Volume 3
HIGH POINT WEAVING CO., and HILLCREST 1 .iROVVING CO., High Point, N. C., September, 1946
No. 9
COfFAN SPEAKS TO GUEST AT
ANNUAL SERVICE PIN DINNER
“Tlic greatest asset Burlington Mills has is its people,” said
I.^C. Cowan, Jr., congratulating the 100 High Point Weaving
persons receiving service certificates, Friday, September 6th.
The banquet held at the Archdale Friends Church highlighted
with remarks by Vice President and General Manager Cowan was
an unusl'31 occasion, having both its^
serious '•nd S^y moments. A mock
v^-edt'-ng inspired by Jordan Spencer
anJ featuring an all male super\isory
(jst is still being talked about and the
barber shop quartet also originating in
the plant, brought as much amuse
ment as harmony.
N'ernon Bailey, hand twister, was
the honored guest, having the uniqTO
distinction of receiving the only 1S-
ycar service pin presented. L. C. Eas
ter awarded the certificates and con
gratulations were offered by \\'. 1,
Spencer and R. L. Phillips.
Introduced by W. I. Spencer who
has approximatelv 14 years’ service
with Burlington, Cowan, amid pleasant
reminiscences of his own early days
with the Conipaiv', reviewed briefly
Burlington Mill’s ^.lilosophy of doing
business. “Underlying its labor rela
tions policy has been the belief in fair
wages and in fair treatment to all em
ployees, Neither of these policies is
alone sufficient but it requires the con
stant practice of both to achieve a
happy working relationship.
Cowan said tbis attitude is best
summed up in t*?e'desire to practice
on an organization-wide basis, the
philosophy expressed in the Golden
Rule. Such a belief finds evidence in
the Company’s open-door policy
whereby supervisors welcome em
ployee’s suggestions, comments, and
e\en criticisms, and through which an
employee can take his grievances up
through the supervisory channels un
til a satisfactory agreement has been
reached.
/. C. Cowan, Jr., Vice President and
General Manager of Burlington
Mills Corporation.
“\Vhen ever better wages or better
working conditions can be made avail
able to our employees, you will always
find Burlington Mills taking the posi
tion of leadership in the industry,”
said Cowan.
The persons receiving certificates
are;
Vernon Bailey
Clarence Agner
Lona Carroll
ViRciE Carroll
Marie Chapman
Dellmar Clark
Buren Cranford
Marion Norman Fagan
Thomas Fagan
Mary Fowler
Roby Freedle
Noah G.\rner
Ray Giles
William D. Grubb
J. B. Harris
Henry Hepler
Alverta Sue How'ell
Wesley I Iutchens
Margie Johnson
Vernon Johnson
Esther Kennedy
E. E. Lane
Glenna Lassiter
Richard Lowe
Herbert Luquer
Blanche Meredith
Quentin McCauley
Thelma Morris
Gurney Neese
John Neese
Buford Owen
Raymond W'. Patterson
Lester Queen
John Henry Reid
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Milton Robbins
Paui. Rule
Mary Samuels
7’iiurman Samuels
Willie Samuels
J. R. Shelton
Willie Mae Sink
Carl Staley
Marcella Thornton
F.i.i.en 1’owery
Ressie Tuttle
Ruth Tuttle
Arthur \^anhoy
J. W. W^IIITE
Lillian Williams
Lillian W’ood
Martin Yow
Hutchins Death Comes After Long Illness
Hillcrest employees were grieved
over the passing on September 6th of
Banner D. Hutchens, beloved Hillcrest
employee and father of Dennis and
Wesley, super\'isors at Hillcrest and
High Point W'eaving.
Although Mr. Hutchens had been
in declining health for the past three
years, he had continued his work at
Hillcrest as a packer until April 1946
when his health forced him to be out
on sick leave. During this time he had
often been by the plant to see his
many friends until he became seriously
ill three weeks before his passing.
Mr. Hutchens was born in Patrick
County, Va., a son of the late John
W'esley and Charlotte Hutchens and
had been a resident of High Point for
the past 20 years being employed
many of these years at Hillcrest. His
last continuous service record at Hill-
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Canadian Visits
Company Plants
Canada came to America several
weeks ago in the jierson of Jean Pierre
Du Fresne, visitor to the Greensboro
office and near-by jilants from the
Dominion Burlington Mills, Ltd., plant
located at Sherbrooke, Canada, in the
province of Quebec.
Otherwise known as “Pete”, Du
Fresne, who is personnel manager at
the plant which Burlington jointly
owns, came down Burlington Mills way
to study personnel practices here and
to undertake the study of methods
and standards. Travels among plants
have included Central Falls, Puritan
and Plaid Mills where he has ob-
ser\ed the States way of doing things.
Talking with our dark-haired French
Canadian friend, who incidently has
only been speaking English for some
four years, brought forth some inter
esting facts about our neighbors “north
of the border”.
Interesting fact learned is that 80%
of the Dominion employees are
French with only overseers and man
agement being English. Canadian em-,
ployees are quite different from the
American ones he observed, said
Du Fresne. Most Ca^dian employees
by contrast seem to Du Fresne to be
easy-going.
'Phe town of Sherbrooke, known as
the “Queen Citi,- of the Eastern
Township” is a city of over 40,000
ha\'ing a strong French and Catholic
influence. Textile firms abound in the
area.
Although the sui^-'er is generally
about the same ours, winter
weather is very co.'i; .vith temperature
averaging 10 degrees and with 4 and 5
feet of snow continually in the fields.
Du Fresne tells about one winter
when employees at the plant were
snow-bound and stayed at work sev
eral days!
“Pete” stated that Americans arc
very popular which speaks well of our
three Company “statesmen” sent to
the plant. Guy Byrd, formerly in the
•Viaui Office Manufacturing Depart
ment recently took over production
Weavers Win Greensboro
Invitational Tournament
The High Point Weavers won the Greensboro Weaving Invi
tational Tournament by defeating Plaid Mill on Monday, 9-7, in
the final game. Being the favorites in this tournament, the Weavers
had easy sailing in their early games. All games were held at Glen-
wood Park in Greensboro.
The first game Greenslxiro Weav
ing fell to the Weavers, 6-0, with
Stoker striking out 1? men. Home-
runs by Brewer, Miller, and Mann fea
tured the attack in this game.
In the second game, the Weavers
took Ossipee to the tune of 11-1,
when Dave Miller led the at^ack with
4 hits for 4 times at bat. He collected
a triple, double, and two singles.
F'rith had a home run and Stoker
struck out 14 men.
W'ith one game needed to win the
championship. Plaid Mill won out, 3-
2, when Stoker wild pitched a run
home and Frith followed with an
over throw to second base permitting
a runner to score. This being a double
elimination tournament, it was neces
sary for the Wc"avers 'to meet Plaid
in a final game on Monday to deter
mine the winner.
In the final game. Plaid took an
early lead by scoring 3 runs in the
first inning when Small hit a home-
run with two men on-b-ase. In the
third inning, they again scored whcni
Beamcr hit a homerun with one man
aboard by virtue of an error. The
Weavers came to life the home
half of the third inni 'jjP,vhen Clyde
Carden started the inning with a sin
gle, BrewcT hit a triple, Dewey Car
den, singled as did McMahon to give
the Weavers three runs.
llie fifth was the big inning and
Johnson started the attack by singling.
Stoker walked and Mann singltxl
scoring Johnson. Jont's was safe on an
error by the pitcher and Clyde Carden
hit a home run to give the We;ivers
4 runs to make the score 7-5.
Following the game, Mr. M. C.
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SYMBOLIC OF THEIR victory
in the Greensboro Weaving Invi
tational Tournament is the trophy
above. In addition to the presenta
tion of this trophy to the team,
silver softballs were awarded to the
individual players. The trophy will
be displayed in the near future at
High Point.
managership of Dominion with I’om
Lucas as liis assistant. Another Bur
lington Bills man there is Sam Bright
as an overseer.
ONE OF THE IMPORTANT features of the sen’ice pin party
Church, was the fine chicken dinner servied by the ladies of the church
present were well pleased with the dinner and all of the trimmings. Our
tying most of the persons present.
recently held at
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readers should hav
the Archdale Friends
'e indicates that those
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