Stories of brotherhood; a book for boys and girls . o work, the fathers must be paidhigher wages. Mr. Jones is not the only man who has triedthe Golden Rule in business and has proved thatit works. About twenty-five years ago therewas a little glove store on Winter Street in Bos-ton. The owner was Mr. William Filene, an up-right merchant who treated his employees fairlyand was respected and loved by them. Sincethe store was small, there were only a dozenor so employees, and Mr. Filene knew them allby name. They thought of the store as ^ourstore, and worked hard to make it a the bu
Stories of brotherhood; a book for boys and girls . o work, the fathers must be paidhigher wages. Mr. Jones is not the only man who has triedthe Golden Rule in business and has proved thatit works. About twenty-five years ago therewas a little glove store on Winter Street in Bos-ton. The owner was Mr. William Filene, an up-right merchant who treated his employees fairlyand was respected and loved by them. Sincethe store was small, there were only a dozenor so employees, and Mr. Filene knew them allby name. They thought of the store as ^ourstore, and worked hard to make it a the business began to grow. Instead ofselling only gloves, the store now handled allkinds of dry-goods. It moved into a largerbuilding. Many more men and women werehired, until Mr. Filene could no longer call eachone by name. And this brought the danger lestin the larger store the old spirit of good-willshould be lost. The employees might now thinkonly of their wages and care nothing for theirwork, while the owners of the store might care li,. *sv .^^t^.
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