While in Moscow I visited the head office of the Centrosoyus, and had an interview with the managing, Jdirector, Mr. Hinchook. That organization has been in existence for 26 years, and he has been in the. firm for 18 years. It is a combination of cooperative societies which have a membership of not less than ten thousand members. It is a similar organization to the Cooperative Wholesale Society in England and it is interesting to compare the work of the two for the year 1928 as follow:
1923 Centroro; Total Sales & millions Total Products Societies amalgamated Menibers of the Societies ce Total Sales Total Products Societies amalgamated Members of the Societies "3,013, The Russian figures are in Chervonitz and the English figures pound sterling—the value being approximately the same.
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