File:1950s Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) Wheatsheaf logo (12541910303).jpg

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Description The wheatsheaf, with the motto ‘labor and wait’, was the first registered trademark of the CWS. The wheatsheaf is a powerful Co-operative symbol, evoking messages of unity in strength as one stalk of wheat can be easily broken but a whole sheaf has great strength. The American spelling of ‘labor’ is not a typo – it was intended as a statement of support for the anti-slavery North in the US Civil War. When CWS was founded in 1863, the American Civil War was in progress, and several early CWS founders were active anti-slavery campaigners. Although the ‘cotton famine’ produced by the blockade of Southern ports caused problems for Manchester’s cotton industry, Britain backed the anti-slavery North and the CWS trade mark showed its founders’ support.
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