﻿APPENDIX B .—(contd.

III.—Abandoned Schemes summarised by Causes of Abandonment and Trades.

				Cause of Abandonment.							Number  of  Schemes  in  existence  at  1st A ugust, 1912.
Trade.	Apathy of employees and  dissatis- faction of employers with results.	Diminu- tion of profits, and losses or want of success.	Enterprise aban- doned, and liquida- tion or dissolu- tion.	Changes in or  transfer of business.	Substitu- tion of increased wages or shorter hours, or other benefits.	Dissatis- faction of em- ployees.	Job  finished or death of  employer.	Special  circum-  stances.	Not  known.	Total.	
Building trades 		3	2	i		i		i	_	i	9	3
Mining and quarrying		  Metal, engineering, and shipbuilding :—	3	—	2	—	—	i	—			6	
Metal	3	2	1	i	—	—	—	—	i	8	i
Engineering and shipbuilding ...	8	3	1	—	i	i	i	i	i	17	4
Textile trades	4	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	7	7
Clothing trades	...	1	3	5	3	—	—	—	—	—	12*	5*
Transport ...	1	—	—	—	—	i	—	—	—	2	1
Agriculture	  Printing, paper, and allied trades :—	—	3	3	3	—	—	2	—	i	12	6
Paper making 		1	• —	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	4
Printing, bookbinding, &c		9	3	3	7	i	i	—		:	i	25	11
Woodworking and furnishing trades	3	1	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	7	3
Chemical, glass, pottery, &c.	2	—	—	—	3	—	—	1	2	8	14
Food and tobacco ...	8	4	2	3	—	—	—	1	—	18	13
Gas works ...	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	33
Electricity supply ...	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2
Other businesses	12	6	4	4	2	—	—	1	1	30°	26*
Total			59	29	25	22	8	4	4	4	8	163*	133*

* No recent particulars are available as regards three schemes which were started (two in the Clothing trades and one in “Other businesses”) to show
wh.eth.er they are still in existence or have been abandoned.