Nellie Bly — It Pays to Treat Employees Right

Nellie Bly’s 1921 Article About Bad Employers

From the start of her reporting career in 1885 to her final days in 1921, Nellie Bly was always — always — a champion for the rights of working women. For all the stunts, all the travel, her guiding star was ever women’s rights. As contradictory as she could be, chastizing suffragists for not dressing well enough, from her first to last articles, she was the voice of the working woman.

This article, just a month before her death, is the perfect example of her never-ending outrage at what working women must endure.
(NB — the word “employee” was still spelled with only two ‘e’s)

It Pays To Treat Employes Right

Writer Says Golden Rule is Best Guide for Employers in All Relations With Their Workers — Slave Drivers Get the Least For Their Money.

New York Journal — November 14, 1921
By Nellie Bly

The poorest employe is the employe who is squeezed to the last atom of what he has to give.

The greediest and slave-driving employer is the employer gets the least for his money.

One can be very proud of some big men and big firms in America which are examples for the world and their treatment of employes. There are persons and institutions which reflect glory upon…