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 INCREASE IN REMUNERATION UNDER PROFIT-SHARING 303 details given by Miss Potter that some of the societies just referred to pay lower wages than those current in the trade; in such cases it would appear that the bonus is accepted in partial substitution for normal wages, and does not, therefore, constitute a clear addition to the ordinary remuneration of the operatives. In those cases in which Profit-sharing is practised by co- operative associations, of whatever class, the bonus to labour payable to members and to non-members respectively is (with no exception known to me) allotted to each employee in proportion to the amount of the wages earned by the recipient. to middlemen. Secretary deplores fact that existing members object to admitting new members' (p. 143). In the trade carried on by this society there is no standard trade union rate o! wages. DAVID F. SCHLOSS