The Co-operative Congress, 1008, (Co - operative Union, Manchester.)—The places represented at
the Congress (held at Newport in June) were four hundred and seventy-six. The delegates must have numbered more than twelve hundred. It is almost needless to say that the volume is full of interesting matter. One point of great importance is the propor- tion in which production stands to consumption. In many so. called "Co-operative" societies the producer has no place at all. They are simply large markets in which the profits of sales are divided among a great body of shareholders. One speaker' estimates, we sea, that "Co-operators produce about one-third of. the goods which they consume." Probably something might be, done in this direction. It is always a temptation to a manager to go to the cheapest, or apparently cheapest, market, and take no count at all of the producer.
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