The Workingman's Advocate

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in his ordinance? Yo
r. Roebuck-Will you tell me what is in.
st a man has not to receive the money?
He has no interest not to receive it; he has
not interest in receiving it? Or
you object to his not receiving it? Do
not? No, we object to men not paying
it. Some piece-masters, as we call them.
Insist on pocketing the whole of the money
and we insist on their sharing it."
Mr. Matthews: If a workman possessed
of superior intelligence or tact in organising
a contract, divides the proceeds amongst his
fellow-men, there is no encouragement for
him to proceed in that way, is there? -Such
a man as that, generally speaking, is rated
at a higher rate of wages than the others,
and, in addition to his rate of wages, on
sharing the surplus he generally receives
something like 5 or 10 per cent. for his management in the affair.
So that he is not excluded altogether from
the advantages that he might derive from
his faculty of combination, but he divides
the surplus in a certain ratio with his fel-
low workmen? -Yes.
Mr. Roebuck: Does it come to
this, that there is an equal division through-
out the whole sum received? -Not an equal
division.
A reasonable division, according to the
share each received? It is for the parties
in job; the dozen who take the most were some-
ployed on a contract job, insist on the money
being shared. It must not be supposed that
when there are a number of workers employed
in the one room the rule works on contract,
the rule applies to them solely, as to those who are employed on what
we call the job, or contract, as it may be.
Mr. Harrison: Is it not the suction of
your town boxes?
No, Paul-contract; because it is not such, for
instance, a large locomotive factory, the
contract is direct from the Gooe, that is to
say, 'direct from the employer; It is not a
sub-contract.
Of course the same rule applies?
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Chairman: Do you think that the regulation to which you refer is
pedes. or. discourages piecework? To my
mind it rather encourages it. To way
men without it properly have
then the whole run to divided? Yes,
but we do not arrange as to any par-
ticular number of men there he. ool
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- Mr. Roebuck: The contractor votes him-
self, I suppose? In home tntg ci each
And he receives certificate of wages?
Yes...
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Then in the division of the produce or
the concern he receives reasonably according
to his wages a portion of that sum?
Then the second portion, which is the sur-
plus profit, is reasonably distributed
amongst all the men? See superior knowledge and
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