=======+===========+============+===========+=========+ | | | | | | _No. of | _Sales-- | _Profits--| _No. of | _Year_ | Societies_| Francs_ | Francs_ | Members_| -------+-----------+------------+-----------+---------+ 1904 | 168 | 26,936,873 | 3,140,210 | 103,349 | 1905 | 161 | 28,174,563 | 3,035,941 | 119,581 | 1906 | 162 | 33,569,359 | 3,493,586 | 126,993 | 1907 | 166 | 39,103,673 | 3,843,568 | 134,694 | 1908 | 175 | 40,655,359 | 3,855,444 | 140,730 | 1909 | 199 | 43,288,867 | 4,678,559 | 148,042 | ---------+-----------+------------+-----------+---------+ =======+===========+============+============ | _No. | _Value of | _Paid-up | of | Realty | Capital _Year_ | Employees_| Francs_ | Francs_ -------+-----------+------------+------------ 1904 | 1785 | 10,302,059 | 1,146,651 1905 | 1752 | 12,091,300 | 1,655,061 1906 | 1809 | 12,844,976 | 1,694,878 1907 | 2093 | 14,280,955 | 1,940,175 1908 | 2128 | 14,837,114 | 1,942,266 1909 | 2223 | 15,850,158 | 1,893,616 ---------+-----------+------------+------------ TABLE SHOWING THE GROWTH OF THE WHOLESALE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN BELGIUM FROM THE DATE OF ITS BEGINNING IN 1901 ========+===================== | _Amount of Business _Year_ | Done--Francs_ --------+--------------------- 1901 | 760,356 1902 | 1,211,439 1903 | 1,485,573 1904 | 1,608,475 1905 | 2,219,842 1906 | 2,416,372 1907 | 2,796,196 1908 | 2,995,615 1909 | 3,221,849 1910 | 4,489,996 --------+--------------------- PROGRAM OF THE BELGIAN LABOR PARTY _Adopted at Brussels in 1893_ DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES 1. The constituents of wealth in general, and in particular the means of production, are either natural agencies or the fruit of the labor--manual and mental--of previous generations besides the present; consequently they must be considered the common heritage of mankind. 2. The right of individuals or groups to enjoy this heritage can be based only on social utility, and aimed only at securing for every human being the greatest possible sum of freedom and well-being. 3. The realization of this ideal is incompatible with the maintenance of the capitalistic régime, which divides society into two necessarily antagonistic classes--the one able to enjoy property without working, the other obliged to relinquish a part of its product to the possessing class. 4. The workers can only expect their complete emancipation from the suppression of classes and a radical transformation of existing society.