Lessons in democracy Author:Raymond Moley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In everything you will see cooperation for one purpose or another. LESSON 3 A COOPERATION OWNED AND MANAGED BY THE WORKERS We have just seen how people... more » cooperate to make the steel rail. Let us visit the Fruit Growers' Association in California. Here the people not only work together to raise fruit, but also have ownership in the cooperation. Each person has his share of work to do. Some of the workers keep the fruit orchards clean. Some pick the fruit. Others help to pack the fruit for shipment. Some of the workers keep books and look after the business side. Since the workers own the business, they all have a voice in managing it. They have regular meetings. They elect officers to run the Association. The officers represent the workers. They are the servants of the workers. They make laws and rules which govern all the chapter{Section 4workers. They look after the buying and selling and managing, because the workers have no time to do this. When the laws do not suit the majority of the workers, they change them. If the officers do not run the Association properly, the workers recall them and elect new officers. In this cooperation people cooperate in two ways: First, they cooperate to raise the fruit. Secondly, they cooperate in managing or governing the Association. Can you think of any cooperations which are run in this way ? LESSON 4 0][JR FREE GOVERNMENT IS A COOPERATION OWNED AND MANAGED BY THE CITIZENS We have seen how the people cooperate to make steel rails. We have seen how people not only cooperate to supply the fruit, but also cooperate in managing or governing the cooperation. Now we shall study the biggest kind of cooperation of all. We shall study the cooperation in government. The peo...« less