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Many years passed before the example of the "poor inhabitants" of Hull was followed. It was only in 1847 that the co-operators of Leeds purchased a flour-mill, and in 1850 that those of Rochdale did the same; since which time they have manufactured flour for the benefit of their members. The corn-millers of Leeds attempted to undersell the Leeds Industrial Society. They soon failed, and the price of flour was permanently reduced. The Leeds mill does business amounting to more than a hundred thousand pounds yearly; its capital amounts to twenty-two thousand pounds; and it paid more than eight thousand pounds of profits and bonuses to its three thousand six hundred members in 1866, besides supplying them with flour of the best quality. The Rochdale District Co-operative Corn-mill Society has also been eminently successful. It supplies flour to consumers residing within a radius of about fifteen miles round Rochdale[1]. It also supplies flour to sixty-two co-operative societies, numbering over twelve thousand members. Its business in 1866 amounted to two hundred and twenty-four thousand pounds, and its profits to over eighteen thousand pounds.

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赫尔“贫穷居民”的榜样过了很多年才被人效仿。直到1847年,利兹的合作者才买下一座面粉厂,1850年罗奇代尔的人也这么做了;从那以后,他们就为自己的成员生产面粉。利兹的磨坊主试图低价倾销来挤垮利兹工业协会,但很快失败,面粉价格永久降了下来。利兹的面粉厂年营业额超过十万英镑,资本达两万两千英镑,1866年向三千六百名成员支付了八千多英镑的利润和红利,还供应他们最优质的面粉。罗奇代尔地区合作玉米磨坊协会也非常成功,向周边约十五英里内的消费者供应面粉,还向六十二个合作社、超过一万两千名成员供货。1866年营业额达二十二万四千英镑,利润超过一万八千英镑。

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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《节俭》一书,19世纪英国合作运动兴起时期。

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