Show Nash Th The Golden Rule And 0 Oi Labo Labor r Arthur Nash NIsh an Indiana man one of Tipon his p rents even now no living on a farm near Cicero head held of the 4 Nash Company Compan Cincinnati orld worlds s largest of made to order ordel clothing has s into the thc limelight lime limelight light ht as one of te he a most anost sl signal al friends of the cause of labor in tho th story history of the movement in America menca Arthur s1 N Noshes IS known as Golden I Rule Nash educated F for the mm by devout parents of the th e Seventh Day DIY Adventist persuaSIOn and Ind for n a short time occupying a pulpit pul pulpIt pulpit pIt in Ohio m in the he Christian Chuch Chuc h DIsciples of C CrIst he perforce of o f circumstances gritted rifted rafted into the clothing cloth mg business or amz mg the A Nash Company of Cincinnati natt in WIG 1910 la gely a sales ules concern the actual work of f maink the g being farmed o 0 out it 1 Rather Idly the burden of f actual manufacturing mg ing was thrust upon the Nash corn com II pang it over a sm small ll SlOp py a tor igner to c o return to Euro e a i at It the close of tr to towar e war ar Mr 1 Nash was at It what hat he ne found when 1 e a first assumed min of this hop W-ote W he Ins in his s book The Gold n ct Rule in Business The shop I b was literally laterally a dwelt e shop St S Sv eat at shops are arc always made up of in m workers who cannot get a jo in m a high grade glade fai fac factors tory tors In this s 1 s l op opere p were ere two rive workers who attracted my atten teen bon One was a 11 tall dignified old d lady close on an tc 80 years of age who o pulled buttons out baste s and sewed on bu but tons The othe was a little tale hunh hun hen h l back who tho ran a machine Both were wele wei o oh on h this payroll t 4 00 a week Tl- Tl The i highest paid wo nan an in to the shop was drawl drawing g 7 00 Nash thought over the situation Hn The outlook was va serious senous for him lie had lost 4 4 the year before and iii i fact et was w to ng business buy a farm m to ling Indiana settle down cown there and spend the remainder o his days in m 1 pito ture Lure feeing it 01 the best plan pi to maintain his amily However ht h came to a cone conc ision Slon sion lIe Ie called the shop chop to order he 29 employee gash gath ga gathered ered Bred ham hamand hn and this thi in part IS what he said to hem douy mends Friends you lave have heard no doubt that thai I have boua it this shop and I am here to get acq acquainted with you No doubt you hav heard a good deal de about the tho talks nade ade l during li the war 1 about Brotherhood od an and the Golden Rule First I want ant you ou all to know y that I is a reality to me lou Iou are all my ers and sisters g and entitled to all it I the justice and fair treatment I W want lit nt for myself Ai And so 10 long as we mn n this shop hop God be b being ing my helper Iani I aan n gom goin going to treat YOU as al my bro brothers hers and sitters 8 and the Golden Ru Ruu is gom going goina- to be our 01 governing saw aWe me and Ind anti gap gapes gaped ur Golden Rule I What Wh was that An Anyhow hots ho hoho who ho ever er head hea of such n l thin tJ in m a sweat s ea she shop Brothers and justers Bunk Bunks One 0 little Itah ill c a c Well Nell I III Ill 11 be damned In t the HIe ie face of the prevIous ears ear deficit alid aid not knowing exact exactly Iy ly y where hel e the m nl ncy it wis s as to come from WIth a a good pr of there being i 1 deficit which he have ha herder harder to shoulder making nn king it that much he her her- der for him to salvage talvage something front the business to t ti be applied on his farm for he lie e could not but feel leI If bus business mess shou 1 continue as it had been that it hi c c to be wound up sho shortly used i-used ed among alOng the lines on the the spot sr little the wages ages of the he old ladyn lady nod ind n the lit lit- tle tic hunchback from 4 00 to 1200 12 00 a Just week just a old I 1 tr f r cent The They cried Then Then he left the shop In Inthe the hands of p R forelady and went ent to 0 Indiana montIe lie lIeas was as gone several months to Cincinnati hens heas he was as am amazed ai to find find that that the business had h grown greatly during his absence that lie he hid had a Q surprising amount of money in m the bink The forli explained c i the phenomenon by b ym sayin Rat It at a nett ne n spirit had Ind been breathed bathed i the Il c of li of the which ha found JOund lound re in III gl unproved improved shop con that ill all the thc 29 19 no new new workers had had been put on- on were on-were on w cre yg II affected by th the m mysterious influence and that all were c re fairly tearing their shirts off t to make the bU a success Ev the hard working old lidy and th the little hunchback ha I I managed in som somi- somi mysterious way to increase e their ou output ut also 1180 though pre ly they thel the had been driven to theIr last once of strength hort h or h-or or it t least each i had thought so The form r illS ing debasing op e of the shop had b en cn changed into one on i of cheerfulness I a and id d hope The em plo es felt they i wire re no longer loner wage age slaves sla to be driven to their tasks but that they had at list hat found a Q kind Imd an 1 I 1 upright employer vho would crate Clate th their thir ir efforts one who did not no t practice pra the barbs barbarous ous and ml misery ery I working orlang doctrine 4 doctrine I That they get e tt wio PO o have ha the po er po to r poweI And they shall keep who wh cin n cin but one who ho understood unde s tood the lof of their lives and who dho ho would do all i In n his power po to lot a happier one Indeed here was IS an application loP I i of the working of he Golden Rule m in every day clay affairs r Nash NIsh hid had found found- and md if the truth were vero vere told perhaps s being a little title surprised himself himself-an himself the too had learned earned that the th e rule would actually work worl in m 1 matters c When Nash NIsh took hold old of the th shop III i n 1918 the total b business mess for the yea car c r was w w s Th The total in 1925 1915 ft 15 wa s 12 In th the month of January 1926 the Nash C did more than four times t le e bus business mess m in a single month than m in the entire ear of 1918 Set fort in table form by years the following g shows sho the rt re r marJ-a marJ le growth o 0 the Nash ash Golden Gold Rule Pule enterprise Comparative Sta ement of then theA i Nash Compan 1918 20 1919 43 1920 1 1580 46 1921 2 1922 1922 1923 i 5 9 8 67 07 1924 9 70 I 1925 1924 12 23 1916 over 00 always Despite the fact that hat Nash Nashi his al I ways insisted on ym the highest scale in the clothing industry the s sale being fir far alx ut that of most garment J working abut thons hops and in ad his people but 40 hours a week t week whole days of i lest 1 no test no ovel time work v ork for Nash will w not tolerate overtime a employment in an rl his s shop shops and shops and so there never ne has been any against Nash he be because cause of shop sho he conditions he called 1 his G together at nt the tl beginning of the ve vear r 1926 and taking deside the rostrum l explained it was his s de d side that all his join Joan the tl Amalgamated Clothing mg s of i I America The employees stunned were wele stun stu ned There crime me OppositIon o from mote mOle thin th on who wearing the he Golden Rule Shop i Ribbon insisted ed that the shop to the 1 lule tole ule and 1 keep away fromy from t ny y leave well enough ilone lone lonc as 81 the they ea cx x I I I it nut N sh would not ha have v fit I It that thit vay via a Said he e to them Fellow workers 1 fco o 0 far as I know kno ofa this is the first tinge time that thil the head of a greet gret industry has bas and ai cI taken taken the mint alive by 1 not only requesting but urging th that all of his w I jom in III the re reat organized labor movement mo ement As I see si I it every Cry move on fir our put part to isola Isolate I ourselves front from th t rc j greit labor move ment or to shirk is selfishness would be the perso of selfish nes ness itself The lint i at mass of em en plo in m this word Of d have hate e only one 01 channel through vv v ich Ich to make then them them selves seh es heard Tha channel is organ org organized labor r The upshot of tt it hall ill 11 was tint that the he shop v ent in the thc l Cloth Clo th tug ing Workers of 1 to the last 1 employee of the Amalgamated is JS t ced that thit the I Golden Rule Pule Factory will be CIted cit As a foremost ample c example of w hat union URion 11 cooperation can nc ac not only in an individual plant butIn and the garment industry but In ill all industry It is sIgnificant significant of the persist kindly and generous attitude of the 1 theA A Nash sash Co that 11 that Ii Nash is without withe I the slightest 1 desire to un mm duly unduly the 1 of his Ius company to organized labor We hive hl not taken this step with w any thought Wh her it would or t increase ur prosperity said Mr Sir Nash We have base hl had but one reI thought in view to do what we re- re regard regard I gard gard- gard to be right in line with our Golden Rule polio So if of there is any other clothing manufacturer employ employing ing mg union labor who can make better os as IS good a product for the same orless orless or less money h Company will not have a thing o say should such 1 I firm receive the hugeness business We VE fi figure ure that there is room for forill for ill The Nash NaJa Company will play 4 square with its patrons and we pre are we e shall r Ia always have ha plenty plent to do following up thit th policy Anyhow the Nash Company deser- deser deserves deserves ves well ell ellof of the workers of the country Arthur Nash has done all in m his pow pow- pow pow- er cr power toilers the to boost organization among imong the the- tOilers He lie has thrown the Thole weight of his great industry and the th millions behind required to rry c c irry it on be hind hand or jabor The workers can hardly do less in 1 return it seems to us than to t throw row every evet dollar por- por pos possible sible to the Nash Nish Company as IS it is isa a great experiment that is being con con- ducted conducted b bv Nash for such it is called by watchful and critics critics and it would be bea a smashing blow to labor lIbor to have It fail It should not be Organized labor has always stood by its friends Must lust it et not do- do doso d f so in III the case of Nash Company Compan We think so Upton so-Upton Union Libor Journal |