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“For Better, Higher and Nobler Things” Massey's Pioneering Employee Publication

In 1885, a Toronto-based agricultural implements maker, the Massey Manufacturing Co., inaugurated the Trip Hammer, which is widely believed to be the first true employee publication in North America. The magazine lasted one year and then the company's management and the publication's editors jointly agreed to end it bemuse they felt there was an “absence of evidence” that it was meeting its goals and a lack of “outward marks of appreciation” for the “considerable labour expended” Thus, it was viewed as a failure. This article sketches the company and its founding family, and describes the publication's contents. It argues the monthly s birth can be linked to personal and societal factors, but its content starkly reflected the employer's moral and social values. Finally, the article examines why the company felt the publication was a failure despite substantial evidence that it was beneficial for the workers.