AN ALTRUISTIC EMPLOYER.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17105, 29 March 1921, Page 7

AN ALTRUISTIC EMPLOYER.

PHILANTHROPY IN LANCASHIRE. (By Cable—Prees Association—Copyright.; (Australian and N.Z. Cabk Association.) (Received March 28th, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 28. Mr Austin Hopkinson, member of tho House of Commons for the Mossley Division of Lancashire, who recently presented his mansion, Ryecroft Hall, worth £30,000, and thirty houses to the, Audenshaw Council in order to live in a barn, has now disposed of most of his furniture and other possessions at nominal prices and by free gifts. Ho gave his motor-car to his own bhauffour, and now pays taxi fares when he rides. Mr Hopkinson is a son of Sir Alfred Hopkinson, a Manchester professor, a»d is a successful engineering employer. Ho hopes that others will imitate his example, believing .that willingness to show self-sacrifice will re-establish goodwill and confidence between masters and mon. He has already established a profit-sharing scheme by which his own profits diminish as output increases, and could conceivably disappear altogether. He served as an officer in the Royal Dragoons in the war, was discharged as unfit and then rejoined as a private in the same regiment.