SELF-SACRIFICE, GOOD-WILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 71, 29 March 1921, Page 5

SELF-SACRIFICE, GOOD-WILL.

AN EMPLOYERS' EXPERIMENT. POSSESSIONS AND PROFITS DISPERSED. LONDON, March 28. Mr. Austin Hopkinson, Independent M.I , - for Mosslev, Lancashire, and proprietor of the Delta Engineering Works, recently presented his mansion, valued at £JIO,OOO, and 30 houses to the Aud.cnshaw Council, and went to live in a barn. He Ims now disused of most of his furniture and other possessions at nominal prices, or as free gifts. lie gave his motor car to his own chauffeur, whom lie now pays tnxicab fares when he rides. Mr. Hopkinson is a son of Sir Alfred Hopkinson, formerly Vice-Chancellor of Manchester Vniversity, and he is a successful engineering employer. He hopes thaf'othcrs will imitate liis example, believing that willingness to self-sacrifice ivill re-establish goodwill and confidence between masters and men. lie has already established a profit-sharing scheme, whereby his own profits diminish us the output of his workers increases, and could conceivably disappear. He served as an officer in the war. He was discharged as medically unfit, after being wounded in the second battle of Ypres, but rejoined the Army as a private.— (A- and S.Z. Cable.)