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ARBEITER CONSUMVEREIN, VIENNA.
This Society was the outcome of a lecture on the Roch-
dale Pioneers,attended in 1864 by some Viennese weav-
ers. In 1865, 17 of them formed a society and started
with the purchase of 2 sacks of flour,retailed among
their number. In 10 years menbership and trade increas-
ed 300% in each case. Now the Society provides for 34000
workingmen's families,owns its buildings and 2 dozen
distributive br
Further working capital is supplied by its saving de-
partment. Employes work 9 hours a day. They receive a
fixed share in the profits towards providing them with
old age pensions The productive departments of the So-
ciety are coffee,chicory,and fig roasting works,and a
bakery.
It has 2 g0od reserve funds.
h stores.
