The Nevada County picayune., 1922-04-13
rows and throwing our tomahawks.


 Now, this Italian had been in that atmosphere of mutual mistrust so long that when at last the chord of trustfulness was touched, he blurted out. I'll be damned if I don't think he is in earnest about it" That is all it means When we come to the time when the heads of departments recognize brotherhood with their workers and come out and deal with them as they want to be dealt with, and make the employees feel that they mean it, in that time there will be no labor troubles. Applause That can't be done without the reli- zion of Jesus Christ because until we have recognized the divinity in our brother. until we do away with the idea of classes and ma sses and see our fellow men as the children of the same Father, and recognize the sacred ness of that kinship, we can no more do by them as we would be done by than we could fly through the air without an airplane.
 We must before we can do this I don't know all the terms, but my Methodist brethren call it regenera tion, conversion and all those things have what amounts to letting this mind be in us that was in Christ Jesus
 As Mrs Rusland went on to tell her story of what happened, I referred to an old lady who has since pass ed to her reward I had raised her wages three hundred per cent. I said. She couldn't possibly sew on three times as many buttons as she did be- fore"
 She said, No but you ought to see her. Her eyes have taken on q new light and she is sewing on twice as many as she did before"
 She went on, You know in this business we have skilled pocket mak CTS, and sleeve makers, and so on, skilled workers Well. before you came they were just skilled loafers. that's all Tony made speech to them He said, I don't know what this Golden Rule is he k talking about tut as I get il, he means he is going to do by Us aS he would want us to do by him if We were up there in the office and he was out here working for uS and l know if l was up there in the office, and had come out here and talked as he did 10 us, I would want them to work like heu Now. let's do it. Laugh ter.5
 Those skilled workers began to come around and show the rest of us who didn't understand our jobs how to do that work. They moved the pressing machines, and so on, and if looks as if coats just walk through here. and We are making them for less money than we made them under the old wage scale.'
 Now friends, a certain farm over in Indiana began to lose interest to me awfully quick, and I began to see new hope and new life as l talked with Mrs. Rusland, and realized the response this spirit of brotherhood that I had tried to bring into my place had done.
 was on my way a couple of days later to buy new merchandise because We had pretty nearly made up all we had when the business started
 Now, just a word from the temporal side of this. In 1918 We did S152,000 worth of business 1919, 525,000; in 1920. S1,5S3, ,OOO; in 1921, probably the worst year that the mems clothing industry ever passed through, taken as whole, we had $2,072 900 worth of business in our little factory. fAp- plause.)
 In July, 1919, we found the little half floor in the Power Building was too small fo rus For some reason Joe Magnus Whiskey and Distilling Company was ready to give over their lease, and We took over that six-st0ry building and began to develop a cloth ing plant on borrowed money. In