(Registered with U. S. Patent Office)
HIGH POINT, i40RTH CAROLINA, JANUARY, 1955
No. 26
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MESSAGE
EROM THE
PRESIDENT
TO MY FELLOW WORKERS:
This is the season when so,me ex
citing questions arise. The suc
cesses and failures of an entire
year have passed into history. Now
it is a New Year.
And we ask ourselves, what does
1955 have in store for me? How
much better will be my situation
in December than in January?
What did I do wrong in 1954 which
1 can correct in 1955? What did I
do right which I can improve even
more? What can 1 do that will as-
^jje more progress and good for-
->ie? Ik> certain there is an
answer to every question.
If business prophecies prove
true vast numbers of people will
enjoy favorable answers. For there
is remarkably wide agreement that
except for some unforeseen catas
trophe 1955 will be a flourishing
year. But prosperity isn’t laid in
our laps. People must create it by
looking ahead and determining
what they can do as individuals
and groups to assure it.
One example of forward-looking
in our own business family was the
meeting of Anvil Brand and Trac
tor salesmen last month, with
"New Horizons” as the theme of
the gathering. These sales organi
zations registered commendable
accomplishments in 1954. But dis
cussions of garments, fabrics, im
provements and sales principes and
practices all pointed to looking
ahead, setting new goals, further
expanding the distribution of Anvil
and Tractor products, and other
wise surpassing in 1955 the admir
able arhievements of 1954.
Nor will this be a difficult task
or men as resourceful and active
as Anvil and Tractor salesmen.
Whereas their only resources for
sales at one time were work
clothes stores and work clothes de
partments, each new season opens
“new horizons” to them by means
of new garments to be sold in
men’s furnishings stores, women’s
(Continued on Page Two)
125 Employees
Have Perfect
6-Nonlh Score
A total of 125 Anvil Branders
have perfect attendance records
for the six months ending Decem
ber 31, meaning they were neither
tardy or absent during any of the
work days for that period.
Since some departments have
more workers than others the ac
tual number of perfect records in a
department is not as important as
the percentage of employees in
each department having perfect
records. Percentagewise pattern
has low score on number of a:b-
sentees with four persons in the
depai'tment and all four having
perfect attendance records for the
past six months. Maintenance and
factory (a small group of em
ployees who woi’k in all depart
ments) tie for second lov' score
on number of absentees. Congrat
ulations to these three depart
ments.
Once every six months Sew It
Seams is going to carry a list of
those departments having the low
est absentee score. Y’ou can always
look for the list in the bottom
right hand corner of page one and
the departments will be listed in
the order of their achievement—
from lowest to largest numiber of
absentees. That way, Anvil Brand
ers can tell at a glance just how
their department stacks up with
the rest of the groups. In case of
a tie there will be an asterisk (*)
after the departments with like
scores. We hope that each worker
will strive hard to help his depart
ment reach the top of the list and
stay there.
This is the first time that at
tendance figures have been avail
able for the Independence and
Sherrod plants. Independence had
10 workers with perfect attend
ance scores while Sherrod’s sewing
room stacked up a total of 30. Tak
ing their total of 40 away from the
overall total of 125 we get 85 per
fect attendance scores for the re
maining departments, seven less
than the 92 recorded during the
first six months of 1954. The fig
ures, like those listed for January
(Continued on Page Nine)
New York Dinner To Honor Hehan
I
FLOYD I). MEHAN
Anvil Branders
Enjoy Holidays
Anvil Branders returned to work
on .Tanuary 3 reporting a wonder
ful Christmas holiday. Everyone
actually seemed glad to get back
to work and to be together again.
A great many were discussing
the numerous uses they have found
for the company’s Christmas pres
ent, the Jack Pot cooking set.
Mothers with small babies said it
was wonderful for warming the
offspring’s food. Others found they
used it most as a pop-corn popper
over the holidays. One worker,
whose husband does not like any
grease on his eggs yet doesn’t like
them boiled, found the answer to
her problem with the Jack Pot set.
In fact, many more uses than the
six mentioned on the carton have
been discovered by smart Anvil
Branders.
Most of the various departments
ate lunch together on Wednesday
before the plants closed for Christ
mas. Some had drawn names and
exchanged gifts while others used
the “grab bag” method of exchang
ing gifts.
At Sherrod they had a Santa
Claus to hand ’round gifts and the
women had supplied wonderful
home cooked food for lunch with
the men furnishing cold drinks
(Continued on Page Ten)
Anvil Brand’s executive vice
president, Floyd D. Mehan, who
serves the Southern Garment Man
ufacturers Association as presi
dent, will be honored at a testi
monial luncheon in New York City
on January 19. The occasion is to
recognize Mehan for his services,
both past and present, to the gar
ment industry and to the associa
tion.
The Textile Square Club, made
up of cotten men, will be host at
the luncheon and it is the first
time this organization has so
honored a garment association
president.
The luncheon has been timed for
the day before the meeting in New
York City of the technical advis
ory committee of the Southern
Garment Manufacturers Associa
tion. Mehan, who has held various
offices in the association, has been
active in arranging a number of
such committee meetings which
are now a feature at each of the
annual conventions of the associa
tion.
The luncheon is to be held at the
Masonic Club in New York and it
is under the direction of Harry
Riemer, of the Daily News Record
and president emeritus of the Tex
tile Square Club.
ATTENDANCE
LADDER
Pattern
Maintenance*
Factory*
Cutting
Shipping
Office
Receiving
Independence
Sport Shirt*
Work Shirt*
Overall
Dungaree
Ladies’ Dungaree
Finishing
Boxer
Pants