TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
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1. Make a study of a profit-sharing plan in your locality. (Write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at your State Capitol, asking for the names and addresses of employers in your locality who have experimented with profit sharing.)
2. Interview, or write to, an employer, explaining the essence of profit sharing, and asking his opinion as to its practicability in his business.
3. Interview, or write to, the officials of a trade union, regarding their attitude toward profit sharing.
4. Write to the Co÷perative League of America, 2 West 13th Street, New York City, asking for free literature on co÷peration in your section. If any of the groups of co÷perators in your section are found to be close at hand, make a study of a typical co÷perative group.
5. Draw up a plan for a co÷perative buying club, and discuss with your fellow students the chances for its success. (Consult Harris, Co÷peration, the Hope of the Consumer, chapter xiv.)
6. Draw up a plan for the co÷perative marketing of some agricultural product in your section. Send a description of the plan, giving advantages, etc., to a farm journal in your section. (Consult Powell, _Co÷peration in Agriculture>/i>, chapter iv, and Coulter, Co÷peration Among Farmers.)