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MEL — K^E — GLEN
DECEMBER ISSUE
STATEMENT OF COMPANY
POLICY
VACATION WITH PAY
The vacation period begins October 1 and ends December
31 and the company is to give one week’s vacation with pay to
all employees who have been in continuous service with the
company for 12 months, immediately preceeding October 1, and
to give two weeks vacation with pay to all employees who have
been in continuous service with the company for five years, im
mediately preceeding October 1. The vacation pay for one
week’s vacation shall amount to 2 percent of the total hourly
earnings including overtime paid to each employee for the
period of 12 months ending with the payroll period immedi
ately prior to October 1, and the vacation pay for those em
ployees entitled to two week’s vacation shall be 4 percent of
the total hourly earnings including overtime for the same pe
riod of time governing the one week’s vacation pay. Vacation
pay will be paid on or before December 20. In order to be eligi
ble for a vacation with pay, an employee must be in the services
of the company on October 1.
Deductions for the vacation week including taxes, etc.,
with exception of insurance, shall be made against vacation
pay just as in the case of regular pay except if an employee
is required to work during the vacation period, no extra de
ductions shall be made for insurance.
The company must reserve the right to require any or all
employees to work during the vacation week and to pay them
vacation pay in addition to their regular wages for such weeks.
We further reserve the right to designate the vacation period
with respect to any individual employee or groups of employees.
Employees will be given at least one week’s notice of the va
cation period.
*The above items are incorporated in general statement of
Melrose Policy which has been in effect for sometime. It is
published for the information and reminder of all employees
and especially recently hired workers.
EYES DON'T BOTHER ME
Some workers pass up the recommendation of the Ortho-
Rater test because they experience no discomfort. This is an
out-worn view of the need of eye attention. Often, a person
who needs attention most in industry, is the least aware of
it. The following article by Dr. Frank Stump may be helpful
to some persons who have “passed up” the opportunity to act
on the Ortho-Rater survey. Scores o ’ Melrose employees have
discovered UNEXPECTED HELP kv taking the Ortho-Rater
test st;riousij.
WOMDERS.Elc.
Finishing and board
ROOMS
Hello Fellow Workers,
There’s not much gossip this
month for we have all got the
Christmas spirit and we don t
have time to gossip. The question
now is, “Who's got my name?”
You should have seen Iretha
Tuttle the other day when Rillie
drove up. The dead came to life.
Wonder why Fannie couldn’t
make it Monday? She spent the
week-end in Baltimore, Md.
Nellie is planning to spend
Thanksgiving in Raleigh with her
father.
Millie Lance spent the week-end
in Greenville, S. C.
Mrs. Cowan is a grandmother
again. Bonnie has a baby girl.
Dot Cook’s ship is about to land.
She’s making big plans for that
day.
Millie and her husband are plan
ning to begin work on their house
soon. Millie is going to work out
there on her days off.
Wonder who Dummy is, and her
assistant?
KNITTERS
We’ve got top-knitters again!
That’s one step nearer the normal,
pre-war operation.
Hoyt says it sure takes a big
dog to weigh a 100 pounds. Don’t
ask us why he said that.
Thanksgiving has completely
faded out of the picture—all we
can hear is “Christmas, Christ
mas.” That reminds us, di you no
tice in last night’s paper down at
the right, front page corner. 24
shopping days!
Price and Hoyt are going hunt
ing for Thanksgiving, but that’s
no news. Clark’s going to move
again—but neither is that news—
so guess it’s time to end this gos
sip column—don’t you think ?
Some people put silverware in
their pocketbook when they leave
restaurants. Ask Helen Henry
what she put in. hers ? Could it
have been chicken?
Belle Poole said she could eat
one dozen eggs. We are not sure
about that but we do know what
she can do to a fried chicken.
A plastic shoe that remains
shiay and scuffless if washed with
-oap and water has been developed
by a manu'actuier.
There are more people living in
towns of 2,500 than in all of the
big cities.
Each year in the U. S., the
presses roll out a minimum of
2,679,522,200,000,000 words.
The total in 1945 for all federal
income tax collections set a new
high of $34,357,010,087.73.
Even with increased taxes in
cluded, the consumer pays one-
third less today for a gallon of gas
than in 1920.
Phonographs and jukeboxes
built up a yearly demand for 150,-
000,000 record discs.
The artificial restrictions, which
have so limited the public’s utiliza
tion of adequate professional serv
ice, stem from such mistaken con
cepts held by the public as:
“Eyes are either good or bad,”
“Eyes are normal or defective,”
“Vision is perfect or imperfect,”
or ‘Glasses are a correction of a
defect.”
These concepts might be valid if
the industrial jobs of our modern
world were different. Unfortun
ately, millions of people with so-
called ‘normal vision” are on jobs
which require abnormal use of the
eye^.
The new slogan, 'Ej js for vhc
Job,” immediately throws off the
shackles which have linked eye
wear to defective vision and which
have related professional service
to the elimination of pain, discom
fort, and so-called subnormal vi
sion. Instead, the new viewpoint
emphasizes the fact that properly
prescribed spectacles are optical
tools which can be used effectively
to enable millions of workers to
perform their tasks more effi
ciently.
These statements are not based
on opinion but upon facts which
have been collected over the last
six years of extensive research in
many industries, with thousands
of employees and on a multitude
of jobs.
Authorities in the ophthalmic
professions estimate that 85 per
cent of all patients who report to
them do so because of discomfort,
i.e., headaches or eye straing, or
“seeing” difficulties, or a combi
nation of these and other factors.
If discomfort is the reason why
most patients seek professional
aid, it is obvious that only a small
fraction of the potential contri
butions ophthalmic professions can
render has been tapped.
It follows that a multitude of in
dividuals never resort to profes
sional assistance simply because
they have never experienced vis
ual discomfort.
So, the logic of the situation is
that those persons, who from the
standpoint of visual performance
on industrial jobs and who need
the services of the professions most
of all, are not getting them. The
problem, therefore, centers about
an adquate scientific system
whereby persons w'ith inefficient
visual performance who do not ex
perience discomfort are given an
incentive to consult members of the
professions of their own choice.
Experience has shown that, in
many instances, at least one-third
and on many jobs as high as one-
half, of the industrial workers
have inefficient visual perform
ance for their tasks.
Experience has shown that in
dustrial employees are extremely
interested in their visual perform-
anc. Furthermore, employees ex
pressed their desire to do some
thing about their vision when con
vincing evidence was presented to
show that a professional eye ex
amination might be helpful.
Studies in many plants, includ
ing Bausch & Lomb, have demon
strated a definite relationship be
tween the ability to reach visual
standards on particular Ortho-
Rater tests and average hourly
earnings.
The employees who had reached
efficient visual standards earned
considerably more than the em
ployees with inefficient visual per
formance. The employees who met
efficient visual standards earned
$.14 per hour more on the average
than those who had inefficient vis
ual performance. This difference
of $.14 in average hourly earnings
means an increase of $1.12 per day
of 8 hours, or $6.72 a week, com
pared with the group that had in
efficient visual performance.
Fewer accidents were found
among employees who met visual
safety .;tandards as determined by
the Ortho-Rater. This discovery is
of special interest to the employee
because he is gradually accepting
the philosophy that “safety is
everyone’s business,” and to be
safe is of personal interest to each
employee.
A survey by the Bureau of La
bor statistics shows that more than
two million veterans are employed
in manufacturing.
Spectacles were first devised
about 1285 by Salvino Armati, a
young nobleman of Florence, Italy.
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Babies of executives and supervisors—
submitted as good looking babies, but not
as contestants in contest.
Left to riKht:
1. Bradford Nifonjr
September 1, 1940
Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Nifoni;
2. Sandra
October 20, 1945
February 4, 1944
Daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Kenner
Daughter of J. C. Hill
Amos
3. A—Patricia Ann “Patsy”
4. Dianne
October 16. 1942
January 19, 1946
B—Mary Jane
Daughter of J. C. Hill
5. Charles Lee, 111
March 15. 1944
Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Amos, Jr.
6. Edwin Glenn
June 28, 1945
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Smith