171
PONTEFRACT FELLMONGERING ...................... 33
RUSHDEN .............................................. 10
SILVERTOWN FLOUR MILL .................. EASTERN 602
PRODUCTIVE .................. 1656
SOAP WORKS .................... 1354
WEST HARTLEPOOL LARD REFINERY .............. 286
WISBECH ................................................ 58
t Post Office System. All others National Telephone Company.
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY LIMITED.
PAST MEMBERS OF GENERAL COMMITTEE.
Name.
Nominating Society.
Elected.
Retired.
1864 March
1864 March ....
1864 March ....
1864 March ....
1864 March ....
1864 March ....
1874 August.
1869 May.
1867 May.
1868 Nov.
1866 October.
1865 Nov.
1868 Nov.
1865 Nov.
1874 May.
1886 March.
1889 Dec.
1866 Feb.
1877 Dec.
1869 Nov.
1869 Dec.
1867 Nov.
1868 Nov.
1868 May.
1872 August.
1882 June.
1871 May.
1869 Nov.
1869 Nov.
1871 May.
1871 May.
1895 March.
1871 Nov.
1870 Nov.
1870 Nov.
1871 August.
1874 Dec.
1885 Dec.
1873 May.
1884 Sept.
1871 Nov.
(Councillor Smithies . .
Rochdale
John Hilton
Middleton
Charles Howarth ....
J. Neild
Heywood
Mossley ]
Thomas Cheetham
Rochdale
1867 Nov
1864 March ....
1865 Nov
Heckmondwike . . 4
Oldham .,
1885 Dec
W. Nuttall
1886 June
1865 Nov
Joseph Thomasson ....
Edward Hooson
I
Oldham
1876 June
1866 May
Manchester
1866 May
1867 May
E Longfield
Isaiah Lee
Oldham
1867 Nov
f J M Percival
Manchester j
1868 Feb
1870 Feb
D Baxter
1876 March ....
1868 May
J Swindells
Hyde
1868 Nov
T Sutcliffe
1868 Nov
+ James C Fox
Manchester
1868 Nov
1869 May
^N Marcroft
*J. T. W. Mitchell ....
Thomas Pearson . .
Rochdale
1869 Nov
Eccles
1869 Nov
Over Darwen
1869 Nov
A Mitchell
Rochdale
1870 August . .
1870 Nov
W^ Moore
{Titus Hall
Bradford |
1871 May
B. Hague
1877 June
1871 May
1874 Dec
1871 May
Thomas Shorrocks ....
Over Darwen
25
PAST MEMBERS OP GENERAL COMMITTEE continued.
Name.
Nominating Society.
Elected.
Retired.
JR. Allen
Oldham
1871 August ..
1871 August ..
1877 April.
1872 Feb.
1874 Feb.
1873 August.
1872 Feb.
1873 Feb.
1876 June.
1885 March.
1874 Feb.
1876 March.
1873 August.
1874 Dec.
1907 June.
1874 Dec.
1876 June.
1876 June.
1877 March.
1882 Sept.
1898 June.
1907 March.
1885 Sept.
1888 May.
1877 March.
1886 March.
1899 Feb.
1907 Sept.
1886 March
1905 August.
1890 January.
1891 Dec.
1889 August.
1895 June.
1895 July.
1904 October.
Job Whiteley
Halifax
J Thomas Hayes
1
Failsworth .
1873 Feb
1871 Nov
Jonathan Fish wick . . .
J. Thorpe
Bolton
1871 Nov
Halifax . . ...
1872 Feb .
JW. Johnson
Bolton j
1872 Feb
H. Whiley
Manchester j
1877 June
1872 August ..
J. Butcher
Banbury
1874 May
1873 May
H. Atkinson
Blaydon-on-Tyne . .
Eccles
1873 August ..
1873 August ..
1874 Feb
1874 Feb
1874 Dec
1874 Dec
1874 Dec
1874 Dec
1874 Dec
William Bates
J. F. Brearley
Oldham
Robert Cooper
Accrington
H. Jackson
Halifax
J Pickersgill
Batley Carr
W. Barnett
Macclesfield
John Stansfield
Heckmondwike ....
Huddersfield . . .
Thomas Bland . .
S. Lever
Bacup . , . -i
1876 Sept
1886 March
1876 Sept
F. R. Stephensoii ....
R. Whittle
Halifax
Crewe
1877 Dec
JThos. Swann
Masborough
188 Sept
1883 Nov
1883 Dec
John Lord
Accrington
Joseph Mc.Nab
Hyde
Alfred North
Batley
1883 Dec
James Hilton
Oldham
1884 Sept
Samuel Taylor
Bolton
1885 Sept.
William P. Hemm. . . .
E. Hibbert
Nottingham
1888 Sept
Failsworth
1882 Sept
James Lownds
Ashton-under-Lyne. .
T)f>rVw
1885 March ....
1890 June
Amos Scotton
* Held Office as President. t Held Office as Secretary and Treasurer.
J Held Office as Secretary. Held Office as Treasurer.
26
PAST MEMBERS OF NEWCASTLE BRANCH COMMITTEE.
Name.
Nominating Society.
Elected.
Retired.
Ephraim Gilchrist ....
George Dover
Wallsend
1873 Oct
1874 Jan.
1877 Sept.
1879 May.
1877 Sept.
1876 Sept.
1891 Sept.
1875 March.
1893 Sept.
1892 May.
1884 June.
1883 Dec.
1893 Dec.
1890 May.
1887 Dec.
1893 June.
1910 Sept.
1905 May.
1904 August.
1903 June.
1902 July.
Chester-le-Street . . .
Blaydon-on-Tyne . .
West Cramlington . .
Newcastle-on-Tyne . .
Durham
1874 Dec
Humphrey Atkinson . .
f James Patterson
1874 Dec
1874 Dec
John Steel
1874 Dec
William Green
1874 Dec. . .
Thomas Pinkney . .
Newbottle
1874 Dec
Richard Thomson ....
tjohn Thirlaway
Sunderland
1874 Dec
Gateshead
1876 Dec
William Robinson ....
William J. Howat ....
George Scott
Shotley Bridge
Newcastle-on-Tyne . .
Newbottle
1877 Sept
1877 Dec
1879 May
J. Atkinson
Wallsend
1883 Dec
George Fryer
Cramlington
1883 Dec
Matthew Bates
Blaydon
1884 June
1890 Sept
Robt. Gibson
Newcastle-on-Tyne . .
Durham
George Binney
1891 Dec
Robert Irving
Carlisle
1892 June ....
Thomas Rule
Gateshead
1893 June
William Stoker
Seaton Delaval ....
1893 Sept
* PAST MEMBERS OF LONDON BRANCH COMMITTEE.
Name.
Nominating Society.
Elected.
Retired.
J Durrant
Arundel
1874 Dec
1875 Dec.
1876 Dec.
1878 March.
1896 Dec.
1901 Oct.
1907 March.
1907 June.
1882 March.
1888 Dec.
1885 June.
1910 Oct.
1886 Sept.
1904 Oct.
1907 March.
1888 Dec.
1904 Feb.
1907 April.
John Green
Woolwich
1874 Dec
[Thomas Fowe
Buckfastleigh
1874 Dec
T E Webb
Battersea
1874 Dec
J. Clay
Gloucester
1874 Dec
H Pumphrey . .
Lewes
1874 Dec
Geo Hines
Ipswich
1874 Dec
f William Strawn
Sheerness
1875 Dec
Frederick Lamb .
Banbury
1876 Dec
J F Goodey
Colchester ]
1878 Mar
1889 Mar
1882 June
F A Williams
Reading
G. Sutherland
Woolwich
1883 Dec
Oxford ...
1885 June
J J B Beach
Colchester
1886 Dec
R H Tutt
Hastings
1897 March
1902 Sept
W H Brown
TCfiwnnrt,
* Newcastle and London Branch Committees constituted December, 1874.
t Held Office as Secretary.
27
THE CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY
LIMITED.
^
MEMBERS OF GENERAL, AND NEWCASTLE
AND LONDON BRANCH COMMITTEES WHO HAVE DIED
DURING TIME OF OFFICE.
NAME.
NOMINATING
SOCIETY.
DATE OP DEATH.
Edward Hooson
GENERAL.
Manchester
December llth, 1869.
April 2nd, 1877.
March 6th, 1886.
May 18th, 1888.
August 21st, 1889.
January 18th, 1890.
December 15th, 1891.
March 16th, 1895.
June 25th, 1895.
July 27th, 1895.
February 15th, 1899.
October 2nd, 1904.
August 14th, 1905.
May 25th, 1890.
September 9th, 1891.
May 1st, 1892.
July 4th, 1902.
August 22nd, 1904.
May 5th, 1905.
December 21st, 1888.
December 2nd, 1896.
October 25th, 1901.
February 26th, 1904.
October 17th, 1904.
April 20th, 1907.
October 5th, 1910.
Robert Allen
Oldham
Richard Whittle
Crewe
Samuel Lever
Bacup
William P. Hemm ....
James Hilton
Nottingham
Oldham
Samuel Taylor
Bolton
J. T. W.Mitchell
Rochdale
E. Hibbert
Failsworth
James Lownds
Ashton-un-Lyne . .
Masboro'
Thos. Swann
Amos Scottou.
Derby
Alfred North
Batley
J. Atkinson
NEWCASTLE.
Wallsend
William Green
Durham
John Thirlaway
Gateshead
William Stoker
Seaton Delaval . .
Carlisle
Robert Irving
George Binney. .......
Durham
J J B Beach .
LONDON.
Colchester
T E Webb
Battersea
J. Clay
R. H. Tutt
Hastings
G Sutherland
W^oolwich
W H Brown
Newport
J F Goodey
Colchester
28
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY LIMITED.
PAST AUDITORS.
Name.
Nominating Society.
Elected.
Retired.
D. Baxter
Manchester
1864 March ....
1864 May
1868 May.
1865 May.
1867 May.
1881 Sept.
1868 Nov.
1874 May.
1870 May.
1873 May.
1875 Feb.
1876 Sept.
1877 Sept.
1872 Nov.
1873 Nov.
1874 May.
1878 June.
1874 Sept.
1876 March.
1888 Sept.
1885 Sept.
1878 Sept.
1879 June.
1885 June.
1910 April.
1903 Feb.
J. Hankinson
Preston
E. Longfield
Manchester
1865 May
James White
Manchester
1867 May
W. Nuttall
Oldham ]
1868 May
1873 Nov
A. Howard
Rochdale
1868 Nov
R. Taylor
Oldham ]
1870 May
1873 Nov
J. C. Fox
Manchester j
1872 May
1876 Dec
H. C. Pingstone
1872 May
W. Barnett
Macclesfield
1872 Nov
W. Grimshaw
Eccles
1873 May
J. Leach
Rochdale
1874 May
J. Odgers
Manchester
1874 May
J. M. Percival
Manchester
1875 March ....
1876 March
1876 Oct
W. Applebv
J. D. Kershaw
Oldham
James Kershaw . . . .
Rochdale
1878 June
W. Nuttall
Eccles
1879 March ....
1881 Dec
T. Whitworth
Rochdale
J. E. Lord
Rochdale
1885 Dec
Isaac Haigh
Barnsley
1888 August
29
STATISTICS
SHOWING THE
PROGRESS OF
THE CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE
SOCIETY LIMITED.
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34
BE SERVE FUND
2>r. TRADE DEPARTMENT FROM
Deductions from Reserve Fund
Subscriptions and Donations to Charitable and other Objects 88,425
Investments Written off : Bank Department 18,259
Trade Department 10,660
Insurance Fund 6,000
Land and Buildings Account Depreciation, Special 1,148
Fixtures 852
Celebration Dinner : Opening Warehouse, Balloon Street 56
Newcastle Formation Expenses
21st Anniversary Commemoration Expenses, Manchester 2,017
Sprinklers Account Amount- written off to date 68,446
195,879
RESERVE FUND, December 25th, 1909 :
Investments : Manchester Ship Canal Company, 2,000
Ordinary Shares of 10 each 20,000
Gilsland Convalescent Home, 7,500 Shares
of 1 each 7,500
British Cotton Growing Association, 3,000
Shares of 1 each 3,000
North-Western Co-operative Convalescent
Homes Association 6,500
37,000
Balance, as per Balance Sheet, December 25th, 1909 378,954
Less, as per Disposal of Profit Account, December 25th, 1909 40,248
419,202
652,081
35
ACCOUNT.
COMMENCEMENT OF SOCIETY. Cr.
Additions to Reserve Fund
From Disposal of Profit Account, as per page 33 Net 622,654
Balance Sale of Properties :
Strawberry Estate, Newcastle 1,953
Land, Liverpool 713
Rosedale 11
South Shields 96
Newhall 418
Durham 376
Gorton 10,923
Calais 319
Steamships 10,621
Tipperary 450
25,880
Balance Sale of Shares New Telephone Company 44
Share Investment Lancashire and Yorkshire Productive
Society 60
Sale of part Shares Co-operative Printing Society 63
Share Investment Leicester Hosiery Society 76
,, ,, Star and Rochdale Corn Mills 14
,, Keighley Ironworks 55
Dividend on Debts, previously written off 786
Balances, Shares, Loans, &c., Accounts 220
Bonus to Employes : Differences between Amounts Provided and
actually Paid 311
Dividend on Sales to Employes 403
Interest on Manchester Ship Canal Shares 1,515
652,081
36
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE
REGISTERED OFFICE : 1, BALLOON
Industrial and Provident Societies
ABSTRACT OF ANNUAL RETURN FOR
(Under the
BALANCE SHEET OF FUNDS AND
Trade Department s. d. s. d.
341,631 Transferable Shares of 5 each 1,708.155
Less Amount unpaid 50,850 1 10
Due to Shareholders 1,657,804 18 2
Loans and Interest 2,948,313 3 7
Amount Owing by Society Goods and Expenses 654,007 16 6
Less Selves Account (see contra) 18,718 17 11
635,288 18 7
Mortgage and Interest 7,358 12 10
Received in Advance for Goods 16,255 16 10
Owing Insurance Department Claims 1,932 6 10
Insurance Department Premiums 692
,. Reserve Fund Account 11 5
Scottish Wholesale Society's Proportion due of Batley, &c.,
Results 97 16 1
3,609,849 15 2
Bank Department
Current Accounts 2,167,019 9 9
Less Bank Balance - Trade Department 1 ,180,743 16 9
986,275 13
Deposit Accounts 328,419 10 5
Employes' Thrift Fund 55,001 S
Commission Owing 90 2 10
1,369,786 15 6
Reserves Trade and Bank Departments
Reserve Fund Trade Department (a)378,953 12 9
Bank 89,648 16 9
468,602 9 6
Insurance Fund 742,381 J> 6
Reserve Balances Purchasing Depots 16,294 11 'A
1,227.27? 6 2
' Profits appropriated but not paid during the Financial Year-
Trade Department 282,244 18 4
Bank Department 17,664 4 5
- 299,909 2 9
(a) Exclusive of the following share investments made from this fund
Manchester Ship Canal Company (2,000 Ordinary
Shares) 20,000
Gilsland Convalescent Home 7,500
North-Western Co-operative Convalescent Homes
Association 6,500
British Cotton Growing Association 3,000
37,001)
Total 8,164,128 17
Signature of Treasurer (No Treasurer).
The undersigned, having had access to all the Books and Accounts of the Society, and
and Vouchers relating thereto, now sign the same as found to be correct, duly vouched, and
March 31st, 1910.
37
SOCIETY LIMITED.
STREET, MANCHESTER.
Act, 1893, 56 and 57 Viet., c. 39.
YEAR ENDED 25th DECEMBER, 1909
above Act).
EFFECTS, AS AT 25ra DECEMBER, 1909.
Trade Department s. d.
Value of Stock in Trade 2,302,938 17 6
Buildings, Fixtures, and Land (used in trade) 1,595,237 11 7
Four Steamships (used in trade) (Written off) ....
INVESTMENTS AND OTHER ASSETS s. d.
In Buildings, Fixtures, and Land 575,543 14 3
In Shares of Industrial and Provident Societies (b) 3,908 18 5
In Shares of Companies (6) 2,331 3 3
C.W.S. Proportion of Partnership Capital, including Interest
and Profits- English and Scottish Wholesale Societies. 226,793 3 1
Rents Due 1,536 13
Expenses Stock, and Payments in Advance 38,284 16 7
Amount Owing by Members and others at end of Year Goods
and Freights ... 710,748 15
Less Selves Account (see contra) 18J718 17 11
692,029 17 1
Payments in Advance for Goods 45,906 10 6
1,586,394 16 2
Bank Department Investments and other Assets.
On Freehold or Leasehold Security 1,020,113 1
On Shares and Loans 8,203 14 9
Land and Buildings 5,320 010
Consols :- 20,000 taken at 16,000, and Interest 125 16,125
Corporation Mortgages and Interest 892,994 11 11
Stamped Cheques 120 1 8
Cash in Banks 658,432 6 2
2,641,308 15 5
Cash in hand and at Branches :
Trade Dept. Bank Dept.
Cash in hand 7,950 16,53 1 18
at Branches 13,76319 1
21,713 19 1 16,534 18
38,248 17 II
(6) Exclusive of investments made from Reserve Fund (.tee a).
Total 8,164,128 17
Secretary-THOS. BRODRICK, Eccles, near Manchester.
having examined the foregoing General Statement, and verified the same with the Accounts
in accordance with law.
THOS. JAS. BAYLIS, High Street, Rotherham,
T. WOOD, 40 to 46, Deansgate Arcade, Manchester,
JAMES E. LORD, Town Hall Chambers, Rochdale,
' St An n ^Sn-8'ea 1UnllyhUr8tl ^ *" ^^ ^^
BENJ. TETLOW, 94, Westgate Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
A/
P AUDITORS.
38
MANCHESTEB GBOCEBY AND PBO VISION
TBADE.
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
. _
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
perl. Amount.
Rate
per .
8. d.
s. d.
1| Years, January, 1876. .
2,586,691
26,417
21
31,028
2J 56,487
S December, 1880. .
8 , 1885. .
3 , 1890..
8 , 1895. .
8 , 1900. .
8 , 1905. .
8,740,658
11,723,202
15,511,593
21,956,461
28,186,928
41,629,024
87,603
127,892
180,023
279,262
374,568
489,689
2g
2*
2|
3
31
140,043 3| 70,091
157,209 3J 92,790
264,131 4 123,432
839,816 3| 159,930
500,911 4J 158.537
774,698 4| 237,874
Year, 1906. .
(58 wks) 1907. .
1908. .
1909..
10,116,804
11,404,612
11,'265,443
11,704,861
116,290
128,137
138,122
140,372
21
2g
21
2|
199,945
234,190
210,818
250,599
4|
4J
4g
5J
273,669
265,372
240,136
294,990
Half Year, June, 1910..
36i Years' Total....
5,842,547
71,097
2J
121,804 5 243,107
180,668,824
2,159,472
2|
3,225,187
4i '
MANCHESTEB DBAPEBY TBADE.
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
per .
Amount.
Rate
per .
s. d.
s. d.
2J Years, January, 1876. .
211,351
11,481
1 1
2,165
2|
72,408
8 December, 1880. .
S 1885. .
S 1890. .
S 1895. .
8 1900..
5 1905..
672,992
771,933
1,205,935
1,920,447
2,568,623
3,315,793
43,116
42,913
60,656
100,386
141,497
196,568
1 1J
1
1 ij
*941
20,277
25,278
48,223
88,133
94,449
5*
6
8J
6J
44,105
44,948
84,739
108,337
153,641
107,837
Year, 1906. .
(53 wks),, 1907..
1908..
1909..
791,636
894,191
899,!)5
941,120
47,894
54,131
59,075
59,221
1 24
1 24
1 82
1 3
25,342
32,021
23,463
32,689
7|
8i
6J
8J
116,807
110,503
111,677
108,:$:-. 1
Half Year, June, 1910..
36| Years' Total....
Less Depr
3
456,434 30,992
1 4J
16,093
8g
130,530
14,650,850
847,933
1 H
407,192
4,757
sciation, Oct
leaves Net E
sber, 1877...
rofit
402,435
6*
*Loss.
NOTE. To December, 1883, the figures include Woollens and Ready-Mades Department.
To June, 1905, inclusive, the figures include Desboro' Corset Factory, now separately
To December, 1906, ,, Broughton Shirt stated in Prod. Ac/s.
39
MANCHESTER WOOLLENS AND
READY-
MADES TRADE.
Since publishing a separate Account in Balance Sheet.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks at end.
Amount.
Rate
per .
Amount.
Rate
per .
(a) (6)
2 Years, December, 1885
41,578
2,470
s.
1
d.
21
745
B.
d.
*i
5,242
3 1890
120,546
8,331
1
4 4
. *1,196
-5
11,463
9 1895
255,815 15,905
1
2$
*3,232
3
15,608
5 1900
622,486
35,706
1
it
13,805
5J
35,978
S 1905
874,585
51,849
1
21
16,346
4
51,262 16,779
Year, 1906
208,611
12,578
1
28
4,826
54
56,468 26,647
(53 wks) 1907
231,457
13,664
1
24
6,035
8}
59,283 31,652
,, 1908
239,358
15,140
1
34
1,747
1}
60,661 : 37,554
,, 1909
252,462
15,562
1
21
7,162
<v
62,135 ! 30,308
Half Year, June, 1910
26i Years' Total...
148,232
8,745
1
24
3,685
51
52,533 26,861
2,994,630
179,950
1 2f
49,923
0.
4
* Loss. (a) Woollens and Ready-mades and Outfitting. (ft) Linings and Dyed Goods.
NOTE. To June, 1895, inclusive, the Results and Stocks include Broughton Clothing Factory.
MANCHESTER BOOT
AND SHOE
TRADE.
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
per .
Amount.
Rate
per .
2J Years, January, 1876 . .
96,648
2,659
8. d.
6^
1,524
8. d.
31
7,711
3 December, 1880 . .
292,347
10,500
84
3,646
2g
11,484
3 1885..
439,988
14,703
8
6,330
31
16,074
5 1890 . .
738,251
24,180
71
17,519
5g
32,095
3 1895 . .
1,175,301 ,
48,031
91
18,957
31
56,302
3 1900..
1,493,428
59,448
o 94
30,468
4g
62,178
3 1905..
1,859,595
70,983
o 94
31,162
4
63,144
Year 1906 . .
426.797
15,167
84
9,661
5g
57,329
(53 wks) 1907 . .
470,110
17,049
8
9,039
o 44
57,663
1908 . .
462,989
18,680
9
4,849
24 69,809
1909 . .
475,612
20,008
10
7,081
3}
78,109
Half Year, June, 1910 . .
361 Years' Total
250,092
10,282
91
4,386
4J
88,913
8,181,158
311,690
9J
144,622
o 44
40
MANCHESTER FURNISHING TRADE.
Since keeping a separate Account.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
()
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
Amount.
Rate
per dB.
Amount.
Rate
per .
4 J Years, December, 1880.. .
81,386
4,999
s. d.
1 2|
617
s. d.
If
4,307
3 1885...
184,218
9,354
1 04
2,379
3
5,817
5 1890...
439,580
21,250
o 114
6,408
3|
12,930
5 1895...
781,803
41,130
1 Og
6,587
2
19,574
5 1900...
1,317,554
65,372
Olli
23,638
4J
27,817
5 1905...
1,639,436
80,885
11|
22,300
31
9888
Year, 1906...
378,332
18,821
Hi
5,661
3
27,227
(53 wks) 1907...
416,266
19,510
11J
7,036
4
29,037
1908...
412,290
21,550
1 OJ
5,357
3
30,173
19C9...
408,036
22,623
1 1
2,569
1J
29,967
Half Year, June, 1910...
34 Years' Total
198,755
11,318
1 18
561
Of
31,621
6,257,656
316,312
1 OJ
83,313
SJ
NOTE. From March, 1893, to June, 1895, inclusive, the Results and Stocks include
Broughton Cabinet Works,
(a) Excludes Longton Stock. MEMO. In Balance Sheet Longton Stocks included with
Manchester Furnishing Stocks.
-
NEWCASTLE BRANCH GROCERY AND
PROVISION TRADE.
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
per .
Amount.
Rate
per .
5 Years, December, 1880.. .
2,582,396
38,033
s. d.
3J
23,708
s. A.
2J
44,398
5 1885...
4,237,286
53,274
3
55,386
3J
53,546
a 1890...
5,217,881
70,760
3J
93,880
41
42,136
5 1895...
7,761,473
104,141
3J
155,711
41
46,719
5 1900...
10,795,105
169,596
3|
185,269
4
87,591
5 1905...
14,933,269
210,120
3%
182,038
o an
74,783
Year, 1906...
,(53wks) 1907...
3,208,817
3,485,299
48,957
50,371
3
3|
50,190
61,083
3|
4i
95,784
106,860
1908...
3,461,562
51,922
8J
64,133
4|
86,173
1909.. .
3,532,418
52,79
3*
73,414
4|
106,657
Half Year, June, 1910...
34J Years' Total
1,681,989
26.877
o 33
28,974
4
99,291
60,897,495
876,780
31
973,786
31
41
NEWCASTLE BRANCH DRAPERY TEADE.
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks at
end.
Amount.
Rate
peri.
Amount.
Rate
per .
S Years, December, 1880.
3 1885.
3 1890.
8 1895.
5 1900.
S 1905.
Year, 1906.
(53 wks) 1907.
1908.
., 1909.
Half Year, June, 1910..
3*i Years' Total ....
234,269
513,938
876,923
1,351,804
1,864,292
2,259,678
493,226
563,332
574,542
537,626 ,
255,471
10,745
17,599
30,548
44,684
71,047
122,128
29,330
30,330
31899
32,726
16,250
s. d.
11
8i
8?
7|
9J
1 2}
1 01
1 1J
1 2*
1 8J
5,484
21,903
37,968
57,256
84,856
64,195
9,038
15,210
16,036
15,202
7,301
s. d.
5*
10i
o 10.;
10J
o iof
6|
4g
6|
6
6a
6J
16,171
24,084
83,216
48,361
63,704
59,939
60,754
60,274
56,579
58,331
60,207
9,525,101
437,286
11
334,449
8|
NOTE. To June, 1898
the figures include Woollens and Ready-Mades Department.
NEWCASTLE BBANCH WOOLLENS AND
READY-MADES TRADE.
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENS
ES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks at
end.
Amount.
Rate
per .
Amount.
Rate
per .
2* Years, December, 1900. .
3" 1905..
Year, 190C. .
(53 wks) 1907..
1908. .
1909..
Half Year, June, 1910..
12 Years' Total
339,631
719,657
153,401
171,212
172,519
167,540
87,466
10,361
32,340
7,303
7,919
8,009
8,338
4,254
s. d.
7J
10*
11|
11
o iii
ll|
111
16,984
24,408
7,059
6,5-27
6,929
7,777
4.251
s. d.
1
8J
11
9i
9|
o iii
11|
35,627
82,054
34,642
35,197
40,214
35,462
27,796
1,811,425 78,524
o log
73,935
9|
NEWCASTLE BRANCH BOOT AND SHOE
TRADE.
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks at
end.
Amount.
Rate
per ..
Amount.
Rate
per .
5 Years, December, 1880.
3 1885.
3 1890.
3 1895.
S 1900.
S 1905.
Year, 1906.
(53 wks) 1907.
1908.
1909.
Half Year, June, 1910..
34i Years' Total
144,855
327,150
493,126
648,837
893,524
1,179,581
243,898
268,408
269,241
261,707
129,346
4,500
9,980
18,876
22,443
31,452
47,466
9,731
10,195
10,374
10,744
5,491
s. d.
71
7J
9|
8?
8|
9
9|
9
9i
9J
104
2,412
8,276
7,874
14,020
21,199
18,082
6,081
5,089
4,881
4,042
1,808
s. d.
4 5,971
6 11,319
31 11,870
5| 20,680
5 26,770
3g 29,423
5J 27,237
4J 27,469
4 J 32,096
3| , 34,229
3J 34,775
4,864,673
181,252
81
93,764
04|
NOTE. To December, 1888, the figures include Furnishing Department.
42
NEWCASTLE BBANCH FTJBNISHING
TBADE.
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
per .
Amount.
Rate
per .
s. d.
s. d.
2 Years, December, 1890. .
138,487 6,287
10i
2,387
4J
10,474
S 1895..
485,907 26,707
1 11
6,233
3
16,120
5 1900..
963,098 47,272
11|
24,066
5J '
29,796
5 1905..
1,285,488 76,223
1 9|
11,638
2J
28,555
Year, 1906. .
257,204 18,499
1 5i 4,246
35
30,656
(53 wks) 1907. .
301,266 19,853
1 3J 8,367
61
28,357
1908. .
308,485
20,125
1 31
8,465
6J
27,762
1909. .
284,285 20,750
1 5J
5,686
4*
31,111
Half Year, June, 1910..
21J Years' Total
123,698
10,240
1 7i
1,621
3|
32,686
4,147,918
245,956
1 2J 72,709
04* ..
LONDON
BBANCH GBOCEBY
AND
PBOVISION
TBADE
(INCLUDING BRISTOL, CARDIFF AND NORTHAMPTON DEPOTS).
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. . ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET ProFiT.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
per .
Amount.
Rate
per JE.
11 Years, January, 1876 . .
203,137
3,907
s. d.
4J
2,151
s. d.
2J
4
7,219
8 December, 1880 . .
1,119,233 17,326
31
17,688
3|
20,789
3 1885..
1,746,107 ; 29,470
4
24,718
31
24,256
5 1890..
5 1895..
3,661,913 i 66,023
6,125,158 ! 125,071
41
4i
51,270
74,567
3i
o 25
57,347
45,828
5 1900..
8,924,636 !: 188,854
5
137,122
31
109,468
3 1905..
15,225,894 247,770
3g
221,376
3|
129,171
Year, 1906 . .
3,638,704
59,051
!;
58,069
SI
153,193
(53 wks) 1907..
4,009;088
61,247
3g
66,616
3|
152,934
1908 . .
4,157,196
63,338
3
68,948
3J
137,110
1909 . .
4,432,219
66,212
SJ
82,639
41
150,067
Half Year, June, 1910..
36i Years' Total
2,282,131
86,350
31
41,383
4J
135,930
i
55,525,316
964,619
4i
846,547
31
LONDON BRANCH
BOOT & SHOE TRADE
(INCLUDING
BRISTOL DEPOT).
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
NET Loss.
Stocks
at end.
Amo'nt
Rate
peri.
Amo'nt. jg^J
A mA M * Rate
Amo'nt. per
3| Years, December, 1890
105,438
5,640
s. d.
1 01
152
s. d.
(I;
i s. d.
i
6,051
5 1895.
242,974
15,350
1 31
1,018 1
11,182
5 1900.
876,424
24,274
1 8*
2,064
1J
20,287
5 1905.
596,359
1 34,976
1 2
4,919
o 15
..
24,120
Year, 1906.
138,633
9,003
1 34
1,054
11
38,529
(53 wks) 1907.
161,497 10,462
1 34
355
o 04
86,064
1908.
170,364
12,257
1 5i
2,361 3J
43,025
1909.
172,248
12,585
1 54
2,118 2J
39,963
Half Year, June, 1910.
22| Years' Total....
88,896 6,719
1 61
1,572 41
45,416
2,052,833
131,266
1 3J
8,544
7,064
7,064
;
Less LO.SS
Leaves Net Profit
1,480
o 01
LONDON BRANCH
FURNISHING TRADE
(INCLUDING
BRISTOL DEPOT).
Since keeping a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sales.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
NET Loss.
Stocks
at end.
Amo'nt.
Rate
peri.
Amo'nt. rjgyj
A _ , t Rate
Amo'nt. peri g
If Years, December, 1890.
53,957
4,487
s. d.
s. d.
s. d.
952 4i
i
3,957
5 1895.
208,925 17,814
1 8g
1,655 li
8,604
5 1900.
370,518
29,067
1 61
160
12,854
8 1905.
490,048
40,071
1 74
2,536
11
14,136
Year, 1906.
93,539
9,593 i
2 04
854 21
15,942
(53 wks) 1907.
111,721 10,228
1 9|
464
o o.;
13,919
1908.
123,710 10,940
1 91
1,293
o 24
12,640
1909.'
140,485 11,239
1 71
1,927
HJ
11,794
Half Year, June, 1910.
21 J Years' Total
74,397
6,141
1 73
480
o 14
12,859
1,667,330
139,580
1 8
6,700
3,621
3,6-21
Less I
Leave
jOSS
3 Net Profit
3,079
o Oi
44
LONDON BKANCH
(INCLUDING
Since keeping
PERIOD. ENDED.
SALES.
EXPENSES. '
Di-apevy. Boots. Total. Amount. p^jf
Half Year, December, 1880 . .
5 Years, ., 1885 ..
S 1890 ..
3 1895 ..
5 1900 ..
5 1905 ..
Year, 1906 ..
(53 weeks) 1907 ..
1908 ..
1909 ..
Half Year, June, 1910 . .
30 Years' Total
s. d.
1,657 6,500 8,157 312 9J
120,699 89,210 209,909 11,677 1 1J
.. 323,400 *45,281 368,681 28,327 1 6|
.. 439,003 .. 439,003 33,431 1 6J
.. 693,385 .. 693^85 55,546 1 7J
. . 989,710 .. 989,710 80,375 1 71
. . 212,064 .. 212,064 18,646 1 9
. . 247,997 .. 247,997 21,626 1 89
. . 271,693 . . 271,693 25,043 1 10
. . 292,621 .. 292,621 25,367 1 8i
. . 150,630 . . 150,630 14,491 1 11
. 3,742,859 140,991 3,883
,850 314,841 1 7|
*Two years only.
NOTE. The above figures include the following : Boots and Shoes to September, 1887 ;
LONDON BRANCH
WOOLLENS
(INCLUDING
Since keeping
PERIOD. ENDED.
Sa
EXPENSES.
Amount. p ^<*
2| Years, December, 1900
96
s. d.
,037 9,128 1 IOJ
,139 28,287 1 10J
416 6,835 2 1
873 8,402 2 1$
582 9,794 2 2J
324 9,406 2 2g
014 5,241 2 1|
5 1905
300
Year, 1906
65
(53 weeks) 1907
78
1908
87
1909
.... 85
Half Year, June, 1910
49
12J Years' Total . ..
762
385 77,093 2 OJ
DRAPERY TRADE
BEISTOL DEPOT).
a separate Account.
Stocks
at end.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
Amount.
Rate
per .
Half Year, December, 1880
36
1,963
"5,789
515
9,992
10,986
613
3,416
1,563
3,530
1,463
s. d.
1
2&
31
OJ
3g
2g
Of
3|
1|
2J
2i
3,805
11,502
12,607
21,859
45,685
44,749
53,120
61,475
55,054
56,510
73,058
3 Years, 1885
5 1890
5 1895
5 1900
9 1905
Year, 190G
(53 weeks) 1907
1908
1909 . .
Half Year, June, 1910
30 Years' Total
28,288
1|
* Loss.
Furnishing to March, 1889 ; Woollens and Keady-mades to March, 1898.
AND READY-MADES TRADE
BRISTOL DEPOT).
a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate,
per .
2J Years, December, 1900
2,054
4,901
1,124
196
*870
224
182
s. d.
5$
3J
4
0*
2i
Og
0|
14,908
21,602
21,921
28,218
29,769
24,812
2-2,431
5 , 1905 . .
Year, , 1906
(53 weeks) 1907
., 1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910 ....
12J Years' Total
7,811
2ji
* Loss.
CBUMPSALL BISCUIT AND
Since keeping
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
Produc-
tion.
EXPENSES.
Wages
and
Sundry.
Deprecia-
tion.
Interest.
Total.
2J Years, January, 1876 . .
29,840
29,394
5,309
707
953
6,969
5 December. 1880 . .
87,213
87,003
14,589
2,427
2,298
19,314
5 1885 ..
106,679
106,959
18,014
3,194
2,122
23,330
5 1890 ..
177,924
181,173
35,716
6,308
4,022
46,046
5 . 1895 ..
421,775
426,035
73,418
10,340
8,048
91,806
5 1900 ..
464,581
443,116
101,908
13,412
6,020
121,340
5 1905 ..
799,152
791,129
188,172
21,110
12,793
222,075
Year, 1906 ..
183,913
180,133
42,111
5,132
3,146
50,389
(53 wks) 1907 . .
188,175
184,480
43,495
5,557
3,305
52,357
1908 .
167,764
186,124
39,703
4,894
2,726
47,323
1909 ..
187,182
183,390
41,332
3,966
2,102
47,400
Half Year, June, 1910 . .
36| Years' Total
85,972
86,285
19,427
1,983
1,068
22,478
2,920,170
2,885,221
623,194
79,030
48,603
750,827
NOTE. Dry Soap and Preserves transferred to Irlam and
SWEET WORKS TRADE.
a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
RATE ON PRODUCTION.
Per cent.
PerJE.
Amount.
Rate
per
on Sup-
plies.
2J Years, January, 1876
s. d.
23 14 2J
22 3 111
21 16 25
85 8 81
21 10 11|
27 7 8
28 1 4g
27 19 5J
28 7 71
25 8 6|
25 16 11J
26 1 OJ
s. d.
4 8g
4 5J
4 4*
5 OJ
4 3|
5 5|
5 7i
5 7J
5 8
5 1
5 2
5 2
955
4,649
7,987
1,027
23,500
24,157
57,382
13,969
12,276
16,048
18,708
7,318
s. d.
7|
1 Oi
1 6i
11
1 U
1 01
1 5|
1 6J
1 3
1 8J
1 111
1 81
1,538
1,793
3,534
12,712
28,905
14,018
14,631
15,355
14,337
9,967
7,994
10,562
5 December, 1880
3 1885
3 1890
3 1895
3 1900
3 1905
Year, 1906
(53 wks) 1907
1908
1909
.
Half Year, June, 1910
3B| Years' Total
26 5J
5 21
187,976
1 31
Middleton respectively, September, 1896.
1
48
MIDDLETON PRESERVE,
PEEL,
From
EXPK -
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies
Produc-
tion.
Wages ft
Sundry.
Deprecia-
tion.
Interest. Total,
4J Years, December, 1900 . . .
608,218
639,903 82,018
12,740
11,254 106,012
5 1905 ...
1,214,080
1,229,847 134,015
17,728
20,507 172,250
Year, 1906 . . .
305,318
303,829 32,719
4,174
4,429 41,322
(53 weeks) 1907 . . .
317,220
855,147 46,432
4,221
5,214 55,867
1908 . . .
285,148
283,960 41,586
5,435
6,844 53,865
1909 . . .
286,291
272,125
39,380
7,283
6,983 53,626
Half Year, June, 1910 . . .
H Years' Total
154,251
107,503
19,169
4,005
3,506 26,680
3,170,521
3,192,315
895,319
55,586
58,717 509,622
IRLAM
SOAP, CANDLE, STARCH,
From
EXPENSES.
PERIOD. ENDED. s
Net
mpplies.
Produc-
tion.
Wages
and
Sundry.
Deprecia-
tion.
|
Interest. Total.
20 Weeks, December, 1895 . .
26,999
32,391
3,597
807
656 5,060
5 Years, 1900 ..
908,258
904,415
104,511
19,765
15,343 139,619
5 1905 .. 1,875,031
1,852,601
201,734
29.576
24,813 256,128
Year, 1906 ..
609,171
580,195
54,817
8,836
7,368 71,021
(53 wks) 1907 . .
1908..
1939..
920,662
780,926
656,644
813,328 64,933
741,960 62,957
642,704 62,276
9,028
9,105
9,118
6,456 80,417
5,870 77,932
5,759 77,1.':!
Half Year, June, 1910 . .
318,063
306,645 33,579
4,561
2,840 40,980
H Years and 11 Mo. Total. 6,095,754
5,874,239 5f8,404
90,796
69,105 : 748,805
NOTE. Durham Soap Works business commenced January, 1875; sold March, 1893,
when trade was transferred to Irlam.
49
AND PICKLE "WORKS TRADE.
commencement.
PERIOD.
ENDED.
44 Years, December, 1900
8 1905
Year,
(53 weeks)
1906
1907
1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
*
14 Years' Total . .
EXPENSES.
RATK ON PRO-
DUCTION.
Per cent.
Peri.
B. d. s. d.
16 11 4 i 8 8f
14 li 2 9j
13 12
15 14 71
18 19 4J
19 14 1J
24 16 41
15 19 3g
2 8|
3 1|
3 94
3 111
4 114
3 21
NET PROFIT.
Amount.
11,155
*4,210
23,063
7,655
124,010
Bate
per on
Supplies.
s. d.
94
6i
1 85
8i
34
1 71
111
9f
Stocks
at end.
66,044
99,938
94,920
131,721
125,013
119,743
79,614
* Loss.
AND LARD WORKS TRADE.
commencement.
PERIOD. ENDED.
20 Weeks, December, 1895
5 Years,
5 ,,
Year,
(53 wks)
1900
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
14 Years and 11 Months' Total.
EXPENSES.
RATE ON PRODUCTION.
Per cent.
s. d.
15 12 5|
15 8 8g
13 16 6
12 4 9|
9 17 8
10 10 03
12 1
13 7 31
Peri.
12 14
s. d.
8 1|
3 1
2 9J
2 5g
1 llf
2 li
2 4|
2 8
2 64
NET PROFIT.
Amount.
40,319
83,518
14,770
17,150
38,180
13,522
247,756
Rate
per on
Supplies.
s. d.
31
10g
10f
5i
4|
011|
1 9*
10J
9|
Stocks
at
end.
30,825
74,059
125,435
113,008
127,527
117,130
104,444
90,141
(a) Includes Sydney Works.
50
SILVEKTOWN SOAP
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
Produc-
tion.
EXPENSES.
Wages
and
Sundry.
D S ia - **.
Total.
10,909
19,486
11,403
Half Year, Dec., 1908 (29 wks.)
Year, December, 1909
75,149
131,548
76,742
94,948
126,621
73,355
7,660
12,978
8,236
1,755 1,494
3,491 3,017
1,757 1,410
Half Year, June, 1910
2 Years and 3 Weeks' Total
283,439
295,424
28,874
7,003 5,921
41,798
DUNSTON SOAP
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
Pro-
duction.
EXPENSES.
Wages
and
Sundry.
Deprecia- Interest
Total.
Year, Dec., 1909 (45 weeks) . .
Half Year, June 1910
81,647
57,393
92,280
56,095
8,019
5,491
2,071 1,832
1,280 1,007
11,922
7,778
1 Year and 19 Weeks' Total
139,040
148,375
13,510
3,351 2,839
19,700
51
WORKS TRADE.
commencement.
EXPENSES.
PERIOD. ENDED.
RATE ON PRODUCTION.
Stocks
at
Rate
end.
Per cent. Per .
Amount.
per on
Supplies.
s. d. a. d.
s. d.
Half Year, December, 1908 (29 weeks,) 11 9 9| 2 3J 3,514 11J
41,985
Year, December, 1909 15 7 9| 3 OJ 6.783 1 08
35,634
Half Year, June, 1910 15 8 9i 3 1
2,775
8|
31,320
2 Years and 3 Weeks' Total
14 2 1I 2 9|
13,072 11
I.
WORKS TRADE.
commencement.
EXPENSES.
RATE ON PRODUCTION.
Stocks
PERIOD. ENDED,
at
Rate
end.
Per cent. Per .
Amount.
per on
Supplies.
s. d. s. d.
s. d.
Year, December, 1909 (45 weeks)
12 18 4| 27
4,145
1 OJ
20,656
Half Year, June, 1910
13 17 3| 2 9J
5,349
1 10J
20,468
1 Year and 19 weeks' Total
13 5 6J 2 7|
! 1
9,494
1 4|
52
DTJNSTON FLOUK
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
Produc-
tion.
EXPENSES.
Wages &
Sundry.
Deprecia-
tion.
Interest.
Total.
139,093
4 Years * 36 Weeks, Dec., 1895. .
1,521,168
1,502,636
86,159
29,715 23,219
5 1900..
2,772,171
2,732,924
139,138
33,810 19,647 192,5%
8 1905..
3330,419
3,252,957
163,484
31,470 22,00ii
216,956
Year, ., 1906..
698,394
683,029
37,173 8,317 8,291 53,786
(53 weeks) 1907. .
749,411
732,721
40,940
9,034 9,398 59,372
1908..
813,999
813,040
34,365
9,186 10,105 53,656
1909..
873,228
858,489
35,838 9,224 9,490 54,552
Half Year, June, 1910. .
19 Years & 10 Weeks' Total. .
412,076
409,846
19,161
5,248
5,045 29,454
11,170,866
10,985,642
556,263
136,004
107,197 799,464
SILVERTOWN FLOUR
From
EXPENSES.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
Produc-
tion.
Wages &
Sundry.
Depre-
ciation.
Interest.
Total.
4
&
Half Year, December, 1900 ....
62,476
61,569
5,524
1,804
1,118
8,446
5 Years, 1905 ....
1,802,999
1,771,744
92,095
25371
17,720
135,186
Year, 1906 ....
488,472
479,137
22,140
7,789
5,670
35,599
(53 weeks) 1907
578,152
574,318
5,618
7,950
6,372
39,940
1908....
558,612
546,318
21,723
7,852
6,256
35,831
1909 ....
622,272
606,927
23,272
7386
5,729
36,387
Half Year, June, 1910 ....
10 Years' Total
310,728
307,6(54
13,382
4,234
3,125
20,741
4,423,711
4,347,677
203,754
62,386
45,990
312,130
53
MILL TRADE.
commencement.
EXPENSES.
RATE ON PRO-
NET PROFIT.
NET Loss.
DUCTION.
Stocks
PERIOD. ENDED.
at
Rate
Rate
end.
Per cent.
Peri.
Amo'nt.
on Sup-
Amo'nt.
peri
on Sup-
plies.
plies.
s. a.
s. a.
s. a.
s. a.
4 Years & 36 Weeks, Dec., 1895. .
9 5 1J
1 10J
31,884
5
71,974
5 1900..
7 11J
1 4
20,952
If
54,476
5 1905..
6 13 4|
1 4
34,917
2J
131,541
Year, 1906..
7 17 55
1 65
2,187
Of
137,267
(53 weeks) 1907. .
8 2 0|
1 7|
11,018
3}
194,983
1908..
6 11 113
1 33
8,117
21
149,951
1909..
6 7 1
1 3i
9,918
2|
176,985
Half Year, June, 1910. .
7 3 81
1 5J
12,409
7i
131,018
19 Years & 10 Weeks' Total . .
7 5 64
1 51
87,109
44,293
Less Loss
44,293
Leaves Net Profit . .
42,816
0|
MILL TRADE.
commencement.
1'lXPENSES.
:SULT OF WORKING.
RATE ON PRODUCTION.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Stocks
Rate at ena.
Per cent.
Per . Profit. Loss, per on
Supplies.
s. a.
s. a. s. a.
Half Year, December, 1900.. 1314 4J
2 85 .. 4,381 1 43 18,538
S Years, 1905.. 7 12 7J
1 6J 10,962 .. 11 31,712
Year, 1906.. 7 8 7J
1 53 .. 3,502 1| 82,617
(53 weeks) 1907. . 6 19 1
1 4| .. 2,359 05 117,243
1908.. 6 11 2
1 3| .. 11,134 43 54,976
1909. . 5 19 10|
1 2| .. 1,695 0| 65,923
Half Year, June, 1910. . 6 14 95
1 4J .. 7,899 6 j 113,432
10 Years' Total
737
1 5J .. 20,008 01
54
MANCHESTER SUN FLOUR
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
Produc-
tion.
EXPENSES.
Wages & Deprecia-
Sundry. tion.
Interest.
Total.
Year, December, 1906 (34 weeks)
1907(53 )
1908 . . ,
237,923
508,141
664,281
882,474
459,201
235,859
488,800
657,487
855,538
452,013
10,824
21,561
22,249
25,588
12,015
3,262
4,615
6,487
9,561
4,843
a
2,460
5,122
5,924
7,611
3,473
16,546
::i. _".(
34,660
42,760
20,331
n 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
* Yean and 8 Weeks' Total
2,752,020
2,689,697
92,237
28,763
24,590
145,695
OLDHAM STAR FLOUR
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
Produc-
tion.
EXPENSES.
Wages &
Sundry.
Deprecia-
tion.
Interest.
Total.
Year, December, 1906 (38 weeks
., 1907(53
1908
199,492
334,191
403,461
398,174
202,680
205,568
325,184
401,045
392,695
201,837
8,248
14,841
15,975
14,162
7,884
2,918
3,937
3,976
4,002
2,017
2,091
3,712
3,988
3^30
1,538
13,257
22,490
23,939
21,494
11,439
, 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
4 Years and 12 Weeks' Tota
1,537,998
1,526,329
61,110
16,850
14,659
92,619
NOTE. Rochdale Flour Mill acquired January, 1906; closed June, 1907, when trade
was transferred to Oldham Star Mill.
55
AND PBOVENDEB MILL TBADE.
commencement.
PERIOD. ENDED.
EXPKNSES.
NET RESULT.
Stocks
at ena.
BATE ON PRODUCTION.
Per cent.
Per.
Profit.
Loss.
Rate per
on
Supplies.
Year, Dec., 1906 (34 weeks). .
1907(53 )..
1908
s. a.
7 3|
6 8 Oi
5 5 5J
4 19 11J
4 9 Hi
s. a.
1 41
1 8J
1 0|
Hi
10J
69
9,236
13,387
6,699
5,198
s. a.
4J
2|
3g
2
45,710
166.804
67,022
60,615
48,807
1009
Half Year, June, 1910
4 Years & 8 Weeks' Total
5 8 3J
1 Og
10,795
Oi
MILL TBADE.
commencement.
PERIOD. ENDED.
EXPENSES.
NIT RESULT.
Stocks
at ena.
RATE ON PRODUCTION.
Per cent.
Per .
Profit.
Loss.
Rate per
on
Supplies.
Year, Dec., 1906(38 weeks) . .
1907(53 )..
1908
s. d.
6 8 11|
6 18 8|
5 19 4J
5 9 5J
5 13 4J
s. a.
1 3g
1 4J
1 2J
1 li
i 14
7,H8
6,733
497
2,486
1,938
s. d.
OJ
5
11
4
2i
25,191
34,167
33,012
29,582
25,305
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
4 Years & 12 Weeks' Total
6 1 4|
1 2
8,930
1|
56
MANCHESTEB TOBACCO
From
PEKIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
EXPENSES.
Wages and
Sundry.
Deprecia
tion.
Interest.
Total.
2 Years and 28J Weeks, Dec., 1900. . . .
436,841
32,199
1,944
3,069
37,212
9 1905....
1,846,976
111,441
7,380
11,907
130,728
Year, 1906....
498,504
29,387
2,092
3,697
35,176
(53 weeks) 1907
536,410
30,735
2,335
3,649
36,719
1908....
553,267
30,553
2,434
4,056
37,043
, 1909. . . .
621,494
33,220
2,819
4,256
40,295
Half Year, June, 1910....
12 Years and 2 J Weeks' Total
336,789
17,149
1,430
2,182
20,761
4,830,281
284,684
20,434
32,816
337,934
WEST HABTLEPOOL LABD BEFINEBY
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
EXPENSES.
Net
Supplies.
Wages and
Sundry.
Deprecia- T
tion.
uterest.
Total.
4 Years and 37 Wks., Dec , 1900. .
S 1905..
374,595
652,804
12,475
16,279
3,690
4,588
3,298
3,708
19,463
24,575
Year, 1906. .
(53 weeks) 1907. .
1908. .
1909..
111,758
123,589
121,039
141,628
2,838
3,063
2,852
8,127
1,002
1,084
1,085
1,085
553
788
813
727
4,393
4,935
4,75tf
4,939
Half Year, June, 1910. .
14 Years and 11 Weeks' Total.
62,846
1,333
541
466
2,340
1,588,259
41,967
13,075
10,353
65,395
NOTE. Egg Department closed June, 1904.
57
FACTORY TRADE.
commencement.
PERIOD.
ENDED.
2 Years and 28J Weeks, December, 1900.
5 1905.
Year,
(53 weeks)
Half Year,
June,
1906.
1907.
1908.
1909.
1910.
12 Years and 2 Weeks' Total
NET PROFIT.
Amount.
6,488
4,399
4,583
1,659
1,826
97
54,878
Rate
per on
Supplies.
s. d.
3i
4J
2
2
Of
0|
2g
Stocks
at end.
i4,502
77,749
76,957
72,807
81,070
98,023
86,330
AND EGG WAREHOUSE TRADE.
commencement.
PBKIOD.
ENDED.
4 Years and 37 Weeks, December, 1900
5 1905
Year,
(53 weeks)
Half Year,
June,
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
NET PROFIT.
Amount.
7,496
10,418
2,477
* 1,079
2,566
8,445
*543
14 Years and 11 Weeks' Total
29,780
Rate
per on
Supplies.
s. d.
42
31
5J
2
5
1 2J
2
4J
stocks
at end.
14,053
6,279
9,778
17,092
7,992
16,108
16,037
* Loss.
58
LONGSIGHT PBINTING
From
PERIOD.
ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
EXPENSES.
Wages & Deprecia-
Sundry. tion.
Total.
47 Weeks, December, 1895
S Years,
9
Year,
(53 wks)
1900
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
7,512
177,885
Half Year, June, 1910
104,558
119,792
135,183
136,019
70,218
3,891
79,927
187,020
591
10,957
21,830
415
4,397
47,473 5,280
54,119 i 6,050
60,246 6,241
58,442
5,531 96,415
11,188 220,038
2,699 55,452
3,110 63,279
3,105 69,592
3,025 67,697
31,312
3,130 : 1,491 35,9a3
15 Years and 5 Months' Total 1,181,064
521,930 60,309 30,564 612,803
LEICESTEB PKINTING
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
Year, December, 1909 (39 weeks; .
Half Year, June, 1910
1J Years' Total .
Net
Supplies.
9,221
8,954
18,175
Wages
and
Sundry.
4,147
3,063
7,210
EXPENSES.
: Interest.
524
379
308
211
Total.
4,979
3,653
903 519 8,632
59
WORKS TRADE.
commencement.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
47 Weeks, December, 1895
475
6,798
18,369
1,204
2,766
3,986
4,933
2,699
s. d.
1 3J
9|
7|
2f
5J
7
8|
9|
1,089
11,818
18,695
18,943
24,286
25,723
24,036
25,578
S Years, 1900
S 1905
Year, 1906
(53 weeks) 1907
1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
15 Years and S Months' Total . .
36,230
1\
WORKS TRADE.
commencement.
NET PROFIT.
NET Loss.
Stocks
at
end.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Bate
Amount, per on
Supplies.
Amount.
Bate
per on
Supplies.
s. d.
Year December, 1909 (39 weeks)
457
s. d.
11|
2,879
8,070
Half Year, June, 1910 427 0111
1 J Years' Total 427
457
427
Less Profit
Leaves Net Loss
30
Og
60
PELAW PBINTING
Since publishing a separate
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
EXPENSES.
Wages &
Sundry.
Deprecia
tion.
Interest
Total.
2 Years, December, 1905. . .
15,530
9,064
10,935
10,080
12,828
9,390
6,634
3,825
4,558
5,187
6,705
3,529
1,143
369
383
380
1,458
726
700
176
179
195
669
330
8,477
4,370.
5,120
5,762
8,832
4,585
Year, 1906
(58wks) 1907
1908
,, 1909.. .
Half Year, June, 1910
6J Years' Total
67,827
30,438
4,459
2,249
37,146
LITTLEBOBOUGH FLANNEL
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
EXPENSES.
Wages &
Sundry.
Deprecia-
tion.
Interest.
Total.
21 Years, December, 1900
56,517
100878
21,226
24,849
23,533
23,913
7,995
12,093
28,098
5,311
5,650
5,844
6,661 1
3,184
1,515
2,287
380
380
380
880
190
952
2,547
501
526
522
527
287
14,560
32,932
6,192
6,556
6,746
7,568
3,661
5 1905
Year, 1906 . . .
(53 wks) 1907
1908
1909 . .
Half Year, June, 1910
12J Years' Total
258,911
66,841
5,512
5,862
78,215
1)1
WOBKS TBADE.
Account in Balance Sheet.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate per
in Supplies.
2 Years, December, 1905
538
494
1,141
233
*1,112
120
s. d.
8J
1 1
2 1
5J
1 8f
3
315
182
256
1,434
2,418
2,944
Year, 1906
(53 wks) 1907
. 1908
, 1909
Halt Year, June, 1910
6i Years' Total
1,414
5
* Loss.
MILL TBADE.
commencement.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
NET Loss.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Bate
per on
Supplies.
Amount.
Bate
per on
Supplies.
2| Years, December, 1900
13
400
329
s d.
01
3|
1 14
1 6g
1 111
120
s. d.
li
7,992
7,693
7,745
8,878
10,674
10,510
15,160
5 1905
Year, 1906
(53 weeks) 1907
1908 .
1,335
1,832
795
, 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
12J Years' Total
4,704
120
120
.. j, ....
4,584
4J
62
LEICESTER AND HUTHWAITE
From
E
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
Wages and
Sundry.
Depi
ciati
2i Years, December, 1905
168,315
i
44,581
J
5,1
Year, 1908
67,862
18,929
2,1
,, (53 weeks) 1907
78,457
22,948
2,3
1903
53,096
19,051
2.2
1909
60748
18,989
29
Half Year, June, 1910
34,239
10,933
1,1
7 Years' Total
482,717
135,431
15,9
EXPENSES.
Interest.
Total.
4,559
54,260
1,978
23,030
2,608
27,900
2,411
23,747
2,763
24,674
1,257
13,322
15,576
166,933
NOTE. Business transferred from Leicester to Huthwaite June, 1908.
DESBORO' CORSET
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
Half Year, December, 1905
Year, 1906
(53 weeks) 1907
1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
5 Years' Total . .
Net
Supplies.
5,142
15,018
19,799
25,037
EXPENSES.
Wages and
Sundry.
17,201
2,286
7,366
7,470
9,434
8,775
5,064
40,395
Deprecia-
tion.
56
682
1,160
1,187
1,145
545
4,775
Interest.
131
624
850
787
413
3,635
Total.
2,473
8,672
9,480
11,451
10,707
48,805
HOSIERY FACTORY TRADE.
commencement.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
NET Loss.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
2$ Years, December, 1905
255
2,339
1,048
s. d.
OJ
8
3J
40,958
2,160
472
s. d.
6|
3J
26,549
36,005
62,526
53,570
40,793
50,274
Year, 1906 . .
,, (53 weeks) 1907
1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
7 Years' Total
3,642
43,590
3,642
39,948
1 7|
Leaves Net Loss
FACTORY TRADE.
commencement.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
NET Loss.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
Half Year, December, 1905
s. d.
li
2
494
1,414
1,192
1,367
s. d.
1 10J
1 10J
1 2|
1 1
7,558
10,000
8,635
10,105
9,655
7,455
Year, 1906
(53 weeks) 1907
1908...
M 1909
216
146
Half Year, June, 1910
5 Years' Total
362
4,457
362
4,095
9
BROUQHTON SHIRT
Since publishing a separate
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
EXPENSES.
Wages and
Sundries.
Depre-
ciation.
Interest.
Total.
Year, December, 1907 (53 we
1908
jks)
68,301
69,050
88,448
46,181
14,886
15,885
18,378
10,409
888
900
1,053
567
864
1,089
1,199
633
16,638
17,874
20,630
11,609
1909 .
Half Year, June, 1910
3i Years' Total
266,980
59,558
3,408
3,785
66,751
BATLEY WOOLLEN
From
PERIOD. EKDED.
Net
Supplies.
Produc-
tion.
EXPENSES.
Wages &
Sundry.
Deprecia-
tion.
Interest.
Total.
4 Years, December, 1890
8 1895 ....
3 1900 ....
S 1905 ....
Year, 1906 ....
(53 wks) 1907 ....
1908 ....
1909 ....
Half Year, June, 1910 ....
23* Years' Total
44,326
95,265
183,387
245,026
48,367
52,238
58,428
45,118
23,511
47,618
94,954
183,125
245,771
47,452
52,885
59,005
56,166
21,235
20,973
31,138
48,641
71,871
14,963
16,355
18,313
16,074
7,307
1,124
?,239
4,394
8,374
1,857
1,441
1,630
1,889
954
1,607
1,990
2,808
4,566
1,095
1,105
1,207
1,385
721
28,704
35,367
55,843
84,811
17,915
18,901
21,150
19,348
8,982
795,666
808,211
245,635
23,902
16,484
286,021
65
FACTOBY TBADE.
Account in Balance Sheet.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
NET Loss.
Stocks
at end.
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
775
s. d.
2g
2|
3J
1,667
s. a.
5|
15,617
19,326
20,056
22,458
1908
t , 1909
752
608
Half Year, June, 1910
3J Years' Total
2,135
1,667
1,667
Leaves Net Profit
468
Og
MILL TBADE.
commencement.
PEIUOD. ENDED.
4 Years December 1890
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
RATE ON PRO-
DUCTION.
Per cent.
Per.
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
s. d.
49 15 7
37 4 11J
30 9 10|
34 10 15
37 15 Oi
35 14 9J
35 16 10|
34 8 llg
42 5 llj
s. a.
9 llg
7 5g
6 1J
6 101
7 6*
7 If
7 2
6 lOg
8 5*
*6796
3,039
7,648
7,244
1,212
1,933
2,355
1,072
*775
s. a.
3 Of
7|
10
7
6
85
9|
5|
o 75
7,326
8,139
10,904
12,886
11,594
13,707
13,454
18,498
16,910
5 1895
5 1900
5 1905
Year 1906
(53 wks) 1907
1908
190')
Half Year June 1910
23A Years' Total
35 7 9jj
7 Og
16,932
5
"
* Loss.
66
BURY
Prom
EXPENSES.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Supplies. W ages and
Sundry.
De t P ion C . ia - ***
Total.
37 Weeks, December, 1905 27,620 7,668
Year, , 1906 . . . . 55,408 13,043
1,223 823
2,135 1,365
2,607 1,754
2,381 1,668
2,460 1,684
1,281 815
9,714
16,543
22,475
23,968
23,557
10,347
(53 wks) 1907 .... 83,849 18,114
1G08 91,156 19,919
1909 82,208 19,413
Half Year, June, 1910 45,716 8,251
5 Years and 11 Weeks' Total . . 385,957 86,408
12,087 8,109
106,604
LEEDS CLOTHING
From
EXPENSES.
' PERIOD. ENDED. Supplies. w
W&f
es *x ueprecia-' ji+-prggt Total
2J Years, December, 1890 10,652 6
414 149 128
712 903 760
204 2,639 1,7-10
638 5,365 2,938
419 1,055 519
682 871 555
559 872 600
470 1,003 680
628 580 382
6,691
55,375
113,583
145,941
32,993
34,108
37,031
32,153
17,590
g 1895 97,978 53
5 1900 198,863 109
5 1905 251,014 137
Year, 1906 55,099 31
(53 wks) 1907 57,665 32
1908 59,971 35
, 1909 55,794 30
Half Year, June, 1910 32,227 16
213 Years' Total 819,263 453
726 13,437 8,302
475,465
67
1
WEAVING SHED.
commencement.
NET PKOFIT.
NKT Loss.
Stocks
at end.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Rate
Amount. per on
Supplies.
Rate
Amount. per oil
Supplies.
s. a.
37 Weeks, December, 1905
Year, 1906
(53 wks) 1907 664 1J
s. d.
650 5g
39 1J
6,129
11,510
21,082
20,015
22,019
26,501
1908 295 Of
1909 645 1|
Half Year, June, 1910 271 If
5 Years and 11 Weeks' Total . . 1,875
Less Loss. .. ... 689
689
Leaves Net Profit 1,16 0|
FACTORY TRADE.
commencement.
NET PKOFIT. NET Loss.
1
PERIOD. ENDED. Rate Rate
Amount, per on Amount, per on
Supplies. Supplies
Stocks
at end.
s.
2^ Years, December, 1890
d. li s. d.
1,125 2 1J
li
4J
LOi
m
7|
9i ..
4| . ..
21
1,316
5,276
9.764
8,860
8,928
9,847
12,106
9,383
6,093
5 M 1895 5 663 1
5 M 1900 18 728 1
5 M 1905 10 949
Year, 1906 2,471
(53 wks) 1907 1,859
1908 2,296
, 1909 982
Half Year, June, 1910 ... . 819
21| Years' Total 38,267
1,125
Less Loss 1,125
Leaves Net Profit . . 37,142 10?
68
BROUGHTON CLOTHING
Since publishing a separate
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
EXPENSES.
Wages & Deprecia- !*___
Sundry. tion. Interest.
Total.
Half Year, December, 1895
7,561
146,319
201,787
41,262
42,608
45,386
42,927
23,311
4,920 171 106
96,238 3,671 2,252
127,974 5,630 3,24:,
25,232 1,170 651
26,305 1,170 610
27,991 1,174 615
25.791 1,174 619
14,085 586 285
5,197
102,161
136,849
27,053
23,115
29,780
27.5P4
14,956
5 Years, 1900
8 1905
Year, 1906
(53 wks) 1907
n 1908
M , 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
IS Years' Total
551,191
848,536 1 14,746 8,413
371,695
LEICESTER BOOT AND
Since keeping
Net
PERIOD. ENDED. Supplies.
Produc- i
lion.
EXPENS1>.
Total.
Wages & Deprecia- Int , t
Sundry. tion.
2J Years, January, 1876 . . . . ] 86,565
5 December, 1880 869,357
8 1885 ' 495,321
5 1890 771,134
S 1895 1,264,427
5 1900 1,560,965
5 * 1905 1,812,821
Year, 1906 342,066
(53 wks) 1907 ! 375,286
1908 386,975
1909 i 368,021
Half Year, June, 1910 .... 223,515
97,576
862,821
493,020
783,457
1,269,859
1,546,483
1,781,627 !
313,706
H46.777 i
430,758
323,779
199,890
,
28,264 166 914 '
127,772 1,947 4,987
182,021 8,369 5,8-2-2
291,291 i 5,724 7,622
495,923 J 19,269 23,191 ;
593,100 27,815 24,566
687,119 i 25,134 23,234 i
126,232 5,222 4.7:!9
128,198 2,520 5,374
151,625 2,296 5,017 '
120,792 2,lb7 5,573
70,905 1,027 2,473 '
29,314
131,706
191,212
304,637
538,683
645,781
735,487
136,193
136,092
158,938
128,552
74,405
363 Years' Total 8,056,456
7,979,753
3,003,542 96,676 113,812 3,211,030
69
FACTORY TRADE.
Account in the Balance Sheet.
NET
Loss.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
Amount.
Rate
per on Amount
Supplies.
Stocks
Rate at end
per on
Supplies.
Half Year, December, 1895
254
s. d.
8
7|
1
o n|
6|
1 95
1 8*
1,677
s. d.
1,003
2J ' 5,453
3,306
j 3,986
3,889
4,614
4.340
2,668
S Years, 1900 .
5 1905
6635
Year, 1906
2,101
,, (53 wks) 1907
2031
1908
1,260
1909
3932
Half Year, June, 1910
1995
15 Years' Total
. 18,258
1,677
1 677
Leaves Net Profit
. 16,581
7J
SHOE WORKS TBADE.
a separate Account.
PERIOD. ENDED.
EXPENSES.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
KATE ON
PRODUCTION.
Per cent.
Peri.
j
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
s. d.
30 1 5J
37 2 6|
38 15 8
38 17 8
42 8 41
41 15 15
41 5 7i
39 12 5g
39 4 lOj*
36 17 11J
39 14
37 4 5J-
s. d.
6 OJ
7 5
7 9
8 5J
8 4J
8 3
7 11
7 10J
7 44
7 11J
7 51
1,488
4,008
8,630
35,946
24,347
27,905
15,617
4,640
4,784
15,389
7,721
5,356
s. d.
o 4
2}
4J
111
4J
41
2
31
3
9J
5
5|
9,186
15,772
15,752
61,935
101,621
114,013
114,216
154,946
125,046
170,795
127,900
97,398
5 December 1880
5 1885
3 , 1890
5 1895
S 1900
3 ( 1905
Year, 1906
(53 weeks) 1907
1908
M , 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
36| Years' Total
40 5 6*
8 0|
155,831
4|
70
HECKMONDWIKE BOOT
, SHOE,
From
Net
PERIOD. EXDED. Supplies.
Boot and
Shoe
Produc-
tion.
TOTAL EXPENSES
(INCLUDING CURRYING DEPART v
Wages &
Sundry.
Deprecia-
tion.
Interest.
Total, i
Half Year, December, 1880 ....
5 Years, 1885 ....
5 1890 ....
8 1895 ....
5 ., 1900....
5 1905 ....
Year, 1906 ....
(53 weeks) 1907 ....
1908 . . .
1909 ....
Half Year, June, 1910 ....
30 Years' Total
3,060
83,295
139,007
229,350
280,601
342,878
58,903
62,931
78,667
78.035
31,159
3,438
85,197
117,020
192,594
238,078
307,637
53,131
59,942
73,108
77,305
33,525
1,057
27,824
44,539
78,872
100,647
115,788
20,669
21,655
24,807
25,183
11,584
16
461
2,389
4,552
8,605
10,183
2,102
1,260
24
16
7
30
1,038
2^57
5,408
6,104
6,161
1,298
919
609
872
490
1,103
29,323
49,785
88,882
115,356
132,132
24,069
WJBSi
25,440
26,071
12,081
1,387,886 1,240,975
472,625
29,615
25,786
528,026
BTJSHDEN
BOOT AND
From
PEBIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
Produc-
tion.
EXPENSES.
Wages &
Sundry.
Depre-
ciation.
Interest.
Total.
31 Weeks, December, 1900 ....
11,091
285,920
107,895
117,970
114,777
103,342
55,36
11,806
295,640
117,693
110,916
124,168
102,610
54,395
4,215
84,225
29,701
28,866
33,375
31,504
15,565
68
5.191
1,738
1,765
1,786
1,780
1,141
83
3,867
1,672
1,595
1,415
1,783
1,049
4,366
93,283
33,111
32,226
36,576
35,067
17,755
5 Years, 1905
Year 1906 . . . .
(53 weeks) 1907
1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
10 Years and 5 Weeks' Total. .
796,831
817,228
221,451
13,469
11,464
252,384
71
AND CUBBYING WOBKS TBADE.
commencement.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Half Year, December,1880
5 Years,
5 ::
s
3
Year,
(53 weeks)
Half Year, June, 1910
30 Years' Total . .
NET PROFIT.
NET Loss.
Amo'nt.
Kate
per on
Supplies.
Amo'nt.
Bate
per on
Supplies.
s. d.
s. d.
181
1 2J
71
4,953
9,416
6,074
Oi
0"4J
2,273
o"i*
2,155
1,692
4,541 !
3,870 i
711 5
25,072
10,365
Leaves Net Profit. . 14,707 2J
10,365
: Stocks
, at end.
2,473
5,814
11,325
20,711
15,437
12,935
15,995
11,175
17,574
20,895
37,830
SHOE WOBKS TBADE.
commencement.
PERIOD.
ENDED.
31 Weeks, December, 1900
5 Years, 1905
Year,
(53 weeks)
1906
1907
1908
1909
EXPENSES.
RATE ON PRODUCTION.
Per cent.
s. A.
36 19 7|
31 11 0|
28 2 8
29 1 1
29 9 Ig
34 3 6
Peri.
s. d.
7 4i
6 3|
5 74
S 9|
5 lOg
6 10
6 6J
Half Year, June, 1910 | 32 12 9f
I
10 Years and 5 Weeks' Total ....I 30 17 11 6
NET PROFIT.
Rate
Amount, per on
Supplies.
964
22,070
7,022
8,627
4,811
466
49,648
s. d.
1 82
1 6$
1 Og
1 2i
1 6
11|
2
Stocks
at end.
20,549
29,197
21,719
31,232
72
BB
Net
Supplies.
OUGHTON CABINET
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
EXPKN
Wages &
Sundry.
Deprecia. ,
nteres,
Total.
3 Years, December, 1895
22,423
65,846
69,879
22,720
29,604
23,440
29,696
14,304
15,442
39,217
36347
10,465
15,120
14,292
14,669
7,279
1,216
2,414
2,921
652
636
743
785
896
1,326
2^24
2,363
569
566
678
726
366
17,984
44,155
42,131
11,686
16,322
15,713
16,180
8,011
S ,, 1900. .
5 .. 1905
Year, 1906 . . .
(53 wks) 1907. . ..
1908 ....
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
17| Years' Total
282,912
153,331
9,763
9,118
172,212
LEEDS BKUSH
Since publishing a separate
PERIOD. ENDED.
Net
Supplies.
E.XPENS
ES.
Total.
Wages and
Sundry.
Deprecia-
tion.
Interest.
1J Years, December, 1905
16,814 7,530
15,777 6,086
17,636 6,996
20,900 9,418
26,189 10,915
15,336 5,954
307
307
457
764
859
440
341
238
328
578
688
353
8,178
6,631
7,781
10,760
12,462
6,747
Year, 1906
(53 wks) 1907
. 1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
6 Years' Total
112,652 46,899
3,134
2,526
52,559
NOTE. Huddersfleld business transferred to Leeds, June, 1906.
73
WOBKS TRAD]
commencement.
PEKIOD. ENDED.
3J Years, December, 1895
a 1900
5 1905
Year, 1906 . . .
E.
NET Loss.
Stocks
at end.
NET PROFIT.
Rate
Amount. per on
Supplies.
Amount.
Rate
per on
Supplies.
s. d.
389 04
494 04
246 2
164 1J
56 OJ
1,305
5,950
432
s. d.
1 li
1 9|
1|
7,257
4,452
7,584
6,751
7,225
9,193
9,790
10,377
(53 wks) 1907
1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
173 Years' Total
1,349
7,687
1,349
Less Profit
Leaves Net Loss
6,338 5|
FACTORY TRADE.
Account in Balance Sheet.
PERIOD. ENDED.
NET PROFIT.
Stocks
at end.
Rate
Amoi(nt. , per on
Mlpplii-.-'.
1J Years, December, 1905
565
870
648
615
958
714
s. d.
8
1 li
81
7
8
11J
4,453
3,358
5,428
9,286
10,427
10.260
Year, 1906
(53 wks) 1907
M , 190S
f> 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
6 Years' Total
4,370 9J
74
KEIGHLEY
From
PERIOD. ENDKD.
Half Year, December. 1908
Year, 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
2 Years' Total . . .
Net
Supplies.
7,792
15,924
7,992
31,708
Kxi BWU.
Wages and Deprecia-
Sundry. tion.
3,098
6,646
3,457
269
543
274
13,201
1,086
Interest.
212
448
227
B67
Total.
3,579
7,637
3,958
15,174
DUDLEY BUCKET AND
From
PERIOD. ENDED.
Half Year, December, 1908
Year, 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
2 Years' Total
Net
Supplies.
12,621
24,932
11,048
48,601
EXPENSES.
Wages and
Sundry.
4,917
10,072
4,639
19,628
Deprecia-
tion.
224
459
243
926
Interest.
173
195
737
Total.
5,314
10,900
5,077
21,291
PERIOD. ESDED.
Half Year, December, 1908
Year, 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
2 Years' Total . .
BIBTLEY TINPLATE
From
Net
Supplies.
3,080
7,153
3,128
13,361
EXPENSES.
Sundry.
1,502
3,788
1,691
6,981
Deprecia
144
297
150
591
Interest.
96
215
116
427
Total.
1,742
4,300
1,957
7,999
75
IRONWORKS TRADE.
commencement.
PERIOD.
Half Year, December, 1908
Year, 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
2 Years' Total . .
NET PROFIT.
Amount.
226
869
64
659
Rate per .
on Supplies
41
' Stocks
at end.
5,064
4.923
FENDER WORKS TRADE.
commencement.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Half Year, December, 1908
Year, 1909
Half Year, June, 1910
2 Years' Total
NET PROFIT.
,
Amount.
Rate peri
on Sup ^ lies .| ;
843
924
50
1,817
s. d.
1 4 \ 3,495
8| | 3,420
1
3,508
81
WORKS TRADE.
commencement.
NET PROFIT.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Half Year, December, 1908
Year, 1909
Half Tear, June, 1910
2 Years' Total . .
113
41
413
s. d.
1 8J
33
3
1,989
2,543
2,768
71
76
PELAW TAILORING-, KEKSEY,
Since publishing a separate
PERIOD. ENDED.
2 Years, December, 1905
Year, .
(53 wks)
Half Year, June,
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
Net
Supplies.
65,992
39,300
43,394
45,010
39,948
20,781
EXPENSES.
20,918
2,371
11,439 1,086
12,774 1,057
12,606 1,066
12,400 1,072
6,681 529
1398 24,687
689 13,164
725 14,556
702 14,374
716 , 14,188
346 7,556
6* Years' Total 254,425 76,818 7,131 4,576
PELAW CABINET
Since publishing a separate
PERIOD.
ENDED.
2 Years, December, 1905
Year, 1906
(53 wks) 1907
1908
1909
Half Year, June, 1910
Net
Supplies.
EXPENSES.
Wages and Deprecia- Interest
Sundry. tion.
52,223
24,788
29,795
36,223
31,783
14,063
6* Years' Total 188,875
31,659
13,539
14,761
18,785
16,259
7,360
3,912
1,637
1,665
1,014
906
60
2,434
1,141
1,108
943
836
192
Total.
38,005
16,317
17,534
20,742
18,001
7,612
9,194
6,654
118,211
AND SHIBT FACTOKIES TBADE.
Account in Balance Slieet.
NET PBOFIT.
PERIOD. ENDED.
Amount. ^
Stocks
e per at end.
upplies.
2 Years, December, 1905 725
s. d.
2g 5,606
6f 6,431
9J 5,208
1 24 6,273
8g 7,282
1 7,231
Year, 1906 1,098
(53 wks) 1907 1,660
1908 2,725
1909 1,409
Half Year, June, 1910 1,049
6i Years' Total 8,666
8J (
WOBKS TBADE.
Account in Balance Sheet.
NET Loss.
PERIOD. ENDED. Ra
Amount. per
Supi
, Stocks
t-'on . atend '
)lies.
s.
2 Years, December, 1905 1,814
d.
81 9,877
8J 10,218
7i 9,978
1J 8,949
4J , 10,721
2J 9,799
Year, 1906 3,333 2
(53 wks) 1907 912
1908 5,623 3
M 1909 2,162 1
Half Year June 1910 171
6^ Years' Total 14,015 1
51
78
DISTRIBUTIVE EXPENSES AND EATE PER CENT. ON
SALES=
Expenses=
GRAND TOTAL.
24,205,203.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
s. d.
248020 9
814 8 11
82 5 10
9869 8 G
7368 8 3
787 17 1
13183 14 10
338 16 10
31035 9 8
8475 4 2
690 13 1
1403 6
2137 10
5872 3
9390 8 1
13433 3 6
8080 3
1812 9 8
1033 3
341 16 4
115 7 9
885 S
19226 7 8
13427 9 3
5647 16 11
5564 3 8
17572 13 5
8506 7 1
78637 10 8
s. d.
20 5-92
0-81
0-03
9-79
7-31
0-78
1 1-07
0-34
2 6-77
8-40
0-68
139
2-12
5-82
9-31
1 1-32
8-01
1-80
1-02
0-34
0-11
0-88
1 7-06
1 1-31
5-60
5-52
1 5-43
8-44
6 5-97
Scrutineers
Committees
Printing and Stationery
" Wheatsheaf " Record
" Annual " 1909
n Buildings
n Fixtures, &c
Tota Is . ...
513703 13 1
42 5-35
79
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SALES FOE THE YEAE ENDED DECEMBEE 25xH, 1909.
SUMMARY OF DISTRICT TOT/\I.!-s.
MANCHESTER.
NEWCASTLE.
LONDON.
14,088,207.
4,855,711.
5,26
Amount.
1,285.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Kate per
100.
s. d.
124037 14 6
s. d.
17 7-31
a. A.
63051 1 2
s. d.
25 11-64
a. d.
60931 13 4
s. d.
23 1-95
486 16 11
0-83
158 6
0-78
169 11 6
0-78
18 14 3
0-03 694
0-03
723
0-03
5006 16 9
8-53
2731 16 11
1 1-50
2130 14 10
9-72
4145 3 4
7-06 1202 5 7
5-94
2020 19 4
9-22
534 13 1
0-91 62 10 9
0-31
190 13 3
0-87
6828 18 8
11-64
2879 14 4
1 2-23
3475 1 10
1 3-85
173 14 8
0-30
71 6 3
0-35
93 15 11
0-43
16070 11 3
2 3-36
5284 16
2 2-12
9680 2 5
3 8-16
4346 11 6
T41 2001 6 I
10-19
2067 6 7
9-43
347 17 2
0-59 197 7 4
0-98
145 8 7
0'63
600 11
1-02
347 18 11
1-72
454 16 1
2-08
1193 15 11
2-04
486 17 3
2-41
456 16 10
2-09
3500 13
5-96
1057 2 3
5-22
1814 7 9
6-00
5442 8 6
9-27
1877 14 6
9-28
2070 5 1
9-44
6044 9 6
10-30
2949 11 10
1 2-58
4439 2 2
1 8-25
4380 16
7-46
1593 8 5
7-88
2105 18 7
9-61
928 9 G
1-58
561 7 6
2-77
322 12 8 1-47
683 3 3
1-16 62 9 6
031
287 7 6
1-31
182 2
0-31 82 3 4
0-41
77 11
036
99 9 4
0-17 12 17 10
0-06
307
0-01
512 19 11
0-87 177 7 9
0-88
194 13
0-89
11225 10 4
1 7-12 4110 9 5
1 8-32
3890 7 11
1 5-75
7544 10 1
1 0-85 2850 9 5
1 2-09
3032 9 9
1 1-83
2137 13 1
3-64 1235 17 6
6-11
2274 6 4
10-38
3770 7 11
6-42 1243 16 4
6-15
549 19 5
2-51
7162 17 6
1 0-20 6292 13
2 7-10
4117 2 11
1 6-78
3572 17 4
6-09
3438 3 11
1 4-99
1495 5 10
6-82
40346 16 6
5 8-73 19847 15 2
8 2-10
18442 19
7 013
261327 2 9
37 1-18 125934 18 1
51 10-45
126441 12 3
48 0-78
80
DISTRIBUTIVE EXPENSES AND BATE PEE CENT. ON
SALES-
Expenses
Zkr^IsTCDHIIESTZEIR,.
TOTALS.
GROCERY.
COAL.
14,088,207.
11,704,860.
306,119.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount. *%g
Wages
s. d.
124037 14 6
486 16 11
18 14 3
5006 16 9
4145 3 4
34 13 1
6828 18 8
173 14 8
16070 11 3
4346 11 6
347 17 2
600 11
1193 15 11
3500 13
5442 8 6
6044 9 6
43?0 16
928 9 fi
683 3 }J
182 2
99 9 4
512 19 11
11225 10 4
7544 10 1
2137 13 1
3770 7 11
7162 17 6
3572 17 4
40346 16 6
s. d.
17 7-31
0-88
0-03
8-53
7-06
0-91
11-64
030
2 3-38
7-41
0-59
1-02
2-04
5-96
9-27
10-30
7'46
1-58
1-16
0-31
0-17
0-87
1 7-12
1 0-85
3-64 I
6-42
1 0-20
6-09
5 8-73
s. d.
63370 1 8
386 1 11
15 11 1
2689 15 3
2115 10 8
431 9 3
4025 12 1
135 3 10
6678 3 1
3556 4
230 8 .1
431 16 1
869 4 6
2605 5 1)
4524 12 6
2813 15 7
1428 15 7
655 17 11
567 2 9
113 6 4
98 2 4
425 5 4
7653 9 11
5246 16 7
967 15 10
1532 2 S
2915 2 5
1671 3 6
22218 1 11
s. d.
10 9-94
0-79
0-03
5-52
4-34
0-88
8-25
0-28
1 1-69
7-29
0-47
0-89
1-78
5-34
9-28
5-77
2-93
1-34
1-17
0-23
0-20
0-87
1 3-69
10-76
1-99
3-14
5-98
3-42
3 9-56
s. d. s. d.
1513 18 4 9 10-69
906 0-71
082 0-03
47 11 10 3-73
191 11 6 1 3-02
364 0-26
417 9 8 2 11-08
92 10 1 7-25
5 11 1 0-44
42 1 3-23
23 19 1 1-88
40 16 G 3-20
119 16 9-39
21 2 1-66
40 3-14
16 7 1 1-28
15 3 9 1-19
1 19 3 0-15
019 0-01
11 9 10 0-90 j
159 10 9 1 0-51
297 351 11-30
18 0-07
17 5 10 1-36
31 9 2-43
37 13 5 2-95
353 3 ;i 2 3-G'J
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Dining-rooms
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Depreciation: Land ....
Buildings..
Fixtures, &c.
Interest
Totals
61327 2 9
37 1-18 140371 14 9 23 11-8-2 3510 18 8 23 1-61
81
SALES FOE THE YEAE ENDED DEC. 25-rn, 1909 continued.
HUE JLlsTO IE! IE S T IBIR,.
DRAPERY.
WOOLLENS AND
READY-MADES.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
FURNISHING.
941,119.
252,461.
475,6
Amount.
12.
Rate per
100.
408,036.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
s. d.
30348 19 6
s. d.
64 5-95
s. d.
7172 18 5
s. d.
56 9-89
s. d.
9648 6 2
s. d.
40 6-87
s. d.
11983 10 5
s. d.
58 8-86
41 11 2
1-06
11 15 1
1-12
21 16 1
1-10
16 12 2
0-98
156
0-03
068
0-08
12 9
0-03
10 1
0-03
1014 14 8
2 1-88
256 4 4
2 0-36
508 7 8
2 1-65
490 3
2 4-88
680 10 3
1 5-35
1241 19 5
9 10-07
8 10
0-43
98 13
5-80
59 13 4
1-52
4 15 2
0-24
38 15 4
2-28
1416 8 2
3 0-12
254 2 4
2 0-16
491 5 11
2 0-79
449 18 8
2 2-47
17 17 6
0-46
6 12 9
0-63
556
0-27
589
0-32
5702 3 8
12 1-41
1367 13 10
10 10-02
802 1
3 4-47
1073
5 3-11
322 14 10
8-23
84 16 8
8-06
153 16 6
7-76
136 13 1
8-04
64 3 1
1-64
18 3 1
1-72
871
0-42
21 4 9
1-25
45 13
1-16
34 7 10
3-27
21 2 5
1-07
25 11 7
1-50
163 19 1
4-18
29 7 11
2-79
52 13 2
2-66
54 12 2
8-21
349 17
8-92
34 19 7
3-33
368 11 10
1 6-60
101 2 4
5-95
370 4 10
9-44
96 1 11
9-14
184 19 10
9-33
146 13 5
8-63
1538 8
3 3-23
300 8 8
2 4-56
489 6 2
2 0-69
881 8 8
4 3-84
1461 5
3 1-26
249 13
1 11-73
413 1
1 8-84
788 1 5
3 10-35
153 6
3-91
14 8 7
1-37
68 18 9
3-48
19 11 2
1-15
46 10 6
1-19
18 6 6
1-17
23 10 9
1-19
18 9
1-09
30 19 6
0-79
12 15 10
1-22
7 14 10
0-39
15 6 3
0-90
050
O'Ol
016
0-01
029
0-01
16
0-05
34 18 10
0-89
985
0-90
17 19 8
0-91
18 17 10
0-82
1588 5
8 4-50
409 4 10
3 2-90
786 15 1
3 3-70
628 4 9
3 0-95
1160 10 11
2 5-60
226 4 3
1 9-50
298 5 1
1 2-80
320 9 10
1 6-85
406 6 6
11-89
260 12 6
2 0-78
222 2 9
11-21
219 17
1 0-93
1033 5 5
2 2-85
198 6 3
1 6-85
358 11 1
1 .6-09
630 16 8
3 1-10
1972 13 7
4 231
377 10 2
2 11-89
668 17 9
2 9-75
1197 12 10
5 10-44
1457 14 1
3 1-17
75 17 6
7-21
137 17 5
6-96
192 11 5
11-33
7676 17 4
16 3-77
2805 8 1
22 2-69
4289 11 10
17 994
3053 14 1
14 11-61
59221 1 3 125 10-22
15561 15 11
123 3-37
20008 6
84 1-65
22623 6 2
110 10-66
82
DISTRIBUTIVE EXPENSES AND RATE PER CENT. ON
SALES =
Expenses =
USTETWC^ STLIE.
TOTALS.
GROCERY.
COAL.
4,855,711.
3,532,418.
72,135.
Amount.
Rate per
JE100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Wages
s. d.
63051 1 2
158 6
694
2731 16 11
1202 5 7
62 10 9
2879 14 4
71 6 3
5284 16
2061 6 1
197 7 4
347 18 11
486 17 3
1057 2 3
1877 14 6
2949 11 10
1593 8 5
561 7 6
62 9 6
82 3 4
12 17 10
177 7 9
4110 9 5
2850 9 5
1235 17 6
1243 16 4
6292 13
8438 3 11
19847 15 2
s. d.
25 11-64
0-78
0-03
1 1-50
5-94
0-81
1 2-23
0-35
2 2-12
10-19
0-98
1-72
2-41
5-22
9-28
1 2-58
7-88
2-77
0-31
0-41
0-06
0-88
1 8-32
1 2-09
6-11
6-15
2 7-10
1 4-99
8 2-10
a. d.
24642 15 8
1C6 18 5
4 13 5
1184 8 8
181 10 7
62 10 9
1249 16 10
42 10 5
1009 6 11
914 13 6
79 19 11
259 16 3
319 17 8
591 7
1858 16 6
626 10
883 4 2
389 16 7
45 2 2
20 18 8
7 18 8
127 14 7
2790 5 5
1288 2 7
543 15 6
487 2 8
3958 6 5
1481 4 4
8770 10
s. d.
13 11-43
0-73
0-03
8-05
1-23
0-42
8-49
0-29
6-86
6-21
0-54
1-77
2-17
4-02
9-23
4-26
6-00
2-65
0-31
0-14
0-05
0-87
1 6-96
8-75
3-69
3-31
1 10-14
10-06
4 11-59
s. d.
306 9 5
212
020
8 1 10
001
18 9 8
139
60 1
13 17 10
2 19 11
4 16 1
397
9 17 9
28 8 9
%
4 16 7
17 19 7
950
19
4 11
001
2 14 7
24 19 7
21 1 7
14
1 18 8
6 16 10
823
88 4 8
s. d.
8 5-97
0-69
0-03
2-69
6-15
0-40
1 7-96
4-62
1-00
1-60
1-15
3-29
9-46
1-60
5-98
3-08
0-31
0-08
0-91
8-31
7-01
0-23
0-65
2-28
2-70
2 5-36
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Depreciation : Land ....
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Fixtures, &c
Interest
Totals
125934 18 1
51 10-45
52729 5 1
29 10-25
647 15 3
17 11-51
83
SALES FOE THE YEAR ENDED DEC. 25ra, 1909 continued.
USTIE-WOJLSTIjIE.
DRAPERY.
WOOLLENS AND
READY-MADE 8.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
FURNISHING.
537,626.
167,540.
261,707.
284,285.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
s. A.
17771 5 2
s. d.
66 1-32
s. d.
3310 4 2
s. d.
39 6-19
a. d.
5110 8 7
s. d.
39 0-65
s. d.
11909 18 2
s. d.
83 9-46
20 16 2
0-93
6 19 11
1-00
10 3 1
0-93
11 1 9
0-94
14 7
0-08
046
0-03
072
0-03
078
0-03
633 1
2 4-48
204 11 5
2 5-30
344 6 5
2 7-58
352 8 6
2 5-75
369 5 7
1 4-48
610 18 5
7 3-51
6 13 2
0-61
33 17 9
2-86
704 16
2 7-46
154 7 2
1 10-11
241 17 3
1 10-18
510 7 5
3 7-09
10 5
0-45
1 12 2
0-23
6 16 7
0-63
8 18 4
0-75
2267 15 9
8 5-23
642 13 11
7 8-07
293 19 8
2 3-51
1004 19 8
7 0-84
544 11 4
2 0-31
68 12 6
9-83
113 11 7
10-41
405 19 4
2 10-27
84 4 8
3-76
5 13
0-81
5 18 7
0-54
18 11 3
1-57
35 16 10
1-59
11 2 7
1-59
17 8 10
1-60
18 18 4
1-60
52 7 11
2-39
10 19 6
1-58
24 15 5
2-27
75 7 2
6-36
184 3 5
8-22
24 19 1
3-57
185 6 4
1 4-99
61 8 8
5-19
211 2 9
9-42
65 6 9
9-36
102 16 4
9-43
111 3 5
9-39
820 14 9
3 0-64
189 18 4
2 3-21
310 16
2 4-50
996 16 2
7 0-15
268 19 10
1 0-01
134 17
1 7-32
131 13 7
1 0-08
156 14 3
1 1-23
63 14 10
2-84
23 6 5
3-34
36 1 11
3-31
39 2 9
3-80
7 11
0-31
241
0-32
3 8 11
0-82
3 14 5
0-31
23 18 10
T07
6 14 9
0-97
6 1 11
0-56
24 4 3
2-04
115
0-05
112
0-15
113
0-10
1 15 3
0-15
20 11
0-89
672
0-91
9 18 3
0-91
10 12 3
0-90
558 2 3
2 0-91
172 4 9
2 0-67
270 18 2
2 0-84
293 19 3
2 0-82
669 3 10
2 5-87
166 15 7
1 11-89
191 4 10
1 5-54
514 1
3 7-40
317 4
1 2-16
82 5
11-78
184 5
1 0-31
157 14
1 1-31
313 13 8
1 2-00
74 1 1
10-61
122 19
11-28
244 1 3
1 8-60
1216 15 1
4 6-32
376 19 6
4 6-00
471 5 1
3 7-22
962 10 1
6 9-26
051 15
3 6-49
194 4 9
2 3-82
414 9 3
3 2-01
388 8 4
2 8-79
4598 13 8
17 1-29
1788 13 4
21 4-23
2169 4 10
16 6-93
2432 17 10
17 1-39
32726 4 3
121 8-92
8337 18
99 6-40
10743 17
82 1-27
20749 18 6 145 11-75
84
DISTRIBUTIVE EXPENSES AND RATE PER CENT. ON
.
SALES=
Expenses=
LOHsTIDOIsr.
TOTALS.
GROCERY.
COAL.
5,261,285.
4,432,219.
138,389.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Wages
s. d.
60981 13 4
169 11 6
723
2130 14 10
2020 19 4
190 13 3
3475 1 10
93 15 11
9680 2 5
2067 6 7
145 8 7
454 16 1
456 16 10
1314 7 9
2070 5 1
4439 2 2
2105 18 7
322 12 8
287 7 6
77 11
307
194 13
3890 7 11
3032 9 9
2274 6 4
549 19 5
4117 2 11
1495 5 10
18442 19
s. d.
28 1-95
0^78
0-03
9-72
9-22
0-87
1 3-85
0-43
3 8-16
9-43
0-63
2-08
2-09
6-00
9-44
1 8-25
9-61
1-47
1-31
0-36
0-01
0-89
1 5-75
1 1-83
10-38
2-51
1 6-78
6-82
7 0-13
s. d.
29996 9 10
137 9 11
5 19 11
1280 1 3
522 1 3
190 13 3
2070 3 10
73 15 9
3046 18 7
1659 1 6
97 13 2
276 14 4
338 15 9
998 3 5
1743 19 6
1513
1268 2 7
217 12 10
249 8 9
49 5 3
2 5 11
163 17 9
2482 14 2
1802 4 8
1247 12 10
322 15 7
2343 4 11
894 15 7
11226 12 5
s. d.
13 6-43
0-74
0-03
6-93
2-83
1-03
11-21
0-40
1 4-50
8-98
0-53
1-50
1-81
5-38
9-44
8-19
6-87
1-18
1-35
0-27
0-01
0-89
1 1-44
9-76
6-76
1-75
1 0-69
4-84
5 0-79
s. d.
862 11
8 15 9
039
22 5 8
29 14
10
243 15 4
21 18 5
5 17 4
10
17 16 9
54 9 4
14
549
030
1
528
61 1
168 18 5
1 1 8
180
273
699
117 10 11
s. d.
12 5-59
0-66
0-03
3-86
5-16
0-09
3 6-27
8-80
1-02
0-09
3-09
9-44
0-12
0-91
0-03
0-89
10-59
2 5-29
0-19
0"24
0-41
1-12
1 8-39
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Totals
126441 12 3
48 0-78
66211 14 11
29 10-53
1633 9 4
23 7"28
85
SALES
FOE THE YEAR ENDED DEC. 25TH, 1909 continued.
L O IsT ID O IDsT .
DRAPERY.
WOOLLENS AND
READY-MADES.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
FURNISHING.
292,621.
85,323.
172,248.
140,485.
Amount.
Rate per
.100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
Amount.
Rate per
100.
s. d.
13494 12 6
s. d.
92 2-79
s. d.
4340 3 1
s. d.
101 8-82
s. d
5954 1 6
s. d.
69 1-61
s. d.
6283 15 5
s. d.
89 5-50
12 1 2
0-99
3 11 4
1-00
784
1-08
550
0-90
7 11
0-03
023
6-03
048
0-03
039
0-03
320 4
2 2-25
124 11 4
2 11-04
221 15 7
2 6-90
162 8
2 3-68
594 11 7
4 0-77
838 6 10
19 7-81
15 17 9
2-21
50 1 6
8-55
622 13 11
4 3-07
216 4 11
5 0-83
294 5 9
3 5-01
241 18 11
3 5-33
5 10 1
0-45
437
1-18
6 6 1
0-89
3 10 5
0-60
2837 16 3
19 4-75
1046 13 8
24 6-41
1624 16 7
18 10-39
880 2
12 6-35
165 14 1
1 1-59
58 14
1 4-51
85 5 6
11-88
76 13 1
1 1-10
23 17 7
1-96
7 13 9
2-16
7 16 10
1-09
873
1-43
55 12 5
4-56
51 5
1 2-42
21 6 10
2-97
44 2
7-52
53 10 6
4-39
* 13 3 1
3-70
24 13 9
3-44
31 3 9
5-33
99 4 6
8-14
11 11 10
3-26
166 5 5
1 11-17
26 5 10
4-49
115 8 1
9-47
33 9 6
9-42
67 19 2
9-47
54 19 6
9-39
1188 3 G
8 1-45
621 7 11
14 6-79
380 16 6
4 5-06
735 14 3
10 5-69
326 9 2
2 2-77
152 11 5
3 6-92
152 14 6
1 9-28
206 11
2 11-20
31 17 9
2-62
22 11
6-34
30 18 2
4-31
18 18 11
3-24
13 12 11
1-12
3 19 4
1-11
885
1-17
6 13 4
1-14
12 6 11
1-01
3 13 2
1-03
5 12 2
0-78
6 10 6
1-11
001
002
14 1
0-12
10 15 10
0-89
848
0-91
6 S 8
0-90
535
0-88
601 2 10
4 1-30
179 8 7
4 2-47
341 8
3 11-52
225 8
3 2-44
369 14 7
2 6-32
281 18 7
6 7-30
188 19 7
2 2-33
220 13 11
8 1-70
423 15 6
2 10-76
220 8
5 2-00
250 8 7
2 10-89
130 19 9
1 10-38
92 14 4
7-60
551
1-48
51 16 8
7-22
75 19 9
1 0-98
609 10 8
4 1-99
138 18 1
3 3-07
461 15 1
5 4-34
561 6 11
7 11-90
220 3 9
1 6-06
73 6 11
1 8-63
183 1G 9
2 1-61
116 13 1
1 7-93
3065 6
20 11-39
949 19 5
22 3-21
2023 10 3
23 5-94
1060 5 6
15 1-14
25366 9 5
173 4-49
9406 6 5
220 5-85
12584 9 11
146 1-44
11239 2 3
160 0-05
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THE SCOTTISH
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE
SOCIETY LIMITED.
PLATES, ADVERTISEMENTS,
STATISTICS, &c.,
Pages 87 to 130.
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FORTY-TWO YEARS'
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION IN SCOTLAND.
COMMENCED SEPTEMBER, 1868.
YEARS.
CAPITAL.
SALES.
PROFITS.
1868 13 weeks
1,795
5,175
12,543
18,009
30,931
50,433
48,982
56,751
67,219
72,568
83,174
93,077
110,179
135,713
169,429
195,396
244,186
288,946
333,653
367,309
409,668
480,622
575,322
671,108
778,494
869,756
940,835
1,134,269
1,237,317
1,286,624
1,333,078
1,457,645
1,676,765
1,929,113
2,125,133
2,314,955
2,500,063
2,780,729
2,950,620
3,059,245
3,292,045
3,346,873
3,424,228
9,697
81,094
105,249
162,658
262,530
384,489
409,947
430,169
457,529
589,221
600,590
630,097
845,221
986,646
1,100,588
1,253,154
1,300,331
1,438,220
1,857,152
1,810,015
1,963,853
2,273,782
2,475,601
2,828,036
3,104,768
3,135,562
3,056,582
3,449,461
3,822,580
4,405,854
4,692,330
5,014,189
5,463,631
5,700,743
6,059,119
6,395,487
6,801,272
6,939,738
7,140,182
7,603,460
7,531,126
7,457,136
3,754,112
48
1,304
2,419
4,131
5,435
7,446
7,553
8,233
8,836
10,925
11,969
14,989
21,685
23,981
23,220
28,366
29,435
39,641
50,398
47,278
53,538
61,756
76,545
89,090
96,027
89,116
88,452
132,374
174,982
156,341
165,580
213,596
222,366
231,686
239,001
239,322
269,601
250,680
280,434
289,197
263,577
271,927
133,168
1869, 52
1870, 50
1871, 52
1872, 52
1873 52
1874, 52
1875, 52
1876 51
1877, 52
1878, 52
J.879 52
1880, 52
1881, 54
1882, 52
1883 52
1884, 52
1885, 52
1886, 60
1887, 53
1888, 52
1889, 52
1890 52
1891 52
1892, 53
1893, 52
1894, 52
1895 52
1896 52
1897, 52
1898, 53
1899 52
1900 52
1901, 52
1902 52
1903 52
1904 53
1905, 52
1906 52
1907 52
1908, 52
1909, 52
1910 26
TOTALS
3,424,228
125,783,220
4,435,660
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THE SCOTTISH
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY
LIMITED.
Enrolled 20th April, 1868, under the provisions of the Industrial and Provident
Societies Act, 20th August, 1867, 30 and 31 Viet., cap. 117, sec. 4.
Business Commenced 8tb September, 1868.
CENTBAL OFFICES AND FURNITURE WAREHOUSE :
MORRISON STREET, GLASGOW.
GROCERY AND PROVISION WAREHOUSES:
PAISLEY ROAD, CROOKSTON AND CLARENCE STREETS,
GLASGOW.
DRAPERY WAREHOUSE:
DUNDAS, WALLACE, AND PATERSON STREETS, GLASGOW.
BOOT AND SHOE WAREHOUSE :
DUNDAS STREET, GLASGOW.
SHIRT, TAILORING, WATERPROOF, AND AERATED WATER
FACTORIES :
PATERSON STREET, GLASGOW.
MANTLE AND UMBRELLA FACTORIES:
DUNDAS STREET, GLASGOW.
HAM-CURING, SAUSAGE FACTORY, AND CARTWRIGHT
DEPARTMENT:
PARK STREET, K.P., GLASGOW.
FACTORIES FOR BOOTS AND SHOES, CLOTHING, FURNITURE AND
BRUSHES, PRINTING, PRESERVES AND CONFECTIONS, COFFEE
ESSENCE, TOBACCO, PICKLES, AND TINWARE:
SHIELDHALL, NEAR GOVAN, GLASGOW.
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Branches.
LINKS PLACE, LEITH.
GEANGE PLACE, KILMAENOCK.
SEAGATE, DUNDEE.
HENEY STEEET, ENNISKILLEN, IEELAND.
FUENITUEE WAEEHOUSE, DEAPEEY & BOOT SAMPLE
EOOM CHAMBEES STEEET, EDINBUEGH.
CHANCELOT FLOUE MILLS EDINBUEGH.
JUNCTION FLOUE AND OATMEAL MILLS LEITH.
EEGENT FLOUE MILLS GLASGOW.
SOAP WOEKS GEANGEMOUTH.
ETTEICK TWEED MILLS SELKIEK.
DEESS SHIET FACTOEY LEITH.
LAUNDEY PAISLEY.
FISH-CUEING WOEKS ABEEDEEN.
CEEAMEBIES :
IEELAND ENNISKILLEN, BELNALECK, GOLA,
FLOEENCE COUET, S. BEIDGE, GAEDNEE'S CEOSS,
BLACKLION, GLENFAENE, MONEAH;
, BLADNOCH AND WHITHOEN, WIGTOWNSHIRE, N.B.
CALDEEWOOD ESTATE AND EYELANDS MILK CENTEE,
LANAEKSHIEE.
Bankers:
THE UNION BANK OF SCOTLAND LIMITED.
Head Offices:
GLASGOW: LONDON: EDINBURGH:
INGRAM STREET. 62, CORNHILL, E.G. GEORGE STREET.
General Manager: Manager: Manager:
ROBERT BLYTH. ARTHUR C. D. GAIRDNER. WILLIAM GRAHAM.
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General Committee.
President :
Mr. EGBERT STEWART, " Endrick," Percy Drive, Giffnock.
Secretary :
Mr. JOHN PEARSON, "Beechdale," Penton Street, Alloat
Directors :
Mr. ISAAC Mc.DONALD . . 7, Knoxland Square, Dumbarton.
Mr. HENRY MURPHY " Bertielea," Jerviswood Road, Lanark.
Mr. PETER GLASSE 185, Byres Road, Glasgow.
Mr. THOMAS LITTLE 264, Scott Street, Galashiels.
Mr. WILLIAM R. ALLAN. . 47, Balhousie Street, Perth.
Mr. JAMES YOUNG 20, Shorthope Street, Musselburgh.
Mr. JAMES WILSON "Helenbank," Victoria Street, Dunfermline.
Mr. ROBERT NESBIT 10, Lochrin Buildings, Edinburgh.
Mr. GEORGE THOMSON.. 20, Bonnyton Road, Kilmarnock.
Mr. ALEX. B. WEIR " Drhoma," Paisley Road, Barrhead.
Sub-Committees :
(1) FINANCE AND PROPERTY
Messrs. STEWART, LITTLE, WILSON, and YOUNG.
Conveners: Mr. WILSON (Finance). Mr. STEWART (Property).
(2) GROCERY : DISTRIBUTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE
Messrs. Mc.DONALD, PEARSON, NESBIT, and WEIR.
Conveners: Mr. NESBIT (Distributive). Mr. MC.DONALD (Productive).
(3) DRAPERY AND FURNISHING : DISTRIBUTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE
Messrs. GLASSE, ALLAN, MURPHY, and THOMSON.
Conveners: Mr. GLASSE (Distributive). Mr. MURPHY (Productive).
The President is ex officio a member of all Sub-Committees.
Auditors :
Mr. JNO. MILLEN, Rutherglen. | Mr. ROBT. J SMITH, C.A., Glasgow.
Mr. WM. H. JACK, F.S.A.A.. Glasgow.
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Officers of the Society.
Accountant: Mr. ROBERT MACINTOSH, Glasgow.
Cashier : Mr. ALLAN GRAY, Glasgow.
Buyers, &c. :
Grocery and Provisions GLASGOW Mr. E. ROSS.
Mr. JOHN Mc.DONALD.
. Mr. M. Mc.CALLUM.
Mr. A. S. HUGGAN.
, LEITH Mr. PETER ROBERTSON.
Mr. WILLIAM Mc.LAREN.
, Mr. A. W. JOHNSTONE.
, KILMARNOCK ..Mr. DAVID CALDWELL.
..Mr. WM. DRUMMOND.
DUNDEE Mr. JOHN BARROWMAN.
Potato Department GLASGOW Mr. JOHN Mc.INTYRE.
LEITH ....... .Mr. HUGH CAMPBELL.
Cattle GLASGOW Mr. WILLIAM DUNCAN.
Provisions ENNISKILLEN . .Mr. WILLIAM WHYTE.
Preserve Works GLASGOW Mr. N. ANDERSON.
Chemical Department , Mr. A. GEBBIE.
Tobacco Factory Mr. THOMAS HARKNESS.
Flour Mills Chancelot and/ Mr. WM. F. STEWART.
Regent Oatmeal and Flour -I Mr. JAMES TIERNEY.
Mill Junction I EDINBURGH . . Mr. JOHN PAISLEY.
Soap Works GRANGEMOUTH .Mr. J. A. PENNY.
Printing & Stationery Dept GLASGOW Mr. DAVID CAMPBELL.
Drapery Department , Mr. DAVID GARDINER.
Assistant.. , Mr. J. Mc.GILCHRIST.
Mr. WM. ALLAN.
{ Mr. WILLIAM MILLER.
Furmture Department \ Ass[ ^ Mr . THO MAS FENWICK.
EDINBURGH ..Mr. GEO. CARSON.
[GLASGOW Mr. P. Mc.PARLANE.
Boot and Shoe Department . . \ . . ,
(Assistant Mr. J. J. HORN.
Ettrick Tweed & Blanket Mills.. SELKIRK Mr. ALBERT BEAUMONT.
(GLASGOW Mr. JAMES DAVIDSON.
Building Department j Assistant Mr. WM. MERCER.
Engineering Department GLASGOW Mr. JAMES STEWART.
Carting Department , Mr. JAMES CALDWELL.
Coal Department Mr. T. BURTON.
Fish Curing Department ABERDEEN Mr. W. C. STEPHEN.
Electrical Department GLASGOW Mr. A. R. TURNER.
Wheat Buying Depot WINNIPEG Mr. GEO. FISHER.
(CANADA)
Creameries WIGTOWNSHIRE .. Mr. ROBERT GREEN.
Estate.. ..LANARKSHIRE ..Mr. ROBERT HEGGIE.
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Business Arrangements.
Registered Office :
MORRISON STREET, GLASGOW.
Branches :
LINKS PLACE, LEITH ; GRANGE PLACE, KILMARNOCK
SEAGATE, DUNDEE ;
HENRY STREET, ENNISKILLEN, IRELAND;
LEMAN STREET, LONDON, E.
Societies, to which our trade is strictly confined, desirous of opening an
account with this Society, should forward a copy of their registered Rules
and latest balance sheet ; or, if but recently started, a statement showing the
number of members, value of shares, amount subscribed for and paid up,
weekly turnover expected, and the amount of credit allowed, if any, per
member in proportion to the capital paid up. Should these particulars be
considered satisfactory, goods will be supplied on the following terms : The
maximum credit allowed is fourteen days, and interest is charged quarterly
on all in excess of this allowance at the rate of 2\ per cent, per annum, but in
cases where the debt exceeds one month's purchases 5 per cent, is charged.
Interest at the rate of 2\ per cent, per annum is allowed on prepaid
accounts.
The Directors, by authority of the general meeting, are empowered to have
the books of societies examined whose accounts are overdue, and to take the
necessary steps to protect the other members of the federation.
Orders for goods should bear the price or brand of the article wanted, the
mode of transit, and name of station to which the goods are to be sent. Orders
for the different departments should be on separate slips. Goods not approved
of must be returned at once and intact. No claim for breakage, short weight,
&c., can be entertained unless made within six days after goods are received.
Delay in delivery should be at once advised.
[SPECIMEN.]
WEEKLY STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT.
OTH WEEK. LEDGER FOLIO, 929.
163BD QUAKTEB. 95, MOBBISON STREET,
GLASGOW, May 29th, 1909.
The A. B. C. Co-operative Society Limited.
Br. o The Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited. Cr.
GOODS.
CASH AND CREDITS.
Date.
Amount of
each Invoice.
Balance last
Statement.
Date.
Cash.
Credit.
Totals.
s. d.
s. d.
s. d.
s. d.
S. d.
298 7 2
May 24..
043
May 24..
....
050
....
24..
18 11 7
24..
....
100
....
24..
29 8
....
25..
....
12 9
...
24..
32 4
....
25..
....
o 12 ao
....
24..
17 7
26..
....
056
....
,, 24..
4 10
....
26..
....
010
....
24..
440
....
26..
....
136
....
24..
326
....
26..
....
270
....
25..
066
....
26..
12 9
....
25..
083
....
26..
....
12 9
....
25..
10 10
....
27..
....
14 9
....
25..
083
....
27..
....
10
....
25..
150
....
27..
15 6
....
25..
10 11
....
27..
....
10 11 1
....
25..
59 16 9
....
27..
....
15 6
....
25..
11 3
....
27..
....
1 12
25..
735
....
22'ii 11
26..
2 10 6
....
28..
298 7 2 !
298 7 2
26..
4 17 6
....
26..
15 2
....
27..
066
....
27..
092
....
27..
17 10
....
27..
18
....
27..
3 10 6
....
27..
5 13 8
....
27..
12 11 1
27..
4 18 7
....
28..
536
....
28..
12 9
....
28..
1 10
28..
2 14 9
....
28..
186
28..
27 12 8
255 10 5
To balance
By balance
232 18 6
553 17 7
553 17 7
If the above Statement differs from your Books, we shall be glad if you
will point out the difference at once.
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Terms of Membership.
EXCEKPT FEOM SOCIETY'S EULES.
ADMISSION OF MEMBEBS AND APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
The Society shall consist of such Co-operative Societies registered under
the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, or any employ^ of this Society
who is over twenty-one years of age, as have been admitted by the
Committee, subject to the approval of a general meeting of the Society; but
no society trafficking in intoxicating liquors shall be eligible for membership
in the Society, and each admission must be entered in the minute book
of the Society. Every application for membership, except in the case of
employes, must be sanctioned by a resolution of a general meeting of any
society making such application, and the same must be made in the form as
on next page, said form to be duly attested by the signature of the president,
secretary, and three of the members thereof, and stamped with such society's
seal. Every society making application shall state the number of its members,
and take up not less than one share for each member, and shall increase the
number annually as its members increase, in accordance with its last return to
the Registrar ; but no member other than a society registered under the
Industrial and Provident Societies Act shall hold an interest in the
funds exceeding 50. It shall be in the option of any society to apply for
shares in excess of their individual membership at any time ; such applications
shall be signed by the president, secretary, and three members of committee,
but the granting of such excess shares shall be at the discretion of the
Committee of this Society.
Any employe applying for membership must apply for not less than five
shares.
CAPITAL : How PAID UP.
The capital of the Society shall be raised in shares of twenty shillings
each, which shall be transferable only ; every member, society, or employe, on
admission, shall pay the sum of not less than one shilling on each share taken
up, and the unpaid portion of the shares may be paid by dividends, or bonus,
and interest ; but any member may pay up shares in full or in part at any
time.
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APPLICATION FORM.
Whereas, by a resolution of the Co-operative
Society Limited, passed at a general meeting held on the .... day
of , it was resolved to take up shares (being
one share of twenty shillings for each member), said sJiares being
transferable, in the jjitottialj C0-0peratibe ^BHIjolesnle ^octetg
Itimiteil, and to accept the same on the terms and conditions
specified in the Rules. Executed under the seal of the society on
the.. . .day of Attested by
Three Members.
BENEFITS DEKIVED FEOM MEMBEESHIP.
(a) The liability of the member is limited, each member being only
responsible for the value of the shares held.
(6) Members receive double the rate of dividend on purchases paid to non-
members.
(c) Share capital is paid 5 per cent, per annum.
(d) Members have a share in the management of the Wholesale in pro-
portion to the amount of goods bought, as each society has one vote in right
of membership, one for the first 1,500 worth of goods bought, and one other
additional vote for every complete 3,000 of purchases thereafter.
These advantages, added to the special benefits secured by the leading
position of the Wholesale, will, we trust, induce societies as yet non-members
to carefully reconsider the question, and take the necessary steps to secure to
their members the full benefits of co-operative distribution.
COEEESPONDENCE.
All letters must be addressed to the Society, and not to individuals.
Addressed envelopes are supplied at cost price. Separate slips ought to be
used for the different departments the Accountant's, Grocery and Provision,
Drapery, Boot and Shoe, Furniture. The slips can all be enclosed in the one
envelope. Attention to this simple rule will greatly facilitate the despatch of
goods and ensure promptitude in answering inquiries ; it will also aid in the
classification of the letters for reference in any case of irregularity or dispute.
THE SCOTTISH
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE
SOCIETY LIMITED.
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PLATES, ADVERTISEMENTS,
STATISTICS, Etc.
Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
Limited.
First Central Premises owned by the Society.
'"PHE Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
limited was registered in April 1868, and
commenced business during September of the
same year in rented premises in Madeira Court,
Argyle Street, Glasgow. During 1872 ground was
purchased at the junction of Morrison Street and
Paisley Road, and to the Warehouse erected there,
and shown on this page, the Society's business
was transferred in 1874. The whole of this
gusset-shaped piece of ground was acquired by
1882, and the Warehouses and Offices erected
thereon formed the Central Premises of the
Society, 119 Paisley Road, Glasgow, until the
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Registered Office and Furniture Warehouse :
95 Morrison Street, Glasgow.
'T'HE block of buildings shown on the opposite
page forms, since 1897, the Central Premises
of the Scottish Wholesale. With its splendid
facade fronting Morrison Street, and occupying
a commanding situation close by the river Clyde,
this structure forms one of the most imposing
features of street architecture in the southern
part of Glasgow.
Here the Central Office, with its staff of over
two hundred clerks, is located. This occupies the
whole of the first floor, the ground floor giving
accommodation for the Board Room, Committee
Rooms, Grocery Managers' Rooms, and also the
Grocery Department Saleroom. The basement
and all the other floors in the front building are
fully occupied by the Furniture and Furnishing
Department Showrooms. Fronting Clarence Street
on the left side of the drawing, and to the rear
of the main building is a block extending through
to Crookston Street, on the right. The great bulk
of this space is devoted to warehouse accom-
modation for the Grocery Department, and here,
also, the spacious Clarence Street Hall belonging
to the Society is located.
Grocery and Provision Warehouse, Stationery
Department, etc. :
Links Place, Leith.
years after the start of the Wholesale
in Glasgow, the L,eith Branch was opened
(in April 1877), primarily to facilitate the handling
of Continental produce, but it was soon found
advisable to add a full stock of groceries. This
Branch has proved of great service and utility
in dealing with retail societies in the East of
Scotland.
Business developments soon forced it out of
the original rented premises in Constitution Place,
Leith, and, ground having been secured at Links
Place in May 1879, the first portion of the
buildings here shown was erected by the Society.
At various dates extensive alterations and
additions have been made to the structure. In
addition to the Grocery Warehouse, a Stationery
Department, grated Water Factory (started 1898) ,
and a Ham-curing Department form valuable
adjuncts of this Branch of the Wholesale.
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Grocery and Provision Warehouse:
Grange Place, Kilmarnock,
T KSS than a twelvemonth after the inauguration
of the Branch at lyeith, it was decided to
open a Depot in Kilmarnock to deal with agri-
cultural produce of all kinds in Ayrshire and
surrounding counties. In February 1878 this
Branch was opened, and its career, like that of
most other ventures of the Wholesale, has been
uniformly prosperous.
Intended originally as a store from whence
cheese, butter, eggs, etc., could be distributed to
retail societies to the orders of the various
Branches, this Depot also does a very extensive
trade in potatoes. These are planted under the
supervision of the Department, or purchased in
the fields at agreed-on rates per acre, for the
direct supply of retail shops. A very large
business in cheese is also done.
Grocery and Provision Warehouse:
Seagate, Dundee.
"POUR years elapsed from the foundation of the
Kilmarnock Depot before another Branch
of the Wholesale was started. This time the
impelling idea was to provide societies in the
North of Scotland with a convenient centre from
which to obtain supplies. Dundee was fixed on
as the most suitable place, and there, in premises
at the corner of Trades Lane, a Branch was
opened in 1882.
Until 1906 business was successfully conducted
in the building originally occupied, but in that
year a disastrous fire swept it entirely away, and
caused the Directors to find a site elsewhere.
Ground was soon afterwards purchased in Seagate,
Dundee, and the Warehouse shown opposite
erected and opened for business in July 1909.
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Central Premises, Enniskillen Branch,
Ireland.
HT'HE growing quantities of Irish produce
handled by the Wholesale led the Directors
at an early date to consider the advisability of
establishing a Buying Branch or Depot in
Ireland for collecting the produce of the north-
western districts. After careful investigation,
Knniskillen, directly communicating with London-
derry and Belfast by rail and thence with Glasgow
by an admirable service of steamers, was fixed on
as the most suitable centre. In premises rented
by the Society in that town a Branch was started
during May 1885, and its progress since has
justified the choice of location.
In addition to a thoroughly up-to-date Central
Creamery established in 1908, there are now
eight Auxiliary Creameries belonging to the Society
within a range of ten miles of Enniskillen. The
names of these are Moneah, Gardner's Cross, Gola,
S Bridge, Belnaleck, Blacklion, Glenfarne, and
Florencecourt.
Drapery Warehouse, Wallace Street,
Glasgow.
Drapery Department was started on 28th
December 1873, in a corner of the rented
premises first occupied by the Society in Madeira
Court, Argyle Street, Glasgow. The Warehouse
now occupied in Wallace Street, Dundas Street,
and Paterson Street, and shown on the opposite
page, gives a fair idea of its growth and develop-
ment during the intervening years.
The Warehouse at the present time is divided
into thirty-nine departments dealing with every
known variety of drapery goods. There are
also attached to the Warehouse, Mantle,
Millinery, and Umbrella Workrooms, while the
allied Productive Departments include the Wool
Shirt Factory, Underclothing P'actory, and
Bespoke Clothing Factory, Glasgow ; the Ready-
made Clothing Factory, Artisan Clothing
Factory, and Hosiery Factory, Shieldhall ;
Ettrick Tweed and Blanket Mills, Selkirk ; the
Dress Shirt Factory, Leith ; and Potterhill
Laundry, Paisley.
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Furniture and Furnishing Showrooms:
Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
T^O meet the requirements of societies in the
East of Scotland, a branch of the Furniture
and Furnishing Department was opened in
premises secured during 1898 in Chambers Street,
Edinburgh. In these is stocked a full range of
goods similar to that in the Central Furnishing
Warehouse, Glasgow. The business rapidly
extended, and this led to the purchase of the
adjoining property of Minto House the most
distant part of the structure. Transformed to
suit the requirements of the trade, the whole
building now forms a connected and spacious
Warehouse.
S.C.W.S. Productive Works,
Shieldhall, Govan.
HPHE Shieldhall Works of the S.C.W.S., with
fourteen different Factories now in opera-
tion, and over 3,000 persons regularly employed,
afford a vivid and impressive illustration of the
growth of Productive Co-operation and the
inherent force of the Co-operative Movement in
Scotland.
Situated on the south side of the road, between
Glasgow and Renfrew, and about three miles
from the Society's Central Offices, it is claimed
for the remarkable hive of industry now estab-
lished there that nowhere else in this country, or
any other, are so many different industrial
operations carried on within one common gate-
way. The justice of this claim is apparent when
it is recollected that the production of the various
commodities is so highly specialised as to call
for the services of nearly one hundred trades or
occupations.
In the planning of the Works, sanitation,
ventilation, and good health conditions have
always been insisted on ; and these, combined
with the best labour conditions in the trades
represented, place the Shieldhall \Vorks in a
position second to none in Scotland.
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ShieldhalL
'T'HE illustration on the opposite page shows
the building which eventually will form
the street front for ShieldhalL The gateway
and side structures, with a large portion of the
west wing, are already completed ; the latter, with
the whole of the shaded portion to the right
of the picture, being occupied by the Printing
Department.
This important . branch of the Wholesale's
industrial enterprises was established in 1887,
and transferred to Shieldhall two years later.
The Department has extended rapidly, and to
the original letterpress printing, bookbinding and
paper-ruling, paper-bagmaking, lithographing,
designing, stereo and electro typing, machine
typesetting, and paper-boxmaking have been
added in the order given. All of these can be
seen in the complex establishment of to-day.
The forty-eight hour week has been in force
since 1901, and at the present time there are
nearly 450 persons employed.
Boot Factory, Shicldhall.
'"PHE Boot Factory is the largest of all the
Shieldhall Departments and the first to be
established there. Started originally in part of
what is now the Drapery Warehouse, Glasgow,
it has expanded with very great rapidity, and at
the present date (1910) the average weekly
output stands at 14,000 pairs of all classes of
footwear, or nearly 700,000 pairs in a working
year.
Every kind of boots and shoes for men and
women, boys and girls, is now made, the quality
ranging from strong, heavy boots for pit or
workshop to the most elegant of footwear.
Supplies of leather are drawn from all over the
world, hides for pit boots coming from India,
sole leather from the cattle ranches of Canada,
and goat skins for the finer quality of uppers
from Africa and South America. For fine glace
kid work alone the skins of 48,000 goats are
required each year. An auxiliary Factory, where
special attention is given to the manufacture of
boys' and girls' footwear and slippers, is situated
in Adelphi Street, Glasgow. Equipped with every
modern labour-saving appliance and machine, the
Shieldhall Boot Factory is one of the finest and
largest in Scotland, 1,384 persons being
employed in the two Factories mentioned.
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Cabinet Factory, ShieldhalL
AN Upholstery Department, inaugurated by the
Wholesale in 1882, and conducted for a
time under the aegis of the Drapery Department,
was the beginning of the furniture trade now
done. In 1884 a Cabinet-making Workshop was
opened in Houston Street, Glasgow ; and here,
with a complement of six persons, the making
of furniture was begun.
In March 1888 the scene of operations was
removed to Shieldhall, to the first part of the
existing Factory, which, by addition after addition
to meet the growing demands of the trade, has
reached the dimensions of the building shown
in the illustration, with its floor space of nearly
two acres. With all the latest appliances for
facilitating production, every article of furniture
required for house, office, or boardroom is now
manufactured. The furniture turned out from
this Factory has earned a name for soundness of
construction and beauty of design, and received
the well-merited distinction of a Diploma of
Honour for work exhibited at Glasgow Inter-
national Exhibition during 1901.
Dining-Rooms and Ready-made Clothing
Factory, ShieldhalL
""PHE higher part of the buildings shown here
is occupied by the Dining and Recreation
Rooms. On the ground floor are two large
Halls, supplied with newspapers, periodicals, and
other means of recreation. On the other floors
Directors' and Managers' Dining Rooms and
Halls for the use of the 3,600 workers
employed at Shieldhall are situated. Meals
can be obtained there at rates just sufficient to
cover cost of food and expenses of service, and
these facilities are largely taken advantage of.
The Ready-made Clothing Factory occupies the
long range of building to the rear of the Dining
Halls, and is the present-day representative of
the first Clothing Factory of the Wholesale.
This was started in 1881 in Dundas Street,
Glasgow ; was removed to Wallace Street,
Glasgow, soon after ; and from thence to Shield-
hall. All kinds of ready-made clothing for men,
youths, and boys are made up here, immense
quantities being turned out in the course of a
year. Every appliance for facilitating work has
been installed, and this Factory to-day will hold
its own for arrangement and equipment with the
best in the country.
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Chancelot Roller Flour Mills,
Edinburgh.
T"\IFFERING from all other ventures of the
Wholesale in the magnitude of the original
undertaking, Chancelot Roller Flour Mills repre-
sent the boldest step yet taken by the Society
in Co-operative Production. The nature of the
work to be undertaken precluded the possibility
of starting in a small way ; and it was only
after mature deliberation that the Directors
entered on the scheme, of which the building
shown on the opposite page is the outcome.
A feu of fully three acres having been secured in
Bonnington Road, Edinburgh, it was decided to
erect thereon a group of mills, the output of
which would, at least, approximate to the
demand likely to be made on them.
The opening ceremony took place in August
1894, and the opinion was freely expressed that
these Mills were the finest of their kind in this
or any other country. From the start the Mills
have been entirely successful. They are now
fully equipped with the most improved milling
machinery, and have been kept running night
and day to meet the great demands made on
their productions.
Junction Meal and Flour Mills,
Leith.
product of Chancelot Mills met with
such a favourable reception that it became
necessary to devise some plan for rapidly
augmenting supplies. The Directors therefore
gave their attention to the problem, a solution
for which was found by the purchase of
Junction Meal and Flour Mills, Leith, in August
1897. These important Mills are in the immediate
vicinity of Chancelot Mills, and as an investment
they have proved both satisfactory and profitable.
Since acquiring these Mills, and to cope with
the demand for Scotland's staple food, the
Oatmeal Mill has been entirely remodelled and
extended. About 1,200 sacks of flour are pro-
duced per week, and the milling of pod barley
is also carried on.
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Regent Roller Flour Mills, Glasgow.
demand made on the products of the two
Mills already mentioned justified the existence
of another, and the question of building or acquir-
ing one was immediately taken up. As a result,
arrangements were made with Messrs John Ure
& Son, the proprietors, and in November 1903,
Regent Mills, Glasgow, were purchased from that
firm by the Society, and business begun in the
following year.
Situated on the banks of the classic Kelvin,
the story of these Mills runs back to medieval
times. For three and a half centuries the old
Regent Mills were in possession of the Bakers'
Incorporation of Glasgow, but being burned down,
in 1886 they passed into the hands of the Messrs
Ure, by whom they were entirely rebuilt and
enlarged to something like their present dimensions.
Being in good order, production commenced
immediately the transfer was completed. Various
alterations and additions have since been made,
and the Mills now rank among the best equipped
in the country. The total productive capacity
of the three Flour Mills owned by the Society
approaches 12,000 sacks per week, or over 600,000
sacks per working year.
Grain Elevators, Winnipeg,
Canada.
AS may be understood, the amount of grain
necessary to keep three Mills with the
working capacity of those just described in full
operation is very large. This fact soon led the
Directors to consider the question of arranging
to purchase the raw material as near the first
source as possible, and, as a result, a buyer was
appointed in 1906 and an office taken in Winnipeg,
Canada, the capital of the vast wheat-growing
regions of that Colony.
From its inception the step has proved satis-
factory, and six large Elevators, each capable of
storing 30,000 bushels of wheat, have been erected
at a cost of over 1,000 each. From these the
grain is forwarded as required to the Terminal
Elevators at Port Arthur and Fort William, and
shipped from thence to this country via Montreal
when the St Lawrence is open, or from ports on
the Atlantic seaboard during the winter season.
Ettrick Tweed and Blanket Mills,
Selkirk.
A FTER being carried on for some years by the
Scotch Tweed Manufacturing Society, the
shareholders unanimously agreed to the transfer
of the business to the Wholesale Society. Details
of the bargain having been settled and matters
amicably arranged, these extensive Mills became
the property of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale
Society in April 1895.
Since then the Society has cleared the Mills
of all old types of looms or machinery, and
substituted in their place the most up-to-date
appliances. The result has been evident in the
reputation rapidly attained among Co-operative
societies by the products of the Mills, Bttrick
tweeds and blankets being held in high esteem
throughout Co-operative Scotland. Quite recently,
for the making of all classes of hosiery yarns,
spinning machinery of the latest type was
introduced, and a large proportion of the yarns
used in the S.C.W.S. Hosiery Factory is procured
from these Mills.
Soap Works, Grangemouth.
in 1896 the Directors decided to include
the industry of soapmaking within the scheme
of the Society's operations, and, suitable ground
having been secured, the buildings shown on the
opposite page were erected, and work commenced
at Grangemouth Soap Works in October 1897.
The keen competition in this trade, the
prejudice in favour of other soaps, and the
difficulty of producing an article which would
prove generally popular, seriously hampered the
progress of this Department in its earlier years.
Gradually, however, the productions rose in general
esteem, until at the present time a very high
percentage of retail societies' trade goes to
Grangemouth. Apart from the ordinary soaps
and cleansing preparations for household use,
high-class toilet soaps now form an important
branch of the manufactures. Extensive alterations
and additions have been made at various times,
and the Soap Works, equipped with the latest
machinery and appliances, are in every respect
thoroughly up-to-date.
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Dress Shirt Factory, Leith.
/^\N a portion of J the ground acquired with
Junction Mill, L,eith, the Dress Shirt
Factory (shown opposite) was erected, and work
commenced in October 1901.
While managed and financed by the S.C.W.S.,
the Directors work this Department under an
arrangement with the C.W.S., Manchester, whereby
profits or losses are allocated to each in proportion
to purchases an arrangement which also exists,
so far as the S.C.W.S. is concerned, in the Ettrick
Tweed Mills and the Waterproof Factory, Glasgow.
This agreement includes the idea of support
to the fullest possible extent from the C.W.S.,
and this has always been loyally given. In
connection with the Dress Shirt Factory is the
Potterhill Laundry, Paisley, where all the dress-
ing of shirts, collars, and fronts manufactured
at I^eith is now carried on.
Creamery and Margarine Factory,
Bladnoch, Wigtownshire.
'T'O cope with the demand for supplies of fresh
butter, and also with a view to the manu-
facturing of margarine, the Creamery and Margarine
Factory here shown was erected at Bladnoch,
Wigtownshire, during 1899. At a later date an
Auxiliary Creamery, situated at Whithorn in the
same shire, was opened. Placed in the midst of
a purely agricultural district, where the desirable
adjuncts of clear atmosphere and absence of dust
or smoke help the purity of the products, these
Creameries have proved very successful.
Complete electrical installations have been fitted
up, and the machinery is of the latest type.
Consignments of the productions are forwarded
direct to societies daily, as ordered, and extensive
Piggeries have also been established.
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Fish-Curing Works, Aberdeen.
""PHE growing trade in fresh and cured fish led
the Directors of the S.C.W.S. to consider the
advisability of undertaking this industry, and, in
1899, Fish-Curing Works were started at Aberdeen,
the largest fishing centre on the East Coast of
Scotland. The original rented premises were soon
found inadequate for the requirements of the
Department, and, later, ground was leased from
the Aberdeen Harbour Trust and the buildings
shown on the opposite page erected.
From the Aberdeen depot boats are engaged
at Scalloway and Berwick, Shetland, and other
ports, to fish for the Wholesale, and a very
successful trade is now done, over 2,000 tons
of fish being dealt with annually. Supplies of
fresh fish are dispatched daily to the societies,
and large quantities are salted and cured in
various ways. A complete plant for the render-
ing of cod liver oil was recently installed,
and in this a growing trade is now done.
Calderwood Castle and Estate,
Lanarkshire.
"DY virtue of powers entrusted to the Directors
to acquire in Scotland (or in Ireland) such
estates or lands as would be available for fruit-
growing and general agriculture, the rich and
beautiful estate of Calderwood, lying about eight
miles east of Glasgow, passed in 1904 into
possession of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale
Society.
The Estate extends to 1,113 acres, and includes
the village of Maxwellton. About half of it is
let as farms, and of the remainder 350 acres have
already been devoted by the Society to farming
and the cultivation of fruit, vegetables, flowers, and
plants. One and a half acres have been laid out
for the rearing of tomatoes under glass ; and a
rhubarb-house covering half an acre has been
erected for growing the early or forced variety of
that plant.
Self-contained cottages have been erected by
the Society near the village of Maxwellton, and
the capability of the Estate generally is receiving
the careful attention of the Directors.
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Cash Remittance.
Cheques must be made payable to the Society.
LIST OF BRANCHES OF THE UNION BANK OF
SCOTLAND LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICES: GLASGOW, INGRAM STREET; EDINBURGH, GEORGE STREET.
LONDON OFFICE: 62, CORNHILL, E.G.
BRANCHES:
Aberdeen, Castle Street.
Edinburgh, Lothian Eoad.
Kirkwall.
Fishmarket.
Morningside.
Kirriemuir.
George Street.
, Murrayfleld.
Ladybank.
Holburn.
, Newington.
Largs.
Torry.
, North Merchiston.
Larkhall.
West End.
, Norton Park.
Leith.
Aberfeldy.
Piershill.
Leith Walk.
Aberlour, Strathspey.
, S'th Morningside.
Lerwick.
Alloa.
Edzell.
Leslie.
Alva.
Ardrishaig.
Elgin.
Ellon.
Lochgelly, Fifeshire.
Lochgilphead.
Ardrossan.
Errol.
Macduff.
Auchterarder.
Fochabers.
Maybole.
Auchtermuchty.
Forfar.
Mearns (sub to Barrhead).
Ayr.
Fraserburgh.
Millport.
Ballater.
Galston.
Moffat.
Banchory.
Gatehouse.
Moniaive.
Banff.
Girvan.
Motherwell.
Barrhead.
Glasgow, Anderston.
New Aberdour (open on Mon-
Barrhill.
Bridgeton Cross.
days and Fridays sub to
Bathgate.
Buchanan Street.
Bosehearty).
Beith.
Charing Cross.
New Pitsligo.
Blair- Atholl (sub to Pitlochry).
Cowcaddens.
Paisley.
Blairgowrie.
Dennistoun.
Wellmeadow.
Bo'ness.
Eglinton Street.
Partick.
Braemar.
Billhead.
Perth.
Brechin.
Hope Street.
Peterhead.
Bridge of Allan.
Hyndland.
Pitlochry.
Buckie, Banff shire.
Kinning Park.
Port-Glasgow.
Campbeltown.
Maryhill.
Portsoy.
Castle-Douglas.
St. Vincent Street.
Renfrew.
Clydebank.
Shawlands.
Rosehearty.
Coatbridge.
Coupar-Angus.
Springburn.
Stockwell.
St. Margaret's Hope, Orkney.
Scalloway, Shetland (sub to
Crieff.
Tradeston.
Lerwick).
Cullen.
Trongate.
Shettleston.
Dalbeattie.
Union Street.
Stewarton.
Dairy, Galloway.
Glencraig, Fife (open on Mon-
Stirling.
Darvel (sub to Galston).
days, Wednesdays, and Satur-
Stonehouse.
Doune.
dayssub to Lochgelly).
Strachur, Lochfyne (open on
Dumbarton.
Gourock.
Thursdays-sub to Inveraray).
Dumfries.
Govan.
Stranraer.
Dunblane.
Greenock.
Strathaven.
Dundee.
Hamilton.
Stromness.
Dunfermline.
Helensburgh.
Tarbert, Lochfyne.
Dunkeld.
Huntly.
Tarland.
Dunning.
Inveraray.
Thornhill.
Dunoon.
Inverness.
Thornton, Fife (open on Mon-
Edinburgh, Blackball.
Inverurie.
days and Market Days sub
Chambers Street.
Irvine.
to Kirkcaldy).
Golden Acre.
Johnstone.
Tillicoultry.
Gorgie Markets
Keith.
Tollcross (Glasgow).
(open on Tuesdays
Killin.
Tro'on.
and Wednesdays
Kilmarnock.
Turriff.
sub to Haymarket).
Riccarton.
Wick.
Haymarket.
Kincardine.
Hunter Square.
Kirkcaldy.
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General Office Glasgow 237
Grocery 188
Stationery 16
Potato 15
Cattle Buying 6
Coal , 3
Drapery (Mantle and Millinery Workrooms included) . . 400
Boot 109
Furniture 136
Carting and Fodder 231
Waste , 14
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Miscellaneous 10
Dining-room 17
Shieldhall 12
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Carting Department 65
Kilmarnock 30
Dundee 6
Enniskillen and Creameries 104
Edinburgh Chambers Street 33
Greenock Sugar Forwarding 1
London Drapery Office , 3
Winnipeg (Canada) Wheat Buying 2
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Boot Factory, Currying, &c Shieldhall 1,090
Parkview Glasgow 285
Clothing Factory (Beady-made) Shieldhall 360
(Bespoke) and Caps Glasgow 215
Shirt Factory 160
Underclothing Factory 115
Hosiery Factory Shieldhall 203
Clothing (Artisan) 172
Mantle Factory Glasgow 64
Waterproof Factory 113
Umbrella Factory 8
Hat Factory 8
Saddlers' Shop 11
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Totals.
Brought forward 4,546
Cabinet Factory Shieldhall 247
Brush Factory 39
Tinware 69
Scale Repair Glasgow 1 L
Engineering Department Shieldhall 64
Electrical Department Glasgow 37
Cartwright Shop 29
Horse Shoeing 7
Printing Department Shieldhall 423
Preserve Factory ,, 186
Confection 69
Coffee Essence Factory 51
Pickle Factory 29
Chemical Department 177
Tobacco Factory 164
Miscellaneous ,, 12
Sausage Factory Glasgow 26
Ham Curing 33
Leith 12
Aerated Water Factory . . Glasgow 54
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Chancelot Mills Edinburgh 95
Junction Leith 49
Regent Glasgow 85
Ettrick Selkirk 196
Dress Shirt Factory Leith 236
Laundry Potterhill 94
Soap Works Grangemouth 96
Farm Carntyne Glasgow 1
Calderwood Estate Lanarkshire 58
Ryelands Milk Centre 3
Creameries Bladnoch and Whithorn Wigtownshire 78
Fish Curing Aberdeen 76
Cartwrights' Shop Leith 4
Horse Shoeing ,, 2
Saddler's Shop 1
Retail Branch Elgin 3
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Tradesmen 270
Management 12
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BONUS TO LABOUR.
The payment of bonus, since its institution in 1870, has taken three
different forms. Till 1884 employes received, on wages earned, double the
rate per allocated as dividend on members' purchases. This arrangement
was then replaced by one which set aside the double claim of the employe,
and, recognising a difference between workers in the distributive and produc-
tive departments, established a differential rate. The distributive employes
received the same rate of bonus as was the rate of dividend on members'
purchases, and the rate of bonus to productive workers was determined by the
net aggregate profit made in the manufacturing departments only. This
arrangement continued till 1892, when the system of bonus payment was
again revised. Hitherto the whole bonus allocated had been paid over ; but
the present system, which allows a uniform rate to both distributive and
productive departments, requires that one-half of each worker's bonus be
retained and put to his credit, forming a special fund, called the Bonus Fund.
This capital bears interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, and is not
withdrawable until the expiry of three months after leaving the service of the
Society, unless with the consent of the Committee.
EMPLOYE-SHAREHOLDERS.
Simultaneously with the introduction of the present scheme of bonus,
arrangements were made to permit of employes becoming shareholders in
the Society. The number of shares held by one individual may range from
five to fifty of twenty shillings each, and the paid-up capital bears interest at
the rate of 5 per cent, per annum. By the rules of the Society, the share-
holding employes are entitled to send one representative to the quarterly
meeting, and one additional for every 150 employes who become shareholders.
At the present time there are 559 shareholders, which permits of a repre-
sentation of four at the business meetings of the Society.
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BONUS TO LABOUR.
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1870, and the total amount thus paid to employes, also the Bonus
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147 17 ...
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322 93 ...
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Year ending December 30. 1893 3,775 15 6J
29, 1894 3,563 18 9 6
28, 1895 4,634 14 7
26, 1896 5,965 17 9 7|
25, 1897 7,431 8 8 8
31, 1898 7,017 2 6 7
30, 1899 8,943 12 8
29, 1900 9,938 10 8 8
28, 1901 10,502 8 8 8
27, 1902 11,136 8
26, 1903 11,832 11 9 8
' 31, 1904 12,476 12 8 8
30,1905 12,41815 7 8
29,1906 12,849 4 8 8
28,1907 13,407 14 7 8
26, 1908 14,276 19 10 8
25, 1909 ..'.., 13,892 9 8
Half Year ending June 25, 1910 7,040 12 4 8
Total amount paid as bonus to June 25th, 1910 189,745 5 10
Amount of Bonus Fund at June 25th, 1910 55,684 10 5
Employe-Shareholders' Fund at June 25th, 1910 559 employes holding
15,464 shares, with 13,627 paid up.
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THE CO-OPERATIVE UNION LIMITED.
OFFICES :
2, NICHOLAS CEOFT, HIGH STREET, MANCHESTEE.
WHAT IS THE CO-OPERATIVE UNION?
YT is an institution charged with the duty of keeping alive and diffusing a
* knowledge of the principles which form the life of the Co-operative move-
ment, and giving to its active members, by advice and instruction literary,
legal, or commercial the help they may require, that they may be better able
to discharge the important work they have to do.
WHAT HAS IT DONE?
THE greater part of the legal advantages enjoyed by Co-operators originated in
the action of the Central Board of the Union, and the Central Committee which
it succeeded. They may be summarised as follows :
(1) The right to deal with the public instead of their own members only.
(2) The incorporation of the Societies, by which they have acquired the right
of holding in their own name lands or buildings and property generally,
and of suing and being sued in their own names, instead of being driven
to employ trustees.
(3) The power to hold 200 instead of 100 by individual members of our
Societies.
(4) The limitation of the liability of members for the debts of the Society to
the sum unpaid upon the shares standing to their credit.
(5) The exemption of Societies from charge to income tax on the profits of
their business, under the condition that the number of their shares
shall not be limited.
(6) The authorising one Registered Society to hold shares in its own corporate
name to any amount in the capital of another Registered Society.
(7) The extension of the power of members of Societies to bequeath shares by
nomination in a book, without the formality of a will or the necessity
of appointing executors, first from 30 to 50, and now to 100, by the
Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893, which also makes this
power apply to loans and deposits as well as to shares.
(8) The Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1871, which enables Societies
to hold and deal with land freely.
(9) The Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1876, which consolidated into
one Act the laws relating to these Societies, and, among many smaller
advantages too numerous to be mentioned in detail, gave them the right
of carrying on banking business whenever they offer to the depositors
the security of transferable share capital.
(10) The Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893.
The Union consists of Industrial and Provident Societies, Joint-Stock
Companies, and other bodies corporate.
148
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No Society is admitted into Union unless its management is of a representative
character, nor unless it agree
(1) To accept the statement of principles in the rules of the Union as the rules
by which it shall be guided in all its own business transactions.
(2) To contribute to the fund called the Congress Fund the annual payment
following :
(a) If the number of members of any such Society is less than 1,000,
then the sum of 2d. for each member.
(6) If the number of such members exceeds 1,000, then, at least, the
sum of 2,000d.
In estimating the number of members of a Society comprising other Societies,
each such Society is considered to be one member.
The financial year commences on January 1st in each year, and ends on
December 31st following.
N.B. Secretaries forwarding Cheques on account of the Union are requested
to make them payable to the Co-operative Union Limited; Money Orders to
A. WHITEHEAD, Cashier.
SUMMAEY OF THE LAW EELATING TO SOCIETIES
UNDER THE
INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT, 1893.
I. The Formation of Societies
1. Application must be made to the Registrar of Friendly Societies, in
London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, according to the case, on a form supplied
by the office, signed by seven persons and the secretary, accompanied by two
copies of the rules, signed by the same persons.
2. These rules must provide for twenty matters stated on the form of
application.
N.B. Model rules on these twenty matters can be obtained from the
Registrar's office ; and the CO-OPERATIVE UNION LIMITED, 2, NICHOLAS CROFT,
HIGH STREET, MANCHESTER, publishes, at the cost of ld. a copy, general rules,
approved of by the Chief Registrar, providing also for many other matters on
which rules are useful ; and capable of being adopted, either with or without
alterations, by a few special rules, with a great saving in the cost of printing.
The General Secretary of the Union will prepare such special rules, without
charge, on receiving a statement of the rules desired.
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THE CO-OPERATIVE UNION LIMITED.
II. Rights of a Registered Society
1. It becomes a body corporate, which can by its corporate name sue and be
sued, and hold and deal with property of any kind, including shares in other
societies or companies, and land to any amount.
2. Its rules are binding upon its members, though they may have signed no
assent to them ; but may be altered by amendments duly made as the rules
provide, and registered, for which a fee of 10s. is charged. The application for
registration must be made on a form supplied by the Registrar's office.
3. It can sue its own members, and can make contracts, either under its
seal or by a writing signed by any person authorised to sign, or by word of
mouth of any person authorised to speak for it, which will be binding wherever
a contract similarly made by an individual would bind him.
4. It may make all or any of its shares either transferable or withdrawable,
and may carry on any trade, including the buying and selling of land, and bank-
ing under certain conditions, and may apply the profits of the business in any
manner determined by its rules ; and, if authorised by its rules, may receive
money on loan, either from its members or others, to any amount so authorised.
5. If it has any withdrawable share capital it may not carry on banking,
but may take deposits, within any limits fixed by its rules, in sums not exceeding
10s. in any one payment, or 20 for any one depositor, payable at not less than
two clear days' notice.
6. It may make loans to its members on real or personal security ; and may
invest 011 the security of other societies or companies, or in any except those
where liability is unlimited.
7. It may make provision in its rules for the settlement of disputes between
members and the society or any officer thereof, and any decision given in
accordance with the conditions stated in the rules is binding on all parties to
the dispute, and is not removable into any court of law.
8. If the number of its shares is not limited either by its rules or its practice
it is not chargeable with income tax on the profits of its business.
9. It can, in the way provided by the Act, amalgamate with or take over
the business of any other society, or convert itself into a company.
10. It can determine the way in which disputes between the society and its
officers or members shall be settled.
11. It can dissolve itself, either by an instrument of dissolution signed by
three-fourths of its members, or by a resolution passed by a three-fourths vote at
a special general meeting, of which there are two forms (A) purely voluntary,
when the resolution requires confirmation at a second meeting ; (B) on account
of debts, when one meeting is sufficient. In such a winding up hostile
proceedings to seize the property can be stayed.
150 .
THE CO-OPERATIVE UNION LIMITED.
III. Rights of Members (see also IV., 4, 5, 6)
1. They cannot be sued individually for the debts of the society, or com-
pelled to pay more towards them than the sum remaining unpaid on any shares
which they have either expressly agreed to take or treated as their property, or
which the rules authorise to be so treated.
2. If they transfer or withdraw their shares, they cannot be made liable for
any debts contracted subsequently, nor for those subsisting at the time of the
transfer or withdrawal, unless the other assets are insufficient to pay them.
3. Persons not under the age of 16 years may become members, and legally
do any acts which they could do if of full age, except holding any office.
4. An individual or company may hold any number of shares allowed by the
rules, not exceeding the nominal value of 200, and any amount so allowed as
a loan. A society may hold any number of shares.
5. A member who holds at his death not more than 100 in the society as
shares, loans, or deposits, may, by a writing recorded by it, nominate, or vary
or revoke the nomination of any persons to take this investment at his death ;
and if he dies intestate, without having made any subsisting nomination, the
committee of management of the society are charged with the administration
of the fund ; subject in either case to a notice to be given to the Commissioners
of Inland Revenue whenever the sum so dealt with exceeds 80.
6. The members may obtain an inquiry into the position of the society by
application to the Registrar.
IV. Duties of a Registered Society
1. It must have a registered office, and keep its name painted or engraved
outside, and give due notice of any change to the Registrar.
2. It must have a seal on which its name is engraved.
3. It must have its accounts audited at least once a year, and keep a copy of
its last balance sheet and the auditors' report constantly hung up in its registered
office.
4. It must make to the Registrar, before the 31st of March in every year, a
return of its business during the year ending the 31st December previous, and
supply a copy of its last returns gratis to every member and person interested
in its funds on application.
5. It must allow any member or person interested in its funds to inspect his
own account and the book containing the names of the members.
6. It must supply a copy of its rules to every person on demand, at a price
not exceeding one shilling.
7. If it carries on banking, it must make out in February and August in
every year, and keep hung up in its registered office, a return, in a form
prescribed by the Act ; and it has also to make a return every February to the
Stamp Office under the Banking Act.
The non-observance by a society of these duties exposes it and its officers to
penalties varying from 1 to 50, which are in some cases cumulative for every
week during which the neglect lasts.
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Cotton Growing Within the British Empire.
BY J. HOWARD EEED, F.B.G.S.,
Hon. Secretary Manchester Geographical Society.
INTRODUCTORY.
' / < ~X NE of our greatest industries is as insecure as any city
If or edifice built upon an active volcano I refer to the
cotton trade." Thus wrote the late Sir Alfred Jones in
May, 1909. The statement is even truer to-day than when it was
originally penned.
It is well known that next to agriculture the manufacture of
cotton in its various branches forms the most important industry
in Great Britain, and directly employs close upon 500,000 workers.
Lancashire as a whole depends almost solely upon it, and indirectly
the prosperity of every other important undertaking is more or
less concerned.
The vast work of spinning and weaving cotton carried on in
the Lancashire district creates a demand for the products of a
host of other trades, and thus makes employment for multitudes
of workers throughout the land. The money paid in wages in
the cotton mills and in the various industries which are directly or
indirectly affected forms a very large proportion of the whole
purchasing power of the masses of the people, and consequently
the prosperity of the cotton industry materially affects the general
well-being of the country at large.
It is perhaps somewhat anomalous that an industry which is
of such importance, and which has reached such vast proportions,
should be wholly dependent upon the supply of a raw product
which is brought from thousands of miles across the seas, and
not one ounce of which can be produced at home.
In the past Lancashire has been able to obtain all the raw
cotton required for the supply of her mills without any grave
difficulty, owing to the fact that for a long time she had few
competitors purchasing fibre in the cotton-producing centres of
the world. The Lancashire demand was the largest, the produce
of the cotton fields was ample, and consequently British spinners
were able to purchase all they required at reasonable and fairly
regular prices. This state of things no longer obtains, and in
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COTTOX GROWING WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
recent years so great has become the demand for raw cotton
throughout the world, and so small has been the margin of the
crops produced over the demand, that serious shortage has
periodically occurred, to the especial detriment of the Lancashire
industry, and serious loss and even disaster to those engaged
in it.
The shortage in the supply of raw cotton during the past few
years has become so serious, and threatens to be so regular and
progressive, that unless the remedial efforts which are now being
made are successful, the trouble will from year to year become
more and more serious, until the great Lancashire industry will
of sheer necessity languish and decay, and become a mere shadow
of its former self.
To sum the whole matter up, it may be stated in all seriousness
that, unless in due time plentiful supplies of raw cotton are
forthcoming from a wider producing area than at present obtains,
the staple manufacture of the Lancashire district is doomed. This
statement is both serious and sweeping, but it is nevertheless
true; although it is questionable if the majority of those most
interested, who should be best informed, even now realise the
true proportions of the danger by which they are faced.
It was with a view of meeting this modern necessity that the
British Cotton Growing Association was founded some few years
ago. The work that has been accomplished by this truly Imperial
organisation has been most useful, and if it only receives the
support it deserves it will without doubt solve the difficult
and all-important problem to which it has applied its energies.
All who have any real knowledge of the work that has been
done, and properly grasp the magnitude of the task, must feel
disappointed at the tardy and comparatively small measure of
financial support which in the earlier years was forthcoming, and
which even now is inadequate. If the cotton manufacturers of
Lancashire, and others directly interested in the industry, had
from the first properly realised the vast importance of the matter
the money asked for by the Association would surely have been
subscribed during the first year of its existence. The cotton
magnates and others are indignant when American speculators
"corner" the supplies, and they recently even went so far as to
hustle the speculator, Mr. Patten, off the floor of the Manchester
Exchange in a rude and undignified manner. At the same time,
by failing to support the work of opening up new cotton fields,
they are aiding and abetting the cornering process.
It has been well said that the only way in which the cornering
of cotton can be made practically impossible is so to multiply
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COTTON GROWING WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
the sources of supply, and so to increase the total output of raw
fibre, that the speculators may be metaphorically "smothered in
cotton."
STATISTICAL.
To substantiate and to some extent emphasise the general
statements made in the preceding paragraphs, and to render more
clear the great need for increased supplies of raw cotton and
for the broadening the sources of supply, it will be worth while
at this stage to give some little attention to certain statistics of
the question.
It has already been stated that close upon half a million
people are engaged in the cotton industry of the Lancashire
district, and, of course, the number of persons directly and
indirectly dependent upon it must be several millions.
SPINDLES.
The total number of spindles in work throughout the world has
been estimated as 131,503,062, no less than 53,311,630 of these
being in Britain. Europe possesses 39,421,552, while 27,783,000
are to be found in the United States. The remaining 10,986,880
belong to India, Japan, and others of the smaller cotton centres.
These figures show that, although the largest number of spindles
belongs to this country, the Continent of Europe and the United
States of America follow us more closely in numbers than is
generally appreciated.
When the figures just quoted are compared with those of some
fifteen years ago it is found that on the Continent and in the
United States the increase in the numbers of spindles goes on at
a much more rapid rate than it does in this country. This will be
clear from the following table :
Spindles
in 1895.
Spindles
in 1909.
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in 14 years.
Increase
per cent.
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45,400,000
53,311,630
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28,200,000
39,421,552
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United States
16,100,000
27,783,000
11,683,000
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It will be seen from these figures that whereas some fifteen
years ago we possessed more spindles than Europe and America
combined, such is no longer the case, but that now those
countries, taken together, considerably exceed our total. It will,
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COTTON GROWING WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
moreover, be noticed that, while we have increased our total of
spindles in the period dealt with by only 17 per cent., Europe
has increased at the rate of 39 per cent., while America has
progressed no less than 72 per cent.
It is well known that at the present time large numbers of
spindles throughout the world are standing idle, and that a very
large proportion of those in use are working short time, such
reduction being specially pronounced in this country. The short
time is induced by general depression in the cotton trade, brought
about in very large measure by the high price of raw cotton,
caused mainly by the shortage of the supply.
BALES OF COTTON.
Turning from the statistics of spindles to those of bales of
raw cotton it will be found that the figures so obtained are even
more remarkable than those just dealt with, and throw a very
strong light upon the reasons for dear cotton and a shortage in
the supply.
It is well known that the cotton manufacturers of the world
have for years been dependent upon the American fields for about
80 per cent, of their raw fibre, and this state of things still
applies. Except in the case of some disaster such as an
extremely bad harvest, or international trouble which would stop
or practically stop supplies, this dependence upon virtually one
source of supply was of no great moment so long as the crop each
year was fully equal to the whole demand. This state of things
at one time regularly prevailed, and then Lancashire was well
content. We find, for instance, that in the season of 1882-3
the total American crop of cotton reached nearly 7,000,000 bales,
but the whole demand of Britain, Europe, and America upon such
produce was about 250,000 bales less. This allowed a respectable
margin of surplus, which, of course, tended to keep the price
reasonable and steady, and left Lancashire undisturbed.
The American crop has, generally speaking, increased year by
year, although, owing to a variety of causes, and especially to the
fluctuations of the seasons, the yearly increase has not been
regular in amount. While, as just noted, the whole production
in 1882-3 was less than 7,000,000 bales, it had increased in 1892
to over 9,000,000, in 1902 to 10,500,000, and last year (1908-9)
it reached nearly 14,000,000. It should be remarked, however,
that in some of the years intervening between those quoted the
crop fell short of that of the previous year, but this shortage,
although serious, was not disastrous, as it was generally balanced
by the surplus of the previous year and the rebound of the season
which followed.
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While the increased production has gone forward as indicated,
it has, however, not been sufficient to keep pace with the
increased demand of the cotton mills, especially of those in
Europe, and more especially of those in the United States;
although the British call for raw fibre has remained almost
stationary, scarcely keeping pace with the nominal increase of
population.
It is this enormous hunger for raw cotton on the part of
Europe and America that has done more than anything else to
bring about shortage, give opportunities to the cotton speculators,
and generally to depress Lancashire.
The following figures will throw a flood of light upon this
point and make it perfectly clear:
CONSUMPTION OF COTTON IN THE WORLD'S COTTON MILLS, IN BALES.
Year.
Great Britain.
Continent
of Europe.
United States.
1891-2
3,181,000
3,640,000
2,431,000
1901-2
3,253,000
4,784,000
3,908,000
Percentage of increase . . .
2i
81$
60|
These figures show that during the ten years completed 1901-2
the British consumption of raw cotton only increased 2 per cent.,
which barely kept pace with natural expectations due to increase
of population. In the mills of Europe during the same time the
demand grew no less than 31f per cent., and this on a larger
total figure in the earlier year than then applied in this country.
This growth is somewhat startling, but when we turn to the
third column of the table we find the fact there expressed more
staggering and even alarming. The demands of the American
mills for raw cotton during ten years increased literally by leaps
and bounds, until the total considerably exceeded the full demand
of Great Britain and approached very closely to that of the whole
of Europe, in spite of the fact that the European demands during
the same period had increased so enormously.
This rapid increase in the demand for raw fibre on the part
of Europe and America continues, while the British demand still
remains practically stationary. According to the figures for the
year ended August, 1909, published by the Master Cotton
Spinners and Manufacturers' Association, the consumption of
cotton on the Continent for that year reached the enormous figure
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of 6,389,328 bales, while that in Great Britain had fallen somewhat
from both the 1901-2 and the 1891-2 figures given in the preceding
table, the total being only 3,153,544 bales less than half that used
in Europe. The American figure given by this authority is equally
startling, as it reaches no less than 5,085,000 bales. There is some
doubt in the writer's mind as to the weight of the bales which are
comprised in the British and Continental figures just quoted, but
this does not affect the comparison. This doubt does not apply
in the case of the figure for the United States, as it is expressly
stated that the bales weigh 5001bs. each.
COMPARATIVE VALUE OF TEXTILES.
To prevent misunderstanding it is necessary to remark that
the enormous increase in the demand for raw cotton in Europe
and America and the concurrent slight fall in Britain has
not necessarily any bearing upon the relative value of the cotton
industry in the three countries. Weight for weight, the value
of an equal quantity of cotton after manufacture is very much
greater in this country than is the case either in Europe or
America, owing to the fact that we spin very much finer counts
than do the foreign manufacturers. From year to year Lancashire
has more and more devoted herself to these finer materials, while
her foreign competitors have so far given their attention to the
heavier classes of goods.
Fiscal reformers tell us that the enormous growth in the
manufacture of fabrics in the protected countries has been due,
or at any rate largely helped, by their tariff systems, and that if
we had had some similar measure of protection we might have
'retained a large portion of the coarser manufacture which the
foreigner has now so largely developed. They go further, and
say that without such a system in the future we shall in time
find that even the production of our fine stuffs will be brought
into severe competition with similar fabrics from the protected
countries, who, as they overtake the demand for their present
productions, and as their workers become more skilful, will turn
their attention to the manufacture of goods now almost exclusively
made in Lancashire. It is not proposed to follow these arguments
here, however, as they have no immediate bearing upon the subject
under consideration.
We are faced with the fact that the world's demand for raw
cotton has increased enormously in recent years, that the rapid
growth of cotton manufacture in other countries has intensified
the demand to such an extent that the time is rapidly approaching,
.if it has not already arrived, when increased supplies must be
obtained from somewhere or Lancashire will be faced with dire
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disaster. Our business is to consider what can be done, and what
is being done, to relieve the pressure, and ultimately to render
Great Britain independent of, or at any rate less dependent upon,
the American cotton fields.
DANGERS, PAST AND PRESENT.
It is to be feared that the present generation of Lancashire
people do not even now fully realise the seriousness of the
danger by which they are threatened. A periodical and almost
chronic shortage of cotton has troubled the Lancashire district for
some time, and has forced the mill owners and operatives to adopt
a policy of short time to reduce the strain. An actual famine,
however, has not come to us, but, if foreign demands for raw
cotton continue to increase, and larger supplies are not soon
forthcoming from somewhere, such a famine will before long
have to be faced.
Lancashire in a bygone generation suffered a cotton famine
when the American supplies failed during the American Civil
War of the early sixties. It may be worth while to consider in
a few sentences what then happened as an illustration of what
may come upon us again unless the great problem is now properly
grappled with and solved.
During the period of the war, 1861-5, the world's supply of
raw cotton fell off by about 75 per cent. Numbers of mills in
Lancashire were compelled to stop altogether, and probably none
were working more than half time. Nearly 250,000 operatives
were thrown out of work, some 165,000 were only partially
employed, while nearly a quarter of a million people were living
on charity. The disaster of those days was terrible indeed, but
a cotton famine of a similar proportion in these times would
be still more terrible. The population of Britain has in the
meantime nearly doubled, and the cotton operatives during the
same period have increased materially in numbers. Whereas in
1861 2,780,000 bales of American cotton sufficed for Lancashire,
to-day we require considerably more, and as we have already
seen the Continent and, what is of more importance, America
have each increased their demands enormously. In the event of a
famine, therefore, or even of a very serious shortage, we should
probably lose the whole of our American supply, as naturally those
on the spot would get the first call upon the supplies grown in
their own country. It is to safeguard ourselves against so serious
and appalling a catastrophe that it has in recent years become
imperative that something should be done; and it was the
realisation of this necessity on the part of a few far-seeing men
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which some years back brought into being the British Cotton
Growing Association, which has ever since devoted its attention
most assiduously and loyally to the problem set before it.
SUGGESTIONS FOR INCREASE.
The first idea which occurred to Lancashire cotton consumers,
when the shortage of raw fibre began to be manifest a few years
ago, was that the fields then producing cotton should be extended,
so that the larger demand might be steadily met. Such extension
has, of course, been generally pursued, as the figures we have
quoted have shown. The extension of the original fields, in
America, India, and Egypt, so far as such was possible, it was
soon found would be insufficient to meet the rapidly increasing
demand, with an allowance of sufficient margin.
In America, for instance, the cotton-growing areas have been
extended, but the extension is in no sense sufficient to meet the
necessities of the case. The rapidity with which the manufacture
of cotton in the Southern States has grown has undoubtedly
adversely affected the industry of cotton cultivation in a manner
which is, perhaps, not very obvious at first glance, but perfectly
patent on thoughtful consideration.
The demand for skilled labour in the cotton mills has absorbed
a considerable amount of that which was available for the cotton
fields, with the result that the average skill of the field labourers
has been reduced, so that the weight of cotton obtained from each
acre cultivated is less than was formerly the case. Then again
the better portions of cotton-growing lands were the earlier
portions occupied, and consequently the new fields are of
necessity unlikely to give as high an average yield as the older
ones, while at the same time the better lands have been largely
exhausted, and the manuring has either been neglected or has
been insufficient to restore the original productiveness to the soil.
OLDHAM INQUIRIES.
The Oldham Chamber of Commerce went into this matter very
carefully in the year 1901, some little time before the British
Cotton Growing Association was established. They propounded
a series of questions dealing with the subject to officials of the
Board of Trade, on the suggestion of representatives of that
authority. To the first of these, "Can the growth of cotton be
materially increased in Egypt?" the reply was that "improved
agricultural methods, carefully selected seeds, and the more
general use of artificial manure" might increase the "yield on the
poorer lands," but that "no great increase of the area planted
with cotton" could be expected. This was certainly not very
encouraging. The answer to a similar question regarding an
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increased output from India* was equally disappointing. It was
fairly evident that no great increase in supplies of raw cotton
from either of the three principal fields was likely to be
forthcoming.
When questions of the same kind were put to the authorities
in various British Colonies in Africa and elsewhere the responses
received were very much more hopeful, although up to that time
none of these districts had any reputation as producers of cotton
fibre, except the West Indies, and even there the industry which
at one time existed had been long ago destroyed by the competition
of the United States and by the concentration of local energy on
sugar and coffee.
THE MOVEMENT IN LIVERPOOL.
While the Oldham Chamber of Commerce was engaged in
its inquiries, some gentlemen in Liverpool, notably the late
Sir Alfred Jones, were actively engaged in similar and even
more practical work in some of the West African Colonies.
Sir Alfred, early in May, 1901, had sent some ten tons of
American cotton seed to Lagos for experimental purposes, and
satisfied himself and others that cotton could be successfully
grown in many portions of West Africa.
Oldham and Liverpool, working on similar lines as indicated,
compared notes, while Bolton, Blackburn, and other cotton centres
showed their interest in the movement. By the month of May,
1902, matters had progressed so far that an important gathering
was held in Manchester, and this marked the foundation of the
now well-known and most assiduous organisation, the British
Cotton Growing Association. The work that has been carried out
by this devoted body is beyond all praise. Satisfactory results
have already followed their efforts, and had they been more
promptly backed up by Lancashire as they deserved there is little
doubt that they would have accomplished more. They have all
the time been handicapped for funds, and even as this is written
sufficient of the real sinews of war is not forthcoming.
The work carried out by the Association was in the earlier
days largely a matter of inquiry, information of all kinds bearing
upon the subject being obtained from local colonial officials or
from any one with special or expert knowledge. Experiment
rapidly followed, and experts were engaged and sent to different
colonies to commence operations. Lands for experimental cotton
fields were acquired on easy terms by the grace and good will of
* A deputation of cotton experts recently waited upon Lord Morley with
regard to an increased output from the Indian fields, but it seems to be well
understood that this can only be brought about by some strong fostering action
of the Indian Government.
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the Government authorities; cotton seed of various kinds was
obtained and sent to the different districts so that it might be
found which variety was best suited to a given area. Easy or
entirely free freights were arranged for the carriage of cotton
seed, agricultural machinery, cotton gins, and presses, both on
steamers and colonial railways. The colonies did their best to
improve communications by the making and improvement of
roads, the construction of railways, and the provision of steamers
and other craft on the rivers and lakes. Everything possible has
been and still is being done in this way to help forward the
movement.
GOVERNMENT HELP.
Quite recently the Association have obtained a promise of help
from the British Government in the shape of a subsidy of 10,000
per year for three years from Imperial funds, on condition that
the Association raise a further sum of 150,000 (completing their
original capital of 500,000) for continuing the work so well
begun, and that they establish, and maintain for a period of
three years, seven pioneering buying and ginning centres two
of these to be in the Gold Coast Colony, one in Southern Nigeria,
three in Northern Nigeria, and one in Nyasaland.* Also that the
Association shall provide free of charge all seed for sowing
purposes in the colonies just mentioned, and in addition that they
so far as possible carry on travelling and missionary work among
the native cultivators in Northern and Southern Nigeria and in
the Gold Coast. A FISCAL VIEW
It has been pointed out by some that the work of the British
Cotton Growing Association is in many respects akin to the policy
advocated by a certain school of politicians who desire to bring
about a change in our fiscal arrangements. The establishment of
a fund of 500,000 to be spent in stimulating the cultivation of
cotton, Government grants of land, assistance in various ways
from the local colonial Governments and from the Colonial Office,
free freights on steamships, free rates on colonial railways, paid
experts for experimental and educational work in growing cotton
among colonial natives, free seed, free ploughs, free ginning
mills, and free presses are, they say, all aids incidental to a bounty
system, which is twin sister to a scientific tariff. The grant of
money for the same purpose from Imperial funds now arranged
serves, it is said, to clinch the argument.
The writer mentions the above for what it is worth, but
does not propose to follow it further, or to express any view
* These centres are to be in addition to several others already established
on a commercial basis in Africa and elsewhere.
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with regard to it, believing that this is certainly not the place to
discuss the matter. He would remark, however, that among the
most ardent and prominent people connected with the British
Cotton Growing Association are to be found politicians of both
schools. Strong Free Traders and equally convinced Tariff
Reformers are working shoulder to shoulder for a common cause,
the provision of ample supplies of raw cotton. The solution of
this problem is without doubt of immediate and overwhelming
importance to Lancashire, and so long as it is accomplished it
matters little or nothing if what is called fiscal orthodoxy is or
is not outraged in the effort.
OLD FIELDS INADEQUATE.
As we have seen in previous paragraphs, the supplies of raw
cotton before the advent of the British Cotton Growing Association
came to this country from America, India, and Egypt, the fields
of the first-named country supplying us with about 80 per cent,
of the whole. When Lancashire began to realise the grave
importance of the recent recurrent shortage of raw cotton it was
at once remembered that the cotton-growing industry of Egypt
received its great stimulus during the American cotton famine
period of 1861-5. Inquiry, as we have already seen, soon showed
that there was no possibility of such further expansion on
the banks of the Nile as would be required to counteract the
continually increasing demands upon the American supply by the
mills in the United States, and India was found to be equally
impotent adequately to meet the new situation.
It was at once pointed out by experts that it was not to be
expected that much additional land in Egypt could be devoted to
cotton growing, and that, therefore, very little extra fibre could
be got from that country. In the case of India they also showed
that the crop of cotton grown varied very little in quantity from
year to year, but that the demand for raw fibre on the part of
Indian mills was increasing steadily, and had during a space of
ten years increased about 20 per cent.
THE HOPE OF IMPERIAL FIELDS.
It was then that far-seeing men drew special attention to the
fact that we possessed within the Empire colonies where cotton
was cultivated on a more or less successful scale long before the
industry took root upon the American continent, and that it might
be possible to revive and largely increase this production. They
also remembered that we possessed other colonies, well within the
cotton-growing zone, where the production of fibre might be
attempted with some hope of success. They realised further that
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we had enormous colonies and protectorates, recently added to the
Empire, and awaiting development, where the cotton plant was
indigenous to the soil, in some of which districts, moreover,
there had been carried on for ages a primitive cotton industry
embracing the cultivation of the fibre and the manufacture of
fabrics. It was also well known that the black population in the
Southern States of America, who now form the workers in the
cotton fields, are the descendants of African slaves brought
across the seas a century ago. The question was naturally asked,
Why should not the people of the same race and blood as the
American blacks, and who live by millions as freemen and owners
of the soil in British Africa, become cotton cultivators on a
large scale? It was remarked that the soil and climate of the
lands these people occupied were eminently suitable for cotton
production, and that if the necessary assistance and stimulus was
given there seemed every reason to expect abundant success.
The above remarks practically sum up what was the position
at the time when the Oldham Chamber of Commerce began their
inquiries, and when Sir Alfred Jones commenced his practical
experiments.
THE COTTON-GROWING ZONE.
It will have been noted that we have just, referred to the
"cotton-growing zone." By this we mean the lands upon the
earth's surface which fall within latitudes where the climate
generally speaking is suitable for the cotton plant to grow and
to thrive. According to Professor W. E. Dunstan, F.E.S., this
region comprises all the land which falls within 40 north and
40 south of the equator. In other words, all lands between,
say, the latitude of Constantinople and Pekin in the northern
and roughly of Cape Town and Melbourne in the southern
hemispheres. This region it will be seen embraces, practically, all
the British Empire except Canada, Tasmania, and part of New
Zealand, and obviously gives an enormous possibility from the
point of view of cotton growing, as it includes the whole of the
tropical and semi-tropical possessions of Great Britain. As has
been pointed out by Professor Dunstan, "the rainfall in most of
these countries is adequate, and, in those in which it is deficient,
irrigation is possible in nearly every instance."
Turning to the suitability of the soil, the same gentleman says
that this "is more difficult to determine, especially in relation to
the necessity of manuring and to the proper rotation of crops.
He remarks further, however, that "there can be little doubt that
throughout the greater part of the African continent under British
control the soil is likely to prove to be suitable for the purpose.
The same may be said of the West Indies."
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THE EMPIRE CONSIDERED.
Considerable space has already been devoted to statistics, to
the main causes of cotton shortage, to some historic points in the
new cotton-growing movement, and general reference has been
made to the portions of the British Empire to which we may look
for our supplementary supplies in the future. It is now proposed
to give special attention to each of the various regions, to point
out how far the prospects for the future are hopeful in each case,
and, so far as space permits, to state what has already been
accomplished.
Experience during the past few years has adequately shown
that the prospect of satisfactory supplies of raw cotton being
obtained from the British colonies is most encouraging, but it
has also made it very clear that there are much brighter immediate
prospects from certain more favoured districts than from others.
This fact will become clearly apparent as we proceed, but it will
be definitely appreciated at the outset when we remark that in a
document issued by the British Cotton Growing Association in
December, 1909, it was stated that it had been "decided to
concentrate their main efforts on Nigeria, Uganda, Nyasaland, and
the West Indies." It does not follow from this that other portions
of the Empire are of little value from the point of view of cotton
production, but rather that, as the Association find they are at
present unable adequately to cover the whole field of opportunity,
they consider it better, as they say, to "concentrate" on the
colonies above quoted, as they find those "districts offer the best
prospects for large and immediate results.
It is evident that once these fields are so developed as to need
little further stimulus the Association will be able with greater
prospect of success to turn their attention to those districts which
are not so promising at the present moment.
INDIA AND CEYLON.
Notwithstanding what has been said in earlier paragraphs,
certain attention has been paid to the increase of the cotton-
growing industry in India, but no very great measure of success
has so far attended these efforts, although, as will be seen
presently, the movement is in the right direction, and will, if the
effort is continued, doubtless give a more or less satisfactory
result in time. The class of cotton which is mostly produced in
India is of the short-stapled or medium type, which is not much
in demand in the British market. It is, however, largely used
locally, and is exported in considerable quantities to Japan and
Europe, Germany taking large supplies.
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Attempts have been made at various times to introduce the
cultivation of cotton from American and Egyptian seed, but partly
owing to the unsuitableness of the soil, but more because of the
conservative methods and instincts of the cultivators, these
experiments have not been attended with much success. The
British Cotton Growing Association took the matter up, devoted
a considerable sum of money to the work, and were able to induce
the Indian Government materially to assist the effort. Satisfactory
progress has been attained on some of the Government seed farms,
and these experiments seem to show that improved cultivation will
enhance the quality of the crops produced, and in time establish
the production of some of the longer-stapled types of fibre.
Experiments with "tree" cottons were tried, but the results were
not satisfactory.
In the Scind district the production of cotton from Egyptian
seed has been tried with considerable success, and if the natural
prejudices of the native growers could be overcome this cultivation
might be much extended. The long- stapled variety does not,
it seems, give so heavy a crop as the shorter varieties, and
consequently it is difficult to get the native to abandon quantity
for quality. It may be remarked, however, that 'though in the
season 1905 Scinde grew only 500 bales (4001bs. each) of this
cotton, the figure was doubled in the following year, and in 1909
it reached 2,500 bales.
In Ceylon cotton has been grown for a long time in a more
or less primitive manner by the natives for their own purposes.
Experiments have been carried out by the Government, and the
Association devoted 1,000 to the erection of a ginning plant in
the country. Difficulties with regard to this plant ai'ose, new
arrangements had to be made, and consequently progress has been
retarded. It is hoped that the Government will continue their
efforts, and that ultimately a native cotton-growing industry may
be established in the northern portions of the island.
CYPRUS AND MALTA.
In past years considerable cultivation of cotton was carried
on in Cyprus, the fibre being exported to France and the Levant,
and in small quantities to England. Some quantity was also used
locally. Locusts, poor seed, lack of water, and general neglect,
however, practically killed the industry. The irrigation of the
land and the introduction of better seed revived matters, and the
island is evidently capable of producing a very useful variety of
cotton. Malta and the adjoining island of Gozo can also produce
cotton of useful character, but so far only sufficient is cultivated
to supply local demands.
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AUSTRALIA AND FIJI.
Experiments have proved that cotton of good quality can be
grown in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, and
New Guinea, but no great progress with the industry has been
made. This is almost wholly due to labour, difficulties. Such
agricultural labour as is available finds ample employment in the
cultivation of other products of more remunerative character,
which are already well established. Experimental work is,
however, still going on, and small quantities of fibre are exported.
Some thirty -five years ago cotton from Fiji was brought into
this country in fair quantity, and met with a ready sale. It is
remarkable for its whiteness, long staple, and silky gloss. Its
importation fell off owing, it is said, to the irregularity in the
length of staple, due most likely to careless cultivation.
The American War gave a great stimulus to the Fiji industry,
and Sea Island cotton was then pretty extensively grown. In the
year 1870 no less than 93,000 worth of fibre was exported. The
resumption of cotton production in the United States soon
adversely affected the Fiji cotton fields, and in these days little
fibre is produced. The experience of the past, however, shows
what is possible in these islands, and what may be done under
the pressure of necessity. Eecent experiments have shown
considerable promise.
BORNEO, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, AND MALAY STATES.
These colonies all fall within the cotton-growing zone, but
no cultivation on any important scale has ever taken place. In
Borneo a native fibre is produced for local purposes which is
stated to be fine and strong and practically equal to Egyptian
cotton. Labour in Borneo is fairly plentiful, and with proper
encouragement much success might be expected.
The cultivation of cotton in the Malay Peninsula has been
attempted more than once, but never with any extensive result.
The variable climatic conditions are not encouraging, and the
plants seem to be specially liable to the attacks of parasites of
various kinds. Labour difficulties would also make against the
industry.
MAURITIUS, SEYCHELLES, AND ST. HELENA.
In the colonies both of Mauritius and Seychelles the natives
grow cotton for their own use, but only on a very small scale.
Efforts have been made to increase the product in the last-
mentioned islands, and some day the industry may be satisfactorily
developed. Samples of cotton grown have met with approval in
England.
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In St. Helena cotton of good and fine quality grows easily, but
the possible area of cultivation is of necessity very circumscribed.
THE WEST INDIES.
When we leave the smaller island colonies and turn to the
West Indies we meet with much more encouraging reports of the
progress there being made in the cotton-growing industry. A
hundred years ago there was a very considerable cotton cultivation
carried On in these islands, and at that time the West Indian
colonies supplied at least 70 per cent, of all the fibre used in
Great Britain. This was before the industry on the American
continent had grown to anything like its later enormous
proportions, and before the cultivation of sugar in the West Indies
had become recognised as a much more profitable undertaking
than cotton growing. Having turned their best attention to other
industries, and being faced with the severe competition of the
American growers, the West Indian cotton cultivators practically
disappeared.
There is little doubt that some of the best varieties of cotton
grown in the American fields were brought originally from the
West Indian islands, where they had in all probability been
cultivated for generations. The botanical name of the Sea Island
variety of cotton plant (Gossypium Barbadense) at once suggests
that the plant in question came from the island of Barbados, which
island it may be stated is to-day producing a larger quantity of
fibre than any other island of the West Indian group.
One of the first efforts of the British Cotton Growing
Association was directed to the revival of the cultivation of fibre
in the West Indies, and their efforts were warmly backed up by
the colonial authorities. No official probably has done more to
stimulate and encourage the industry than has Sir Daniel Morris,
K.C.M.G., Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture in the West
Indies until quite recently. The writer had the privilege of
hearing Sir Daniel address a meeting in the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce in August, 1906, in which West Indian cotton
growing was very fully dealt with. The information then given
was of a most valuable and encouraging character. It was made
clear that during the previous three and a half years cotton to the
export value of 160,000 had been grown in the islands. This
production has since" been very considerably augmented. In the
season of 1907 fibre worth over 198,000 was produced; this fell
in the next year to a little over 175,000, owing to general trade
depression and a fall in prices, but later reports show that very
satisfactory crops are being grown, and that the industry promises
to make steady progress year by year.
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The fibre so far cultivated in the West Indies has been
principally the Sea Island variety, because the "islands are
peculiarly adapted for this class of cotton." The colonists have
with some success turned their attention to other qualities, as it
is recognised that there is only a limited demand for fibre of the
best variety. Some of the islands seem to be suited for growing
a second-class quality, and others what has been described as
"third class." There is need for all kinds, and the middling
varieties find a readier market than do the finer qualities.
The West Indies are blessed with "a very good class of
planters," who seem to be thoroughly in earnest about the
industry they have taken up. The cultivation of cotton in these
islands may be said to be now thoroughly well established; more
land each year is brought under crops, and the output is gradually
and regularly increasing. In 1908 nearly 7,000 bales of cotton,
valued at more than 175,000, were exported. The latest returns
(at the time this is written) published by the Colonial Office state
that there is now an area of 30,000 acres under cotton crops,
with an annual output of 3,000,0001bs. of cotton lint, and
6,000,0001bs. of cotton seed, of an estimated value of 250,000.
This report also calls attention to the special adaptability of cotton
as a crop, in rotation with sugar cane, which is a very useful
and important fact.
We have seen from what has been said that the West Indies
have proved a very satisfactory field for increasing the supplies of
raw cotton which we so badly need, but it should be at once
recognised that the acreage of land in the islands available for
cotton growing is limited. The total area of the West Indies
is only a little over 12,000 square miles, say double the area of
the county of Yorkshire, or about equal to Belgium, while the
population is not much over one and a half millions.
These two facts, when viewed in the light of the other
important industries carried on in the islands, show at once that
other and larger areas are required if ever the British Empire
is to grow its own cotton, or even sufficiently to supplement the
present supplies.
THE AFRICAN CONTINENT.
Ample and fertile land areas, and large and intelligent
populations, more or less suitable for the purpose of cotton
cultivation, are to be found in the British colonies situated
within the borders of the great African continent. Africa has
been spoken of as the "last of the continents," the term being
used in the sense that its interior and inland tribes remained
unknown long after the geographical features of the other great
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continental areas had been opened up and developed, or their
peoples brought into touch with the outer world.
It is perhaps remarkable that this great continent, Africa, has,
so to speak, remained in reserve until to-day, and that the growth
of the British possessions within its area, though so important, has
been really so silent and immediately previous to the dawning of
a period when cotton-growing regions have become so necessary
to us if our great Lancashire industry is to be preserved. British
Africa promises to do more to solve the cotton problem than all the
other portions of the King's possessions combined, and may be
fittingly described as "Lancashire's hope." The cotton-growing
developments have become so important that considerable space
will be required to give an outline of what has been done and of
what may be looked for in the not very distant future. It will
perhaps be better to take the different districts and colonies
separately.
EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN.
As was pointed out in earlier paragraphs, it was clearly
understood in the early days of the British cotton-growing
movement that no great increase in the production of fibre was
to be expected in Egypt proper, but it was believed that some
development would take place consequent upon the increased area
of land made available for cultivation by the completion of the
great Nile dams at Assouan and Assiut.
Lord Cromer in his 1903 report stated that "a large extension
in the cultivation" of cotton might "confidently be anticipated
within a short time. ' ' Experience, however, has not as yet
realised this anticipation. On the contrary, the crop of 1909
was most unsatisfactory, and has been described as a "disastrous
failure." The dam at Assouan has been blamed for this falling
off, although it was expected to increase the weight of cotton
produced. It has been suggested that the river silt, which is so
valuable as a fertiliser, has been largely arrested by the dam,
instead of being spread over the delta area as before. Some
think that the raising of the level of the irrigation canals has so
altered the sub-soil as adversely to affect the roots of the cotton
plants. Others have suggested other causes which need not be
followed here, but the fact of failure remains as above stated.
It is of interest to note that a Special Commission has been
appointed to investigate the whole problem.
The Soudan gives considerable promise for the production of
cotton, but no great progress has so far been made. It was hoped
that matters would develop with some rapidity when once the
railway from Berber to the Eed Sea became a reality, but up to
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now these hopes have not been realised. There can be no doubt,
however, that the districts watered by the Blue Nile and the
Atbara Eiver are eminently suited for cotton production, and in
due time they will doubtless supply a considerable output.
The late Sir Samuel Baker was a strong believer in the
suitableness of the district, and Lord Cromer has pointed out that
the Soudan was "the original home of Egyptian cotton." Sir
Eldon Gorst mentions in his report that the Egyptian irrigation
department has decided to double the allowance of summer water
available for the Soudan as soon as the raising of the Assouan
dam, now in hand, is completed, and this will improve matters
in the Soudan from a cotton-growing point of view. He further
points out that the development of cotton cultivation is a matter
of money, and that this must be found by private enterprise.
EAST AFRICA AND UGANDA.
Considerable areas within the East African Protectorate are
suitable for cotton production, the soil and climate being
everything that is required. Cotton grown near the coast has
proved to be of excellent character, with long staple and good
lustre, and to compare very favourably with fibre from Egypt. No
great progress has, however, yet been made.
The British Cotton Growing Association have spent a
considerable sum of money on the work in this district, and the
Protectorate Government contributed 1,000 per year for three
years to the effort. Failure of the coast crops last year made it
necessary for the East African Corporation to reorganise their
arrangements, and they decided to direct their efforts more to
Uganda and to Kisurrm on Lake Victoria. Doubtless in time
successful results will be obtained in East Africa, though for the
time being matters have met with a set-back.
In Uganda, where the Government have spent a large sum
of money in experiments, matters have progressed much more
satisfactorily. This is no doubt in great measure due to the
progressive character of the natives, who are head and shoulders
above the surrounding tribes in intelligence and civilisation. Sir
Hesketh Bell, K.C.M.G., late High Commissioner of Uganda,
speaks in most enthusiastic terms of the work which has been
accomplished in the Protectorate. Speaking in Manchester in
November, 1909, Sir Hesketh said that
They had in Uganda one of the greatest cotton fields in the Empire. They
had got not only the soil and the climate and other natural conditions absolutely
favourable to cotton growing, but they had the population that seemed to be
most eager to do what the British wanted them to do to grow cotton.
The natives of Uganda were so greedy of progress and improvement that they
had almost to be restrained. . . . Four or five years ago the exports of
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cotton from Uganda to this country were practically nothing. Last year (1908)
the value of cotton shipped from that Protectorate was valued at j50,000, and
judging from the progress that was being made he believed that the industry
would quickly increase at least tenfold.
Mr. .Winston Churchill, after his visit to Uganda, also wrote
in very enthusiastic terms of the progress that was being made
and of the great opportunities that the country presents.
Improved transport facilities are urgently required in the shape
of extended railways, vessels for river and lake navigation, and
motor wagons as -connecting links between these have been
advocated. Already further railways are being arranged, and extra
steamers are being placed upon Lake Victoria and the Upper Nile.
Space will not permit of full justice being done to the remarkable
developments taking place in Uganda, but enough has probably
been said to make it clear that this portion of the Empire should
justly give abundant hope to Lancashire people.
NYASALAND".
This colony has long been known as one of the most
satisfactory of all the British districts in tropical Africa. The
work of its officials and missionary agents forms a story of
thrilling interest. Civilisation in its best sense has made
remarkable strides during the past quarter of a century, and has
been pushed forward steadily and persistently by the white
inhabitants, whether they have been Government officials, religious
teachers, or traders and planters. The introduction of coffee
cultivation into the colony some years ago led to a most remarkable
result, and there seems every prospect of the developments in
connection with cotton growing being even more striking and
important.
Cotton was known to be indigenous to the country even in the
days of Livingstone, and was 'cultivated and manufactured in a
crude manner by the natives for their own purposes. The growing
of cotton on commercial lines was not, however, introduced until
recent years. In the report of the then Acting Commissioner for
1902-3 cotton was for the first time mentioned as an export, but
the item barely reached the value of 3. This, however, indicated
the birth of a new industry. In 1908-9 the export of fibre had
risen to a volume of 28,353, and there is every reason to hope
for very considerable developments in the not very distant future.
Much has been done by the colonial authorities to further the
cultivation of cotton within this important little colony, progress
has rewarded their efforts, and the good work is to be continued
even more vigorously. In 1905 a cotton expert, Mr. Samuel
Simpson, was employed by the authorities to visit the colony
and to study the cotton-growing question on the spot. This
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gentleman reported upon his investigations in due course, and his
report forms a most interesting, exhaustive, and encouraging
compendium of information, which must have proved of great
value to the planters in the country. This scientific method of
work is being continued, and while this is being written it is
reported that the Agricultural Department in the colony is to be
enlarged with a view to more attention being devoted to cotton
cultivation.
The Director of Agriculture has recently reported upon the
many varieties of cotton which can be and are produced, and
what districts within the colony are best suited to each kind,
according to the character of the soil and its elevation above
sea level. The writer of the report makes it clear that he
anticipates that cotton cultivation in Nyasaland will become a
most important industry. The railway which has been constructed
past the rapids and falls in the Shire Eiver, coupled with improved
steamboat services on Lake Nyasa and the Zambesi Eiver, will
greatly reduce the difficulties of transport and very materially
assist the industry.
The British . Cotton Growing Association, with the assistance
of the Home Government, have undertaken to establish a buying,
ginning, and pressing station at Port Herald, the terminus of the
new railway, which will be most useful and do much to assist
the work of cotton production, ;
SOUTH AFRICA AND RHODESIA.
Cotton growing in South Africa has scarcely got beyond the
experimental stage. Very satisfactory samples of fibre have been
produced both in Cape Colony and Natal, and portions of the
Transvaal are also suitable for cotton cultivation. Doubtless the
cost of labour throughout the Union will retard any great progress
for some time.
In Ehodesia matters are much more promising. Cotton of
good quality grows well in several districts, the climate and soil
are suitable for extensive cotton fields, and labour should be
available in plenty. It appears likely that the encouragement of
cultivation among the natives will prove more commercially
successful than plantations under European direction. The
industry so far, however, has scarcely emerged from the
experimental period.
The British South African Company have devoted a
considerable sum of money to the development of cotton growing
within their territories, and they invited the British Cotton
Growing Association to give financial help on similar lines and
to undertake the management of the scheme. This was .agreed
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to, and an expert was sent on a tour of investigation. The reports
received were most encouraging, and arrangements have been- made
for the establishment of a buying and ginning centre at Kafue
Bridge on the Ehodesia Eailway. Doubtless future years will see
a great and useful cotton-growing industry develop in the land
of Cecil Ehodes.
WEST AFRICA.
The West African colonies have so far proved the most
satisfactory portions of the British Empire from the point of view
of cotton production, and give immense promise for future
development. There are several reasons for this. Enormous areas
of country possess a soil and climate which is specially suitable
for the cultivation of the cotton plant, the natives who inhabit
the country in vast numbers are natural agriculturists, and have
cultivated cotton for their own uses from time immemorial, and
have, indeed, in many districts carried on a considerable spinning
and weaving industry of crude character.
The peoples of the West African districts have also been in
touch with the commercial peoples of Europe, and especially with
Britain, for generations, and consequently have developed the
trading instinct which they originally possessed. It may be
remembered, too, that the natives of these districts are the races
from which the black peoples of the United States cotton area were
originally drawn. Indeed, it has been suggested, and not without
very good reason, that the original cotton seeds, from which the
earlier plantations on the American continent were developed,
were brought across the ocean from West Africa by some of the
slaves introduced into 'the new plantations in the early days.
The ports of West Africa are within comparatively easy
reach of Britain, and bales of cotton can be just as easily brought
from them as from New Orleans or Galveston. The ports in
question are, too, fairly well developed, many of them being
provided with ample wharfage and the necessary apparatus for
the handling of cargo. All these facts, coupled with the
suitableness of the soil and climate and the aptitude of the
people, have no doubt had their influence in producing the general
success which has attended cotton-growing operations in this
group of colonies.
Space does not allow of any detailed description of the work
that has been accomplished, and in which each of the various
colonies composing the group has played its part. Gambia,
Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Northern Nigeria, Southern Nigeria,
and Lagos have each contributed a considerable quota to the
general development, and, with the exception of Gambia and Sierra
Leone, all give much promise for the future.
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The most successful results so far obtained are to the credit
of Lagos, which colony during the past six years has each season
exported considerably more raw cotton than all the other colonies
in the group have been able to produce. The combined export for
the season of 1904 was 2,250 bales, and of these Lagos produced
2,000 bales. These figures have been progressive, each year
considerably exceeding the figure of the previous one (except in
the year 1908, when there was a considerable falling off owing
to the drought which affected West Africa during that season),
and Lagos has every time supplied the lion's share. The cotton
exported in the year 1909 reached 13,200 bales, and of these
Lagos contributed no less than 12,000 bales. Lagos, it may be
remembered, exported a considerable weight of cotton in the past.
In 1869 nearly 77,000 worth of fibre was exported, but American
competition gradually killed the trade of that time.
The British Cbtton Growing Association have devoted
themselves very assiduously to the work in West Africa, and they
have been very strongly backed in their efforts by the Government
authorities, both financially and otherwise. The Association have
distributed seed, erected and equipped ginneries, established buying
agencies, have carried out much experimental work, and, in short,
have done all they could to encourage the natives to take up
cotton growing on commercial lines, and to improve the character
of the fibre produced.
The Government authorities on their side have taken over and
established experimental farms, have improved communications,
constructed railways, and done all possible to secure peace and
contentment among the peoples, and make it possible for
commercial enterprise to advance with reasonable hope of success
and progress, and this work they are continuing with vigour, as
we have before seen.
The story of what has been done in the way of cotton growing
in West Africa is brimful of interest and encouragement, but the
undertaking is so gigantic and the ground to be covered so
enormous that the full fruition of success is bound to take years
of time, prodigies of effort, and the sinking of a large amount of
capital to accomplish.
THE ADVANTAGE OF SUCCESS.
The successful development of cotton production in the colonies
is a work which if it can be brought about will be of great
advantage to all those concerned in it. It will be of vast
consequence to Lancashire, inasmuch as it will prevent the
hopeless decline of our prosperity.
Advantage from success, however, will not be confined to one
district and one industry, nor will it be one-sided. It will not
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only benefit Lancashire by supplying the raw product necessary
to keep her cotton mills going and her workers employed, and
so bring in its train general commercial benefit to all classes
throughout Great Britain, but it will at the same time produce
and increase industry, commerce, wealth, and prosperity in the
colonies themselves. The financial and commercial classes of the
Empire will reap their share of reward in the wealth which will
accrue to them in return for their investments and their energy,
while the native peoples will be made richer and more civilised,
and will, in short, by means of cotton be lifted on to a higher
plane of life altogether.
The sale of the fibre of the native cultivators will bring into
the hands of these people sums of money which they will very
largely spend in purchasing the commercial products of Britain, so
that the makers of machinery, the manufacturers of hardware of
all kinds at home, and other producers will find that colonial-
grown cotton will stimulate their trade and increase and extend
the new markets for which they are continually asking.
The spinner and weaver of crude stuffs in West Africa and
other places will soon realise that it will pay him better to
produce cotton fibre, which his soil and climate enable him to do,
and to exchange it for the textiles so much more easily
manufactured in Lancashire, for the cutlery of Sheffield, the
ironware of Birmingham, the pottery of Staffordshire, and a host
of other British made goods. The Government authorities in the
various colonies will also reap their share of benefit. The export
of cotton will generate an increased import of other commodities
from which a considerable Customs revenue, amounting probably
to thousands of pounds, will be derived. The increase of exports
and imports will also increase the transport work of the railways,
and large sums of money will consequently be paid to these
undertakings for the work done, which will constitute an
increasing return upon the capital invested. In addition to, and
in some respects even more important than, these financial
considerations the native populations of the various colonies will
be learning new industries. They will become skilled cotton
growers, and in many cases trained mechanics of various kinds,
and thus be made more valuable citizens of the Empire than
is at present possible. This will be an Imperial asset of
.considerable importance from the point of view of the Empire's
future.
These developments will not come about immediately, but will
certainly become a fact in the future if patience and persistence
in the important work of Empire cotton growing are regularly
pursued. Much time, much capital, much wisdom, and much
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energy are required to bring about the desired consummation,
but surely these will be forthcoming if the people of the country
only once fully realise what is required for the benefit of the
Empire generally, for the development of the colonies, for the
advantage of Great Britain, and for the salvation of Lancashire.
The late Sir Alfred Jones some time back remarked: "Every
single man, woman, and child in Great Britain is interested more
or less in the textile industry, and we. must all assist in putting
this trade on a sound foundation." These words are pregnant
with importance, and it is to be hoped that the duty they impose
upon the community will be duly realised and met.
THE NEED FOR MONEY.
For several years past, as we have seen, the British Cotton
Growing Association have been playing a very honourable part in
pushing the all-important work to which they have devoted their
energies. It has been seen, however, that, although only
500,000 was asked for (a very modest sum considering the vast
importance of their undertaking), even as this is written the full
sum has not been subscribed, another 30,000 still being required
to make up the total. Doubtless the money needed will soon be
forthcoming, but why should there be delay?
It is . very questionable, however, if the capital of half a
million sterling now aimed at will be anything like enough to
ensure the success of the gigantic undertaking. During the
years the Association has been at work a useful development has
taken place, and they have proved that cotton in large quantities
can be produced in the Empire, but after all what has been done,
great and important as it is, is very small compared with what
is required if the cotton industry of Lancashire is to be saved
and secured. From 1903 to 1909 the total quantity of cotton
produced under the auspices of the Association has amounted to
only 116,700 bales of 4001bs. each, not much more than one-
thirtieth part of the fibre we require each year. The figure
quoted is substantial, and is really a monument of testimony to
the zeal of the Association, but much more is necessary.
The experience of the past few years points to the need for
bigger and more embracing efforts being made, and to the
necessity of much more capital being devoted to them. The
saving of the great textile industry of Lancashire is a matter of
the gravest moment, and surely quite as important to the district,
if not more so, than was the construction of the Manchester Ship
Canal. That great undertaking suffered many ups and downs in
its earlier days before it became an accomplished fact, but in the
long run some fifteen or sixteen millions of money were raised,
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and the canal was made. If it is necessary to raise several
millions of money in order that the growing within the Empire of
ample supplies of cotton may be established, surely such capital
can be obtained. The object is worth any effort that may be
necessary to bring it about.
A NATIONAL SCHEME.
It has recently been proposed that a powerful Chartered
Company should be established, with a capital of 5,000,000
sterling, for the purpose of growing cotton within the Empire,
the organisation not to be in any way antagonistic to the British
Cotton Growing Association, but rather a development of that
useful body. It has been suggested that the capital could easily
be raised if the British Government could be induced to guarantee
interest upon the same. The writer is not in a position to discuss
this scheme, even if this was the place to do so, but he may
remark that the idea of a Government guarantee for such a
purpose is not a new one. When the Uganda Eailway was first
proposed the Government of the day was asked to guarantee
interest upon capital, and it will be remembered that finally the
Government undertook and carried out the construction of the
line. Eaw cotton for Lancashire is certainly as important as was
a railway for Uganda, and if it can be obtained will form an
even more valuable Imperial asset.
AN IMPERATIVE PROBLEM.
We have been told that "the very existence of the Lancashire
cotton trade depends on new cotton fields being developed as
rapidly as possible," and Sir Alfred Jones has spoken of the
industry being "as insecure" as if on "an active volcano." There
is no doubt about the truth of these statements, and it is well
known that bad diseases require strong remedies. Let the
necessary remedy, however powerful, be applied in this case;
the cotton trade needs it, and Lancashire should demand it. The
development of cotton growing, for the ample production of raw
fibre, within the Empire, is one of the most pressing problems
which the English people have to grapple with, and no pains
should be spared to achieve success. There is no time to lose;
the matter is imperative; raw cotton is wanted now, to-morrow
may be too late. Delay is dangerous, and may be disastrous. The
solution of the problem is all-important to the whole country,
but to Lancashire it is absolutely vital. To paraphrase Sir Alfred
Jones, let the work that has been taken in hand be made the
biggest thing the world has ever known, and let the whole British
people share the success of a great Imperial enterprise.
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Lords and Commons in Legislation,
Specially as regards Finance.
BY W. M. J. WILLIAMS.
CHE leading political question of our day is concerned with
our legislative powers, especially the inter-relation of the
two Houses of Parliament in the framing of statute laws,
though the question cannot but affect other such powers not directly
involved in the public and parliamentary quest of the moment.
How are and how shall these various powers be inter-related in
legislation seems to be the real question in process of solution,
and in this paper some effort is made to furnish a reply to the
former portion of the question, not without a conviction that the
answer should serve to aid a solution of the latter.
So great an authority on our legislation as Sir Courtenay
Ilbert, the Clerk of the House of Commons, supplies us with the
following form of the enacting formula of a modern statute:
Be it [therefore] enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows. . . .
and he adds that the formula was gradually developed from a
form which implied that legislative authority was vested in the
King alone. Even the most modern and hurried reader knows,
perhaps without much clear definition in some cases, how the
"three estates of the realm" are co-ordinated in our legislative
action, but recent events have made it clear again that the relative
powers and position of the estates in the legislative co-operation
are a subject of dispute, and a dispute which should be ended
for the promotion of our national weal.
It will be observed that the above form applies to legislative
Bills in general, and does not distinguish Bills according to their
subjects, such as money Bills, and other kinds. As the Finance
Act of 1909-10 was the immediate occasion of the issue to be
treated in this paper, it will, therefore, be pertinent to supply the
preamble to a "money Bill," such as that now notorious Act
was. The preamble is as follows:
We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards
raising the necessary supplies to defray your Majesty's public expenses, and
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making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved
to give and grant unto your Majesty the several duties hereinafter mentioned ;
and do, therefore, most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted,
and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows.
The significance of that preamble is, of course, in the added
clause preceding the usual enacting clause of the preamble, where
the gift to His Majesty of supplies of money is given "freely and
voluntarily" by the Commons, and this apportionment then
appears to become law by the "advice and consent of the Lords,"
countersigned by the Eoyal sign manual.
This inference from preambles is confirmed by the observation
of the career of a Bill passing through Parliament. A Bill may
be introduced, speaking generally, by any member of either
House of the Legislature, and may be initiated in either House.
It is well known that in general every such Bill, including private
Bills, have to be read three times in each House, and undergo
detailed examination in a Committee also. When a measure
has been dealt with in one House, it is sent for attention in the
other, and the practice which obtains afterwards is not without
a bearing of some importance on present-day controversy.
Practice and standing orders require that a "money Bill" shall
be introduced and originate in the House of Commons, and even
there after notice has been given of the purpose. When a Bill
has secured the assent of both Houses of the Legislature the rule
is that it shall await the Eoyal Assent in the House of Lords, and
be presented for the Eoyal approval by the Clerk of Parliament,
who is Clerk of the House of Lords; but when a money Bill has
passed both Houses "it is returned to the Commons, and when
that House is summoned to the House of Lords, to attend the
Sovereign or the Lords Commissioners, the Bill is handed by the
Speaker, at the bar of the House of Lords, to the Clerk of
Parliaments, to receive the Eoyal Assent." In the practice of
Parliament, therefore, there is found a distinction not only
between Bills generally and money Bills, but in the relation of the
Commons to a money Bill, which is regarded as specially in the
care of the Commons. This, of course, is only a confirmation of
the popular impression, but important as justifying that impression
by rule and practice acknowledged by both sections of the
Legislature, as also by the Sovereign. Eecent events, however,
have made it imperative that we should imitate the child, and
see how the plant grows, by examining its roots, by ascertaining
how it subsists in the soil. There is a demand that we should
review our legislative machinery, see what it is, and how it
arrived at the form and practice of the present day.
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Of the legislative machine as a whole for the United Kingdom
there is a strong consensus of opinion, but it may be found useful
to review it for the sake of clearness in our present purpose,
which concerns the sub-division of the power, the proportion
of power to be allowed to the various factors in legislation. The
question to be proposed is, not what are the laws of the realm,
nor how to interpret them, but how do they get on to the statute 1
book, and what are the powers, and their relation to one another,
which determine what those laws shall be. We have to see what
those powers are, and what their powers and authority in
producing our laws severally.
It is apparent, therefore, that a short review of the constituent
powers engaged in our legislation should be undertaken. These
constituent powers are usually given concisely, as the Crown,
the Lords, and the Commons, and the order of enumeration is not
without a suggestion of the place and importance of the several
powers. That suggestion is worth observation and reflection, but
the acceptance of it without qualification might after all prove
that some considerations other than such as concern legislation
had been allowed to determine its form. The national life, as
all life, is one which, though spoken of conventionally as if in
detached compartments, is affected by matters, in this case social
probably, outside that limit now implied. The three powers
concerned in legislation in the United Kingdom are, however,
acknowledged generally and practically, the clergy, represented
by the twenty-six Parliamentary Bishops, being included with
the Lords, with whom they sit. What are the functions of
these three powers, severally, in legislation?
Parliament is a word frequently used in an inaccurate way
to denote only the two Houses of the Legislature, whereas the
full and correct signification is that the Parliament of the United
Kingdom is composed of the King or Queen and "the three
estates of the realm," viz., the Lords Spiritual, the Lords
.Temporal, and the Commons. Laws made with the aid and
consent of these various powers, the three, and those so made
only, are binding upon the King's subjects. (In feudal times,
.however, the term Parliament was used much more loosely.)
The Crown's place in this three-fold power to legislate is, as in
most things British, an issue of our history rather than an
institution arising from political theory. As Sir Courtenay Ilbert
reminds us, the Legislature in this kingdom is just the very
opposite of what Napoleon conceived a Legislature should be,
when he said that it should "construct grand laws, but respect
the independence of the executive." The Clerk of the House of
Commons adds: "The English Legislature was originally
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constituted, not for legislative, but for financial purposes."
Even now, so many years after the Bill of Eights which gave
us a Crown the wearing of which has a parliamentary basis, the
Legislature is just that essentially, largely in form and in
substance, that it is a means of supplying the Crown with money
to carry forward the administration. The method of supplying
those means is, indeed, a method of legislation, but this relation
of the Crown to the other parliamentary powers must be seen
at once to be of great consequence, in history and in practice.
The essential, the oldest connection with the Crown, is the
financial, and all other kinds of legislative work has arisen around
that indispensable function of consenting to and supplying money.
The power of the Crown in legislation is, however, a power to
be exercised strictly according to law, which in this case rests
on custom and statute. Bracton, in the time of Henry III.
(1216-1272), declared that "the King must not be subject to any
man, but to God and the law, because the law makes him King."
Fortescue, the Chancellor of Henry VI. (1422-1461 dethroned),
speaking of the Eoyal prerogative, said :
A King of England cannot, at his pleasure . . . make any alteration
or change in the laws of the realm without the consent of the subjects, nor
burthen them, against their wills, with strange impositions.
Sir Thos. Smyth, in the days of Elizabeth, said that "the most
high and absolute power of the realm of England consisteth in
the Parliament." All this consists with what was formally
embodied in the Bill of Eights in 1688 on the accession of William
and Mary, where we read
that the pretended power of suspending or dispensing with laws, or the
execution of laws, without consent of Parliament, is illegal. . . . that
levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative,
without grant of Parliament for longer time or in other manner than the
same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
In these quotations we hear the reverberations of the Stuart
contentions over ship-money and taxation generally; but do they
not also serve to give historical place to the Crown in legislation
in this realm? The King and his Crown are supreme; but the
Crown must agree with other powers of Parliament before a law
can be recognised as valid. Rex is not Lex; it is the prerogative
of the King to be required to give assent and consent to things
agreed upon by the other legislative powers, but he is limited
in that he is also by statute as well as custom bound to act
according to law. He is supreme chiefly in that his is the executive
power; he is supreme also by virtue of that in legislation, as
his co-operation is required to render valid the laws to be
administered by him. The King calls a Parliament, always has
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called a Parliament; but that very calling is a .confession that
his will must consult that of the other powers represented in the
Houses.
The Lords, to us of to-day, assemble in a House of their own,
whether they be of the Spiritual or of the Temporal order. For
my present purpose it is not material to distinguish between
these two orders of the members of the House of Lords, though
it is not without a bearing of importance upon legislative authority
and power to regard the composition and the qualification for
membership of this ancient House. The point to observe above
all else here is that already mentioned in speaking of the King's
relation to Parliament, viz., that he calls men to his council.
The presence of the proudest noble in the council of the nation is,
in form, in consequence of a summons from his Sovereign, and
this has been so from the Norman and Plantagenet days in which
our national council finds its origin. That admits of no question ;
the character which arrests every inquiring eye is the presence,
the constant presence, of the same persons or the same name. It
is the hereditary character of the House of Lords which arrests
the attention of every student. To the inevitable question how the
"peer" got into this remarkable position Bishop Stubbs answers
historically :
It is convenient to adopt the year 1295 [Ed. I.] as the era from which the
baron, whose ancestor has been once summoned and has once sat in
Parliament, can claim an hereditary right to be so summoned. . . . For
the period before us membership of the parliamentary baronage implies
both tenure and summons. The political status of the body so constituted
is thus denned by their successors* : The hereditary peers of the realm claim
(1), in conjunction with the Lords Spiritual, certain powers as the King's
permanent council when not assembled in Parliament ; (2) other powers as
Lords of Parliament when assembled in Parliament and acting in a judicial
capacity; and (3) certain other powers when assembled in Parliament together
with the Commons of the realm appearing by their representatives in
Parliament, the whole now forming under the King the Legislature of the
country.
The Bishop adds: "The estate of the peerage is identical
with the House of Lords." That account of the peer of our
Parliament and his "claims," an account from his own lips,
as issued in 1821, and the last quoted passage from Stubbs, bring
us face to face with a claim not only that members of the House
of Lords do get a writ of summons, but claim to be members of
a permanent council, and as such a right to such a summons.
It is, of course, the fact that many of the members of that
House at the present day cannot prefer this claim except in an
* Lords' Report on the Dignity of a Peer, I., 151.
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indirect and corporate capacity, and not by a hereditary personal
position. The House of Lords at present has upon its roll about
620 names, including two Archbishops and twenty-four Bishops as
representing the estate of the clergy, and it has also among its
members sixteen representative peers for Scotland and twenty-
eight for Ireland, while several of the peers are virtually "life
peers," being nominated to the House for judicial purposes
without remainder for their heirs. These last-mentioned features,
no doubt, do modify the character of the House, and might
become of greater consequence, but at the moment do not
actually affect, nor would be regarded by the hereditary peer as
threatening the validity of his claim to a writ and place in the
House as a hereditary peer. He claims to-day, as did the peers
of 1821, and as the barons of 1295, that he belongs to the King's
permanent council, claims also to be a judge, and claims that
he has a share in legislation; and this lofty claim is for the peer
personally, and his heirs continually. It is sometimes overlooked
that this last feature has an important bearing upon some modern,
and perhaps not too earnest, claims made for the Lords as
representing the country in some sense. A peerage, a membership
of the House of Lords, has always been individual, and with no
element of representation, save where specially conferred by
statute, as in the union of Scotland, 1707, and the union with
Ireland in 1801. The assembly of the Lords of Parliament in
all their capacities, and especially as the members of that House,
is an assembly of individuals who claim the right to a share in
legislation founded on nothing but a custom of centuries admitting
such a claim.
When it is pointed out that the claim of the Lords of
Parliament to a share of legislative power is founded on the
custom and practice of centuries the validity of the claim is not
in question. Much more important is it to register the fact that
the claim is admitted to-day in a very practical manner. In all
our legislation the House of Lords, consisting for the most part
of individuals who have inherited a place in that House, as we
have seen, claims to have a voice, and to be valid as law the
"advice and consent" of the Lords is necessary. This remarkable
position of the Lords must always be borne in mind.
"And Commons" is found in the formula of the preambles
to Bills and Acts of Parliament. The House of Commons, the
third power in the legislative work, stands out sharply as
differing wholly from both the King and the Lords in relation
to legislation by reason of its representative character. This
representative character of the Commons is the most impressive
feature of the Legislature, and the most jealously guarded of all.
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Visitors, both home and foreign, to the Houses of Parliament, who
trespass into the House of Commons are not likely to forget the
jealous care with which it is sought to keep the Chamber sacred to
those only who have been chosen to represent their fellow-citizens
at the framing of laws. That representative character comes forth
sharply into the light in contrast with the position of the Lords,
who found their presence and power on personal claims only.
The association of two such Chambers in legislation, the one
claiming power as a privilege of individuals, the other chosen
by a large number of citizens throughout the kingdom as
representatives, is a sight that only usage could cover without
stirring common wonder. So unequally yoked together are
these two Houses in the throes of legislation that, regarded
apart from an experience, we might suppose the association would
prove wholly impracticable. That surprise has only become stale,
though it is justified by experience, and our history proves after
all that this association of the non-representative and the
representative has ever been a source of friction and strife.
Ever and anon the incongruity, the practical issues rather, have
been such as to make the strange nature of this association felt,
and seen, and heard of; in short, this last agitation about the
rival work of Lords and Commons is only the last link in a chain
of contests from long past days. The fact is worth recording
once again that the House of Lords consists of about 620
individuals claiming personal power, while the House of Commons
consists of 670 members, chosen representatives of constituencies
formed according to law. Without indulging in any comparisons,
it may be repeated that the conjoining of two such very different
Houses in legislation is a very remarkable thing.
To realise this special position of the representative character
only of the House of Commons, the comparison with the House
of Lords may be drawn out further by means of the claims set
up by the peers as Lords of Parliament. It is true that the
Speaker at the opening of every new Parliament claims access to
the Sovereign for the Commons, and that this is always allowed;
but it is allowed in a collective sense, and not for each person who
is a member of the Commons. The member of the House of
Lords at all times claims access personally to the Sovereign, and
to belong to his permanent council. And, again, the claim to
act judicially, though not formally abandoned or claimed, is not
pressed by the Commons, though Parliament as a whole retains
its judicial character as a "High Court." In an impeachment
the House of Commons prepares a Bill, and it is tried before the
Lords. These privileges claimed for the Lords are founded on the
personal claims of each peer ; the members of the House of
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Commons (as, once again, the trial of election petitions by judges
tends to show) are endowed with representative capacity, and that
only, but that fully, in the great council of the nation.
This general account of the legislative machine for the
United Kingdom (even for dominions beyond the seas) lacks much
in fulness designedly, and leaves some special aspects of the
question for treatment further on. I am now concerned with an
outline of our Legislature in its threefold aspect, and in depicting
the character of each of the three constituent powers. The King
as supreme has been seen to guide the administration of
Government wholly, but his consent is required to laws also,
which he administers. Then there are the Lords who claim a
hereditary place in legislating, and there are the Commons finding
a place in that work by reason of their representative character.
These are the parts of the machine; how do those parts act in
their place, or rather, dropping metaphor, what is the true
relation of these legislative powers to one another? A general
reply must be given first, to be followed afterwards by some
detailed references, for this involves the special aspect of this
constitutional question to which this paper is devoted.
The legislative powers of our Parliament in the larger sense
must be regarded as co-ordinate, each one indispensable. From
this general constitutional outlook such terms as the "Upper"
or "Lower" House have no meaning of substance, and are even
misleading. To confer validity on a project of law the assent
of each of the three powers is indispensable. Our history, indeed,
does cast a flood of light upon such terms as "the Lower House,"
for not only was the House of Commons last to be formed
and acknowledged, but it was only of recent years that its full
character as an independent and rightful legislative power was
admitted freely. The very form still in use, the summons issued
to call a Parliament, suggests the condescension with which the
Commons were consulted. This historic aspect it is also which
explains in turn the Lower and the Upper as applied to the two
Houses of the Legislature, for, as Stubbs points out:
The High Court of Parliament had for one of its historical antecedents the
ancient Court and Council of the King, which was as certainly the parent of
the House of Lords as the shire system was of the House of Commons.
In other words, the Lords represent the old central council
before Edward I., in 1295, and the Commons to-day, as then,
the local districts. It is in that sense that the terms "Upper"
and "Lower" are applied to the several Houses: they are coined
at the Court, or in social conditions; but constitutionally, and in
legislative matters, they have no place. The true view of the three
powers of legislating authority is that King, Lords, and Commons
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are co-ordinate in framing the laws. While that undoubtedly
must be regarded as the constitutional aspect of the matter, it
should not be forgotten that this position has been won, and this
aspect revealed even more clearly by a hard-fought evolution, of
which our history for centuries is eloquent. The calling together
of the shiremen and burgesses to vote supplies for the King to
enable him to wage his wars, that origin of our parliamentary
system after the Conquest, has left in fact to us the conditions
in which the two Houses of the Legislature are spoken of as
Upper and Lower. To hold the fort is necessary at the same
time. Constitutionally, in our law-making, the place of King,
Lords, and Commons is side by side, just as every preamble to
a law requires them; without any one of them there can be no
valid law. That is a position which has been won; it should be
held with a firmness worthy of a nation.
At this point it is necessary to make a distinction. So far,
in considering the work of legislation, the necessity of a
co-operation among the three distinct powers has been emphasised,
that in which they are alike has been exhibited. The differences
between these powers has appeared also; and here it may be
well to emphasise the separation, the integrity of each portion
of the Legislature. The King as Sovereign, supreme and alone;
the Lords a body of councillors enjoying a privilege, individually
and collectively; the Commons increasingly a collective factor of
the representative order; but each one of these three a distinct
factor in the legislative work. If the co-operation of the three
powers is required for the validity of a law that is not of a
mathematical nor any quantitive quality in the case of any one
of the powers. The power conferring validity may be constant,
but may be sub-divisible in several proportions, and on various
occasions. Studied in its historical evolution, the British
Legislature is seen to be not a cunningly-devised machine
according to an elaborate design, but rather like some of our
streets, which contain houses of conflicting design, and reaching
many different altitudes. I have quoted Sir Courtenay Ilbert's
dictum already, that "the English Legislature was originally
constituted, not for legislative, but for financial purposes." That
the course of our history confirms amply; but the fact should
aid us at once to maintain necessary co-operation of the three
powers in legislation, while recording the privileges of the
Commons and the other powers according to the long-established
practice. The King, who long ago condescended to call in the
representatives of the shires and the boroughs, has the privilege
of calling for aid still; but he must call, and call annually, for
in course of time the representatives of the shires and boroughs
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have acquired the power to limit the time and the amount of
money which they will vote for His Majesty's service. The
House of Lords still claims to be a necessary part of the
Legislature whose consent to a measure must be got, but, while
it provides elaborate "standing orders" to regulate "private Bill"
legislation, it does not press the orders regulating its public
business. The Commons, on the other hand, regulates all its
business by certain "standing orders," and both in them, and in
the practice which they regulate, it gives a place, and special
place, to business touching public money. Of these orders two
only are of importance here. The interest is high when we
observe that the House of Commons will not grant any money
except upon a recommendation from the Crown a rule connecting
us at once to the day when an absolutist King was constrained
to seek money aid in far off days from the shiremen and the
burgesses. The other rule declares that the House will not
proceed to consider a demand for money on the day when it is
made, which exhibits the House acquiring and maintaining a
power which the tutor, Time, has shown to be necessary. So we
find the co-operative powers acquiring and exercising different
functions, until it is laid down in May's "Parliamentary
Practice" :
Thus the Crown demands money, the Commons grant it, and the Lords
assent to the grant; but the Commons do not vote money unless it be required
by the Crown; nor do they impose or augment taxes unless such taxation
be necessary for the public service, as declared by the Crown through its
constitutional advisers.
To this pithy summary of the functions of the powers in the
grant of supply and the imposition of taxation, showing us the
House of Commons seised of the substantial portion of the power
in present practice, we may add also a provision of the Audit Act
of 1866. It is well known that this statute regulated the method
of business in the administration of the public finances. The
peculiar officer prominent in this measure is the Comptroller and
Auditor-General, who among other duties is required to prepare
a report on the appropriation accounts submitted to him by the
Treasury for presentation to the House of Commons alone. There
can be no mistaking of the emphasis thus laid upon the share
of the House of Commons in the provision and appropriation of
public money. We are familiar, however, with the fact that
money Bills, raising taxes or granting money, undergo the same
almost identical journey in the Legislature, starting from the
Commons, calling at the Lords, and then mounting the steps
of the Throne for Eoyal approval. Here, then, comes with
force another pithy sentence from the same chapter of the
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"Parliamentary Practice": "The responsibility discharged by
the Lords in the grant of supplies for the service of the Crown,
and in the imposition of taxation, is concurrence, not initiation."
It would be difficult to express the general position advocated
here more succinctly, viz., that while the powers co-operating in
legislation must all be consenting parties, yet there is found
clearly a differentiation of function in that co-operation. The
differentiation in the case of the Commons is with regard to public
money ; and this the Sovereign recognises every year in his
Speech from the Throne, where he addresses a special paragraph
to his "faithful Commons."
Here would seem to be the place to depict still more carefully
and fully the peculiar privilege of the Commons in regard to
financial matters. That privilege may be sought, and sought most
safely, by an examination of its practice, and by an observation
of the reason for that. The noise and clamour attending political
controversy out of doors is such that very frequently the true
and actual position is not perceived; but in this matter, as will
be seen the more it is studied, and above most objects of study,
a clear recognition of the actual position is necessary to a judgment
of the trend of things, and of the way they should be made to
take. Given a Legislature such as has been depicted, consisting
of powers which have acquired a place in the work of framing
our laws, what are the real significances of those places, and,
particularly, how do we find these powers acting in their practical
work, acting, we must and do know, by the consent, if not
quite the approval always, of the other co-ordinate powers? At
every step there is a temptation to go beyond the ascertainment
of the limits and practice of what is usual to the outlining of what
is desirable in view of the origin, character, and power of the
several factors in legislation; but it cannot be repeated too often
how the most fruitful study appears to be an ascertainment of the
functions allowed in practice to the powers reciprocally. This
is all the more promising and pleasant that, so far as the Crown
goes, no question arises to-day as regards its place in the process
of law making. The matter to-day becomes a question of the place,
and especially of the power and functions, of the Lords and the
Commons severally. It should be observed also that the House of
Lords. does not claim in legislation (which is the crux of to-day's
discussion) any peculiar and exclusive power, but a power to
require the consent of the Lords in each and every project of
law. There is the further noteworthy fact that, in form at any
rate, this claim is admitted, not only as historic, but with a direct
regard to practice. While that is so, it is also true that there is
a reservation in making such an admission on the part of many,
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a reservation founded on a perception of the difference in origin
and composition, and, should we add, authority of the two
assemblies.
If the House of Lords does not now formally claim any special
privilege in legislation, the House of Commons does assert such
a privilege in all matters touching public money. This matter,
though apparently elusive, and almost contradictory of the
co-ordinate authority of the legislative powers, is from a practical
point of view of the most substantial character, and in importance
of the highest. When an appreciation of this importance is
lacking a contest such as that over the passing of the Budget of
1909-10 fails to reveal its meaning. That the Bill should have
passed ultimately is also a circumstance which has left some
insensible to the real meaning of the controversy and contest. A
storm is said to have blown hard, and shaken some things rooted
in the ground; but it is admitted that the storm has been passed,
and there is a question not only whether that storm strained the
life of some things proved to be a public danger, but whether,
after all, such an experience should be regarded as stormy ! 1
The fact that such a view is being expressed proves that the
appreciation of that contest has been of a very superficial character
in some cases. Still, there was seen the claim in turn of the
House of Commons to a peculiar function and power in legislation,
such legislation as concerns public money. In the rejection of
the Budget Bill in December, 1909, it must be admitted by the
stoutest lovers of the Commons that the constitution of the public
powers not only admits, but even anticipated, the exercise of a
power to reject such a money Bill. From the Commons point of
view it was contended with equal thoroughness, and perhaps with
a sterner resolve, that, however the form of the powers may be,
not only the circumstances, but the essence of the position
required that the exercise of power should regard justice and
discretion. In other words, the Commons seemed to demand
the "consent" of the Lords to a money Bill.
The Commons were justified in making such a demand by
the precedents of Parliament. No excuse or explanation is
required for an appeal to such precedents; for, of course, it
is a commonplace which requires constant repetition that our
constitution is not written and drawn out formally, but has to be
observed in the practice from day to day and year to year. The
House of Commons last year was warranted so in expecting that
its demand should be regarded in the case of a Bill imposing
taxes upon the people. It is sometimes said by constitutionalists
that4he powers of the Crown and of the House of Lords are only
dormant in certain cases, and have never been abandoned, still
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less disallowed. The veto of the Crown on legislation is referred
to in this connection, and it is added of the Lords that their
powers are in reserve for occasions when a violent attack may be
made upon our institutions and laws. That, however, seems
to be an attempt to secure the advantages at once of a written
and unwritten constitution. Ours is written only in the habits
and usages of legislation, and it is to be expected that
acquiescence in certain practices should be regarded as precedents
of the most valid character. Some aspects of the relation of the
powers to the grant of public money have been exhibited already
by reference, for instance, to the Crown's recognition every year
of the special position of the Commons in money matters, and
inferentially by the virtual admission of the Lords of the justice
of that position.
This reference to the cogent acquiescence of the Lords may
be strengthened almost indefinitely by appeal to the details of
practice. The cogency of that appeal also would be acknowledged
when the noise of discussion was hushed; the final admission of
this by the passing into law of a Bill rejected in December by
the same "revising assembly" in March is an event the meaning
of which is pregnant, even though a general election intervened
between the reversal and rejection. That acceptance of a measure
because the House of Commons insisted that it should be accepted
was only a harmonising of that matter with other facts of
similar and kindred legislative action. It has been pointed out
already how the House of Commons insists upon controlling the
Alpha and Omega of finance. The Crown may suggest, and it-
does so, through its acknowledged Ministers; the Lords may
discuss, and even suggest, and add suggestive clauses to money
Bills without causing much anxiety to anybody; but decision
upon money matters the Commons claim for themselves, and a
decision to be respected, even when the Lords have to do so at
the cost of reversing a public action. This, let it be repeated, is
in harmony with the attitude of the Commons on all things
financial. The privilege of control is pushed to the very edge
of the whole administration, though perhaps in actual practice
the claim is not fulfilled. The King is nominally the head of
the executive. He entrusts administrative duties to Ministers ;
but his acts are subjected at will to the revision and inquisition
of the Commons. The raising of the money required, or, on the
other hand, the disposition of that money, is made into a peculiar
and .annual function of the Commons, which devotes" time to the
subject every session, however many the other claims upon its
time which may go unheeded. To consider how this cherished
duty and -privilege is attended to is not relevant to my purpose
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here; but it is of consequence to insist that the privilege is
assumed, the duty is discharged by the House of Commons, and
by no other power or assembly. A whole network of rules for
business is fashioned before the face of the whole world, the very
centre and core of which is the power to give or withhold the
money required by the administration; in Ways and Means
Committee the form and amount of the taxes is fixed; in Supply
the sums to be spent in various services on land and sea (and air)
are sanctioned after submission in considerable detail; a double
check <upon the amount to be issued is instituted by the several
functions of the Treasury and the Comptroller- General. It will
be seen below how the claim to control by the Commons is in
principle and in practice of a thoroughgoing character; and the
claim has been brought to the arbitrament of affairs, where the
Lords by ultimate recession from their position have allowed it
frequently, just as the Crown does explicitly every year vow by
addressing a special paragraph of the Speech from the Throne
about estimates to the Commons alone.
The appeal to history is at once a confirmation of an ancient
right allowed to the Commons, and the all-sufficient illustration
of this feature of our unwritten constitution. Our constitution
is a series of recorded incidents; it arose from the wants of the
days, as they passed, and in the result we see first how those who
were nearest the King, the clergy and the barons, were called into
his council, then how they acquired power because of the King's
need of money, and finally how the same pressing need caused the
representatives of the shires and the boroughs to be summoned.
Chief of all for my purpose is it to watch how these commoners
gradually acquired a right to grant and to fix the supplies which
the King required. An almost equal importance attaches to the
remark of Sir Courtenay Ilbert, that "the English Legislature
was orginally constituted, not for legislative, but for financial
purposes." The importance of this was soon felt in the earlier
days of our Parliament since the Norman Conquest, and the
breaking of the feudal system which set in.
At the signing of the Great Charter in 1215 one of the leading
provisions was that promising that any aids or scutages, in addition
to those which had been payable by tenants-in-chief of the Crown,
should be voted by a council of prelates and greater barons
summoned separately, and of the lesser barons and tenants-in-chief
summoned by writ addressed to the Sheriff in the County Court.
The eighty years following, to 1295, were years of constant effort
to realise that promise, that contract, accompanied by an effort
of some barons to establish their authority for some of the
King's failing prerogative. Simon de Montfort's Parliament at
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Westminster in 1265 was summoned in relation to certain levies
required by King Henry III. ; that Parliament of 1290, which
was called a "full Parliament," consisted of bishops and barons
only, but was summoned to grant an aid to marry the King's
daughter; and, as it continued to sit during the year, in June
writs were issued to elect knights of the shire on or before the
15th of July. Then again, as the passing of "Quia Emptores"
shows, the law of the transfer of land was designed to preserve the
feudal dues among other objects. The King's income during the
next few years was much wasted by war with France, and there
was much strife in securing supplies from barons and clergy.
The new element in the constitution was sought by the harassed
and impatient King. A Parliament summoned at Westminster in
1294, at which knights of the shires were present, was followed
in 1295 by the great council, which is regarded as having been
a "prophetic inauguration of the representative system." It is
important to observe that already the share which the writs
allotted in the work to be done by the Commons, or those who
were neither of the baronage nor the clergy, was to execute what
would be done by common counsel. That Parliament of 1295
called by Edward I. was not only the first complete Parliament
of the three estates, but we see those estates also making their
various grants to the King.
The power of the Commons, as they were known later, grew
rapidly in those early Plantagenet days. Soon it was a maxim
that "what affects all should be approved by all." More than
this. In 1340, being the 14th of Edward III., "Win. de la Pole
and Jno. Charnels are called before certain persons assigned by
the Parliament, and demanded to give an account of their
receipts and expenditure." That has been said to have been the
first example of money given by Parliament having to be accounted
for to persons appointed so. More definite still is that incident of
1406, during Henry IV. 's reign, when the Commons require
"that certain persons may be appointed auditors, to take and
examine the accounts of the Lord Furnival and Sir John
Pelham, made Treasurers of the War in the last Parliament."
Such instances will give point to a passage of Stubbs' on the
reigns of Edward II., Edward III., and Richard II., when he
speaks of the House of Commons growing into a full share of
political power, and of -the recognition of its full right as the
representative of the mass and body of the nation, and of the
vindication of its claim to exercise the powers which in the
preceding century had been possessed by the baronage only.
It is clear from the first introduction of the Commons into the
national council that their power and influence was based on their
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financial ability. This will not be construed as denying the
power which they derived from their permanence and solidarity
as a corporate body. The state of the country was changing
rapidly in the thirteenth and fourteenth century. As regards
supply for the public service the source, naturally, had been the
land, which was held so largely on military service on condition
of contributions of various kinds from the tenants-in-chief of the
Crown. As the population grew, and the taxation became less
feudal, the share of the commonalty in the supply became larger,
until the rise of a "Parliament," as we see, admitted not only
clergy and barons, but also "knights, burgesses, and other
freemen of the land." The representation of such new elements
of the lieges in the King's council grew rapidly into a recognition,
a practical recognition, of it by the preponderating voice of the
commonalty in the supply services. We are not, of course, to
think of matters in the ordered, settled, and smooth state of
working of our days : there was the incident, for instance, in the
days of Henry IV., in 1407. The Commons were invited to hear
what the Lords considered should be the supply to be voted to
the King. They object, for "the Commons were thereupon greatly
disturbed, " affirming that this was in great prejudice and derogation
of their liberties. The King yielded, and it was declared that
it should be lawful both for the Lords and Commons to commune amongst
themselves in Parliament, in absence of the King, of the state of the realm
and of the remedy necessary for the same, but that neither House should
make any report to the King of any grant nor of the discussions upon such
grant before the Lords and Commons were of one assent and accord, and then
in manner and form as had been accustomed.
Henry also laid down that taxes were "by the Commons granted
and by the Lords assented." It is usual to say that Parliament
was fully reared from this point, and the supremacy of the
Commons on questions of supply recognised by the practice. That
sufficient witness (and without suspicion on such a question as
this), the "Eeport on the Dignity of a Peer" (1820-1), speaking of
this incident, remarks:
This declaration on the part of the King seems to have placed the King
and the two Houses of Parliament each in the separate and independent
situation in which they now respectively stand. Not, indeed, as a novelty, but
as a solemn declaration in Parliament of what had been before accustomed,
whatever proceedings of a contrary tendency might have taken place in former
Parliaments : and this declaration in Parliament, with the Statute of the 15th
of Edward II. before noticed and the Statute passed in this Parliament,
declaring who should be the electors of the knights of the shires, . . .
seem to have completely settled what was to be deemed the true constitution
of the Legislature of the kingdom, especially with respect to the important
point of grant of aid to the King and with respect to the separate and distinct
offices and duties of the two Houses of Parliament and their respective separate
and independent proceeding.
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Such a pronouncement, summing up what may be regarded as
the point to which Parliament had developed in 1407, must be
regarded as most striking, and all the more as coming from such a
source as this. We must read history, however, remembering how
the wills of men regard the conclusions of the constitutionalists;
the settled practice has been attacked, accordingly, on many
occasions.
It would be instructive, but somewhat tedious, to follow the
course of Parliamentary history on this question of procedure in
Parliament from that point in 1407, where we see it admitted in
practice that the gifts of supply were from the commonalty, but
confirmed by the nobles and clergy. Though regarded as
established at that date, we know that by various devices,
especially by the irregular summons of Parliament, the spirit of
that constitution was violated in almost every reign of the Ecses
time, the Tudor period, and the following crucial time of the
Stuarts. In those days, of course, the chief cause of contention
was the Royal prerogative, as. opposed to the will of Parliament
as a whole. The records of Parliament supply ample evidence
showing a delicate state of relations between the two Houses
during those stirring periods. For my present purpose it will
suffice to quote a celebrated incident bearing directly upon our
present controversy, and raising the issue in a very piquant
manner, which is found in a note of the third volume of Hatsell's
"Precedents." It appears that in 1702 Arthur, Lord Anglesea,
published a book, entitled "The Eights of the House of Lords
Asserted, with Eemarks on the two late Conferences in 1671."
His lordship says
The next assertion of the Commons, that it is an unsafe thing in any
settled Government to argue the reasons of fundamental constitutions, is a very
great truth; but, as true as it is, it cannot be of weight enough to induce the
Lords to forbear the justification of their rights; and when the Commons come
to show in what manner they apprehend the arguing of the fundamental
constitutions may be prejudicial to the Lords they take occasion to question the
Lords' rights in judicature.
It was at one of these conferences that the Lords having
demanded "Where is that record or contract in Parliament to be
found where the Lords appropriate the right of granting supplies
to the Commons in exclusion of themselves?" the Commons
reply :
To this rhetorical question the Commons answer by another question, where
is that record or contract by which the Commons submitted that judicature
should be appropriated to the Lords in exclusion of themselves? Wherever
your lordships find the last record, the Commons will show the first endorsed
on the same roll; the truth is, precedents there are where both sides do
exercise those several rights, but none how either side came by them.
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That quotation from Hatsell proves how the old precedent of
1407 had been remembered throughout the intervening three
hundred years, and was a matter which had caused much
dissension throughout the time. It proves also that, after all the
trials of the Stuart and Commonwealth period, at the close of
William III.'s reign there was a living issue, not as to the
Crown's rights, but as between the Lords and the Commons,
the latter claiming successfully by precedent the privilege and
right to fix supply. The form of the reply to Lord Anglesea
deserves close attention. There is no act, no resolution even,
which gave to the Lords a judicature, there is none which gave
to Ihe Commons alone a decision in the supply of money to the
Crown. It is implied, and so justifying Tennyson's famous
line of
A land . . . where freedom slowly broadens down
From precedent to precedent.
The precedent was not single or accidental ; there was a
practice from those early Plantagenet times which gave by the
direct acknowledgment of the Crown, by the constant admission
of the Lords, the fixing of supply to the Commons.
There are, however, precedents of somewhat later times,
including some of recent date, to a few of which it will be advisable
to refer in illustration of the legislative functions of the two
Houses. No sooner had Charles II. returned "from his travels"
than in 1671 (some eleven years after the return) there was a
difference between the Lords and Commons about money Bills.
Long, as we have seen, had the Commons claimed the right to fix
supplies and to initiate such legislation. They now passed a
resolution "That in all aids given to the King by the Commons
the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords." In 1678,
Charles being in the secret pay of Louis XIV. of France, and
Danby favouring old and battered doctrines about the unlawful
character of resistance to the King, Parliament also having been
prorogued for fifteen months, the Commons, on the declaration of
war, are found to pass this further resolution:
That all aids and supplies, and aids to his Majesty in Parliament, are the
sole gift of the Commons, and all Bills for the granting of any such aids and
supplies ought to begin with the Commons ; and that it is the undoubted and
sole right of the Commons to direct, limit, and appoint, in such Bills, the ends,
purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such
grants, which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords.
The harnessing of Lords and Commons together proved quite
as uneasy at that as at any other time; and though the claims
of the Commons were allowed time after time, as in 1678, they
have had to be asserted again and again. That assertion in May,
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1689 (after the Revolution, it will be observed), is couched in
language of memorable kind. The Lords amended a Poll Bill,
adding a clause appointing Commissioners to rate themselves.
The Commons disagreed, and said:
All moneys, aids, and taxes to be raised or charged upon the subjects
in Parliament are the gift and grant of the Commons in Parliament; and are,
and always have been and ought to be, by the constitution and ancient course
and laws of Parliament, and by the ancient and undoubted rights of the
Commons of England, the sole and entire gift, grant, and present of the
Commons in Parliament; and to be laid, rated, raised, collected, paid, levied,
and returned for the public service and use of the Government as the
Commons shall direct, limit, appoint, and modify the same. And the Lords
are not to alter such gift, grant, limitation, appointment, or modification of the
Commons in any part or circumstance, or otherwise to interpose in such Bills
than to pass or reject the same for the whole, without any alteration or
amendment though in ease of the subjects. As the Kings and Queens, by the
constitutions and laws of Parliament, are to take all or leave all in such gifts,
grants, and presents from the Commons, and cannot take part and leave part,
so are the Lords to pass all or reject all, without diminution or alteration.
At the Revolution, not only was the prerogative of the Crown
denned and limited, but it is also evident that in 1689 with great
plainness of speech the Commons vindicated their privilege of
fixing the amount and method of supply. As against the Lords,
it should be observed how the above resolutions claim for the
Commons not only to fix the amount and method of supply, but
that the Lords shall not alter that supply in any way. That was
the long step taken even at the Revolution from the timid days
of the Plantagenets when the shiremen were reluctantly called
into council. These descendants of the shiremen now demand the
control of the money which they vote, and their demand is
conceded.
The cases in which the relations of the two Houses of
Legislature respecting public money have been involved in
controversy or become strained since those days of the Revolution
have been many ; but the results have been singularly uniform in
support of the steady claim of the Commons to control the public
funds. That notwithstanding, the position has been held only by
constant watchfulness, as in some form or another this privilege
was subjected to assault. The classical case in modern days was
that of 1860 and 1861, when Mr. Gladstone as Chancellor of the
Exchequer proposed to repeal the paper duty as part of his 1860
Budget, but this was rejected by the Lords. On the 6th July
the Commons resolved that the power of the Lords to reject
Bills relating to taxation
was justly regarded by this House with peculiar jealousy, as affecting the
right of the Commons to grant supplies, and to provide the ways and means
for the service of the year. . . . that to guard, for the future, against any
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undue exercise of that power by the Lords, and to secure to the Commons
their rightful control over taxation and supply, this House has in its own hands
the power so to impose and remit taxes, and to frame Bills of supply, that the
right of the Commons as to matter, manner, measure, and time may be
maintained inviolate.
In 1861 the Budget proposals were placed all in one Bill,
and the Lords passed it ultimately. That plan of one Bill only for
a Budget was not a pure novelty, however, as Mr. Pitt's Budget
of 1787 was placed in a single Bill. Sir Wm. Harcourt in 1894
boldly altered the name into the Finance Bill, and that has since
been the title of the Bill which contains the Budget proposals for
the year. That was the title of the Bill of 1909, which the Lords
rejected in December, only to accept it in March, 1910.
The general principle of the supremacy of the Commons in
matters of finance has been regarded long as placed beyond a
doubt, as the precedents which have been adduced show, and
tfre recent experience brings confirmation. How the incident of
the Budget of 1909-10 will appear in history cannot be doubted
also; it will seem as though old fires long smouldering had been
seen in eruption, sudden and startling, but perhaps leaving little
save a memory of the fact that such fires are only hidden out of
sight. Finance, then, is in charge of the House of Commons
exclusively, so far as the amount and the fixing of all such points
are concerned. How far the scope of a Finance Bill extends is
not so easy to decide, except that on many occasions the
Commons have made it plain that any substantial infringement of
the privilege will be opposed resolutely. May's "Practice,"
however, says that
by the practice and usage based upon that resolution [of 1678] , the Lords
are excluded, not only from the power of initiating or amending Bills dealing
with public expenditure or revenue, but also from initiating public Bills
which would create a charge upon the people by the imposition of local or
other rates, or which deal with the administration or employment of those
charges. Bills which thus infringe the privileges of the Commons, when
received from the Lords, are either laid aside or postponed.
Complete and sole power to fix public charges of every kind,
without . alteration, is the principle contended for in these days
by the House of Commons.
To trace the history of the Lords and Commons during the
centuries in their legislative relations, even though cursorily, is
impossible without some regard to the larger question of that
relation to which the attention of the country is given to-day.
Though the eruption of the Lords in 1909 over the Budget Bill
was in form a contention over financial matters, it was recognised
on all sides as much more than that. Expressed thus, it should
not be understood as though I suggested that public finance were
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a minor consideration. The privilege of the Commons was gained
in part because of the fundamental and practical importance of
finance to a representative assembly. The objection to finance on
the part of the Lords was an objection which was known to arise
from other points of view also, focussing chiefly, it is true, in
money matters. To find the House of Lords after such a
demonstration, of so signal a character, made on ground where
battles had been fought and lost many times before, surrendering
under the pretence that the people had spoken at a general
election, will not be regarded as anything else in constitutional
history than another defeat brought about by a lack of wisdom.
The importance of that defeat as regards finance is very great;
but it is, of course, of immense importance to regard the place
of the Lords in legislation generally as involved in the issue which
was put to the hazard. That issue has been raised definitely,
and the review of the part and power of Lords and Commons
in matters of finance cannot but point in a direction leading to
change.
Let it be recognised clearly that when the Budget Bill of
1909-10 became law after one rejection by the Lords the only
event decided was the supreme place of the Commons in such
matters. No competent authority has sought to deny the legal, or
rather constitutional, right of the Lords to reject such a Bill.
Practice, however, has placed the King's administration in a
position so dependent upon the House of Commons, and its
votes for special purposes, that a place for early repentance has
been provided for the House of Lords, which can gain nothing
by a state of chaos.
The review has brought out clearly the strength of the
Commons as founded in their representative character. Has the
full fruit of this principle been gathered in our legislative practice ?
Has the effect of that to stop at Bills defined and declared to be
Finance Bills? Or shall it be sought to make it a rule of
Parliament, effective by consent, or secured by statute, that the
plainly-expressed will of the representative House shall be made
to prevail? Let anyone read and ponder over our constitutional
development and say nay, if it is possible, to such questions.
The position of the Commons as acknowledged representatives
of the citizens of all classes is as strong as the remarkably
unrepresentative character of the Lords is weak and wonderful. If
even in Plantagenet times, if at the ebullient times of the
Restoration, the power of the representatives was felt to be so
strong, what shall be said of to-day when, after several "Reform
Bills," the House of Commons is more representative than the
legislators of those days dreamed of ! The Commons are strong
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in their character of a people's House, and there is a probability
that the will of that House may have to be registered by the Lords
in all matters of legislation unless we are supposed to be destined
to see a "free" people accept quietly a negativing of their desires
by the privileged Lords. Absit omen! This is not the place to
discuss the large and momentous problem of government and
legislation which is thus forced on the country by its present
needs and position ; but in closing I cannot be wrong in expressing
the conviction that a review of the way in which the Commons
gained their strong place in financial matters points to the opening
of a new chapter in national matters arising out of this in a future
that will not be far away. To believe that our constitutional
development is to be arrested, and that legislation is to fail
precisely at the point in which so much of our national glory is
centred the defeat of the representative principle, in short is
even in these unheroic days a very hard task.
Meantime the strength of the nation appears to be due to the
momentous resolution passed by the House of Commons at the
instance of Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman on the 26th June, 1907,
the object of which was to make it certain that within a single
Parliament the decision of the Commons shall prevail, not in
finance only, but in all legislation.
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The Co-operative Movement in Relation to
Literature and Art.
BY A. E. FLETCHEB.
CHE Co-operative movement has not directly influenced
literature and art to any great extent. It has not produced
Co-operative poets, painters, actors, musicians, sculptors,
or architects. Indirectly, however, it has had an enormous
influence over the minds of the votaries of art, whether they have
expressed themselves in language or in colour, in marble or in
sound. Co-operation and trade unionism were the chief factors
which counteracted the degrading results of the industrial
revolution brought about by the substitution of machinery for
hand labour. There is nothing more terrible in the history of the
English people than the consequences of this change which was
effected at the beginning of the last century. Labour-saving
invention is always to be commended, and its progress is
inevitable. Unfortunately, however, the capitalists captured the
great labour-saving machines invented by the Arkwrights, the
Cromptons, the Cartwrights, and others, and reduced to a condition
of factory slavery the workers who had formerly owned their own
tools and worked with them in their own homes. I need not dwell
upon the horrors of the social conditions, including the institution
of child slavery, which this revolution created. Mr. John Wilson,
M.P., in his very interesting autobiography, recently published
by Mr. Fisher Unwin, has given us a lurid picture of the
sufferings of the working classes in the days preceding the
abolition of the Corn Laws and the adoption of the Factory Acts.
It was those horrible conditions which aroused the sympathy
of all right-thinking people and inspired the great industrial
reformers of the early half of the last century. Foremost among
them were Eobert Owen and William Thompson. The story of the
career of Eobert Owen is too well known to Co-operators to need
repetition here. Biographical justice, however, has not been done
to William Thompson. It is a curious fact that one of the earliest
and greatest apostles of Socialism was an Irish landlord. William
Thompson had large estates in County Cork, and one fine morning
he woke up in a reflective mood and contrasted his own affluent
position with that of the poor peasantry on his estate. He came
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to the conclusion that he had for years been living on rent, the
product of other men's labours. He elaborated this idea and
produced a volume which, according to Professor Menger. of
Vienna University, anticipated the economic doctrines of Karl
Marx. Thompson was undoubtedly a very remarkable man. He
wrote not only a great work on the distribution of wealth, but he
was the first to proclaim the doctrine of the equal political rights
of women and men. Mill was certainly familiar with Thompson's
book on the rights of women, and was no doubt converted
by it. Thompson threw himself heart and soul into the Owenite
movement, and bequeathed his fortune to its propaganda. His
will was disputed by a distant relative on the ground that the
money had been left for an immoral purpose ! It took thirty-five
years for the Irish Law Courts to decide this question. The
decision was that the plaintiff had established his claim. It was
immoral to leave money for the support of Co-operation and for
propaganda for the rights of women. We have made a little
progress since then.
Owen and Thompson received their inspiration largely from
William Godwin, the pioneer of liberal thought in economics,
politics, and literature of the nineteenth century. Godwin not
only wrote books on politics and economics, but he also wrote
a novel, "Caleb Williams," which created a great sensation.
The novelists before him, Eichardson, Fielding, Smollett, and
Goldsmith, ably pictured the social conditions of the various ranks
of society of their day, but they all, with the exception of
Goldsmith, seemed to regard poverty as a necessary institution.
They did not suggest a remedy for the evils which they described.
In "Caleb Williams," Godwin not only gave us a picturesque
account of the social conditions prevailing at the end of the
eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth, but he
suggested the methods by which the extravagances of wealth on
the one hand and the sufferings of poverty on the other could be
prevented. He put into the mouth of one of his leading characters
a wealthy landlord the following confession, which was
regarded as revolutionary at a time when it was dangerous even
to suggest that property had its duties as well as its rights.
Said Mr. Falkland:
It is very true that there is a distinction of ranks. I believe that
distinction is a good thing, and necessary to the peace of mankind. But,
however necessary it may be, we must acknowledge that it puts some
hardships upon the lower orders of society. It makes one's heart ache to
think that one man is born to the inheritance of every superfluity, while the
whole share of another, without any demerit of his, is drudgery and starving;
and that all this is indispensable. We that are rich must do everything in our
power to lighten the yoke of these unfortunate people.
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The writings of Godwin, Owen, and Thompson gave a great
impetus to the whole movement towards Co-operation. They had
immense influence upon other writers of genius, notably in fiction.
The works of the fathers of Co-operation were followed by
Disraeli's "Sybil," Mrs. Gaskell's "Mary Barton," and those
wonderful romances of Dickens, which proved him to be not only
a great literary artist, but a prophet and social reformer. The
heroes of both Disraeli's "Sybil," which is certainly a work
of genius, and of Mrs. Gaskell's "Mary Barton" are trade
unionists, but both novels are aglow with the Co-operative spirit.
I never read "Sybil" without regretting that Disraeli abandoned
literature for politics. Charles Kingsley and Frederick Denison
Maurice and their fellow-workers in the Christian Socialist
movement undoubtedly also caught inspiration from the early
Co-operative movement, as also did Arthur Hugh Clough, who,
though Co-operation is. not a musical word, managed at least to
make rhythm of it in the following passage from "Dipsychus"-
The earth moves slowly, if it moves at all,
And by the general, not the single, force
Of the linked members of the vast machine.
In all these crowded rooms of industry
No individual soul has loftier leave
Than fiddling with a piston or a valve.
Well, one could bear that also; one would drudge
And do one's petty part, and be content
In base manipulation, solaced still
By thinking of the leagued fraternity
And of co-operation and the effect
Of the great engine, if, indeed, it work,
And is not a mere treadmill ! Which it may be
Who can confirm it is not?
It was impossible for the Manchester School to survive
the exposure by these and other writers notably Euskin of the
fallacy on which the main doctrine of Manchesterism was based.
That fallacy was that you can best promote the interests of the
whole community by giving free play to the selfishness of its
individual members. Clough has a scathing satire on this
doctrine :
Each for himself is still the rule ;
We learn it when we go to school
The devil takes the hindmost, O !
And when the schoolboys grow to men,
In life they learn it o'er again
The devil takes the hindmost, !
For in the Church and at the bar.
On 'Change, at Court, where'er they are,
The devil takes the hindmost, !
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Husband for husband, wife for wife,
Are careful that in married life
The devil takes the hindmost, !
From youth to age, whate'er the game,
The unvarying practice is the same
The devil takes the hindmost, O !
And after death, we do not know,
But scarce can doubt, where'er we go,
The devil takes the hindmost, !
Ti rel de rol, ti rol de ro,
The devil takes the hindmost, !
The Co-operative movement was really a revolt against
Manchesterism. It was based upon the principle of mutual help
and brotherhood. Th6 ambition of many of its members, however,
to hug their "divi." may not have helped to realise its highest
ideal, yet the movement was in the direction of the realisation
of a high ideal. Hence, though the pioneers of the Co-operative
movement were free thinkers, their ethical teaching appealed
powerfully to Maurice, Kingsley, Ludlow, and Thomas Hughes,
who tried to establish the Co-operative industry on a Christian
basis. As Dr. John Rae points out in his admirable work,
"Contemporary Socialism," the Christian Socialists inveighed
against the Manchester creed, then in the flush of success, as
if it were the special anti-Christ of the nineteenth century.
Lassalle himself has not used harder, more passionate, or more
unjust words of it. Maurice said he dreaded above everything
"that horrible catastrophe of a Manchester ascendancy, which
I believe in my soul would be fatal to intellect, morality, and
freedom;" and Kingsley declared that "of all narrow, conceited,
hypocritical, anarchic, and atheistic schemes of the universe the
Cobden and Bright one was exactly the worst. " Nobody has more
contempt for the Manchester economic doctrine than I have, but
at the same time I revere the memory of Cobden and Bright for
the noble protest they made against the Crimean War and for
their splendid advocacy of international arbitration. Probably
Cobden and Bright Cobden, at any rate would have joined the
Socialist Party had they not been born a generation too soon,
following the example of John Stuart Mill, who avowed himself
a Socialist though he did not attach himself to any of the Socialist
organisations.
The Christian Socialists, says Dr. Eae, agreed entirely with
the Socialists in condemning the reigning industrial system; it
was founded on unrighteousness; its principles were not only
un-Christian but anti-Christian; and in spite of its apparent
commercial victories it would inevitably end in ruin and disaster.
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Two peculiarities distinguished Christian Socialism from other
phases of the movement. One is that its advocates insisted
strongly upon the futility of mere external changes of condition,
unattended by corresponding changes of inner character and life.
"There is no fraternity," said Maurice, "without a common
Father." Just as it is impossible to maintain free institutions
among a people who want the virtues of freemen, so it is
impossible to realise fraternity in the general arrangements of
society unless men possess a sufficient measure of the industrial
and social virtues. Hence the stress the Christian Socialists of
England laid on the education of the working classes.
The other peculiarity is that the Christian Socialists did not
seek in any way whatever to interfere with private property or
to invoke the assistance of the State. They believed with
Holyoake that self-help is a sound principle, both morally and
politically, and they believed it to be sufficient. They held it to
be sufficient, not merely in course of time, but immediately
even, to effect a change in the face of society. .For they loved and
believed in their cause with a generous and touching enthusiasm,
and were so sincerely and absolutely persuaded of its truth
themselves that they hardly entertained the idea of other minds
resisting it. Mr. T. Hughes said:
I certainly thought that here we had found the solution to the great
labour question ; but I was also convinced that we had nothing to do but just
to announce it, and found an association or two, in order to convert all
England, and usher in the millennium at once, so plain did the whole thing
seem to me. I will not undertake to answer for the rest of the council, but
I doubt whether I was at all more sanguine than the majority.
The chief inspirers of the Christian Socialist movement, which
is based on co-operative principles, were men of fine culture some
of them famous authors. Mr. Thomas Hughes wrote one of the
most successful books of the last century, "Tom Brown's
Schooldays. ' '
Frederick Denison Maurice was Professor of English Literature
at King's College, London, and the author of a history of
Philosophy, besides a number of theological works and a novel
called "Eustace Conway."
Charles Kingsley won his way to the front rank of English
novelists, and more than any of them not even excepting
Dickens probed to the depths of the misery of the poor, and
showed how they were demoralised by private charity instead of
being helped by the rich to become independent of doles which
could not be done without co-operation. The two novels by which
Kingsley will live are "Alton Locke" and "Yeast."
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In a conversation between the gamekeeper Tregarva and the
Squire, he gives us in "Yeast" the real grievance from which the
poor suffer for want of combination and through their dependence
on the landlord :
"You seem to see both sides of a question, certainly," said Lancelot.
"But what a miserable state of things that the labouring classes, should
require all these societies and charities and helps from the rich ! that an
industrious freeman cannot live without alms ! ' '
"So I have thought this long time," quietly answered Tregarva.
"But Miss Honoria she is not afraid to tell her father the truth?"
"Suppose, sir, when Adam and Eve were in the garden, that all the devils
had come up and played their fiends' tricks before them do you think they'd
have seen any shame in it?"
"I really cannot tell," said Lancelot, smiling.
"Then I can, sir. They'd have seen no more harm in it than there was
harm already in themselves, and that was none. A man's eyes can only see
what they've learnt to see."
Lancelot started : it was a favourite dictum of his in Carlyle's works.
"Where did you get that thought, my friend?"
"By seeing, sir."
"But what has that to do with Miss Honoria?"
"She is an angel of holiness herself, sir, and, therefore, she goes on
without blushing or suspecting where our blood would boil again. She sees
people in want, and thinks it must be so, and pities them and relieves them.
But she don't know want herself, and, therefore, she don't know that it makes
men beasts and devils. She's as pure as God's light herself, and, therefore, she
fancies everyone is as spotless as she is. And there's another mistake in your
charitable great people, sir. When they see poor folk sick or hungry before
their eyes they pull out their purses fast enough. God bless them, for they
wouldn't like to be so themselves. But the oppression that goes on all the
year round, and the want that goes on all the year round, and the filth,
and the lying, and the swearing, and the profligacy that go on all the year
round, and the sickening weight of debt, and the miserable grinding anxiety
from rent-day to rent-day, and Saturday night to Saturday night, that crushes
a man's soul down, and drives every thought out of his head but how he is
to fill his stomach and warm his back and keep a house over his head, till he
daren't for his life take his thoughts one moment off the meat that
perisheth oh, sir, they never felt this, and, therefore, they never dream
that there are thousands who pass them in their daily walks who feel this,
and feel nothing else."
Says Ruskin :
Government and co-operation are in all things the Laws of Life : anarchy
and competition the Laws of Death. And with respect to the mode in which
these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I
from invalidating such security that the whole gist of these papers will be
found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range ; and whereas it has long
been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the
rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the
property of the poor.
It is only on the Co-operative principle that you can prevent
the robbery of the poor by the rich. Euskin in his comparison
between the Co-operative systems of Cheny and Citeaux does
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not show a just appreciation of the movement which the Eochdale
Pioneers made practicable. At Cheny they made jewellery for
which Euskin had a feminine admiration, but at Citeaux, he
tells us,
There is no jewellery going on any more, but we have an entire I was
going to say Rochdale, but I ought to say Clear Dale (clair vaux) Co-operation
of every food-producing and pot-boiling business, organised in groups, each
with their own masters, the brother millers, brother bakers, greengrocers,
carpenters, masons, smiths, weavers; and at the head of the collective
groups belonging to each abbey one monk charged with the distribution and
organisation of all the work.
I do not know whether Ruskin meant this for a sneer at
Rochdale or not. If he did, he made a great mistake in assuming
that the Co-operative movement in this country is wholly given
up to pot-boiling business. Amongst the distinguished men who
have lectured for or written for the British Co-operative movement
is to be included Mr. Ruskin 's greatest disciple, William Morris.
Education has always been a strong subject with our Co-operators,
nor have they altogether neglected music and the arts.
The Co-operative movement on Rochdale lines has been a
success because, unlike the Co-operation of the Christian
Socialists, it has never been mixed up with theology. Tennyson,
the bosom friend of Maurice, seems to have been entirely in
sympathy with the Rochdale movement. Holyoake's articles
in an early impression of the Co-operative News attracted the
attention of the then Poet Laureate and his wife. Referring to
Holyoake's propaganda movement on the Continent, Mrs.
Tennyson wrote to him :
I have read with great pleasure your very interesting account of your
visit to Milan, and I thank you heartily for your kindness in thinking of
me and sending it to me. He who sows is so often not the one who reaps on
this earth of ours that I cannot but feel you are exceedingly happy in this
rich harvest of your labours, and in the still richer promise of harvest to
come. Co-operation seems to me one of those grand simple applications of
eternal truths to the everyday work of the world that, having been made,
must extend indefinitely.
Tennyson himself would have written an ode for the first
Co-operative Festival at the Crystal Palace had he not. been
confined to his bed by sickness. I do not wish to imply that
Tennyson was opposed to the Christian Socialists, but the
correspondence between Mrs. Tennyson and Holyoake indicates
that her husband thoroughly approved of the Rochdale propaganda.
The mistake which the Christian Socialists made was in assuming
that Co-operation was not in itself religious. Socialism and the
Real Presence they recognised as the creed of the High Church
party, as it largely prevails to-day. Holyoake, who was one of
the most tolerant of men, took up an ethical position entirely
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unallied to theology, but he never dreamt of opposing the good
works which Maurice, Kingsley, Neale, Hughes, and Ludlow
started with so much enthusiasm. Holyoake, however, earnestly
believed that the position taken up by these pioneers of social
betterment was illogical. He thought their theological doctrines
erroneous, and when doctrinal error, he urged, is allied to
excellent practice, such as that presented in the Co-operative
exertions of the Christian Socialists, "we will leave their doctrinal
error alone till we can find an opportunity of disproving it without
appearing at the same time as the opponents of their good works. "
The Christian Socialist movement, however, was not altogether
a failure. It did a noble work for education long before the
necessity of educating the people was recognised by Parliament,
and the Working Men's College in Great Ormond Street is a lasting
memorial to the disinterested efforts of these noble-minded men.
Many distinguished men of letters besides Maurice and Kingsley
have given their gratuitous services as lecturers at the College,
and bequeathed to it a tradition of literary and artistic inspiration.
Euskin was an unattached Co-operator, and inclined to
condemn, as I have shown, the materialistic tendencies of the
movement. He founded a Co-operative Society after his own
high ideals, which were not so much theological as aesthetic.
Ruskin lived largely in the past, and by his Guild of St. George
he tried to revive the principles upon which the Guilds of the
Middle Ages were based. These Guilds, being combinations both
of masters and workmen, were trade unions adapted to the needs
of their times, but the real ground of their decay, as Ruskin
himself admits, lay chiefly in the conditions of selfishness and
isolation which were more or less involved in their vow of
fraternity and their laws of apprenticeship. The same danger
of decay threatens all combinations which do not recognise that
the interest of the community is far greater than the interest of
the individual. Ruskin on one occasion said to the members of
St. George's Guild:
I must warn you very earnestly against the notion of "co-operation" as
the policy of a privileged number of persons for their own advantage. You
have this land given you for your work that you may do the best you can
for all men; you are bound by certain laws of work, that "the best you
can" may indeed be good and exemplary, and although I shall endeavour to
persuade you to accept nearly every law of the old Guilds, that acceptance,
I trust, will be with deeper understanding of the wide purposes of so narrow
fellowship ; and (if I thought it not too foreign to your present temper)
more in the spirit of a body of monks gathered for missionary service than
of a body of tradesmen gathered for the promotion even of the honestest and
usefullest trade. It is, indeed, because I have seen you to be capable of
co-operation, and to have conceived among yourselves the necessity of severe
laws for its better enforcement, that I have determined to make the first essay
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of St. George's work at Sheffield. But I do uot think you have yet learned
that such unity of effort can only be vital or successful when organised verily
for the "interests of England," not for your own; and that the mutiny
against co-operative law which you hitherto selfishly, and therefore guiltily,
sought to punish, is, indeed, to be punished for precisely the same reasons
as mutiny in the Channel Fleet.
Kuskin, like the leaders of the old school of Co-operators,
was an individualist. He believed, it is true, in State control
of education, but he had no faith in the democracy as a whole.
Neither had Owen or Holyoake. Owen did not support the
Chartist movement. He imagined it possible to realise his ideals
for the betterment of the masses by enlisting the sympathy of the
classes. Holyoake was a Chartist, and imagined that when the
masses secured Parliamentary representation the obstacles to
combined individual effort would be removed. He did not,
however, believe in State control of industries. There is very
little literature in favour of this view. John Stuart Mill, it is
true, in his earlier writings favoured Holyoake 's individualist
opinions, but in his later years Mill adopted the modern Socialistic
doctrine. "The problem of the future," he said, "is how to
preserve the strictest individual liberty with the common ownership
of the raw materials of the globe and the equal participation by all
in the products of combined labour." It is this view which has
created the finest literature associated with the Co-operative
movement. It is a principle which has been emphasised by the
best of our modern romancers, William Morris, Bernard Shaw,
H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Gordon Hewett, and many less
known novelists. These writers have recognised the fact that the
State has an immense power for mischief or for good, and that to
act independently of the State is to court disaster. The tendency
of present-day literature is undoubtedly in the direction of
realising an ideal State control of industry on the basis of a
right distribution of the products of labour. The whole danger
of this new movement is the possibility of government by
bureaucracy, but this danger can be avoided by the devolution
of government from the central authority to the local communes.
Even the old-fashioned Co-operators now, I imagine, would not
object to the State control of the great monopolies. They would
not, I suppose, object- to the nationalisation of land and railways.
They have undoubtedly much in common with the advance guard
of the Socialist movement, and, therefore, would be willing to
swell the music of William Morris's fine marching song:
What is this, the sound and rumour? What is this that all men hear,
Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near,
Like the rolling on of ocean in the eventide of fear?
'Tis the people marching on.
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Whither go they and whence come they? What are these of whom ye tell?
In what country are they dwelling 'twixt the gates of heaven and hell?
Are they mine or thine for money? Will they serve a master well?
Still the rumour's marching on.
Forth they come from grief and torment; on they wend towards health and
mirth ,
All the wide world is their dwelling, every corner of the earth;
Buy them, sell them for thy service I Try the bargain what' 'tis worth,
For the days are marching on.
These are they who build thy houses, weave thy raiment, win thy wheat,
Smooth the rugged, fill the barren, turn the bitter into sweet;
All for thee this day and ever, what reward for them is meet?
Still the host comes marching on.
Many a hundred years passed over have they laboured deaf and blind;
Never tidings reached their sorrow, never hope their toil might find.
Now at last they've heard and hear it, and the cry comes down the wind,
And their feet are marchiug on.
O, ye rich men, hear and tremble, for with words the sound is rife :
"Once for you and death we laboured; changed henceforward is the strife.
We are men, and we shall battle for the world of men and life;
And our host is marching on."
"Is it war, then? Will ye perish as the dry wood in the fire?
Is it peace? Then be ye of us, let 'your hope be our desire,
Come and live! .for life awaketh, and the world shall never tire;
And hope is marching on."
On we march, then, we, the workers, and the rumour that ye bear
Is the blended sound of battle and deliv 'ranee drawing near;
For the hope of every creature is the banner that we bear,
And the world is marching on.
When we come to deal with the influence of the Co-operative
movement on art, a very wide field for reflection is at once opened
up. The whole character of British painting, as distinguished
from that of the Continent, is brought into consideration. With
most foreign schools the British contrasts very strongly, and
nowhere has the difference been more carefully noted than on the
other side of the Channel. It is, in fact, in the words of a
Frenchman that we may best approach the study of the subject.
Jean Fra^ois Millet, one of the humblest of men and one of
the greatest of artists, has told us that humble things "the
trivial" is his exact expression may sometimes "minister to
the sublime." Words could not better express the art of the
painter of the "Angelus," nor could anything better distinguish
him from the majority of foreign artists and show at the same
time his affinity in sentiment and in subject matter to the great
British masters. Millet only said what in fact the English school
had been practising long before his day, and has been increasingly
practising since. A particular work which may be noted at the
outset is the Leighton fresco at the South Kensington Museum,
"The Arts of Peace." It is impossible to look long at this work
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without being impressed with the Co-operative ideal. In his
apt arrangement of the groups of classical figures, each one of
which is an embodiment of the idea of Labour, or of the ease
and elegance of the domestic side of life to which Labour ministers
and in which it, therefore, ought to have its share, the artist
has represented a complete Co-operative Commonwealth. The
work might have been called, in fact, "Co-operation." It is
a study of harmony in the midst of diversity, and if it be not
a direct product of the idea which Co-operation has been steadily
instilling I, at least, cannot but regard the picture as especially
suggestive of Co-operative influences. Every external influence
over the mind and work of artists is at best indirect, and it is
almost as often quite unconscious, but there are few British artists
who, although unaware that they were doing so, 'have not yielded
themselves somewhat to some kind of environment. The painter
of this South Kensington fresco was on the whole an upholder in
practice of the view that art is "independent;" its merit as art
must not be measured, that is to say, by any particular purport.
Yet no one has shown more truly than Leighton that, while no
work is artistic simply by reason of its purport, none can in fact
be entirely wit 
