A GREAT PARIS PRINTER AND HIS MEN.
Before the war, M. Paul Dupont, the great Paris printeT, carried on a business o'f 5,G00,000 francs a year. He divided ten per cent, of the net profits amongst his workmen, according to their individual merit, and not in regular proportion to their different salaries. This house, says Mr Thurlow's recent "report, has followed this course for 20 years, and claims the first place in the application of oue of the happiest and most successful ideas of modern times. Each new hand, on admission, receives a silver medal,
worth five francs, as a badge of office I and link between him and his employer. This establishment has its sick and provident funds of all the Usual kinds. Its loan of honour to its workmen, its " Caisses de Reteaitre," its schools, libraries, reading, and Binging rooms, its saving banks, its co-operative stores, its familisteries, gardens, baths—in short, every invention of modern,,, days for promoting health, wealth, and religion. To use the words of M. Dupont himself:— "It is more than a workshop—it is a family composed of a thousand persons."
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 868, 30 September 1871, Page 3
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186A GREAT PARIS PRINTER AND HIS MEN. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 868, 30 September 1871, Page 3
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