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COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATIONS,
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SCOTTISH CLERKS' ASSOCIATION.
(Registered puisuant to Act of Parliament.)
Head OfSce, 81 St. George's Place, Glasgow.
Thomas Berrie, General Secretary.
In addition to tte insurance against sickness, loss
of employment, old age, and death, this Association
introduces to employers clerks, bookkeepers, travellers,
and assistants of good business capacity and character.
Careful investigation is made as to the character and
antecedents of all applicants before their names are
placed on the " Situations Wanted Register ; " 2274
inquiries have been received since the commence-
ment of the Association, and 743 situations filled.
The Register has already been patronised by over
1200 employers. The inquiry does not cost anything,
and employers are invited to consult the secretary
before advertising or finally fixing. , Employers may
become honorary members on an annual payment of
10s. and upwards, or life members by a single subscrip-
tion of £5 5s. This entitles them to the use of the
Situations Wanted Register for clerks.
Branch and agency offices at 5 North St. David
street, Edinburgh; 13 Belmont street, Aberdeen;
the London Chamber of Commerce Chambers, Botolph
House, Eastcheap, London, E.C. ; 72 Bell street,
Dundee; the Christian Institute, Falkirk; 43 High
Street, Paisley; 26 Hamilton Street, Greenock; 87
King Street, and Kilmarnock. Lists of clerks desiring
situations are published in The Clerks' Gazette
monthly.
OiSce hours — 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.; Saturdays,
9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the secretary attends the Royal
Exchange daily at 11 forenoon and 3 afternoon.
Telephone No. 4423.
Patrons — J. G. A. Baird, Esq., M.P., president,
and the following firms are among the patrons of the
Association: — Bennet'a Iron Foundry Company,
Manchester; Barry, Henry, & Company, Limited,
Aberdeen ; Bertram's, Limtd., Edinburgh ; William
Beattie & Sons, builders, Edinburgh; Arthur & Co.,
Ltd., warehousemen, Glasgow; J. & P. Coats, Ltd.,
Paisley ; Carron Co., Falkirk, Glasgow, and London ;
The Central Agency, Glasgow; The Caledonian
Railway Co., Glasgow ; Jas. Finlay & Co., Glasgow ;
John Ford & Co., Edinburgh; Glenfield Co., Ltd.,
Kilmarnock; The Glasgow & South Western Rail-
way Co.; The New Howe Machine Co., Ltd.; Hunter,
Barr, & Co., warehousemen, Glasgow; Wm. Jacks
& Co., ironmasters, Glasgow; A. G. Kidston & Co.,
iron merchants, Glasgow ; Life Association of Scot-
land ; Walter Macfarlane & Co., ironfounders, Glas-
gow; W. M'Laren, Sons, & Co., Glasgow; M'Grigor,
Donald, & Co., writers, Glasgow; M'Corquodale &
Co., Ltd., Glasgow and Leeds; Nobel's Explosive
Co., Ltd. ; Oakbank Oil Co., Ltd. ; Pumpherston Oil
Co., Ltd. ; Rownson, Drew, & Co., London ; The Steel
Co. of Scotland, Ltd ; Singer Manufacturing Co., Ltd.;
Wm. Stirling & Sons, Ronton and Glasgow ; A. & F.
Stoddart & Co., Elderslie; Smith & Wellstood, Ltd.;
J. & G. Thomson, shipbuilders, Clydebank; James
Templeton & Co., manufacturers, Glasgow; Tharsis
Sulphur & Copper Co., Ltd. ; Wilson, Matheson,
& Co., warehousemen, Glasgow; James Watson &
Co., iron merchants, Glasgow; Wm. Younger & Co.,
Ltd., brewers, Edinburgh; Young's Paratfin Light
and Mineral Oil Co., Ltd.; Robert Addle & Sons,
Coatbridge ; Bengal Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., London ;
Fisher & Randall, Ltd., Manchester and Sierra Leone;
D. & W. Henderson, Glasgow ; A. & J. Stewart and
Clydesdale, Ltd., Glasgow; Wilsons' & Clyde Coal
Co., Ltd., Glasgow ; the African Lakes Founding Cor-
poration, Ltd.; Cassels' Gold Extracting Co., Ltd.;
Edison Bell Phonograph Corporation, Ltd.; Fletcher,
Russell, & Co., Limited, Manchester ; H. M. Inland
Revenue; R. Leifmann, Sohne Machf, Hamburg;
Manlove, Alliot, & Co., Limited, Nottingham ; G.
Tonnelier, Antwerp; AUman & Co., Antwerp; A.
Gibert & Fils, Bordeaux; Stokes Brothers, C.A.,
Dublin; Wilson, Sons, & Co., Ltd., London; and
the Old Bushmills Distillery Co., Ltd., Belfast
SCOTTISH SHOPKEEPERS' & ASSISTANTS'
UNION.
(Registered pursuant to Act of Parliament.)
Head Office, 49 Jamaica St., Glasgow ; Edinburgh,
63 North Bridge ; Aberdeen, Cafe Buildings ; and
branches in Airdrie, Hamilton, Kilmarnock, Kirk-
caldy, and Paisley.
Hon. President, The Right Hon. the Earl of
Aberdeen; hon. vice-presidents, Right Hon. Sir
Geo. 0. Trevelyan, Bart., M.P., Lord Blythswood,
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., M.P., Sir Jas. King,
Bart., J. G. A. Baird, Esq., M.P., A. Cameron Cor-
bett, Esq., M.P., Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., Sii-
John Stirling Blaxwell, Bart., Lord Wolmer, M.P.,
Wm. M'Ewan, Esq., M.P., and John Wilson, Esq.,
M.P., Edinburgh. President, The Hon. James Bell,
Lord Provost of Glasgow ; trustees, Francis Spite,
Esq., Michael Swan, Esq., Comrcillor W. F. Anderson;
vice-presidents, Bailie James M'Lennan, Glasgow, W.
A. Campbell, Esq., Glasgow, J. S. Couper, Esq., Glas-
gow, R. M'Adam,Esq.,A. P. Anderson, Esq., Glasgow,
Robert Templeton, Esq., Glasgow, John Stevenson,
Esq., T. G. Bishop, Esq,, ex-Dean of Guild Walker,
Aberdeen, and others. Directors, John Cooney (chair-
man) ; J. Pinto (vice-chairman); T. W. W. Flint,
D. Stevenson, R. Westwater, J. Scott, R. B. Brown,
J. Howieson, K. M. Milligan, A. Burns, and J. Pater-
son ; general secretary, John Eraser, 49 Jamaica St.,
Glasgow.
The objects of the Union are to combine em-
ployers and assistants connected with shopkeeping
for their mutual benefit, for (1) assurance against
sickness and death, (2) promoting the early closing
of all shops by legitimate agitation and legislative
enactment ; and also to promote a more general
arrangement of half holidays and holidays for shop-
keepers and warehousemen; and (3) attention to
the public interests of shopkeepers in imperial and
local enactments. Wholesale warehousemen are
eligible as and are invited to become members.
The benefits to members incapacitated by sickness or
accident range from £1 per week, and a payment at
death of £6 5s. according to period of membership.
Females are admitted to membership on half con-
tribution scales.
GLASGOW CORN TRADE ASSOCIATION.
D. R. Clark, chairman ; Andrew Law, vice-chair-
man ; John Cassels, treasurer ; Robert R. Ure, R.
S. Barbour, Andw. Rintoul, Wm. Johnstone, jun.,
James Farquhar, Samuel Euncie, Frank Kufeke, Jas.
M'Kim, John Stevenson, committee ; John M'Dougall,
secretary, 60 Hope St.