LUCKY EMPLOYEES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3138, 9 October 1922, Page 8

LUCKY EMPLOYEES.

Henry Ford, the famous American motor-maker, is one of the most generous of employers, and some of his employees the most lucky of men. His yearly bonuses to his assistant*; are framed on big lines. Mr Ford, who owns more than one-half of the stock of the Ford Company (says the Pall Mall Gazette), recently planned to distribute more than 10,000,1)00 dollars (€2,000,000) annually among the employees in such a maimer that no employee who was over 22 years would gel; less than five dollars a day. All laborers had their pay raised to live dollars, so men who received live dollars a day before were raised to seven or eight dollars. In a recent bonus distribution one employee in New York is said to have receiverd a cheque for L : 10,000. Sergeant-Major Williams, \ .C, a South Wales miner, enlisted in 1914, and served continuously till severely wounded at the end of the war in the 10th South Wales Borderers. His old employers have presented him witb his house, coal, and light lor life, and his proud countrymen in the Ebbw Vale coalfield subscribed about L'2,OOU as a token of their appreciation of hits heroism. Lord Field. who died recently, left between' £14,000 and (J 1/3,000 to his servants. To his clerk. Mr John Baylev Curtins, he left £3OOO and a life annuity of WOO. To Mrs Curtins should she survive her husband, a life annuity of £l5O. To Mary Wilson, a servant, wlio was with him for over 30 years, he left £4OO and a. life annuity of £lO. To another servant, Matilda Major, he left £1000; to two other servants £SOO each. To his coachman is bequeathed L IOOO, and to his head gardener £SOO. In addition, many other generous gifts were made to other servants. Mr U. I>. Clifton, ex-professor of experimental philosophy. Ox lord, and formerly professor of natural philosophy at Owen's College, Manchester, recently bequeathed the income from £'(3000 to his housekeeper, Charlotte Lewendon, tb« income from £4,000 to his housemaid, Emily Jane Watts, and £IOOO to Miss Irene Sturton, who assisted in tho management of the estate. Every Christ inns His Hajesty the King, who is a most generous, employer, distributes about £BOOO amongst his domestic servants. Each of the -1-30 servants employed in the Royal palaces receive a present valued at about I' 3. In addition there arc SOO estate employees at Windsor. Balmoral, and Sandringhain. each of whom receives ;i gift varying from L'l to L's in value. Many of the servants arc allowed to go to their homes For about 10 days, Hie King paying I heir expenses. Bequests |o servants figure largely in the will of Lady Louise Alexandra Williams Wynce. of Llanagadwyn, near Oswestry. Her stud groom, -las. Waul. is 101 l all the testatrix's horses and dogs, the cup won by What Now,, one year's wages, and LMOOO. Other bequests are: —£3000 and one year's wages to her maid, Pioronce Hall; L'soo to her companion, Edith {Harrison; and COOO to her land agent, .fames Stewart. Manv other servants receive gills of L2OO and L'loo each.