Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year of business Thomas Bat'a became swelled-headed and assumed the airs of a "Gentleman Manager." Upon discovering that the firm was losing money, however, he renounced gentility "and ever since hard work has been his hobby." Employes of the Founder also know that he, like Henry Ford, is a prohibitionist in theory and an abstainer in practice...
With bitter pen he wrote: "Thomas Bat'a is the Henry Ford of Shoes. . . . But Ford, in comparison with Bat'a, is a model of uprightness and humanity. . . . Zlin, the Bat'a Shoe City, is a second Detroit, but a Detroit with low wages. . . . Bat'a speeds up his workers to greater and yet greater output . . . shameless exploitation . . . lower wages than in other Czechoslovakian shoe factories . . . wanton exploitation of the workers, mostly young men and women...
...factories inhumanity and the exploitation of the workers are brought to a fine art. . . . The 'Ford of Zlin' prospers . . . but [his] success is built upon the living flesh and blood of . . . workers...
...boots gave him his first dip into fabulous profits. Instead of squandering or speculating with the money, he spent it on newest super-efficient shoe machinery, some of which he invented. Such intensive study of shoemaking problems led Herr Bat'a to believe that he could apply American-Ford straight line production methods to shoes-an idea then deemed mad in Europe...
...scores and hundreds of the 12,000 Bat'a workers, all apparently clean, robust and inclined to athletic sports on Bat'a play-fields. Further statistics prove that Bat'a workpeople can buy as much for their wages at Bat'a Company stores as Ford workpeople can buy at Ford Company stores-although of course Bat'a wages are lower than Ford wages in gold...