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The amount of the addition to wages made by the profit-sharing
Bonus received by the employees of the Scottish Wholesale
Society in the years 1899-1910 was as shown below: —

Ratio op Bonus to Wages in Scottish Co-operative
Wholesale Society, 1899-1910.

Year.	Number of Employees sharing in Profits.	Ratio of Bonus to Wages and Salaries.	Year.	Number of Employees sharing in Profits.	Ratio of Bonus to Wages and Salaries.
1899 		5,401	Per Cent. 3-3	1905		6,694	Per Cent 3-3
1900 		6,091	3-3	1906		6,984	3-3
1901		6,192	3-3	1907		7,453	3-3
1902 		6,403	33	1908		7,653	3-3
1903 		6,786	3-3	1909		7,547	3-3
1904 ... •	...	6,562	3-3	1910		7,611	3-3

Shareholding by Employees.

In the English Co-operative Wholesale Society membership is
confined to Societies registered under the Industrial and Provident
Societies Acts or the Companies Acts, so that it is not possible
for any of its employees to hold shares.

The Scottish Wholesale Society, in addition to admitting
Societies to membership, has, since 1892, permitted its employees
to become holders of from five to fifty shares of £1 each, and
they are entitled to send one representative to the general meet-
ings, with an additional representative for every 150 employees
who become shareholders, each representative having one vote.
No employee, however, can hold any office on the Committee or he
an auditor of the Society. At the end of 1910, 561 of the em-
ployees (out of a total of 7,611) were shareholders, holding 15,704
shares, upon which £13,945 was paid-up; and, in addition,
£57,892 of the loan capital of the Society, representing the Bonus
Loan Fund mentioned above, belonged to its employees, members
and non-members together, the balance-sheets not showing
separately the amount belonging to each class. The number of
votes which the employees are entitled to give at meetings of
shareholders through their delegates is at present four.

(c) Productive Societies.

The 39 Consumers’ Productive Societies in existence at the
end of 1910 consisted of 5 corn-mills, 22 bread-baking Societies,
and 12 miscellaneous Societies engaged in various industries,
including building, printing, laundry work, dyeing and cleaning,
and mineral water manufacture. Out of the 39 Societies com-
prised in this group, three Societies only in 1910 allotted any
share in their profits to their employees. The total number of
employees who thus participated in profits was 1,312, and the