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profits in favour of their employees, either as bonus on wages or
as contributions to Provident Funds, or both; of these 19 both
paid bonus on wages and allotted sums to Provident Funds, 19
paid bonus on wages only, and two credited the whole of the
share in profits allotted to employees to Provident Funds.

The average addition which the bonus made to the wages of
participants was, in 1910, 4'4 per cent.

Share of Employees in Membership, Capital, and Control.

The extent to which the employees share in the membership,
•capital and control of the Workers’ Productive Societies will be
seen from the four Tables printed below : —

Productive Associations
other Individuals,
1899-1910.

of Workers—Share of Employees,
and Societies, in the Membership,

[Compiled from Returns made to the Laboivr Department.]

Year.	Number of Socie- ties to which the Par- ticulars relate.	Membership.						
		Employees.		Other Individuals.		Societies.		Total  Mem-  bership.
		No. -	Percent-  age.	No.	Percent-  age.	No.	Percent-  age.	
1899 ...	88	3,285	19-6	10,730	63-8	2,793	16*6	16,808
1900 ...	88	3,616	21-2	10,457	61-4	2,958	17-4	17,031
1901 ...	91	3,683	21-4	10,440	60-7	3,068	17-9	17,191
1902 ...	88	3,421	19-6	10,831	62-2	3,172	18-2	17,424
1903 ...	92	3,279	18-0	11,646	64-0	3,273	18-0	18,198
1904 ...	101	3,469	17-4	12,965	65-2	3,449	17'4	19.883
1905 ...	89	3,332	19-4	10,366	60-3	3,479	20-3	17,177
1906 ...	97	3,478	18-3	11,779	62-1	3,719	19-6	18,976
1907 ...	86	3,372	18-4	11,071	60-6	3,832	21-0	18,275
1908 ...	84	3,570	16-1	14,892	67-1	3,738	16-8	22,200
1909 ...	83	3,758	16-6	15,018	66-3	3,872	17-1	22,648
1910 ...	78	3,699	16-0	15,510	66-9	3,964	17-1	23,173

It will be seen that in the year 1910 nearly 67 per cent, of the
members of the 78 Associations which have supplied information
(and which represent 95 per cent, of the total sales of the 86
Productive Associations of Workers) were persons not employed
by the Associations, 17 per cent, were other Co-operative Societies,
and only 16 per cent, (as against 19'6 per cent, in 1899) were
employees of the Associations. The voting strength of the
employees is, however, greater than would appear from these
figures, because proxy voting is very seldom allowed by the rules
of these Associations, and employees are, of course, more likely to
be on the spot than the “ other individuals.”

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