Chatham
Blanketeer
Vol. 1
AUGUST 22nd, 1933
No. 3
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Bl ankeTS
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BETTER TIMES
COMPANY DOING
PART, SAYS LEWIS
Quotes Foreman In Making Point
That Officials Have Employees’
Interest At Heart
In this brief article I wish, not
to present any ideas of my own,
but restate some of the facts
which one of our best known
and most highly respected fore
men related to his department in
regard to the recent advance in
wages. I thought his words so
valuable that they should not be
confined to the one department.
To begin with let me say that
the Company HAS done its part
in the past. Of course we all re
member the previous year when
■ business was on a higher plane
and that the employees of this
company were the best paid in
this vicinity. The well-known
foreman stated in the talk re
ferred to above that he had been
with the company continuously
over a period of twenty odd
years and that in all his past ex
periences the company had in
every instance willfully and
whole-hearedly been kind to-
I wards him and his fellow-work-
, ers. We will remember our
I company retarded the blows of
old man depression longer thaa
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Mrs. Harris 111
Mrs. R. W. Harris, wife of the
.superintendent of the Winston
.Mill, who is ill at the Baptist
Hospital, Wiustoii-Salein, is re-
^ ported to be improving.
(By A. L. Butler, Secretary)
Some of my immediate asso
ciates in the management of the
Company will be amused when I
dare mention my belief that all
of us are to have “better times ”
By nature and training I am a
conservative. When you share
the responsibility of judiciously
spending millions of dollars for
the Company, I believe it will be
admitted that a conservative re
sponsibility has its advantages.
Some of our customers, to whom
at times I am trying to sell a lot
of blankets, would not agree
with my associates that I am so
conservative.
Nevertheless, I do believe that
all of us are going to have better
times. Metter times for mem
bers of the Chatham organiza
tion should certainly be appre
ciated by all of us, because I am
certain that we have not shared
comparatively the extremely
hard times that have existed all
around us for the past few years.
Due to our loyal organization,
our optimistic leadership, good
management and unexcelled sales
organization, we have been able
to maintain both day and night
forces on a steady schedule. The
Company has not made money
for its owners since 1929, but it
has not lost money, and we have
improved our equipment and our
position in the industry. We are in
excellent condition to benefit in
the expected improved general
business.
Better times are sui’ely ahead,
beeausse we have aa honest and
capable National Administration,
determined that everybody shall
have the opportunity to work
and share in its benefits and also
share in natural wealth of our
country. The entire psychology
of the people has changed since
President Roosevelt was inaugu
rated. There is evidence of the
finest co-operation between ev-
3ry branch of industry and those
in charge of the National Recov
ery laws—Those in authority ex
pect to make mistakes, but they
are determined that where an
experiment proves to be a failure,
it will be admitted, and another
method will be tried. It is this
determination that will accom
plish the purpose of the leaders
of our country, that we shall all
live more abundantly. As hours
are decreased, thereby affording
jobs for more people, and wages
are increased, more money will
be available for the necessities
and pleasures of life. It is be
lieved that this increased spend
ing power will keep our farms
and manufacturing plants profit
ably employed. The Chatham
employees are fortunate that
ownership of the company for
which they work is vested in the
family which for generations has
had the welfare of its employees
at heart, and we may expect to
share to a deserved degree in
any prosperity which the com
pany enjoys.
The conservatism in my nature
again asserts itself, and with no
intention to qualify my predic
tion of l)etter times, I do urge
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TELLS OF FIRST
VISIT TO MILL
Claude Farrell Impressed With
Cleanliness And Efficiency
Of Plant
By Claude H. Farrell
The editor of this splendid
literary effort of the Chatham
Mfg. Co., has asked that I write
in a very few words, “How A
Beginner Reacts to His First
Glimpse Within This Great Com
pany”, or “How He Peels and
Sees on His First Trip Here.”
This is indeed something of a
task, because I may be recalling
what many have already seen
and felt, yet there are some pet‘-
haps whose impressions differ
from mine and for them, this
article may be interesting.
My sojourn with the Company,
which up to now has been a brief
few weeks, began on a bright
Monday morning in June. The
Spinning Room, to which I was
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New Competition
Man Is Freed of Using jMail
Sacks As Blankets
Muskogee, Okla., July 24.—
Appearing in Federal court
today on a charge of stealing
mail sacks, William O. Foster,
arrested in Choctaw county,
was freed when he told Judge
R. L. Williams, “I was cold
and used the mail sacks for
blankets.”