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4 cases; special circumstances, 4 cases. It will be seen that, while 
in 92 out of these 155 cases the discontinuance of Profit-sharing 
appears to have been clue to various circumstances none of which 
can well be attributed to the operation of this system, the number 
of cases in which Profit-sharing was abandoned on the ground 
that the system had failed in producing the results hoped for from 
it is 03, or about two-fifths of the whole. A summary of the 
causes of cessation of profit-sharing schemes by the trades in which 
the schemes were adopted is given on p. 114 in Appendix 13. 
Trades in which Profit-sharing Schemes have been 
adopted. 
With regard to the comparatively large number of schemes 
which have been started since 1907, it may be pointed out that 
up to and including that year only four gas .companies had 
adopted profit-sharing methods, and that a considerable propor 
tion (nearly one-half) of the number of schemes started since 
1907 is due to the extension of profit-sharing methods among 
gas companies which began in 1908. An account of the system 
of profit-sharing practised by these companies is given on 
pp. 54-64. 
The following Table* gives particulars of the trades in which 
profit-sharing schemes have been adopted: - 
Nature of Business. 
Total 
Number 
Number 
of 
Schemes existing at 
1st August, 1912. 
of 
Schemes. 
Schemes 
abandoned. 
Number of 
Businesses. 
Number of 
Employees. 
Building trades 
12 
9 
3 
151 
Mining and quarrying 
6 
6 
— 
— 
Metal, engineering and ship 
building trades 
Metal 
9 
8 
1 
163 
Engineering and ship- 
21 
17 
4 
17,336 
building. 
Textile trades ... 
14 
7 
7 
4,951 
Clothing trades 
19 
12f 
5f 
1,637 
Transport ... 
3 
2 
1 
173 
Agriculture 
18 
12 
0 
737 
Printing, paper and allied 
trades :—- 
Paper making ... ... 
1 
4 
794 
Printing, bookbinding, &c. 
36 
25 
11 
3,389 
Woodworking and furnishing 
10 
7 
3 
169 
trades. 
Chemical, glass, pottery, &c.... 
22 
8 
14 
15,649 
Food and tobacco 
31 
18 
13 
6,760+ 
28,246 
Gas works 
34 
1 
33 
Electricity supply 
2 
— 
2 
414 
Other businesses 
57 
30| 
26f 
25,620 
299 
163 f 
133f 
106,1891 
'• inis xaoie mwuues all the information received by the Department no to 
1st August, 1912. 
f No recent particulars are available as regards three of the schemes started (two in the 
Clothing trades and one in “Other businesses”) to show whether they are still in 
existence or have been abandoned, 
t Excluding one firm for which figures are not available,