WORKERS' OWN BREWERY

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13967, 18 August 1919, Page 2

WORKERS' OWN BREWERY

A CD-OPERATIVE MOVE. ■ . Tlie beer shortage at ihe numerous working men's uaid women's clubs ait Leicester, England,, an.j other oautireu has resulted in the prdmotdoia of a scheme to establish, a- brewery of their* owjqi. Th© clubs aa-e ixxnducted an musio-hall lines, and tare ve-ry popular, the Lairgie premisea being filled nigh/tiy, as well as on Sunday morniiigs and ndgfate, when, concerts amd anit€Hbatniii)e(n|te ajrei siven. There are. over 25,0001. dub members a(tj Leicester, and they have joined with otihetr districts to> erect, and equip a special brewery to produce the besfk class of tea* exclusively for ti.e clubs ooncurvrd: Over 80,----000 ntemibers of the clubs have joirad the mcivement. • *. The oluibgi aure very - strong 1 fimaaicially, and a subsoriptdou of only , £2 per member 1 wiill .provide 2120 f 'ool> • capital, which would U ample. The jpasition., 'as explained by the . t officdad mioinagter to tlie Lomdori. Daily Chranide, is tbaib tihe <luta haire • been badly sujpplied -with the big. breweirdes; they hava not hadv, their fair share, and what they did get *•« was of resry poor quality. "We are oitub to find a remedy/ said omie dub official, ' 'and when, other • districts join Ledceatten- and Nortlhaimp- m • tow, we will have ample membership* to talkie up the whole of the output. We ehaU not jampply anybody else, "CToujferencSs haiv© revealed great A discoontemit at tih« existaTig condition* • V We wanm good quality at a fair price, and in reasomaible quantity, and we are detenmin'edl to »c the thimr amxugh." Vs .