Note 12 — Chapter VI · THE RIGHTS OF PURCHASERS

In England, a large body of purchasers has, for more than one generation, striven to attain an effective knowledge of its sources of supply, and to organize demand for the express purpose of influencing the conditions of distribution, namely the coöperative societies. In America, however, the coöperative movement (aside from insurance and building and loan societies) has gained no considerable headway in either production or distribution. The work of the trade unions in the direction of affording information and arousing an interest in the conditions of production will be dealt with later.