Michelins

"In June 1898, the Michelins established a “profit-sharing booklet” at the factory, awarded to their best workers, “to intelligent and conscientious men who help us with all their power.” The participants—official freemasonry within the company—receive a red cardboard booklet. The objectives are clearly defined: “We wish for the participants to consider that they are at home in the factory. “Our factory will be a model factory the day all workers are participants and are worthy of it. “Our participants can do two things to achieve this beautiful result: 1. Set an example for other workers. 2. Attract new intelligent and hardworking workers to the factory. There are enough honest people who want to earn their bread, so there is no need to hire lazy workers or liars."

"He knows the Michelins well, since the time when he was chief engineer at Mors, a prestigious client for Clermont-Ferrand, always brilliantly positioned in major international competitions. Like the Michelins, he distinguished himself by participating in the war effort and contributing as an industrialist to victory. The Auvergnats made airplanes and bomb launchers, he made shells. Millions of shells."