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Cost of Living in the United States and Foreign

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HE trend of cost of living in the United States and certain foreign countries for June and December 1933, 1934, and March, July, and October 1935 and January and April 1936 is shown in the following table. In cases where data for April 1936 are not available, the latest information is given and the month noted.. The number of countries included varies according to the available information.

A general index and index numbers for the individual groups of items are presented for all countries shown with the exception of Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Peru, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. Four countries publish a general index and an index number for food only.

Caution should be observed in the use of the figures because of differences in the base periods, in the number and kind of articles included, and the number of localities represented. There are also very radical differences in the method of the construction and calculation of the indexes.

The table shows the trend in the general cost of living and for the groups of food, clothing, fuel and light, and rent for the countries for which such information is published in original sources.

Table 8.-Index Numbers of Cost of Living for Specified Periods for the United States and Certain Foreign Countries

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Table 8.-Index Numbers of Cost of Living for Specified Periods for the United States and Certain Foreign Countries-Continued

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INTEREST

June 1936

Agricultural Conditions

Revolt among the share-croppers. By Howard Kester.

New York, Covici-Friede,

1936. 98 pp. An account of "the economic, social, and political forces which have contributed to the plight of the tenants and laborers in the cotton fields of the South."

Les mesures concernant la lutte engagée pour remédier a la détresse des agriculteurs montagnards. Brugg, Switzerland, 1936. (Publication du Secrétariat des Paysans Suisses No. 112.) 202 pp.

Report on the measures taken by the Swiss Government to improve the condition of agriculture and farmers in mountainous regions; these include extension of credit to farmers, subsidies for housing construction, reduction of taxes and of transportation costs, and general relief.

Recherches relatives à la rentabilité de l'agriculture pendant l'exercice 1934-35. Rapport du Secrétariat des paysans suisses au Département fédéral de l'Economie publique, 1re partie. Bern, Switzerland, 1936. 79 pp., map, charts. Contains data on conditions in Swiss agriculture in 1934, prices of agricultural products, cost of production, wages of agricultural laborers, etc.

Cooperative Movement

Consumers' cooperation in California, 1934-35. Washington, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1936. 10 pp. (Serial No. R. 388, reprint from May 1936 Monthly Labor Review.)

Organizing and incorporating fishery cooperative-marketing associations.

By L. C. Salter. Washington, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, 1936. 49 pp., mimeographed. (Special Memorandum No. 2600.)

Outlines the aims and principles of these associations, the proper procedure for organizing, operation methods and policies, and the legal requirements and corporate structure. Contains suggested articles of incorporation, bylaws, membership application, and the text of the Federal Fishery Cooperative Marketing Act. "Preventive medicine" for cooperatives. Address before the Twin Cities Milk Producers Association, Minneapolis, Minn., November 1935, by Frank W. Peck. Washington, U. S. Farm Credit Administration, 1936. 14 pp. (Circular A-3.)

Points out some of the weak points of farmers' marketing and business cooperative organizations.

Periodicals issued by farmers' marketing and purchasing associations, including house organs, news letters, etc. Revised to January 7, 1936. By Chastina Gardner. Washington, U. S. Farm Credit Administration, Cooperative Division, 1936. 16 pp., mimeographed. (Miscellaneous Report No. 5.) Towards the cooperative_commonwealth. By T. W. Mercer. Manchester, England, Cooperative Press, Ltd., 1936. 221 illus. pp.,

Treats of the development of the consumers' cooperative movement in Great Britain, by periods. Features of the book are the discussion of the events leading up to the formation of the Cooperative Party, encounters between the movement and the organized private dealers, and legislative measures directed against the movement.

El cooperativismo en Colombia es un éxito. Cartagena, Colombia, Cooperativa de Crédito para Empleados Limitada, 1935. 16 pp.

Annual report for 1935 of the Cooperativa de Crédito para Empleados Limitada—a cooperative credit society-together with a brief account of the development of cooperative societies in Colombia.

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