Friday, April 27, 2018
Henry wasn't alone 2
A rather silly Gernsback item led to a seriously impressive portrait of a British Fordist.
On a tower belonging to the Cherry Blossom Boat Polish Co at Chiswicken, England, a clock has been erected in combination with a giant barometer and thermometer...
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Looking it up, it's Chiswick boot polish, not Chiswicken boat polish ... and the company was interesting for much deeper reasons than its barometer tower.
On a tower belonging to the Cherry Blossom Boat Polish Co at Chiswicken, England, a clock has been erected in combination with a giant barometer and thermometer...
= = = = =
Looking it up, it's Chiswick boot polish, not Chiswicken boat polish ... and the company was interesting for much deeper reasons than its barometer tower.
Mr Dan Mason, together with his brother Charles, wholeheartedly associated himself with the welfare of the company employees. In 1918, the company was one of the first to introduce a five day working week of 44 hours. Other early innovations included a pension scheme, and a "dispensary" made up of a main surgery, rest rooms, a dental clinic and a chiropody clinic, all supervised by qualified personnel. Dan and Charles Mason purchased Boston House and adjoining buildings in Chiswick Square. Boston House was used as a social club for the female employees and the other buildings were rented to company employees as homes. Extensive grounds to Boston House were laid out for all types of games, including a bowling green, eight grass tennis courts and four all-weather courts, plus a well equipped sports pavilion.Social economy, along the same lines as NCR, Weston Instruments, Ford, Conoco, and many other privately owned US companies in those decades. Later on, Wall Street reasserted Dickensian sweatshops in UK and US, enabling the new Fordists of Korea and Japan to out-compete our Dickens. Intended consequence, of course. Wall Street wants to see DEAD employees and DEAD industries. EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE ALL REAL VALUE, replace it with pure satanic mathematics.
Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, skill-estate, the broken circle
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