Word: indusco
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Then they adjourned-to make way for democracy. Most promising device by which Chinese may learn the ritual of democratic discipline is an amazing phenomenon which calls itself Indusco...
...field went organizers. Their success was immediate. By last week they had formed 2,000 units of from seven to 100 workers engaged in innumerable handcraft industries-tan-mng, spinning, weaving, printing, mining, making over 300 types of articles from boots to boats, from candles to light bulbs. Indusco last week boasted 50,000 cooperating members producing at the rate of $6,000,000 (Chinese) worth of goods every month...
Cooperatives entirely revitalized whole towns. In Shuangshipu (Shensi Province), Indusco enrolled 1,200 people-one-tenth of the town's total population. The other nine-tenths live almost solely by supplying services to Indusco members and their families...
Short, forceful, 40, he worked at Indusco with the nervous energy of a dye-stamping machine. He won Chinese workers by being able to tell jokes in many dialects, by adopting two Chinese sons, by repairing broken machinery with string, bamboo, chewing gum. All his work and hard travel (thousands of miles by bicycle) he endured not for personal gain but simply because he believed in China, in cooperative effort, in democracy...
...work for a common cause, how to subordinate personal means to group ends. Each cooperative governs itself, elects its own officers, makes its own rules. If China ever succeeds in becoming truly democratic, it will be because the crankshaft has been turned over by democratic self-starters like Indusco...