Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1924, Page 32

GOLDEN RULE NASH BATTLES PROFITS Tailor Threatens to Become Millionaire Despite His Fight to Prevent It. Special Diepateh to The Star. NEW YORK., November 18—If Golden Rule Nash, Arthur Nash of Cncinnati, the man who refused a $30,000 salary, remains firm in his tesolution not to become a million- der with orders” said Nash. “We already have shipped $6,600,000 worth of goods this year, and our orders total $7,500,000. The total for the year will reach, $9,000,000.” This Is the company which In 1919 did a business of $526,678. In 1921 sales totaled $2,077,658; in 1925, $5.- 958,000. 1f such a rate of increase continues the proponent of the Golden Rule will soon agaln face the prospect of be- coming a millionatre. In 1921 wages were ingreased 10 per cent and the working week re- duced to five days of elght hours each. A year ago a 35-hour week of 7-hour days was adopted for woman workers, with a minimum of 30 cents an' hour. i “When we adopted the 35-hour week we noticed a loss of less than 1 per cent In production, and this amounted to nothing in figuring costs, “Labor turnov. any such thing," he declared when sire, it looks as if he has difficulty [asked about that shifting of workers The business of the A. Nash Company, wholesale tailors, contin- ues to multiply, and last May his company converted a $1,000,000 sur- plus into @ 100 per cent stock divi- @end Mr. Nash refused to accept his allotment and turned over to his em- loyes shares representing $600,000. he surplus was rightfully theirs, he declared, maintalning he already had his share of what they had earne He would feel like a thief, , if he took the surplus and me a millionaire. 11 the miraculous growth which increased the company’s assets from $60,000 to $2,000,000 in little more than flve yeers {s continuing. This vear's sales will more than double those of 1922, Mr. Nash sald when he was in New York recently. But though he still declares he does a0t want to become a willionalre, he refuses to predict anything about future milli . and contents himself with distribution of the $600,000 he already has turned over to the work- ers in his plant | 00,000 in Stock Taken. “The distribution began in August, and so far about $200,000 worth of stock has been taken,” Mr. Nash said, emphasizing that it was not entirely a free lunch party when the melon ahead. reased our stock to $3.000,- on of the increase belng ldend and the other mil- lion new shares,” he said. “When an employe buys a share of the new stock T give him a_share, the lmit being two shares. We hope to have 4,000 stockholders among our em- Thus for every share which has been given away a worker has in-; vested $100 in the factory where he| works. Some 1,100 employes have invested 0,000 in the company since August and Mr. Nash is holding the remalning 4,000 shares until they can be taken over. By this means Mr. Nash hopes to establish real industrial democracy plant, with the workers as olders ince the original 29 employes were called together to talk things over the workers have increased to 6.000, { but they still meet at least twice a vear ta discuss matters of policy, the price of the suits they make and the #alary of Mr. Nash, which is unigue In that it cannot be increased be- cause he won't accept a raise. Risks All for Raises. The story of the A. Nash Company is one of the most remarkable in modern busin Just after the war Mr.. Nash became owner of a small Sarment factory. where he found the workers in miserable surroundings, some of them pald as little as $4 a weeck. He bhad been losing money in the garment business, but was deter- mined to pay a living wage, even If it used up his_capital. Pay was in- creased from 30 to §00 per cent. “We are all sons and daughters of the same Father,” he told the work- ers, assuring them that they would treated in accordance with the Golden Rule. In three months he found that his 27 employes had tripled their pro- duction. Business was good, and by July of 1819 the erstwhile sweatshop was moved to quarters abandoned by a distiliery. By 1922 a former brewery building was occupied by 3,000 work- ers. Today the brewery building has been torn down and in its place is rising a $1,500,000 plart where §,000 men «nd women will make suits for sale direct to the consumer. i Depression Skips Shop. { “Just now is a time of depression in the zarment industry, and other| companies are having a hard time to | pull through. but we are snowed un- | i ! The Genuine Victor-Victrola —brings the best and latest in music_into the Home in its true form. 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