3.2002.2124.2: Industrial Problems, Coöperation: Switzerland. Basel. Coöperative Union: Coöperative Societies, Switzerland: Co-operative Union, Basel. This Society acts also as a wholesale society, two-third of the total number of Swiss retail societies being federated in it. It publishes and distributes free to members 4 weekly and 2 fortnightly journals, 2 in German, 1 in French, 1 in Italian, for educational and propagandist purposes. It has its own laboratory for analyzing the goods it distributes.