Carnbroe Iron Works
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My sons work at Carnbroe. At one time I found it difficult to get money from the store. The reason was I kept the money of one of them to get his boots mended for the winter; and the book of the other was stopped. I took 6s., and when I went to the store I got no cash. They told me the book was stopped. I had no cash in the house. I had no provisions for that evening,. I had no supper that evening. I sent my daughter three different times to ask for cash, and there was no allowance given to me.
... If my account of the discrepancy is correct, the profit is only a little over 10 ½ % upon the goods (sold in the work stores)
My husband is a joiner at Carnbroe. My book was stopped two months since. I have often been stopped before. I could take away 2s. or 2s. 6d. He was not hard upon me, but if I took it all away he stopped the book. Once he told me I ought not to take away too much. The things were not good; the cheese and the ham were very good. I could get them a wee bit cheaper in the town, and as good.
My husband worked at Carnbroe till nine months since. I always had to deal at the store. We never had it in our power to deal in the shops. We always had to leave our money in the store. If we did not they just stopped the book. They never stopped my book, for I was staying in their houses, and I always left my money in the store, the whole of it, from month to month. Some of the things were good, and some were not; sometimes they were very inferior. Some things were dearer than in the shops, others were not. They always treated me civilly, for I never took away any money.
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I was formerly under store manager at Carnbroe. The system there was, that the cash advance clerk had a piece of paper, and marked on it the names of the persons that got the cash and handed it over to the storekeeper who compared it with his book. That system continued down to when I left three or four months ago. If a man sloped systematically he would be stopped. We expected him to spend three quarters of his advances.