The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-12
ADOPTS \ WORKABLE PROFIT
 SHARING PLAN
Bantam Factory Makes Move That Others Are
 Expected to Follow.
WOMAN IS
THE PRESIDENT
Plan Has Been in Operation Five Years With Much
 Success.

The HttIe town Of Bantam with 500
 9hha bitants, In the heart of the most
 Conservative county ;h the JTnitet
 Stares, if not in the world. boasts of
 "a proft-sharing factory which were 1t
 SeneralS known would probably
 elalleuge the attention and even ad=
 3niratlon Of economists and factory
 'experts all over the world. IIefa in
 fhe heart of the I}crkshires, whose
 shadows dominate their people, and
 sconsciously or not impregnate
 them with the inJOuaifable spirit of
 the mountains and likewise with its lofty d,-sain for things new and rad
 Ecal, Is q plant of 100 operatives run land directed entirely by employees; a |plaRt where labor troubles are un- Known; where striEeFs would be as
 Intellectual as cutting off ones own llrose to improve his facial cast, for
 enployes cant strike against ihera- seIves; where employer ord cHploye
 work sido by s.da for tue common 'prodt; where every worker receives monthly three pes cent. of the ney
 sales of the cor1pauyf where all ;ts 'busiuevs Is directed by a convention
 ycouncu) ot the esaploSea who Fouu~ late it's policy of work and puoavc-
 Sion And this littlc corporation
 The Bantam I2ar Bearing company, ! whose activities wNuld bo almost fam castle if they were not realistic {, Senougn to resa1s .r sales of over l .$8O0, GOO lrat year, is directed ry a ! woman, who, w8tN tho chairman of , Ithe board os directors, Winfield Scot !. Rogers, for tu-o years worked on the [ Lproft-sharing plan to well-nigh per ; Election, and then presented 3t to jho | Na Ia vrTth approval and for fvo years have worked untrcr ft
 IT yol ask Mss Nellie NJ Scott. tho l SpreSi&ept of tho Ieaptam Company Ehon this allnCSt 5ncNucc5Ns h1v tssuaOoth -r7lnrsnE plan has v,arEe !. with such success for 5Rc pass 6ro <. years, she win toD you most em- phatica1iv that the plan can bo car r1ed out with as great succoss among t 1arEer producers if they win but de- vote as much tdalo ro pc-fCctiusz the j. rlan as she and MT. Rogers d3d~
 ] TWO worked for two years sowing | the seed among tho VTorkncp of our
 factory for this schema she sa3a ta [ nre when met her on tho train back 4 10 Tsantarn from Now York, where
 she had been spending a few days. , ~'T11o trouble with most mana gers \ who wi=h tO put tho prUft-aharinr r Ep1an into operation Is that they do 4 mot prepare their u-orEmen for tho II reception Of the Dlam. I naturally I fICarlnot clad1n m the credit for evo1v- Il tng csur plarl for r11e nucleus of # T uvns discovered hv MT Rogers In I little town in England, where con tdittoIrs Hre naturally different from Il those in Arnuraca- There the man :. agvTs Of thc5r pIant can reckon sat ! fszfartUrily with the element of the | bere dH1arv pozs5ssion of a Job II -G1escends from father to son. to ! grandson. so that the employer has often-1rnes three or four Eeneratlons | of one family successfEp7y Tn his ern- rpluy. Naturally that makes the work man even more interested in the do ,fnEB of the factory than the transient 'ernplUye, too couaInon to American factory con dftions-
 @'Ws ra1ked among our employees iahe pTolt-sharinE plan for a long t1rne, 1ettiaE fl sink in until they l found that they really desired a. [Then five years ago WIG brought them | together in a convention and asked | them to vote upon Its acceptance which they did, We attacked inc sub 3ect in such manner as this - We would say to one Of our Italians. for They const1rute the chief percentaze of .ouT employees -'EEou7dn7t It bo nice to share the prod1s-- They lt rnight not even understand the mean It ing of the word but we explained it- and Angelo perhaps would talk abont k it to Peter and Peter to John and after a while The Idea had permeatpd E inc entire factory
 ~At first VIC save them one per cent of the proflas. Then I-2. then
 
 met sales This profit is divided s pro rata among all employees except r the president and chairman of the board or directors. The profits ara k paid on tho first NIonda after the 10th of the second month fo7lowfns and arc based om the rate per hour ! and the cota1 number of hours each
 5ndivfduai works
 By reason of tho email size of the ' paart tho profits are not necessarily l < tremendously large. They rarrs from E s7 amd 8s per month to s20 per F month for eaca emp.oye. When the l s pl0n was put into opcvatio tho profits E averaged nine per cent of the eru- ployo's s21a-y or wages. Last year it averaged twenty per cent"
 As passed through the factory I ! a noted this b11let3n on the black board where a.t notices for employees
 are posted: ~Gros1 sales for Juno. $S7, ,51A.s6: net sales. S3G, ,9Ts. 60; pro3t throo pert cent. to employees, f1.1o9.36; IS i-2 per cent. of pay roll. f s1.113.44. This indicates the amount ! E which would be distributed for June Men are paid upon an average of from 2B to 40 cents an hour and all work is done by the hour. The fac tory manager told mo there is no piece work. A chart on the wall of the office of Miss Scott told me that according to an inventory made by < inc American Appraisal company, and E nn audit made by tho Credit and Au- dit company of America, that the yearly sales had increased from S445,- 622.3O. the year of the war panic, to ; over S64s. 900 the past year.
 asked if the proflt-sharing plan was not rather unfair to the good workman, and Miss Scott told me that on the other hand 1t showed up the poor workman. for if man receiv- cd only a small profit. based on