He was told that when the first notice of rise in wages had been given to the workers they were Titerally dumbfounded. Then a Welle Italian presser blurted out: "Well, I'l be damned! Whatever this Golden Rule thing is I don't: know, but Mr. Nash told us that: wanted us to do the work just as we would want him to work if we: were up in the office paying wages, and he were back here doing the h work. Now I know that if I were the boss and should come in and talk to the workers as he did, and raise wages like he has 1' want every one to. work like hell." "There," said the forelady, "that' about all there is to it, Our peopl Just caught the drift of Tony's idea, ent ahead in the spirit of it.
why we've trebled our output. If I talked a week, I couldn't tell you any more."
"The most hopeful feature of this] remarkable experiment," (a special investigator afterwards wrote), is! its constant process. of develop- P ment, of growth and expansion, both material and spiritual. Every change in. economic policy or in Social betterment has come at the Suggestion of some worker in the factory, or as the result of thorough discussion between employer and employee.'
"in speaking before the annual convention of the International As: fcintion" of. Salesmen, Chief Justice Marshall, of the Ohio Supreme Court, said: "The Nash Company is not solving the tragic problem of capital and labour, doing away with it altogether. 1 fan not help believing that i¢ this simple application of the Golden Rule could be introduced into our country's business, how it would lessen the burden of taxation, as well as the cumbersome and. expen: five law-making machinery;, and how appalling federal. appropriation of 92 cents out of every dollar to pay for past wars and preparing for more wars to come, could be directed into constructive and peaceful channers."
Within. recent months an unknown" visitor asked to be shown about, the factory, and he remark.
"ye never seen people work They're piece: No, every one Jn''this room ison a weeldy wage. He eyed, me sharply. "You are talking to an experienced factory man, Mr. Nash. Don't try to make believe that." "Ack them, T suf gested. He did.
On the third oer where all the clothing is cut, a job which requires the utmost care, he said: "What-a contrast we have here. The men the tables act as if they had oceans of time in which to finish their jobs, They are taking pains. Of course they are paid by" the week, too? No, they are the only piece-workers the plant. "You mean to tell me that all those men upstairs working. at top speed, are wage earners, and that "these men are. paid. by the piece? Thave never seen s0 happy a Bandi of workers." After a moment's silence he said: "I want you to know that 1 would rather have done what you have done than to have all. the money in the world, (This man turned out to be a great mansfactorer and financier. int Southern State.)
The summary of the amount of basines done by this form for Sve years 1918 $ 132,190 1919 525,678 3920
1921
'There is a tradition that the'
1922 3,751,181 wonderful lover of all animate Nature, Saint Anthony, once preached to the the "The sermon now ended, the fishes descended, The eels went on eeling, the pikes went on stealing; Much delighted were they, but, preferred the old way."
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