INDUSTRIAL  :  ASSOCIATIONS  OF  WORKERS.

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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  Societies ­
  to
which
the  Particulars ­

relate.

Membership.

Employees.

Other  Individuals.

Societies.

Total
Membership. ­


No.  -

Percentage. ­


No.

Percentage. ­


No.

Percentage. ­


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.”