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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937.

DEFENCE COSTS

I

A Cobbler Conquers

the

World

F you walk through the

towns and villages of Czecho-Slovakia,

one

thing will arrest your atten- tion, Bata's shoe advertise- ments. If you motor through Czecho-Slovakia, wherever you go you will notice one thing, Bata's tyre advertisements.

Bata?

Who

is

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.

of

In 1900 it was a small village; 20,000 to-day, although over people work there, play there, and sleep there, it is neither a town nor a city, but the home factorles, Bato's Bata's houses, Bata's hotels, Bata's cinemas, Batn's schools, Bata's shops, Bata's

museums, and Bata's grave.

*

new

AF

The story of Thomas Bata, shoe-king of the world, who arrives in Hongkong this week on a world tour by aeroplane

FTER the long drive along muddy country roads and through badly-lit vil- ages you will find yourself in a world of ordered living, planned streets, well-designed cinemas, comfortable hotela.

Thomas Beta sent Shoes across the World. You can dance to the best Ame- rican banda, you can listen to the nastic exercises under instruc- shop. Bata calls this "profit- hand," best concerts, wear the latest tora. fashions and the smartest clothes, and you can buy these pleasures at the cheapest rate in Europe.

Now I went to Zlin neither to enjoy myself nor to find work,

In the hostel and the bath- house there are two large post- One of them reads as fol- lows:

WASHING

tra.

I went with the hope of finding Wear clean clothes always. a complete industrial unit mak- Do not sleep in the clothes int

and is timed to the sharing." By this means he rhythm of the heart-beats. stimulates competition between each workshop and department.

Female labour forms a very large proportion in Bata's fac- It makes each worker help his tories. In 1931 over 2,600 girls 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.

There are penaltics,

too.

The imagination is almost staggered by the huge sums which are to be spent on British re-armament. It has been rec- koned that, apart from the pro- posed Defence Loan totalling £400,000,000, Britain will have to find something like £170,000, March Heroique de Szabady

The factories not only manu- 000 during the coming financial (Caleraturo Soprano) C-2770 Shadow Song (Dinorah)

The ing vast profits and devoting which you have worked all day; Fifty per cent. is retained each facture shoes, but within the Dell's Song-Tales of Hoff-year on defence measures.

former policy of seeking to con-them to the benefit of its workers use nightshirts. Change your week from the worker's profit- last two or three years, motor

and to the benefit of its con- socks at least twice a week. Be dividend and banked for him in tyres. LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA C-2759 Mannin Veen (Dear Isle of vert other nations to a policy of

caroful that your feet are al- Bata's own saving, banks. Ten

Rubber to-day is one of their Man) RAMON NOVARRO (Tenor) C-2778 Ramon Novarro-Medley disarmament has not only been

ways dry and clean. Most ill- per cent. interest is paid nesses. come from cold in the these deposits. For bad work, chief raw materials, both for shoes and tyrea. They obtain SELECTED AT RANDOM - FROM OUR STOCK.

abandoned-for that is what.

any...other I took one of the best rooms feet, which is caused by damp--small output.or these figures mean, despite the in Bata's "Dom" hotel for 29. ness and wet shoes. Change in- offence, a deduction is made most of their supplies-from- Bata's own plantations in the from the worker's account. utterances of statesmen that a night. I drank milk because to dry shoes at the factory.

East Indies and consume 4,000,- These "savings" are called 000lb. of rubber a year. "Kautiongeld" (lit. "caution

Bata, the son of a village that few employees of Bata who 20 to stop the world going bare- leave can take their "eavinga" foot. The greater part of his with them.

potential market in India and China is still unexplored.

York Building

OF OVER 10,000

Chater Road

sumers,

I was in no cynical mood.

on

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. Britain still hopes to secure an there is no beer in Zin. Bata's

Let the factory wash do your eventual arms limitation agree-eight-storey hotel is a paying

proposition, and it is always full, washing. The prices are very KEKERAS ELment with other leading Powers About 150 visitors arrive in Zlin low, you will get good and money"), and it is said in Zlin cobbler, decided. before he was

every day.

prompt service. For washing a work-uniform--2d.

IN THIS

COLD WEATHER, ONE MUST PROTECT. ONE'S SKIN-

WITH

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-but the nation is being com- mitted to military expenditure

After dinner I tried to find a

table in the crowded dance-hall. There was a famous negro Ame- rican dance band playing.

At 6.15 the factory gates are opened and within ten minutes 20,000 employees have passed through. Numbers come from The first thing that struck nearby villages and small towns me was the fact that 90 per but there are no large cities are cent. of the people in that hall from which Bata can draw his were under 30; the second, that workers,

ON

In 1982, at the age of 56, N 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 posters such as:

aerodrome at Zlín.

on a scale never previously con- templated. Yet, if re-armament His essential to national security, it must be conceded that half- measures are of little use. The plain fact is that other nations have long since been building up they all looked tired. They were About 160,000 applications for their military, naval and air wonderfully clean, very smartly work are received at the Bata strength and that Britain has dressed and they danced per employment bureau each year, much leeway to make up if herfectly, but they danced with a They come from all over Europe best machinery installed, and matum to Serbia, on the last day

would never stop. There were as well as Czecho-Slovakia.

needs, compared with those of other Powers, are to be met in full. It has to be remembered that not only is this a matter of increasing the size of the Navy the Army and the Air Force, but new arsenals for the

manu-

"MAN THE THINKER, MACHINERY THE TOILER." A typical instance of the man's initiative was provided by the Everywhere improvement is outbreak of the Great War. He being sought, the latest and heard the news, Austria's ulti- the comfort of the worker at of July, 1914. The same even- Bata's employment figures at tended to, but everywhere two ing he was in Vienna, and within as many girls as boys, and they Zlin have risen from 120 in 1900 facts will strike the observer. a few days, despite snubs and were all Bata's employees. .

monotonous rhythm as if they

(Bata was then 24 years of age)

I went to bed early and got to nearly 25,000 workers to-day. up early. At 5.30 a.m. the first

(i.) The youth of the workers, (il.) The swift monotony of

their work.

ridicule from Austrian head- quarters for his country man- ners, had secured his first large- siren went, and looking out I employed in Bata factories in Besides these there are many

contract for the supply of boots to the Austrian army. He also saw hundreds of young men, foreign countries, and others in-

Their output compared to obtained exemption from con- facture of war material are bare to the waist and carrying directly employed in tanneries, other factories is amazing, and scription for his employees. essential. These establishments, 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- run away with millions of pounds. It has been disclosed

By Francis Hughes

guiding principle

of

BATA

gota on. His 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 arisen 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 mea-vince the people who will have to hey,

aro onlarging every they rise to an executive posi- grow larger and more efficient a between what was good for the 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 found in these facts, indicating a tragic circumstance that, at aber of his own shops.

ed in London and Easex a num- too much for them..

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

The are talking of ways and

stock from which they are drawn chinery on the worker's physica)

abilities. Marked surprise has been creat-means for the wiping out of Bata's Zlin factory is what he makes fine material for the con- ed by the size of the proposed national hatreds, millions of calls "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 out 2,000 business. You sometimes hear. ment will explain in detail its penditure. But, if it can be sell to each other:

pairs of shoes in nine working it anid in Zlin to-day 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 Zlin 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 "helping made possible.