The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
Is Looking Forward To IS Hour
Week--Asserts Workers Are En-
titled To Firms Saving--Finds
Golden Rule Pays

40-hour week, which he proposes for
women especially, as one of the great
forward steps in industry land
mark in social justice And he says
the 40-hour, five-day week, is only a
beginning. He is looking forward to
a 35-hour week.
The 10 per cent increase Nash
offers the workers is an actual and
not seeming increase to make up
what they would lose by working
fewer hours. All of them work by
the week. So they lose nothing by
working fewer hours, but in reality
will receive 10 per cent more wages
for less work.
In connection with the proposal of
his company for the increase in wages
and reduction of hours, Mr.. Arthur
Nash, president, gave out the follow
ing statement:
We have made great forward
steps, yet we are not blind to the
fact that we have reached no final
goal. We are not even now met to
point out a final goal, but to take a
definite step toward the emancipation
of women who work in industry
For some time | have had grow
ing consciousness that no group of
women can work ID hours per week in
a factory and attain the spiritual
growth that the awakened conscience
of the world demands Of them.
Found Herself Irritable
Most of our workers who have
children have told me that during
the week, while their children were
in school, they felt reasonably COM
Portable and assured regarding them,
but on Saturday morning, when their
children were released from the re-
straint of school and they do not
know where their children are that
they are worried constantly. One of
them said to me that because of this
worry when she did get home she
found herself irritable and nervous.
and untitled to be mother to her
children.
So long as very large percentage
of the children of this country are
growing up with lack of mothers
care, just so long will we continue to
produce a large crop of criminals and
outlaws, and | am sure that the time
has come when, if civilization is to be
saved, that our industries must stop
using men and women to make
money and go to using money to make
men and women. When this is done
the men and women will take care
of our industries, and we will not
need marine corps to guard our mails.
Roundabout Humanity
The thing that has been wrong
with our industrial system up to this
time is that neither workers nor
stockholders have received anything
from the corporations except their
pay envelope and dividend check, and
am confident that we should render
service tending to the development
of well-rounded-out humanity.
And it is my firm belief that if the
heads of our industries will recog-
nize brotherhood with the workers in
their shops, and those of US who en-
ploy large percentage of women will
work with them and treat them as we
would want our mothers, sisters and
daughters treated, then our present
industrial system will live the golden
rule and become most potent
agency in bringing heaven to earth.
Think for Ourselves
Most of us have come to think of
our education as ending about the
time we enter manhood or woman
hood; the fact is, that is the time we
really begin to think of ourselves.
AS we offer you this proposition for
your approval we feel certain that
when the world sees the benefits to
be derived from this move, and other
industries begin to follow, we can
then go farther and make of our in
dustry a place where we can COM
plete our education, making of our