Lawyers, Weddings, and Funerals: Reasons for Spread of Ca-operative Movement in China The ce-operative movement is of growing and greatest importance to the welfare of China. Primarily an turban movement, it is of extraordinary importance to farmers, offering them economic security, greater social standards and better all around living conditions, This was brought out emphatically on Thursday evening by Mr, C, F. Strickland, formerly of the Indian Civil Service and a noted British authority on ce-operation, at a special meeting called by the Shanghai office of the China International Famine Relief Commission, fand held in the library of the Shang-hal Commercial and Savings Bank.
Already there are 10,000 of there societies in operation north of the Yangtze River, according to Mr. Strickland, who pointed out several times that membership in the socle-ties was purely voluntary and that the idea was to increase rather than Jetson the individualistic rights of the participant. He dwelt for the most art on the economic aspects of the Societies and practical methods of Snaneing, although he also described the work of the societies from a moral and social welfare standpoint.
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