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WEDNESDAY, FERUARY 17, 1037.
DEFENCE COSTS
The imagination is almost
Bata?
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Any Czech is proud to give you the answer to that question. He will tell you to go to Zlin. You will need no signposts. It is easier to find your way to Zlin than to the country's capital, Prague.
In 1900 it was a small village; to-day, although over 20,000 people work there, play there, and sleep there, it is neither a town nor a city, but the home of Bata's factories, Bata's houses, Bata's hotels, Bata's cinemas, Bata's schools, Bata's
shops. Bata's museums, andi
Bata's grave.
AFT
FTER the long drive along mully country roads and through badly-lit vil- lages you will find, yourself in a new world of ordered living, planned streets, well-designed cinemas, comfortable hotels. You can dance to the best Ame
Conquers
The story of Jan Bata, shoe-king of the world, who arrives in Hongkong shortly on a world tour by aeroplane
Thomas Bate sent Shoes across the World,
staggered by the huge sumsrican bands, you can listen to the nastic exercises under instruc- shop. Bata calls this "profit- hand," and is timed
which are to be spent on British
the
smartest
best concerts, wear the latest lors.
and fashions With her hend tucked re-armament. It has been rec- clothes, and you can buy these koned that, apart from the pro-pleasures at the cheapest rate in C-2729 The English Rose (Merrieposed Defence Loan totalling Europe.
Now I went to Zlin neither to enjoy myself nor to find work.
C-2727 The Leek-Selection
England)
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2400,000,000, Britain will have
For Love Alone C-2754 Soloist Delight
to find something like £170,000,- March Herolque de Szabady
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Doll's Song Tales of Hoff-year on defence measures. The former policy of seeking to con- LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA C-2750 Mannin Veen (Dear Isle of vert other nations to a policy of disarmament has not only been abandoned-for that is what these figures mean, despite the utterances-of-statesmen that
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In the hostel and the bath- house there are two large post- One of them reads as fol-
WASHING
ers. lows:
I went with the hope of finding Wear clean clothes always,
and
sumers.
I was in no cynical mood.
nesses
to the
sharing." By this means he rhythm of the heart-beats. stimulates competition between
Female labour forms a very each workshop and department.
large proportion in Bata's fac It makes each worker help his tories. In 1931 over 2,600 girla fellow-worker in the shop and under 18 years of age were em- produces better results than in- ployed at Zlin, and 3,200 boys dividual piece-work payment: under 21 years.
a complete industrial unit mak- Do not sleep in the clothes in
There are penalties, too. The factories not only manu- ing vast profits and devoting which you have worked all day; Fifty per cent. is retained each facture shoes, but within the them to the benefit of its workers use nightshirts. Change your week from the worker's profit- last two or three years, motor
to the benefit of its con- socks at least twice a week. Be dividend and banked for him in tyres.
careful that your feet are al- Bata's own saving banks. Ten Rubber to-day is one of their interest is paid on chief raw materials, both for ways dry and clean. Most ill per cent.
come from cold in the these deposits. For bad work, shoes and tyres. They obtain.
any other
Bata's own plantationg in the from the worker's account,
East Indies and consume 4,000,-~~ These "savings" are called 000lb. of rubber a year. "Kautiongeld" (lit. "caution
Bata, the son of a village money"), and it is said in Zlin cobbler, decided before he was that few employees of Bata who 20 to stop the world going bare- leave can take their "savings" foot. The greater part of his with them.
potential market in India and China is still unexplored.
I took one of the best rooms feet, which is caused by damp. small output or
in Bata's "Dom". hotel for 28. ness and wet shoes. Change in. offence, a deduction is made most of their supplies from
there is no beer in Zlin. Bata's a night. I drank milk because to dry shoes at the factory,---
After dinner I tried to find a table in the crowded dance-hall. At 6.15 the factory gates are There was a famous negro Ame- opened and within ten minutes rican dance band playing.
20,000 employees have passed through. Numbers come from
În 1932, at the age of 56, ON the factory walls out. Thomas Bata, "shoe-king,"
side and inside there crashed in fog in his own acro- plane into the hillside near his aerodrome at Zlin.
Let the factory wash do your eventual arms limitation agree. eight-storey hotel is a paying washing. The prices are very proposition, and it is always full. ment with other leading Powers About 150 visitors arrive in Zlin low, you will get good and
but the nation is being com-every day.
prompt service. For washing a work-uniform-2d. mitted to military expenditure on a scale never previously con- templated. Yet, if re-armament is essential to national security, it must be conceded that half- The first thing that struck nearby villages and small towns
me was the fact that 90 per but there are no large cities are posters such as: measures are of little use. The
cent, of the people in that hall from which Bata can draw his plain fact is that other nations were under 30; the second, that workers.
"MAN THE THINKER, have long since been building up they all looked tired. They were
MACHINERY THE TOILER." A typical instance of the man's their military, naval and air wonderfully clean, very smartly work are received at the Bata About 160,000 applications for
initiative was provided by the Everywhere improvement is outbreak of the Great War. He strength and that Britain has ressed and they danced per- employment bureau each year, being sought, the latest and heard the news, Austria's ulti- much leeway to make up if her monotonous rhythm as if they as well as Czecho-Slovakia.
fectly, but they danced with a They come from all over Europe best machinery installed, and matum to Serbia, on the last day needs, compared with those of would never stop. There were
the comfort of the worker at of July, 1914, The same even- other Powers, are to be met in as many girls as boys, and they Zlin have risen from 120 in 1900 facts will strike the observer.
Bata's employment figures at tended to, but everywhere two ing he was in Vienna, and within full. It has to be remembered were all Baba's employees.
a few days, despite snubs and (Bata was then 24 years of age)
head- that not only is this a matter of
(i.) The youth of the workers, ridicule from Austrian increasing the size of the Navy,
quarters for his country man- (I.) The swift monotony of ners, had secured his first large the Army and the Air Force, but
their work.
contract for the supply of boots new arsenals for the manu-
to the Austrian army. He also saw hundreds of young men, foreign countries, and others in- war material are facture of
Their output compared to essential. These establishments,
bare to the waist and carrying directly employed in tanneries, other factories is amazing, and obtained exemption from con-
scription for his employees. towels, on their way to the large cotton mills and on rubber their wages, with the bonus, which are to be additional to bath-house adjoining the hostel. plantations. In England there very high. I learnt, however, those already in existence, will Before breakfast they do gym-
away with millions of pounds. It has been disclosed
up early. At 5.30 a.m. the first
I went to bed early and got to nearly 25,000 workers to-day.
siren went, and looking out I employed in
Besides these there are many Bata factories in
By Francis Hughes
BATA
His.
goes on. brothers, Jan Bata, and his son, who was educated in. England, are two of the present directors of his oragnisation." Bata undoubtedly had the good
that it will be at least two years mind, the controversy which has before the first of these arsenals Jarlsen over the latest Govern- is ready for use. Similarly,ment proposals boils down to most of the Continental nations what the nation's needs really will require from two to three are. That is a matter upon is a Bata factory at East Til- that very few, stay longer of the worker at heart he was years before their armaments which experts will have to con- bury; modelled on that at Zlin. than five years in Zlin, unless one of them-but as his factories. plans are completed. Some men- vince the people who will have to They are enlarging every they rise to an executive posi- grow larger and more efficient a sure of reassurance may be foot the bill. It is certainly' a month, and recently Bata open- tion. Presumably the strain is race, so to speak, has developed
ed in London and Essex a num- too much for them.
between what was good for the found in these facts, indicating a tragic circumstance that, at a
ber of his own shops.
Their work is not difficult to worker and the relentless de-. view by experts that there is no moment when most world'states-
learn, and, the hardy peasant mands of modern industrial ma- likelihood of an immediate war. [men are talking of ways and The guiding principle of stock from which they are drawn chinery on the worker's physical. Marked surprise has been creat-means for the wiping out of Bata's Zlin factory is what he makes fine material for the con- abilities. ed by the size of the proposed national hatreds, millions of calle The Autonomy-of-the veyor belt system, the secret of Whether Jan Bata and "Tom- British Defence Loan, but it is pounds should be needed on what and each department is an in each shop equipped with the problem may be the crux of their Workshop." Each workshop mass-production. On an average my" Bata, jun., can solve this to be presumed that the Govern- is, after all, unproductive ex-dependent unit. They buy and conveyor belt turns ment will explain in detail its penditure. But, if it can be sell to each other.
out 2,000 business. You sometimes, hear pairs of shoes in nine working it said in Zlin today that the reasons for asking for so. much proved that the need is impera- Instead of paying the workers hours. There are 40 such shops Bata factories are no longer money, the interest charges on tive, comfort can be found in the for his individual output a turning out 80,000 pairs of shoes worked for the worker, but for which will be a heavy burden for fact that Britain is determined bonus is paid on the output of each day,
the immense profits which many years. Re-armament costs to place her security in an un-the workshop and then divided In Zlín the conveyor belt is Bata's organising genius has money, and, keeping, that fact in assailable position.
among the employees in that officially called the "helpingmade possible,