MINUTE BOOK OF COMMITTEES & GENERAL MEETINGS OF TRANENT COOPERATIVE SOCIETY
- Reference:GB 1878 EL18/2/8
- Dates of Creation:Aug - Nov 1914
Scope and Content
Impact of outbreak of WWI . Special meeting 4/8 - banks closed in week for distributing dividend - potential shortage of cash - suspend paying out share capital. (7/8) Bread prices reduced by ha'penny, members making large purchases, £311 paid by government for 6 horses & 2 vans (good price), van deliveries in Tranent stopped. (15/8) Request for donation to Prince of Wales National Relief Fund - 50 guineas agreed. Deputation of ladies requested wool to knit socks for soldiers - 2 spindles granted - objections as better to grant wool to factories where people employed. (18/8) Jobs to be kept open for 4 employees who enlisted & consideration given to paying weekly alowance to wife of married man - 7s6d agreed 10/10. (2/10) Appeal from Belgian Distress Fund via Cooperative Union, recommend £25 *to Quarterly General Meeting. (24/10) Bread price rise 61/2d, butcher meat price rise 1d per lb. (5/11) Petition to government to grant £1 per week to war widows, dependant parents of servicemen killed, wife of every fighting serviceman, servicemen permanently disabled. Quarterly general Meeting agreed to petition and donation*
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