The decision of the Knorr Alrbrake Company, Berlin, to. close. down for eight days in order to give their entire staff a hollaay may have set a pre= Cedent in Germany, but itis a very id custom in England, especially the northern industria areas. "Not only do individual firms close down for a week or more at's time but in Lancashire entire towns close down their spinning activities for holiday periods during the summer months, and especially in' August. The "wakes," or holiday. week, for which cotton mill operatives prepare the year by saving a small sum weekly, fare common all over the county and result in Blackpool and other seaside Fesorts being subjected to mass invasions from individual towns. marked is the process that the visitor gan quickly tell whether it, is Bolton "wakes" or Oldham "wakes" from the character of the "holiday-makers, The result of these mass holidays. that there ig nothing so dead as
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