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October 25, 1940.
CO-OPERATIVE
Dull in recital but dramatic in fact is the won- derful story of the Chinese Co-operatives. Euro- peans and Chinese are collaborating with unex- celled eagerness in bringing to success a gigantie gamble-the transformation of the Chinese age- old system of independent enterprise to meet the needs of the nation in its most trying time.
This article is written especially for the "Hongkong Telegraph" by Dr. Chen Han-seng who is in Hongkong in his capacity of Honorary Secretary of the International Committee for the C.I.C, and the Productive Relief Fund.
When you read of the progress that China has made you will realise why it is possible for a nation which has faced annihilation steadfastly as "We China has done as Britain has done, to say: shall go on."
By CHEN HAN-SENG
(Hon. Socretary, International Committee for Chinose Industrial Co-operatives, Productive Relief Fund)
FUTURE
A primitive all-prossing co-operativo in Szechuan:
The almost up-to-date statis- have well passed the figure of tics, published by the Central 110,000, with a total member-
ship of nearly six million.
not only to Increase production low subsistence level, and in. worse than Co-operative Administration, in
The co-operative movement in but also to improve in the mean- some places even Chungking, reveal a certain pro- China is a matter of recent his time the livelihood of the pro- before the war. In these places. gress of the co-operative move- tory. The iden was first popu- ducer's.
credit co-operatives have been ment in China. Detailed figures larised during the student move.
in 1919. Born ment
The new industrial co-opera- comparatively thriving, but rent pertaining to fifteen provinces movement when the China In- tives have administered produc industrial co-operatives have are now available. These pro- ternational Famine Relief Com- vinces fairly represent the whole mission set up credit co-opera- tive relief to the refugees of not the slightest chance to the
tives in Hopei, it did not assume war, and have sent a considera- even surface root, national scope until after the ble number of young men and
country.
nan.
AB
A
mono-
flood in the Yangtse To the west and southwest great
women, already thrown out of
Among the youth of China there are Szechuan. Sikong. Valley in 1932.
the sphere of production, to the During the recent seven
are many en- economic line of national de- to-day, there Kweichow, Kwang and Yun-
To the northwest there years, relief organisation, Pro- fence. In a way these co-opera- thusiastic co-operative-minded
vincial Reconstruction Bureaus, tives for production, semi-handi- are Shansi and Kansu. In cen- Agricultural Credit Administra- craft and semi-machine, have people. Detesting the
Honan, tion, Central and Provincial
war poly of middlemen and mer- been the result of the Economic Commissions and
attempt to chants and revolting against the blockade. They and used by the longkang Telegraph to Hopei. Hunan, Kiangsi
large Chinese Banks, have one under the provisions of the Telecommuni- Anhwei. The coastal provinces and all accelerated the work of improve in equipment and tech- oppression of feudalistic in- credit extension. The nique and to turn out commodi- fluences, they tend to think that ties to answer the need of a co-operatives are the panacea hungry market in China. of China's problem. Most of are what we
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are represented by Kwangtung, rural flongkong on the date of publication by The United Pres. Asociations, who re- serve a rights and forbid repabucation. ether wholly or la part without previou arrangement
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IT is now some weeks since the Canton River was closed for the last time, the reason then being the prevalence of cholera.
China
than 26,000 miscellaneous or-
of
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the Co-operators have never
Fukien and Chekiang. Within primary form of such credit the past year the total number extension has always been ere-
dit co-operatives.
The co-operatives under the them, however, of co-operatives in these fifteen
C.I.C. are not relief organisa- might call nominalists and not
realists. provinces has increased from a According to the official state-
tions pure and simple, but Central little over 53,000 to something ment, given by the
nevertheless they represent dis- While they assiduously keep to the Administration tinct type of relief work. form of co-operatives, they concede like 82,000. The present total Co-operative membership has reached 4,200, more than 88 per cent of the Though they have workshops and conciliate unconsciously with the elements of the most reactionary are credit co-operatives 000.
co- and even small factories, they locality until the spirit of co-opera- What have not been included operatives. Productive co-opera- are not the ordinary kind of tives no longer exists. Indeed, in tives, including the C.1.C.. workshops and factories. The many cases, the co-operatives have It is a fortnight since Indo-in the above statistics are more amount to a little over 8 per very process of organisation and been stillborn. All this is because and Hongkong direct ganisations of a co-operativa cent, Marketing co-operatives the nature of administration of thoroughly understood, the real socle! traffle ceased and the expensive nature. Nor have the 13,000 are below 2 per cent. All other the co-op. units are essentially relations of the community and their co-operatives, such as supply; democratie. Even from the significance. Lack of such under- and inconvenient trans-shipment co-operatives in the guerilla war utility and consumers, total viewpoint of credit extension standing and not guarding eguins! port has now been introduced area Kiangsu, Shantung around one per cent. It is clear and capital investment, these the most natural silp-unwarranted compromise with the gentry which productive co-operatives are spells suicide-these as a subsidiary. It is a little Shansi, Hopei, Chahar, and Sui- then that the major part of the
co-operators been included. Also Chinese co-operatives, is synd different from the simple type have succeeded only in building up old-to-revive_the_Canton-Kow- yuan
-new form of exploitation on behalf omitted-are-the-2,000-co-opera--nomous-with-rural-credit-exten-of-credit co-operatives. loon railway story; a dead loss tives organised by the Chinese sion.
of the backward and reactionary as far as the owners go for Industrini Co-operatives, or the
In short, the, units of the people. nearly two years. Our nir ser- C.L.C.
C.I.C. are organisations of the Those genuine and faithful co- as operators who are not responsible for vices, which used to number
The C.I.C., as a movement, producers themselves, and It is safe to estimate, there- five, are sadly depleted and are
fore, that the grand total of has injected new blood, blond they and the organisation are the inception or the result of such labyrinth of difficulties. No sooner l not running on regular routes
co-operatives in China must of a suitable type, into the body one and the same thing, the failures, and thernselves in a virtual of the Chinese co-operatives. C.I.C. does not contain a parti- one thorny problem solved than the or schedule.
This type of industrial co-opera- cle of the iden of anti-produc- next une crops up, leaving the pri All these things could he ex-
still under discussion. It would ap-tives may prove to be the most tion. Owing to numerous dif- mary source of such troubles un- these units tackled. Soon they are in a baffled gentry. pected if this Colony was the pear that the Foreign Office and not effective instrument in mobi- ficulties, however,
labour are still too few to bring about position, gripped by the
sneered at by the cunning merchants. the supreme
cursed by centre of hostilities; the fact is the local Government was respon-
sible for the conflicting reports publising that fighting has seldom come lished about Hongkong's position in power and utilising the almost an appreciable change in our na- and even criticised and
tional economy. As yet, the peasant population which they wish relation to that agreement. I wellimitless resources of China. near enough to our borders to
average monthly total produc- to serve. In the end, of course, they lo perede again to the Japanese cause more than a temporary interpaciation of the agreement, then While the credit co-operatives tion of the C.1.C. only amounts beccae pessimistic and resign from interruption of services. The fet us get something back for it. have as their chier aim, rural to something over nine million their posts,
commo- Among other defects in the pre- answer is that we have allowed is all very well to werkt for peace investment and safe interest re- Chinese dollars. The
but that peace will do us no good ourselves to be compressed more
turn, the C.L.C.'s sole desire is dities of the C.1.C. are far from sent co-operative movement, on out- standing one is m excessive amount It is to be so very one-sided.
Huflicient to allay the surging of buretteratic red tape which finally and nitre within our actual ter-
wave of incoming foreign, smtg- reduces co-operative administration
to more forms of omeloldom. Orl no more
gled goods.
ginally, the policy was and still is to There are many places in utilise political administrative power China which the invaders once to remove local obstacles In order to insilitale the co-operative movement. occupied but from where they in many cases, however, when this have now withdrawn or been polley has not been correctly pur- driven out. Rapacious officials sued, the organisers often odunt com- and rollen gentry, to a large alsory ur teini-compulsory methods extent, have been wiped out. tives. The inevitable result is to turn the co-operative into a mort A new local administration melut administration.
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threats or the appearance of threats; with an ocensional shooting here and there, mostly through somebody's mistake, the lucrative channels through which flowed the wealth of this entreput port have been dummed up one by one until we have in voluntarily acquired the condi- tions of a partial blockade.
The reason for this unfortunate state of affairs would seem to bu opportunist bargaining on our side, In response to Japanese requests and in the face of the fait accompli we have had to accept certain con- ditions of trading in the Canton River, we have had to close the rail- we have even restricted the movement of articles, which the Japanese claim to be in the
muni- tions class, within our own border, We have abandoned, temporarily st least, the use of landing grounds in Bench Indo-China which we used
armoniously
before the Japanese Narmor! entered there. On our own inflative we" suspended clearance orders to Indo-China.
Whenever such important conces“ sions are ninte there must be some return. Those responsible for govern ing such matters can, justly we In the think, be accused of timidity. face of things to-day when we find that despite our deference to the wialies of a Japan engaged in al- tempting to suffoento China at our doorstep she his not lifted the ban on Hongkong, neither has she granted 550 of the trading rights which her precarious occupation of the mouth took away, from our businèra houses,
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has been born. In this healthy atmosphere, productive operatives are much more easily formed, credit co-operatives are
to force the people to join co-opera-
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Reviewing the brief history of much more genuine in nature, Chinese co-operatives, one must and the co-operative members come to the conclusion that are much quicker to realise the many of the above discussed de- true alm and significance of the fects must be eliminated before movement.
n healthy system of rural credit
Still there are other places extension can be prompted and where no invasion has taken before a permanent, increase of place but where the local ad- production, both agriculturni ministrative structure has not and Industrial, in the villages been reformed. In such locall- can be expected.
tles, those whose economie sta- All in all, to eliminate the present tus is above the raiddleclass, silent defects, there, must be a de- especially the merchants who mucratic system of local government smuggle, havo become richer or waith alone can serve as the, guntan
for uf the progress of this movement. nt least more well-to-do than in in other words. If stands to reason pre-war days. On the other that when a very small minority has hand, the scissor-like indices of in its arls all the political and econo the relatively decreasing agri- me power and influence. the cultural prices and the relative krity of rural people who are the pour peanuts and the hired peasants, ly increasing industrial prices are not able to knock at the door of have reflected a condition in die co-operatives, let alone gain an which a large number of land the Chinese village, which is yet to
entrance. Demnerütle less and tool-less smail and poor be achieved, will decide the future peasants still live a life for Be of the Chinese co-operativer,
ma-
structure of