THE CRISIS IN CO-OPERATION.
[To THE EDITS. or Tam SPICTATOS,..] 'Sra,—In your issue of Dine 4th, you make some disparaging reference to these works, based on some remarks of Mr. Hughes's which are certainly inaccurate, and it may be an advantage to chronicle it. We have no strike here, or elsewhere, and have had no dispute with our hands since September last,—and -that only affected a portion, and continued for about eight -days. The difference was amicably settled. We never had a thousand men on strike ; we do not employ that number. The difference between us was not about wages, and it was not -approved by the "Trade-Union." We have always paid the maximum wages in force in Leicester, and do to-day. The principle under which these works and the other productive works of the Wholesale Society are conducted is not new ; it 'dates from their commencement, fifteen years ago. Our chief object is to supply the proprietors of the Wholesale Society with honest goods. Profit, the secondary consideration.—I am,
'The Co.operative Wholesale Society, Limited, West End Shoe. Works, Leicester, June 7th.
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