The Connecticut labor news., 1922-01-27
Cincinnati Manufactur- CT, Who Treats Elm ployes Like Human Beings, Startles Con- gregation in New Ha- ven Church By His BluntneSS.

TOT Us Ol NtW LllS ldIlO lAldIllIl clA lll u . and others to increase the hours of labor especially of women and chill dren instead of decreasing them. Arthur Nash, Cincinnati manufactur- CT and known the country over as "Golden Rule" Nash because of his humane methods of dealing with his employees, startled a congregation tffat packed the Church of the Mes siah in New Haven last Sunday morn ing. Later in the day he spoke in Hartford, where, to judge from the meagre report given it by the Cour- ant next morning, his address didn't make much of a hit with the big hnan- cial interests up there. His address in New Haven didn't spare the feel ings of the grasping New Englanders but the congregation that heard him here expressed the wish that the Chambers of Commerce and Manu facturers' Association might have been there to get a few points on humanity and stability in business.
 MT. Nash works his people but 10 hours a week and increased pay 10 per cent. lately and insists that the "rule" is to industry what the law of gravitation is in the natural word. Sixty-fve per cent. of his employees are women, and the idea that Satur- day work bars them from the proper care of their children has gripped him In his factory, the women do not work Saturdays. He said the mass of bandits and outlaws are from homes where working mothers have no time to care for their homes. Sun day they cant go to church; they must rest up and often do their wash ing He had noted on the train com ing from New York their wash on the line.
 MT. Nash's effort is to cooperate his workers at all points. At one of their joint meetings the men themselves voted to double his sal ary, which he declined He intimat- ed that he hoped later to put his women employees on 5 hours a week, though implying he might have to add an hour to the men, who assured him they were ready to take it on. He spoke disparagingly of the effort in New England to raise hours to 54 and 60.
 Mr. Nash quoted a capitalistic re +1a fa1ora+on of churches You ministers keep out of the indus try field, we can't pay out money that we don't take in" The speaker insisted that men and women do more the improved good feeling about the plant He referred to the Go hours and more a week still familiar in the south and elsewhere and said he would join if necessary in fresh war on that section as in 1861 to secure justice.
 As to the question whether the gol den rule will work with foreigners he said Tt is very easy for folks to forget that their own creed may be narrow if not otherwise mistaken and drift unconsciously into the attitude of the Pharisee in the temple, and Thank God that I am not like other men, even this poor publican (fore- ignerO The names of our employees given in the story are sufficient proof of the cosmopolitan character of our i IL is the climax of the gospel that Christ taught CThis is the law and the pro- phetsD of universal brotherhood, and universal brotherhood knows no foreigners. There will be bolshevists when employers come to know and practice the gospel of Jesus,'
 The next chapter deals with the results; it promises that business or a nation thus planted on a rock will stand. Out of the misery and wretchedness of strikes and lockouts one sees the cure-there IS no other name by which one may be saved- Pm talking about salvation here and now. Our trouble has come from trying to find some other code.
 "A manufacturer cannot put this rule into operation by mere mental resolve He can't say, I'm going back to those wops and dubs and treat them as 1 would have them treat me- he must see in each one a broth CT We need a baptism of brother hood"
 Speaking of his factory MT. Nash said: We are a bunch of men and women living together in harmony on a rule laid down 1000 years ago I'm trying to convince the ministers that Christianity is success. I tried to realize what I would want if I -.-o=o :, S..orLer in r,,n factor,z I'd