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1900

The United States Steel Corporation adopted the profit-sharing principle in 1900; the company's profit-sharing division increased earnings of preferred stock and labor 82.7 per cent for the year 1900.

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County1900During 1900

Rock County recorded its 1900 crop and dairy production (1,929 acres of wheat, 122,694 acres of corn, 15,711 acres of barley, 5,741 acres of rye, 2,611 acres of tobacco, 3,369,911 pounds of butter, 287,300 pounds of cheese, among other figures).

County1900During 1900

A man purchased the elevator at Milton and began a flour, feed and grain business.

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In his own establishment for making piano felts and felt shoes he worked this idea into practical form and gave his workmen not only a share in the profits, but also a pension fund, which provided for their old age. At the present time (1908) this principle appears in the share-holding system of the National Biscuit Company; the United States Steel Corporation adopted it in the year 1900, and the American Eadiator Company, about 1906. April 4, 1908, the New Jersey School Furniture Company divided among its seventy-four employes $8,400 profits, having begun this profit-sharing with them five years ago.

Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.Vol. 2, PDF p. 156 / book p. 664

1900

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In his own establishment for making piano felts and felt shoes he worked this idea into practical form and gave his workmen not only a share in the profits, but also a pension fund, which provided for their old age. At the present time (1908) this principle appears in the share-holding system of the National Biscuit Company; the United States Steel Corporation adopted it in the year 1900, and the American Eadiator Company, about 1906. April 4, 1908, the New Jersey School Furniture Company divided among its seventy-four employes $8,400 profits, having begun this profit-sharing with them five years ago.