The Revolution in the Factories
difficult situation in which the proprietors of the factories were, they paid for these factories according to their proper value.
"To show the intensity of the co-operative movement, let us note that in 1903 there were in Siberia three co-operative associations of butter-makers, and that four years after, in 1907, more than two hundred co-operatives were in full swing. The substitution of co-operative companies for private owners in the ownership and in the management of the factories is not yet complete, but it will soon be.
"At present the Union of the artels of Siberia includes 220 associations of butter factories and forty-nine stores. It has its administrative centre at Kourgan, in the province of Tobolsk, and its branches at Pietropavlosk, Tchéliabinsk, Biysk, Barnoul, Kamiegne, and Omsk. The work is not yet finished in this district, but every year new factories come into the combination, and the artels open new stores. They hope, moreover, to open this year (1912) branches of the Union in the cities of Valoutorosk and of Ichime, and in the village of Taterskoye."
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