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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...
...While, for instance, the whites in the United States have a pitiable birth rate, which would be even lower except for the injections of races which still are prolific like the Irish, Hebrews and Italians, the negroes are extremely prolific. Already they reach the imposing total of 14,000,000 souls, or one-eighth of the total population of the United States. There is a great quarter in New York called Harlem, populated exclusively by colored people. A grave riot in this quarter last July was with difficulty suppressed after a night of bloody conflicts between the police and solid...
...Potter also made the statement that the Freshman Library now located on Holyoke St. near Gore Hall, as well as the history library of the Lower Reading Room in Widener were to be transferred to the Boylston Laboratory building where they will, in all probability, occupy the main floor. This merging of the possessions of the two libraries has all obvious advantages in facilitating the acquisition of history texts...
...there had been rumblings in 1924. At that time, International Paper made an ill-prepared attempt to oust the well-entrenched Middle West Supply Co. Stockholder Taylor had retired from active management. International paper's bid, while some 15% lower than the previous contract price, was about 5% higher than the bid of Middle West Supply. International Paper bided its time, waited...