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APPENDIX A.

i.—Cases in which Profit-sharing now Exists (according

TO THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT 1ST AUGUST, 1912).
The letters in column 4 signify as follows:—C.—paid in Cash;
P.—paid to a Provident Fund or in pensions, or retained by firm to
encourage thrift; C.P.=paid partly as C. and partly as P. ; S.=
invested in shares in the undertaking ; C.S.=paid partly as C. and
partly as S.; S.C.=paid as S. for a prescribed period or until
employee has a prescribed holding, then partly as S. and partly as C.,
S.P.=paid partly as S. and partly as P.

No.	Date  of  adop-  tion  of  Profit-  sharing	Name and Address of Firm. (Certain firms who wished to remain anonymous are indicated by letters, chosen at random.)	Nature of Business and how Bonus is paid.  (See note at head of Table.)	Number of Em- ployees in 1911.	Num- ber of em- ployees entitled to par- ticipate on Dec. 31,1911.
1	1865	“J.J.”	Manufacture, C.	163	163
2	1866	Fox, Bros. & Co., Ltd., Wellington, Somerset The Colne Fishery Board, Colchester.	Woollen manufacturers, C.	1561	239
3	1870		Oyster producers and sellers, C.	8-190	423«
4	1872	“ R. P.”		Bookbinding and sta- tionery works, C.	250	40
6	1873	Agricultural and Horti- cultural Association, Ltd., 92, Long Acre, W.C.	Supply and manufacture of artificial manure, oil cakes, seeds, &c., C.P.	195-325	195
3	1876	Women’s Printing So- ciety, 31, Brick Street, Piccadilly, W.	Printing, C		53	51
7	1876	Tollesbury & Mersea (Blackwater) Oyster Fishery Co., Ltd., Tollesbury, Witham.	Oyster merchants and planters, O.f	14-83	466°
8	18781	Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd., Elswick Works, New- castle-on-Tyne.	Shipbuilding, engineer- ing and ordnance manufacture, C.	15,812-  15,953	2,238
9	1878	Cassell & Co., Ltd., La Belle Sauvage, Lud- gate Hill, E.C.  “T. L.”...	Printing, publishing, and bookbinding. P.	1,150-  1,200	1,175
10	1881		Manufacture, C.	230	173
11	1882	Brooke, Bond, & Co., Ltd., Goulston Street, Aldgate East, E.	Tea blending and pack- ing. C.P.§	570-636	459
12	1883	Fidler & Sons, Royal Berkshire Seed Stores, Reading.	Seedsmen, potato growers, farmers, and fruit salesmen. C.	40-60	36
13	1884	“ E E.” ...	Manufacture. C.	53	26
14	1884	Blundell, Spence, & Co., Ltd, Hull.	Colour, paint and varnish manufacture, oil boil- ing and refining. C.	803-840	600
15	1886]|	Hazell, Watson, & Yiney, Ltd., London and Aylesbury.	Printers and book- binders. C.	1,400	207

* Employed in rotation.

t There is a Provident Fund for Widows and Orphans of employees to which the General
Meeting of the shareholders allots such sums as it thinks fit (about 2 per cent, of divisiblo
Profits.)

1 Adopted about 1878 in the Manchester business of Sir Joseph Whitworth & Co., Ltd.
and continued after some modification by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd. ’
>§ C. until June, 1903.	|| See p. 64.