(Registered with U. S. Patent Office)
Volume VII
HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY, 1954
No. 14
MESSAGE
EROM THE
PRESIDENT
TO MY FELLOW WORKERS:
January is the month when busi
ness and individuals throughout
the nation ask the universal ques
tion: “What is in store for us in
1954?”
Different companies, different
people, have a wide variety of
aims. But one general interest is
felt by all. “Will it be a ‘good’
year?”
Business history has an an
swer to that. Greatest success in
variably comes to those who plan
for it most intelligently and work
for it most diligently. Some of to
day’s leading industrial compaines
arose from the depression of the
’30’s. On the contrary there were
business and industrial failures
throughout the prosperous years of
the ’40’s. Conditions may be good
or bad. But how companies or in
dividuals fare depends on how they
meet the conditions.
All types of industry look on
1954 as a period of competitive
struggle. It is a contest to supply
better quality at prices consumers
will pay willingly. Already the
race is on, and in our work ’n’
play clothes field competition
grows more severe constantly.
But I feel strongly that our
planning for 1954 places Anvil
Brand in a sound position, and one
that we can maintain by working
unitedly.
As producers of consumer goods
we are chiefly dependent on two
conditions—the ability and willing
ness of the public to buy what we
offer. Never in history have con
sumers been more able to buy all
Anvil products, as far as money is
concerned. Willingness is some
thing else. But that develops when
Anvil garments show more styles,
more careful workmanship, better
finish, more appeal to the eye than
competing garments.
And these are exactly the ad
vantages which merchants and
consumers already see in the new
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54 At White And Hudson
Have Perfect Attendance
A total of 54 employees at the ^
White and Hudson divisions, where
attendance records have been kept
for the past few years, reported for
work—and were on time—every
work day during the past six
months.
A check of the records reveals
that this is a little better than the
six months ending in June of 1953
when the total was only 43. How
ever, it is still below that recorded
18 months ago—for the six months
ending in December of 1952—^when
61 Anvil Brand workers had per
fect records.
None of the above figures in
clude any member of the super
visory or executive staffs.
The dungaree department again
led all others in the number pf per
fect attendance records with a.total
of 13. Two departments tied for
second place with seven employees
each. They were the maintenance
department and the offices.
Third place also was a tie—be
tween the overall and pants de
departments with six employees
each. Cutting had five perfect rec
ords, shirt had four, and pattern
and shipping- each had three.
Those with perfect attendance
records are:
Dungaree: Edith Cleary, Dorothy
Collins, Ethel Jones, Chessie Jul
ian, John Kendrick, Ha Luther,
Dorothy Misenheimer, Iris Poole,
Mabel Slate, Minnie Spencer, Vir
ginia Spencer,, Hassie Stanford,
and John Simpson.
Office, Moselle Boyles, Alma
Paul, Kenneth Poindexter, Arthur
Royals, Martha Lou Smith, Louise
Welch, and Betty Jo Loftin.
Shipping: Bobby Corn, Frank
Lam‘bert, and Bobby Alexander.
Maintenance: Wayne Bailey,
Clark Benfield, Jones Dagenhart,
Robert Harris, Napoleon Johnson,
Archie McBride, and Avery Tay
lor.
Pattern: Thurman Huff, J. W.
Ingram, and Hal Sechrest.
Cutting: Robert Armfield,
George Goings, Richard Hill, Dale
Welborn, and Clyde Nelson.
Overall: Kathleen Causey, Mil
dred Craven, Eskerw Crotts, Lizzie
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Air Put To Work
The engineering department has
come up with a “new gadget” for
the two machines in the shirt de
partment at the White division
which are used to turn and press
collar points. Compressed air has
been put to work—to save operator
fatigue and to also speed up pro
duction.
The operators, Rachel Odom and
Janet Grant say they can tui-n out
much more work with less effort.
“I’m crazy about it and am not
nearly so tired at the end of the
day,” is the way Rachel expressed
it. The new method was tried first
on her machine and after about a
month, when both Rachel and en
gineering were convinced it was
practical, compressed air was also
put to work for Janet.
Formerly these two operators
had to sit in an awkward position,
using one foot to bring up pointers
for turning the collars and the
other foot to bring up pointers
pressing the collar points. Now,
each operation is done by air pres
sure. The operators sit in a nor
mal position and, by just moving
a toe, do what formerly required
movement from most of their
bodies.
Accident Record
Improves During
Past Six Months
A new safety committee took
office last week and heard the re
port that the Hudson and White di
vision’s lost time accidents have
decreased in the last six months.
Personnel Director Aline Carter,
who acts as secretary of the group,
reports that a total of 317 days
work were lost during the first
six months of the year because of
accidents. During the past six
months the number has been de
creased to 37. From January
through June of last year at Hud
son 223 work days were lost due
to accidents. From July through
December the number was only
16. At the White division the num
ber of days lost for the first six
months was 84 and during the last
six months it was 21.
Ossie Wright, who reviewed the
duties of the safety committee for
the new member.s, said the new
accident bulletin boards have ar
rived and have been placed in each
department. Ossie particularly
urged each member to bring any
unsafe practice to the attention of
employees and urged that every
accident, no matter how minor, be
reported to the supervisors.
Any hazard also should be re
ported to the supervisors for re
ferral to personnel and the central
safety committee for action, she
said. “You, as a safety committee
member, wil be particularly con
scious of such things during the
next few months and possibly will
notice things that have been over
looked by supervisors and other
employees,” she said.
The new committee wil remain
in office for four months and will
make housekeeping inspections
each Wednesday of a month. When
the safety program was first
started at Anvil Brand inspections
were made in every department
once each week. Housekeeping and
safety habits have improved to the
extent that for the past while
these inspections have been held
only twice monthly. Improvement
has continued and now the central
safety committee feels, as long as
the “good habits” keep up, that
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