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LABOUR CO-PARTNERSHIP. GAS-WORKERS. SCHEMË.
OUR POOR CLERGY.
THE VICAR'S BOOTS. An extraordinary story, of abject poverty is related by the Vicar of St. Aidan's Church, Leeds, one of the largest churches and parishes in the city, who complains that although he has a stipend
On all the proposals for remedying in dustrial unrest, Aone holds fairer pro mise of permanent goof than a properly devised and equitable system of labour co-partnership. There is a new spirit abroad among the workers, who, seeing 400 Sear and a vicarage he cannot large profits made in the industries in even afford to buy a pair of boots.
Writing in his parish waguaine, the which they are employed, ask themselvës))
re we receiving our fair share of the Rev. W. Mason says most people would he couldn't wealth which, our labour has helped to pooh-pooh the idea that create Today that spirit is running afford a pair of new boots. but it i riot in spasmedie strikes, often in deñance strictly true that his income is insuf- of agreements made by the men's own ficient to furnish even a penny towards, accredited representatives, and by deany new clothes at all, either for himself rands for higher wages and shorter or his family nor so much as a penny hours, which often are pressed without piece towards the education of his child. thought or care of their effect upon other res, personal insurances, charity, hol industries. The cordial relations which day, or even postages. No one, he adds, existed in former days between employer could think of becoming vicar of St. Fand workmen have almost, if not entirely, Aidan's who had not a private income.
disappeared. An atmosphere of suspic ion bas spread like poison gas into our industrial system. A good many work nien have come to look upon Capital and Labour as antagonistie forces, hostile to each other, each ready to snatch any small temporary advantage at the cost of the other. The evil effect of this is a lessened rate of production, in enreless indifférence as to the in terest of the employer, on the one wide. For of the worker on the other.
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In an explanation of where his stipend goes the Vicar blames, the large and un- wieldy vicarage, which he suggests would be better utilised as a home of some kind or another. The following figures are given ans showing roughly the necessary exenses for a year at the vicarage:
Jacome-tax
Inhabited house duty
Rates ......
Water rate
She Is B 29.14 0
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UNITS OF BRITISH ARMY OF »
OCCUPATION.
By direction of the Secretary for War, the War Office announces that the cavalry regiments and infantry battalions com- prised in the Army of the Rhine are as follows:-
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CAVALRY (ONE DIVISION). 4th, 5th and 6th Dragöon Guards, 1st and 8th Dragoons. 3rd, 4th, 10th and 18th Fussars, 9th, 19th and 17th Lancers. Note. It is still uncertain whether all these regiments will be required eventually.
INFANTI
Highland Division 31st, 1/4th had 1/8th Gordons 1/6th and 8th Black Watch. 5th Camerons: 1/8th and 10th A. and S. 1/4th and 9th Seaforthe. Lowland Division-31st, 13th and Luth
H... 1/8th and 9th S. Rifes
3/6th and 11th R. Scots. 1/4th R. Scots Fuse 1/5th and 6th £.6.5.3. Lancashire Division. Sist, 52nd and 13th
13th and Liverpool
18th Lancs,
Fusiliers. Bist, 32nd and 53rd Man- chesters.
1/8th Border Regt. 19th Royal North Lanca,
Division-1/4th, 1/7th and 8th
Cheshire. 51st, 2nd and 3rd St Wales Bord
52nd, 53rd and
1/6th Welsh Regiment.
Division 1st, 32nd and surd Northumberland Fusiliers. 1/5th and 1/6th W. Yorks. 1/4th York and Lan caster
31st, Send, 20th and 19th Durham LI
Western
Vicarage insurance
ST 17 5
31 10 0
382 3 4
Sergant (two are almost 25-
sential "")
£60 0 0
Coal
593 0 0
£12.00
Washing for five people Garden Repairs
£26 0 0
EN 0 0
£15 00
Total
foor
Gas and electric light
The thirty years' experience of the South Metropolitan Gas Company con clusively shows that an "equitable scheme of co-partnership rives contented, loyal workers. It does much more. It develops in them the business sense as compared with that of the worker who has no share fother than wages in the prosperity of the
concern. The result of thin is that thei company has the inestimable advantage! of having in its service a body of work value of the living is £aso and a house, Without the Eastern offering the actual men who are all alike interested in prose that there is left £150. moting its well-being, by efficiency of ser vice and elimination of waste. For the facts relating to the working of the scheme. And the success which has attend ed its operation. I am indebted to Mr. Charks Carpenter, D.Sc., chairman of the company, who was the fate Sir George Livesey's lieutenant when the scheme was launched in 1889, and who has continued and expanded its operation from a keen appreciation of its merits and of the good results which have flowed from it to the workers and to the company.
.. HOW A START WAS MADE.
vicar, most housekeepers would allow When it comes to food," says the that 19s, per head per week did not per mit of many luxuries, but with five people te ferd, Mrs. Mason would require £3 per week. ., £130 for the year, and then, Hey, presto! the vicar, already £ in debts is left without a penny to meet all other expenses for the year for him- ett and his family. It is earnestly to be hoped that many will more than double their contribution to the Easter offering this year in addition to a decent holiday." pair of boots. I might then manage a
The scheme was started at a time which saw the birth of what was hailed as the
Our Peterborough correspondent wires: new "unionian."
Its first victory was The Bishop of Peterborough, appealing the concession of the eight-hour shift, into the laity is his diocese to revive the substitution for the former twelve-hour ancient and laudable custom of devoting shift, in the London gas works. This Easter offertories to the incumbents of Was given without domur, as the need for the respective parishes, saya "Com. a change to shorter hours was felt to te pared with the days before the war, even fully justified by the conditions of the when many livings were utterly inade The men's leaders. not content quate, the purchasing power of money work. with their victory, pressed claim after has, sunk very low. claim until at last it was said You horres the strain has been well-nigh inta. In many, clerical have only to ask for gold watches and lerubby but it has been borne with a dig. You get them. Sir George Livesey nity and patience which can only be then offered to those workmen who chose described as worthy of the high traditions to accept it a scheme, of co-partnership. of English vicaragen. Daily Tele Mr. Carpenter states with admirable graph. lucidity the real racaning and purpose of co-partnership, from the employer's standpoint, in the following sentences:
I want something more than a hireling. 1am willing to take you into my busi ness as a partner. I will pay you the rates of wages and you shall work the hours which are customary in the trade If you sign an agreement of service with me. In return, I will undertake to share with you the profits we make together. I
hers, administer the fund. Each year the amount of bonus to which the workman ia 'entitled becomes his own absolute pro- Perty; but one-half is invested in the com- entered in the employe pass-book, upon pany's Ordinary stock and the other half which interest is paid, but which he may withdraw upon giving seven days' notice. Altogether, in these thirty years, the workmen have received nearly one mil
Midland Division.ach and 9/4th KOY.L.I. 3/4th West Riding. 51st. 52nd and 3rd Notts and Derby. 51st and 32nd Leicester. 1/6th S Staffs. 11th Leicestershire. Southern
Division 1st, 32nd and Mird Warwick. 31st, 32nd and 1/5th Devon- shire, bist, 4th and 15th Hampshire. Och Gloucester. Eastern
Bedfordshire-st., 52nd and 3rd and Royal Sussex, 8th and 10th Royal West Kent. 4th Royal Sussex. 4th Suffolk. London Division-17th, 3rd and 26th Royal Fusiliers 1/7th and 23rd Mid- diegex.
E. Surrey, 9/4th, 10th
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and lith R. V. Surres. 19th Middle-
Light Divisionist, 2nd and 3rd Rife
Brigade 6th and 9th London. (K.RR.C) 12th R. Irish Rifles. 6th Ba. R Irish Regt. 13th, 18th and 20th K.R.R.C.
UTHER ARMS
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Cyclists. Bu Artillery-R.HA (3 Batt. and Amm Col); 1; R.E.A.. (3 18-pdr. Batts, and 14.5 in. How. Batt.), 30; R.G.A. Medium Trench Mortar Batts. 201 60-pdr. Batteries, 20: 6-in. How. Batts, 58, 8-in. How. Batteries, 8; 9.in. How. Batt., 8; 6-in. Gun Batts., 8 Super Heavy Batteries. 10; AAS Artillery Batteries (5 Sec. of 13-pår. dal Engineers. Field Squadron, 1 Field
Scwt. guns each).
3. A.T. Companies, 15 F.S. Battalion, 1; A.A. Searchlight Sec- tions, 20.
Tanke. One group of two brigades of aix
battalions
Infantry
R.
Line-Pioneer Bns., 18; L.T.M. Machine Gun Corpe Machine Gun Bat
Batteries, 30.
alions, 15; Machine Gun Squadrons, 3 Army Service Corpe-Divisional Trains, 10: Cav. Div. Aux. (H) Coy, 1; Arms Troops M.T. Coy., 1; Divi sional M.T. Coy.C., 1 Army 10-Army Hy. Arty M.T. Coy,
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Bde. R.F.A. Park Sections, 10; Heavy HI
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argely by brains, you largely by labour on sterling, of which between £400,000. Bakerbour companies, 10; area
after, say, 4 or 5 per cent has been paid and £300,000 remains invested in the con- as interest on the capital I have laidoerd.
The rate of bonus earned has Lout.
That is the basis of the South Metroper cent on salaries and wages, and Aluctuated considerably. Beginning at 3 politan co-partnership scheme. The offer giving a modest £8,037 to the workmen, was a purely voluntary one, which any it has ranged from 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, up to
employment companies, 4; divisional employment
companies
11; H.QI employment companies, Medical-Cavalry field ambulances, 3;
HAND
field ambulances, 30; sanitary sections, asht 11; M.A. convoys, 8; casualty clearing
and every workman was free to accept of per cent. In 1914. which I take as the 10.
(Gerionary) (400 beds), 5: Hos- Bazaltary Squads, 8.
(1,040 beds), 10;
Royal Air Force Squadrons, 32 and 1 fight; Balloon Wing H.Q., 1; Balloon Cors. H.Q, 5; Balloon Sections, 12; Aircraft Packs, 3; Reserve Lorry, Parks, 9.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,
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or refuse. At the time the workmen were suspicious of the proposal, and turned if the payments under the scheme £48,188." war year, the bonus was 8 per cent, and down. The staff generally accepted. The Cas-making has not been one of the pro. mechanics were the first to understand fiteering" industries. In 1918 the bonus the advantages of the scheme, and asked droped to 2 per cent, in 1917 it rose to be allowed to come within its opera- to 3 per cent, and in 1918 there was no tion. When the workmen came to realise bongs" to distribute. Thus the workmen that, others were really partners in the have passed through the lean years as concern they voluntarily joined. The well as the fat years. Yet I was assured workman who becomes voluntarily a co by Mr. Carpenter. and also by one of the LORD DURHAM ON THE LEAGUE. partner signs a twelve-months' agreement workmen directors, that the spirit of of service with the company. It is, of goodwill and of loyalty to the communal course, obvious that a workman could not interest of the concern is as good to-day be a partner for, say, a week or a month. as in the most prosperous times.
The Earl of Durham, addressing a large gathering of repatriated soldiers at Dar The co-partnership must extend over
Thus the co-partnership system has;
Bam, said we were not going to be bullied HALF A CENTURY REPUTATIONS of the concern can be tabulated and its influence to
Axed period; on, which the profits educated the men who have come within any nation, whether in the Longue of
Nations or out; sed the loftier conception of maintain our plate our good old English Invaluable for diseases of these important organs,
only way to rublished in the ordinary balance-sheets their duty to their fellow and given independence, and our determination to Gravel and the Buck, or, at man, d of the company.
are advan State. great company has
our strength tages both to the company and to the upwards of 3,000 of its employes to the hold our own. In other words, the King's Brice B., leading Chemists, or post free. D. L workmen in this arrangement. The com-service of the country during the war motto God and my right"
CLERO ME, CO, HAVERSTOCK ROAD, NW., pany has the security which comes of Many of these men, on military service in enough for England. Let them hold their was good continuity of service on the part of its the various theatres of war, have told on, and carry on as their Durham sol- cila, Evans, Leo Australia, ELLIOT EROS
London, ENGLAND, ·Depots Paris, 12, Bus CARTESZZOW; New York, 90, BEKLY STREET, malaya, and the workman has the pract their soldier comrades of this co-part-diers had dons in the past.
Bydney and Brabazon + Haw, ZaALAND DRSS Co La Abelland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Walling ton: India, B. K. PAUL & CO., Calestia
of mind which comes from the knowledge dership scheme, and extolled its merits to
of a period of regular employment and others, and the company have as a conse wages. It may be said that the workmanquence received applications from soldiers surrenders the right to strike, whatever desirous of entering its service on do- that may be worth to him. But does he mobilisation. surrender the right to strike 1. It is obvious that if the company sought to ture upon them, bave realised their hold. Some workmen, with the spirit of adven- make any change as to wages, hours, or ings in the company, and gone away to conditions of service during the period Australia, Canada, and elsewhere, to es of the agreement which the workmen look-tablish businesses of their own, and in ed upon as an injustice to them, they many instances bare done so on the basis would break their agreements. The sanc of co-partnership Thur the benchcient tity of these agreements: rents not upon influence of the South Metropolitan any power of coercion in them, bat upon scheme has been spread across the seas to an honourable bbservance of fair condi- the daughter lands by sons who have tions on both sides.
eiples., received their education in its prin-
When the scheme was started, in 1859, it provided for the payment in cash of
The operation of Bir. George Livesey's
1 per cent on alaris and wages for scheme has developed character; it has each peany at which the company could enlarged outlook, it has given the work well gas below Es. 8d. per 1,000 cubic feet man a sense of personal respect; it bas The scheme, waa, revised in 1894, when the made him a co-partner in the profits of bonus was increased to 1 per cent. for industry; it has impressed him with some -bonus penny, and was again" revised in of the difficulties of management nad 1801, the initial price of xas being raised of contral which are the inseparable to Id., per 1,000 cubic feet and the burdens of great commercial undertak bonus reduced to. I per pent for eachings. Along with all this it has broaden penny at which gas was sold below the ed his sense of public duty and of basis price. Nota 1000 CAMERAS (THE BONUS RAHMED achievement, and they are achievements national patriotism. These are great A committee of management of thirty possible in many other great industries, members (including the chairman of the and equally pregnant with the promise Loompany) alected by the board. and thirty of a new and better spirit in the relations members elected by ballot by the co-part between Capital and Labour Daily
(Continued at foot of feat column.) Telegraph Labour Correspondent.
in the league was to
CUTICURA HEALS
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DR. LE CLERC'S & DERES
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