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as the Comptoir des Poutrelles and the Comptoir d’Exportation
des Produits Métallurgiques mentioned above.
In the metallurgical industry of France there are other comptoirs
 or selling agencies of secondary importance formed for the
urpose of selling the products of their members in the home and
TE markets. They centralize the orders received from their
clients and divide them up among the members so that the goods will
be shipped from the plant nearest the consumer, thus reducing to a
minimum the expenses of distribution. The methods of operation
are similar to those of the comptoirs described above. The following
 is an example of the comptoirs of this class:
Comptoir des Ressorts de Carrosserie (Vehicle Springs Comptoir).—Société
 anonyme with variable capital. Head offices, 80
Rue Taitbout., Paris.

Officers and board of directors,

Henri Fayol, Paris (president).
Marcel Dumuis, at Firminy (Loire) (vice president).
Georges Claudinon, at Chambon-Feugerolles (Loire).
Clausel de Coussergues, at Allevard (Isére).
Pierre Planet, at Saint Etienne (Loire).
Emile Potron, Paris.
louis Reclue, Paris.
Ch. Vermot, at Chatenois, Territoire de Belfort.
M. Willemin, 80 Rue Taitbout. Paris (manager).
Members.

Société anonyme de Commentry, Fourchambault et Decazeville,
Société anonyme des Aciéries et Forges de Firminy.
Société Charles Vermot, Valére, Mabille et R. Pelgrims,
Emile Potron (Forges de Persan).
Société Planet et Cie.
[Tsines Claudinon et Cie. 2
Société Métallurgique de 1™Aridge.
Rocibté des Forces d’Allevard.

Union des Teinturiers et Appréteurs (Dyers and Sizers’ Union).—
The Union des Teinturiers et Appréteurs is a powerful organization
with offices at 5 Faubourg Poissonniére, Paris, which was formed for
the regulation of the dyeing and sizing industry in France.
The statutes and regulations and other details as to the working
of the union are kept secret. It includes over 90 per cent of the dyeing
 and sizing plants of France and apportions to each member his
share of the year’s business in accordance with the relative importance
 of the plant.
A uniform cost of production is carefully calculated, which must
be used by each member in making prices and in submitting returns
of work performed during the year. A certain quota of orders is
apportioned to each member for the year, which must not be exceeded.
If the member, for instance, has been assigned one million francs’
worth of work and has been found to have executed one million and
a quarter, the rules of the union force him to refund to the union,
for the benefit of all the members, the profit obtained on the quarter
million of francs’ worth of work done in excess of his quota.
The union does not publish lists of its members, but by far the
most important company belonging to the union and one which has