The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-05
TURNS OVER ENTIRE
 PLANT TO EMPLOYES
Veterans in Company's Ranks to Have Full Control of Big
 Manufacturing Plant.

Keeling that he and his sons had
 made from their old established busi-
 ness of manufacturing dresses and
 uniforms all the money they ever would need and that their employees were deserving of something more
 than mere wages when they had given
 good part of their lives to building
 up the business, Henry A. Dix &
 Sons, II6 West Fourteenth street,
 New York, the Dix building, last
 week turned over to their 400 em-
 ployes aNbusiness worth more than
 $I, 100000 a year. And in addition to
 that act of striking generosity the
 Dixs lent to their employees $500
 with which to continue business.
 MT. Dix and his sons withdrew en- tirely from financial control of the
 business, though MT Dix has con- sented to act as honorary chairman of the board of directors and to stand by with advice if it should be required The post is entirely advisory and car ries with 1t no salary or e1nolument whatever. MT. Dix had been drawing a salary of $6o year An elaborate system of transfer involving a large sum for immediate running expenses put into operation coincidentally with the turning over of the business from former owners to the employees who now own 1t.
 The visiting control Is vested in six employees and as soon as other veterans have put in three years of service with what is now their own concern II5 of them will be given class A common stock of the Differs may expect similar treatment as their service and loyalty ! justify. In explaining the motives | which actuated Henry A. Dix and his l sons, one of the latter made the fol- l lowing explanation:
 "It has long been in my fathers i mind that workers usually get noth-i ng for their services, however loyal i md devoted, except wages. He felt hat such system was wrong. He believed that workers who had de- Toted a large part of their lives to- ward building up business deserved share of it's prosperity quite beyond md apart from the mere wages in ,olved. My father has entertained hat belief for rather more than 7 years.
 From time to time he tried to nake changes which took into effect he human element Tn the success Of
 business concern. He shortened the 5orking days and ran the business on
 five day a week basis. He inaug- rated a system of dividend profits, 0 that the employees could share in 1e success we were having. Even so, UT personal profits continued to row, and eventually my father de ded that instead of aceumulating ( loney which we did not need it would | e better to turn the whole thing over ) those that had contributed to its ( 1ccess. He has now done that instead { selling the business. In all our ears we have never had a strike or l ny labor trouble" V
 Several years ago Henry A. Dix I ave his large country estate at Mt. isco as a summer home for work g girls, and accommodations always ( e available there for any working II from the city who is able to pre- mt satisfactory credentials With e estate MT. Dix gave $Ioo,ooo as . maintenance endowment and since lat time has paid rent on a part of | e property which he uses for his VII purposes. z MT. Dix came to this country from f. ussia just 80 years ago at the age f.
 42. He began business in Millville, o J., but soon branched out with = ctories in Vineland and Somerville, : J.. and in New York