DANGER FOR THE “COOPERATORS.” J'f “the ro operator believes,” as the National Committee of the Cooperative Party admit that lie does, “that by the extension of voluntary co-operation and the application of co-operativo principles to thoso activities which can liest be developed by municipal authorities and the Government., ho can achieve all that is desired,” then he will wear an uneasy yoke with the Socialist. In the Socialist scheme of things, as set out in the plan for the ordering of the future State, the Co-operative movement will sink to the level of a Government agency without independence or initiative. It will carry out the orders of a Government Department unless—and this is the Socialist alternative—it is superseded in whole or in part, by a Government monopoly, in retail as well as in wholesale trading. In cither event the Co-operative movement would lose the vital characteristic which is inherent in, and inseparable from, its voluntary character. — “The Times.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1927, Page 3
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158Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1927, Page 3
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