﻿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

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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.

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