Reference
Z1578/Bed/16/4
Title
Agreement
Date free text
6 November 1933
Production date
From: 1933 To: 1935
Scope and Content
Agreement
Parties:
(i) Elizabeth Hockliffe of Dale Cottage, Pavenham, widow; Ernest Hockliffe of Harrow Court Farm, Tickenham [Somerset], professor of literature, retired; William Llewelyn Jones of Bedford, solicitor;
(ii) Maurice Frederic Rich Hockliffe of 79 Goldington Avenue, Bedford
Operative Part, inter alia:
- (i) will continue to employ (ii) as manager of the business carried on at 86 and 88 High Street and 8 Lime Street, Bedford;
- (ii) would continue to act as manager for the business;
- (i) reserved power to discontinue any department of the business not turning a profit;
- banker to be Westminster Bank, Bedford;
- (ii) not to pledge employees' credit unless authorised by (i);
- (ii)' salary from 1 October 1933 to be £54/3/4 per calendar month (£650 per annum) under Deed of Arrangement of 6 November 1933 between (1) (i); (2) Elizabeth Hockliffe; (3) Kathleen Mary Craig; (4) (ii);
- (ii) was entitled to one month's holiday per annum taken when (i) saw fit;
- agreement determinable by either party at three months' notice
Schedule:
- report by (ii) giving economies and suggestions regarding future policy dated September 1933 be put into immediate effect;
- employment of a shorthand typist as replacement for the current secretary as soon as possible, salary not exceeding £2 per week if (ii) considered it essential;
- Lime Street business to be carried on by a sub-manager, salary not exceeding £3/10/- per week; the other two staff at Lime Street to be a junior assistant and a boy;
- cut in salary of assistants from 1 October 1933 as follows: £2-3 per week cut by 5%; £3-4 per week cut by 7.5%; £4 per week and over cut by 10%;
- abolition of Christmas bonuses to assistants or reduction by 50%;
- any shelving or carpentary work to be done as far as possible by the Picture Framing Department
Witnesses:
- Annie Clare of Elm Cottages, Pavenham;
- Lilian Dordery of Tickenham, domestic servant;
- H M Dimmock, clerk to Sharman & Trethewy of Bedford, solicitor
"Cancelled as from 9 February 1935"
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