ABSTRACT
The chairman of influential committee was the president of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, and his colleagues were also well-known members of the movement of the Scottish section of the Co-operative Union, lies in its tendency to bring about a more harmonious relationship between employers and employed. The committee was thus led to adopt the note, if not of criticism of the dominant policy of the movement to which its members belong, at least of appeal, and attention is directed to the important part that co-operators can play as leaders in industrial reform and to the weakness of their position if they hang back. The members of co-operative societies are mostly workers, but in their corporate capacity they are also employers. 'Co-operators should stand in the forefront', it is claimed, 'of those who are striving after social reform of any kind, and no subject more deserving of consideration than the improvement of the worker's condition'.
