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AND A LIVING 



working man with a small family can secure land, 

 and a house of his own on it, and a job from 

 which he cannot be " fired " can become moder- 

 ately independent and free by co-operation. 

 The motto of the Association should be: 



Get three acres and live by it. 



Get a spade and try it. 



And get out of debt. 



Get off the back of the workers. 



Get out of the power of the shirkers. 



Get up and Get. 



Co-operation has made great strides in Great 

 Britain, although colony life is only in its in- 

 fancy. H. D. Lloyd in " Labor Copartnership " 

 says : :< The co-operative movement after fifty 

 years of struggle, has had years of living pros- 

 perity and a greater prosperity is coming into 

 view. It has achieved an economic footing of 

 a hundred millions of property and enlisted at 

 least one-seventh of the working-classes in its 

 ranks. It is an established religion ; for co-oper- 

 ation is not a method of business merely, but 

 an ideal of conduct and a theory of human rela- 



