HANDED OVER TO THE STAFF.
MANUFACTURER'S BUSINESS. WAGES AND SERVICE. NEW YORK, December 23. Mr. Henry Dix. the owner of a dress and uiiilorm manufactory which is valued lit I.OOOOOOdoI. to-day signed a deed transferring the entire business to his ■400 employees. IK- will continue in an. advisory capacity, but the ownership and complete management of the business will be vested in the workere.
Mr. Dix explained that he had long been troubled hy a conviction that mere wage* were an insufficient return to faithful employees. In his -27 years' proprietorship of the business h<; had never had a single labour trouble, nnd he had now a sufficient income for life.—■ (A. and N.Z. Cab-le.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 5
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