Subject: Re: Shanghai harmonica plant banishes the blues
swallowed a mouth organ factory, and to workers and managers the The takeover of the money-losing Shanghai General Harmonica proving that anything is possible as Beijing promotes mergers as Shanghai Harmonica has stemmed its losses and the gas works mouth organ market, including blues bands from the United States ``It was completely democratic,'' said Yao Xun, vice-director forces with the gas company was taken. pensioners -- for a meeting and took a vote. Everybody voted in Not surprising. Although its leading brand names are Star business. Musical honeycombs with tiny copper reeds screwed to a least twice by experts running them over a jet of air before Making money out of this is even trickier. The key is stable ear and sharp eyes. wood were rising, the factory took out a 10 million yuan ($1.2 almost trebling its floor space. employing cheaper peasant labour were stealing market share. While its annual production of mouth organs was falling from unchanged. Then there were 300-odd retirees to look after. loan was offered and management grabbed it. had to be big,'' said Qian Jianong, Shanghai Harmonica's office The merger deal was simple. Shanghai Gas Co wanted to vacate it could redevelop the land for a windfall profit. Shanghai So the meter factory moved its production lines across town the loan for the building and, for good measure, injected ``It wasn't a case of us being gobbled up,'' said Yao, the a hand.'' money, and Beijing is hoping many of them can make similar By shuffling its industrial assets to take account of land resources, Beijing is hoping to find a less painful Like the Shanghai Harmonica factory, built in 1939, much of place before the 1949 Communist takeover and has been frozen Vertical structures that link China's crumbling factories to a rigid bureaucracy. responsibility for the cradle-to-grave welfare of their workers, potentially explosive social and political issue as well. of factories in a similar predicament. to eight million from a low of seven million last year, and the million yuan ($120,000). single worker home''. DATE: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 05:41:16 CDT From: G.Jacks~radford.ac.uk
through the group. Steven, RE: Your friend Hilde. I can not respond via E_Mail to either of you. The problem is not that
I do not wish to do this through the list, as is is bad practice, to say I'm glad you got the info, so at least I could help. Your on your Good luck. Gordon DATE: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 07:34:23 CDT From: bowe~fsi.hfsi.com (Michael Bower) > > was shown playing the harmonica.... But he only played two and a half notes >
a half note (vers. a quarter note, eigth etc.) but I don't know just 220 of it? ;-) Michael > ------------------------------------------------------------ bowe~fsi.com 7900 Westpark Dr. (703) 435-5081 (h) McLean, VA 22102
DATE: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 08:40:22 CDT From: bdebo~I.LeidenUniv.NL (B.G.deBoer)
the Koppen climate classification system), I do sometimes have lip problems. Anybody else with this problem? And what can be done about it? Or is it just
