j Appendix D.—Firms included in Appendix B as having abandoned Profit-sharing who made ARRANGEMENTS FOR RECEIVING INVESTMENTS FROM EMPLOYEES, AND THE NATURE OF SUCH Investments—(contd.). Name of Firm. Nature of Business and Number of Employees at date of abandonment of Profit-sharing. Nature of Investment. Duration of Scheme. Cause of Cessation of Profit-sharing. Working Women’s Co-operative As sociation, Ltd. Shirt and dressmaking* Shares 1885-87 Want of success ; business trans ferred. Needlewomen’s Co-operative Asso- Underlinen, &c., manufacture (60) ... Shares 1885-94 Want of success ; dissolution. ciation, Ltd. Earl Spencer ... Farming (11) ... Shares (in Capital of business). 1886-97 Want of success. Earl Grey Farming (85) ... ... Deposits 1886-1903 Farms let ; or transition from one form of cultivation to another. “ G.R.” Engineers (100),.. Deposits (P.F.) 1887-1909 Not known. Circle Co-operative Printers’Society, Ltd. (formerly Circle Co-operative Printing and publishing (5) Deposits (P.F.) and Shares. 1887-96 Dissolution. Printing Co.). Coventry Gas Fitting, Electrical and Gas, electrical and general engineers(41) Deposits (P.F.) 1888-1900 Liquidation. Engineering Co., Ltd. (formerly Coventry Gas Fittings Co., Ltd.). Binns & Co., Ltd Oatmeal and corn factors, seedsmen, &c. (11-13). Shares... 1888-1908 Liquidation. Richard Binns Fruit farming (4-34) Deposits 1888-99 Want of success. Guild of Handicraft, Ltd Furniture makers, metal workers, &c (15-25). Shares... 1888-1908 Liquidation. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. Booksellers and publishers (70) Shares... 1889-1904 Liquidation. JNew Welsh Slate Co., Ltd.. Slate quarrying (231) Shares... 1889-99 Liquidation. W. D. & H. 0. Wills, Ltd Tobacco manufacture* Deposits 1889-1902 Transfer of business. Christopher Thomas & Bios., Ltd. Soap and candle manufacture (277) ... Deposits ... ... 1889-1901 Substitution of shorter hours Robert Martin Printing (14) Deposits (P.F.) 1890-1900 Newman & Son Printing (26) ... Deposits 1890-1903 Cardiff Milling Co. (formerly James Millers (120) Deposits 1890-98 Tucker, Ltd.). Charles Joyner & Co. Chandelier, &c., manufacturers (250) Deposits (P.F.) 1890-94 G. Holloway “ F.N.” Farming (*) ... Deposits 1890-92 Engineers (1,185) W orkmen’siDebentures 1890-1909 Osborne & Young Corn merchants, flour factors and Deposits 1890-1903 forage merchants (94). Robert McVitie Baker and confectioner (65-70) Deposits (P.F.) 1890-98 Idris & Co., Ltd Mineral water manufacturers (750) ... Preference Shares and 1890-1904 Deposits (P.F.) Hon. T. A. Brassey ... Farming (two farms) ... j ^ (1) Deposits (2) Shares and De- 1891-99 1895-99 Phillips & Co. ... posits (P.F.). Teamen and grocers (14) Deposits 1891-94 William Lawrence & Co., Ltd. (for merly William Lawrence). Cabinet-making, &c. (400) Deposits 1891-99 Dobson & Barlow, Ltd Engineers (2,800) Debentures ... 1891-1906 Alfred Hickman ... Iron smelting (500) Deposits 1891-94 “ G.H.” Manufacture of woollen and worsted Deposits 1891-1900 goods (200-250). R. H. & S. Rogers, Ltd Shirt and collar manufacturers (1,000) Deposits 1891-98 Crompton & Co., Ltd. Electrical engineers (500) W orkmen’s Debentures 1891-95 * Number of employees not known. Dissatisfaction of employer with results. Transfer of business. Liquidation. Conversion of business into limited company. Death of employer. Diminution of profits. Dissatisfaction of employers with results. Business converted into a limited company, a number of employees taking shares. Depression of trade. | Occupation of farms given up. Conversion of business into limited company. Special circumstances connected with conversion of business into company. Apathy of employees. Dissatisfaction of employer with results. Badness of trade. Apathy of employees and liabilities imposed by Workmen’s Com pensation Act, 1897. Scheme not taken up by employees generally. to w