THE SMALL MAN'S SHOP
COBBLERS' "POOL" TO SAVE THEIR BUSINESSES. The suggestion that tradesmen who have been .called up should pool , U'oir businesses has been carried out at Coventry. The Coventry Hootmakors' Amalgamation. Limited, lias been formed with, a capital of littlo of which line been called up. To this the men who liavo Rono and others likely to go linvo lent their machinery at 10 per cent, per annum, and have sold their leather at cost price. Twenty-one . mon, twelve inastore and nine employees, arc at work, and they aro dealing with over 1000 pairs of boots and shoes a' wook. Orders aro I'oceived at the shops of tho men called up, and every morning a motor-van from the -workshop goes round with tho -work which is finished, taking back that waiting to, bo done. The wife of the soldier op other person in charge of. a <lepot receives a commission on ' tho orders taken there. The scheme has been in being for a month and has worked quite smoothly. The men in the Army lenow thoir businesses, arc being kent for Ihem and (hat their wives nnd families are receiving something beyond the Army allowance.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 7
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197THE SMALL MAN'S SHOP Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 7
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