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368 M. MAITRE AND HIS WOBKSHOPS.
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" If You Stop At Dijon, Be Sure And See ...
¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ obey tlie latter , as well as the workman ' specially charged with their - instruction .
" Article X . —The apprentices "who without authority shall leave * the atelier before the expiration of their indentures , will ' be obliged to >
refund the following sums , namely : —the whole sum received during * the first half year ; half of that received during the second half .
year ; and a third of that received during the third half year . For the remaining period they will not be required to refund .
C £ Article HI . _—AjDprentices sent away for misconduct will be required 6 C _Article to XII refund . —In the case same of app amounts lication . of the two preceding articles
X . and XI ., the parents or guardians of the young people will remain , . responsible for them , without prejudice to the responsibility incurred
according to the law of the 4 th of March , 1851 , by the masters who may have consented to receive such apprentices into their ateliers . *
" _GJSHSTERAX , _CONSIDERATIONS . / 'The apprentices only enter the atelier to practise the different
parts of the trade which they have adopted . " These ateliers fulfil all the conditions desirable for
guaranteeingthe health of the young people ; they are large , well kept , and possess light and air in abundance .
" The moral principles imposed by a firm exercise of authority , and recommended to them hy good examples , are the surest warrant for
the il conduct Their professional of the apprentices instruction . will be carried out hy initiation in
good methods of work . In large and numerous ateliers neither lessons nor models can be wanting . They will be subjected to the
happy influence of emulation , which will make them skilful and . intelligent workpeople .
" Finally , they will not want for protection and paternal counsel ; , they will find both , in their masterwho will be always ready to
, encourage their efforts , and will have no other object than to form workmen able to make a position for themselves , and to do honor
"to his atelier . - _Antoine Maitre . " I will conclude by the description of the Fete de VEtablissement
given me by Madame Leclerc with much enthusiasm . It is , touching to see how completely her heart is in her work and in the
welfare of the _jDeople . On the 6 th of May , the whole body of workpeopleaccompanied by the Patron and his familywere accustomed
to go to , Church together in the morning , returning , to the atelier for a feast and a dance . They went pele-mele from their different
houses , and were only imposing by their number ; but two years ago Madame Leclere , seized , with the desire of making something
be or 1 * workman ch " argeable The law conv for of i the cted the w 4 _tli ho hav l of e or March ing a p hired ar , t 1851 of an , apprentice is damages to the effect from awarded his that _emjDloyer to every the mas mas shal t ter er l
thus abandoned . "
368 M. Maitre And His Wobkshops.
368 M . MAITRE AND HIS WOBKSHOPS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/8/
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