Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2011 18:13:11 GMT 1
was there any other glasgow companies that used this system
have been reading about it in sctottishmining
seems to me an unfair system ,if you work you should get paid and be able to buy your provisions any where you like
imagine that happening today
taken from -http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/197.html
The company to whom these works belong carry on considerable operations. Their principal work is at Motherwell, where about 1,000 men are employed. A store is maintained in connexion with the Motherwell works , which is let for a large sum, stated by the book-keeper of the company to be £560 a year, and by Mr. Cassels, the managing partner, to be £650. Only a small section of the Motherwell workmen, Mr. Cassels stated, come for advances, but they are expected to take these to the store, and their advances are stopped if they slope.
In the Wishaw works, belonging to this company, poundage at the rate of 5% is charged; but at their St. Rollox works in Glasgow, a system is carried on which was new to us but of which traces appeared elsewhere.
There are about 200 men in the St. Rollox works and the pays are fortnightly. About 50 men, according to Mr. Paris, the pay clerk, obtain advances. They do not get these from the pay clerk, but in the shape of lines or credit for goods from a grocer in Glasgow -McAra by name, who keeps two stores- one for drink, the other a general provision shop.
The company, it seems, bought the St. Rollox works from a firm which had failed, to which McAra had been storeman. Shortly after the Glasgow Company started, McAra came to Paris to procure his assistance in keeping the custom of the works in McAra's shop; and between them, and with the advice of Mr. Cassels, the managing partner, they devised the system now in operation. Once a fortnight Paris furnishes McAra with a list of the advance men, and the amount of the money due to them. On the day before pay McAra sends to the pay office his list of the men to whom lines on his shop have been given for provisions or drink between the pays, and the pay clerk deducts the amount from the wages of each. Before opening an account of this character, the workmen sign a document in the following terms:-
have been reading about it in sctottishmining
seems to me an unfair system ,if you work you should get paid and be able to buy your provisions any where you like
imagine that happening today
taken from -http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/197.html
The company to whom these works belong carry on considerable operations. Their principal work is at Motherwell, where about 1,000 men are employed. A store is maintained in connexion with the Motherwell works , which is let for a large sum, stated by the book-keeper of the company to be £560 a year, and by Mr. Cassels, the managing partner, to be £650. Only a small section of the Motherwell workmen, Mr. Cassels stated, come for advances, but they are expected to take these to the store, and their advances are stopped if they slope.
In the Wishaw works, belonging to this company, poundage at the rate of 5% is charged; but at their St. Rollox works in Glasgow, a system is carried on which was new to us but of which traces appeared elsewhere.
There are about 200 men in the St. Rollox works and the pays are fortnightly. About 50 men, according to Mr. Paris, the pay clerk, obtain advances. They do not get these from the pay clerk, but in the shape of lines or credit for goods from a grocer in Glasgow -McAra by name, who keeps two stores- one for drink, the other a general provision shop.
The company, it seems, bought the St. Rollox works from a firm which had failed, to which McAra had been storeman. Shortly after the Glasgow Company started, McAra came to Paris to procure his assistance in keeping the custom of the works in McAra's shop; and between them, and with the advice of Mr. Cassels, the managing partner, they devised the system now in operation. Once a fortnight Paris furnishes McAra with a list of the advance men, and the amount of the money due to them. On the day before pay McAra sends to the pay office his list of the men to whom lines on his shop have been given for provisions or drink between the pays, and the pay clerk deducts the amount from the wages of each. Before opening an account of this character, the workmen sign a document in the following terms:-