ABSTRACT
The English Wholesale Society represents, with the exception of the similar departments of the Scottish Society, the most expansive side at the present time of co-operative production. In this Society a bonus to labour is allowed, a uniform rate based on the results of the aggregate working of the Society being given, both to 'productive' and to 'distributive' employees. From 1884 to 1892 the whole of the bonus earned was handed over to the men entitled to it, but since the latter year a wiser plan has been adopted, and one half of each worker's bonus, which has for the last few years amounted to 8d. The special fund thus formed bears interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, and accumulations cannot be withdrawn, save with the consent of the committee, until the expiry of three months after the service of the Society has been left.
