The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . al unions, manifest among the Southernand Ural co-operative societies. It was felt by the latterthat the Moscow Union could not satisfactorily sei-ve theborder provinces, as its operations covered chiefly theprovince of Moscow and those adjoining it. Its activitieswere regarded, besides, as menacing to the individuality ofthe co-operative societies working in the south and in i\\vUrals. In consequence, very soon after the Congress, tiieMoscow Union had to embark on a campaign against theseparatist tendencies of some
The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . al unions, manifest among the Southernand Ural co-operative societies. It was felt by the latterthat the Moscow Union could not satisfactorily sei-ve theborder provinces, as its operations covered chiefly theprovince of Moscow and those adjoining it. Its activitieswere regarded, besides, as menacing to the individuality ofthe co-operative societies working in the south and in i\\vUrals. In consequence, very soon after the Congress, tiieMoscow Union had to embark on a campaign against theseparatist tendencies of some of the divisio;iaI unions, andthe latter in their turn took up the fight against theMoscow Union. Nevertheless, the years of the war have still furtheradvanced the development of the Moscow Union, have 90 CO-OPEl{ATION IN RUSSIA. increased iU forces, aiul placed before it a luiiiiljer of wide|ii()i)leiii,s. It is suUicient to record that during 1915 over 500 new-societies joined the Union. In 1916 the progress of theUnion ]noceoded at a still quicker pace; during the first. yHIlPING DkIAKXMKNT OF THE MOSCOW UNION OF Consumers Societtes. eiffht months of that year the turnover of the Unionreached the sum of 46,469,695 roubles, surpassing theturnover of the j)receding year. The turnover for the CO-OrERATION TN RTRSTA. 91 month of August alone, representing 11,446,000 roubles,was far in excess of the whole business done during 1914. The operations of the Union extend over the whole ofRus-sia. Apart from the Central Offices in Moscow, iLhas agencies in Rostov on Don, Kiev, Bielaya Zerkov,and Odessa; it has also a temporary bureau at the Nijni-Novgorod Fair, purchasing depots at Rybinsk and Arch-angel. The Union is in business relations with the Unionof Siberian Creamery Associations, and even with co-operative organisations in remote corners of Siberia, as,for instance, the consumei-s society of the employes of theUssurian, Transbaikal, and Eastern-Chinese Union is al
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