that is most interesting to a trade sot do better than get a file of He states that th fiat staunch ce-operative weekly, requires all its employees the "Ca-operative News," and read t join the trade union of their the reports of ce-operative conferticular trade. It is true that ences and the complaints of tha de-, several years ago the director: ordered all their employees to do s gates and the managers of retail societies. Here will be found a but no time limit was imposed. It: immediate and designed effect wa: Celegat: aging that the flour from' mills is tainted, to frighten hundreds of employers ther that a big weaving shed in out of the Ca-operative Employees' his little town has been shut for Union, where the minimum wage weeks while it could have been lates were c am paratively high, into working on private work. 'Another cre or other of the unskilled complains that, although they have semi-skilled labourers' unions wher cne of the largest hoot factories in the minimum wage rates were low, the world, it cannot make half Tut many employees had powerful es and members consequently buy friends in responsible _positous their boots elsewhere, and yet anand felt that their jobs.wer vilier points out that although they secure in any event. These refused own a big pottery the only china pay subscriptions any tea service in the Ca-operative Ex-union and to accommodate them hibition has been made by a private the directors persistently refused firm. Scores complain of mis-to impose any time limit for the management in the productive new rule to come into force. This works, of goods that ave advertised grievance, keenly resented by the but cannot be obtained, or arrive trade unions and trades counc' too late to be of any use. But the comes up for consideration at nea best commentary on the position is: ly every ce-operative delegates' the figures, which show thatthe re-conference but although the direc-tail society purchases from private tors are generous enough with rannfacturers are increasing, while promises nothing is ever done thes from the C.W.S. productive about it. works are going down.
That the. C.W.S. sometimes pays In conclusion I can only repeat higher than) trade union rates but what I wrote in the article critioiznever below is another statement ed, "There was bound to come a that needs, some qualifying. The Loint in the history of the mave-Bank Officers' Guild, for instance, nent when the plausibility of the despite a most strenuous agitation, idea for ever atiacting mew cus-has not yet been able to get for its tomers would be overtaken by the members in the C.W.S. the same unchecked growth of internal abuses wages and conditions as operate in end a turning reached that "might private banks.
The insurance em-! "ud in bankruptey and ruin." Floyecs in compliance with the I am, ete., orders of the C.W.S. joined their Your Lasour Corresronnent particular trade union, the Inswance Officers' Guild, but they were P.S.—1_ have left my personal qualifications to speak for _Labowr refused the union rates of pay because in this instance it necessitate} out of it, but if in question it an increase instead of a reduction. should be good enough "that I am official of a well-known trade Errors To Repuce Wacrs. union, have been a delegate at con-In dealing with their skilled ferences between the C.W.S. and artisans it is the policy of the trade unions, and have had personal directors to pay the rates experience of conditions of Labour enter by the private employers in C.W.S. factories. federations. While a dispute is on Manchester, Aug. 16, 1922. the C.W.S. loftily denounces the wicked capitalist for forcing the
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