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 Coöperative League of America, 2 West 13th Street, New
York City, asking for free literature on coöperation in your section.
If any of the groups of coöperators in your section are found to be
close at hand, make a study of a typical coöperative group.

5. Draw up a plan for a coöperative buying club, and discuss with your
fellow students the chances for its success. (Consult Harris,
_Coöperation, the Hope of the Consumer_, chapter xiv.)

6. Draw up a plan for the coöperative 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,