ABSTRACT
The acceptance of co-operative communities as a measure promising results where individual farming falls short of required goals is not limited to the countries hitherto mentioned. The central organ of the first organization is the Catholic Worker, a periodical initiated by Peter Maurin and published by its editor in New York City. In 1937, near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the American Friends Service Committee set up an “experimental community for the rehabilitation of unemployed and partially employed coal miners”. Although the mine boom created by the war has arrested its development at practically the level of a self-helping housing project, the experiment is worth recording because of the close attention to the problem of selecting members. A “work test” and other methods of careful selection are said to have reduced turnover to a minimum.
