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In the old (lays, in the small Guild Associations, you
had both together in the same hands. In modern
days, that is being brought about by the extension of
Co-operation, and if you watch its progress in the
West, you will see how much of hope it has for the
India of to-day.
Now, one of the men who is working hardest at
that task, especially in connection with one form of it
called profit-sharing, is Lord Grey, who was the
Viceroy, or rather the Governor-General, of Canada,
whose name, by the way, I saw mentioned as a possible
Viceroy for India. Most certainly if England were
good enough to send him to India, there would be an
impetus given to this industrial question which perhaps
no one else could give. Now, he was lately presiding
over one of these great Industrial Conferences, Co-
operative Conferences, and speaking there he pointed
out how high were their aims, how great their hopes.
He spoke of their hope of founding a great Industrial
International Commonwealth made up of the co-
operative societies of every country.1 "It was in
1 The following are the most important parts of the telegraphic
summary. It was in their power, if they were only sufficiently in
earnest, to secure the triumphant realisation of a future co-operative
international commonwealth which they believed would one day be
equal and co-extensivo with the whole civilised world. The great
growth in the co-operative movement in Germany, England, Denmark,
Ireland and elsewhere, since the date when they laid the foundation-
stone of the Alliance, justified their confident expectation that the
days of" new social order were at hand. " Although," he continued,
" we may be separated from each other by differences of race,
language and religion, wo stand here to-day as one people under
the same flag of co-operative fraternity, carrying in our hearts the
•same motto ' each for all and all for each,' cherishing the same
had both together in the same hands. In modern
days, that is being brought about by the extension of
Co-operation, and if you watch its progress in the
West, you will see how much of hope it has for the
India of to-day.
Now, one of the men who is working hardest at
that task, especially in connection with one form of it
called profit-sharing, is Lord Grey, who was the
Viceroy, or rather the Governor-General, of Canada,
whose name, by the way, I saw mentioned as a possible
Viceroy for India. Most certainly if England were
good enough to send him to India, there would be an
impetus given to this industrial question which perhaps
no one else could give. Now, he was lately presiding
over one of these great Industrial Conferences, Co-
operative Conferences, and speaking there he pointed
out how high were their aims, how great their hopes.
He spoke of their hope of founding a great Industrial
International Commonwealth made up of the co-
operative societies of every country.1 "It was in
1 The following are the most important parts of the telegraphic
summary. It was in their power, if they were only sufficiently in
earnest, to secure the triumphant realisation of a future co-operative
international commonwealth which they believed would one day be
equal and co-extensivo with the whole civilised world. The great
growth in the co-operative movement in Germany, England, Denmark,
Ireland and elsewhere, since the date when they laid the foundation-
stone of the Alliance, justified their confident expectation that the
days of" new social order were at hand. " Although," he continued,
" we may be separated from each other by differences of race,
language and religion, wo stand here to-day as one people under
the same flag of co-operative fraternity, carrying in our hearts the
•same motto ' each for all and all for each,' cherishing the same