Tomáš Bat'a: "When I was 20 years old, I thought my father was an idiot. When I was 30, I sometimes thought he was quite right. When I was 40, I thought he was a pretty wise guy. And when I was 50, I thought, if only he were here to give me advice!"
1918: Eight-hour working hours, Unlimited wages, Gender equality / 1924: Aerial advertising / 1925: Old-age pensions for foreign shoemakers / 1926: Employment of the blind and handicapped / 1927: First belt manufacturing in the Czechoslovakia, Most modern hospital in Europe / 1929: Paper milk cartons, First driving school in Czechoslovakia, First children's school buses / 1929-1939: Highways, 1930: Five-day work week, First marking of hen eggs, Full sick pay, Obligation to pay double social, health and pension insurance 1930-1943: Construction of own towns and residential districts / 1931: Co-ownership of the cost of education -- Equal access to education for girls and boys 1932: First own commercial shipping in the Czechoslovakia / 1933: Experimental rubber cultivation / 1934: First escalator and self-checkout in the Czechoslovakia, Highest number of foreign students in the Czechoslovakia / 1935: Air taxi / 1940: Two-hour lunch break, First in Europe and second in the world in the production of man-made fiber, Corporate screen printing.
The national and national importance of the deceased was acknowledged by the Chairman of the Union of Industrialists, the General Director of Živnobanka, Dr. Preis, quoting from his speech entitled Tomáš Bat'a contributed to the nation and the state:
"The work and life of Tomáš Bata are a living and glorious negation of the forces of levelling, a new confirmation of the old truth of what a man in his place means, a man strong and humane, a man firm and purposeful, and a man who gladly and willingly takes full responsibility for his actions. Against himself and against those who linked their existence to his behaviour. There is no collective responsibility - collective responsibility is the negation of responsibility. And so long as there is human progress, so long will the strong, initiating, morally-infused man be the bearer of it. This was Bata's conviction. And it was this deep consciousness, this will to responsibility and his manly determination, that aroused in him resistance to all subsidy and economic interference and at the same time called him to the great competitive forum of the world, where he contributed so much to the good name of the nation and the state."
An incredible 150,000 people attended the funeral! Instead of funeral music, there were sirens and bells. The strongest impression was left on the participants when the coffin with the remains of Tomáš Bat'a left the factory premises to the sound of sirens... Everything was organized in two days - in the Bat'a way...
The National Court versus Jan Antonin Bata. SUMMARY
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Jan Šinágl, 16.7.2022
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