Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Book suppressed, author fined! Such was the verdict of the courts, last week, in the case of a Laborite scrivener who had dared to attack the omnipotent Shoe Tycoon of Czechoslovakia, THOMAS...
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...
Even were all these charges true, it might still be argued that Der Unbekannte Diktator deserves well of Czechs and Slovaks. His is the kinetic genius which has so prodigiously expanded young Czechoslovakia's shoe industry that today she exports more footgear than old, easy-going Britain or revamped, laborious Germany...
Since all Empires have been bought with blood, and since all Emperors have been deemed glorious, Shoe Tycoon Bat'a need not necessarily mind that the International Federation of Trade Unions has officially denounced him thus...
...Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Calcutta, Berlin and hundreds of other cities the sign Bat'a is displayed above a store which is the acme of modernity. Indeed a pilgrim to the Holy City will find that Bat'a's shoe shop in Jerusalem has "done" its windows in smart "modernistic" squares and angles...