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Fifty-five New Members Are Presented 25-Year Pins Wage Increase Is Made
Effective September 18;
New Minimum Is 11.01^2
Officials of Fisldcrest Mills and the
Textile Workers Union of America at
a conference in Spray Thursday even
ing September 28 announced that they
had reached an agreement on wages for
all Fieldcrest Mills in Leaksville, Spray
and Draper. The agreement was approv
ed by the Union members at mass meet
ings Sunday, October 1.
Spokesmen for the Company and the
Union said the increase would average
10 cents per hour. This represents a
fraction over eight per cent with indi
vidual increases ranging from 7% to
141/2 cents per hour. The new minimum
rate will be $1,011/2 per hour, except for
learners. The wage hike was made ef
fective as of Monday, September 18.
The Company announced that the same
increase would apply at the Towel and
Hosiery mills, the two non-union plants
at Fieldale, Va.
Representing Fieldcrest Mills in
negotiations were H. W. Whitcomb, divi
sional vice-president of Marshall Field
& Company, assistant general manager
of Fieldcrest Mills, E. W.« Medbery,
production manager, M. P. Miller, direc
tor of Industrial and Public Relations,
and B. C. Trotter, Company counsel.
Representing the workers in the con
ference negotiations were George Bal-
danzi, executive vice-president of T.W.-
U.A.; Harold' Griffiths, director of the
Bi-County Joint Board; Joe Searcy, N.
P. Spangler and a committee from the
mills.
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Walker M. Gilley, Specials Dept., is shown (right) as he received his 25-Year
emblem from Harold W. Whitcomb, assistant general manager. In background, left
to right, are: R. L. Wilkes, Spray personnel manager; John F. Hartis, Towel Mill;
E. L. Smith, Blanket Mill; and Joseph H. Hampton, Finishing Mill.
Fifty-five new members were presented 25-Year pins at the 8th annual get-
together at the brunswick stew in Tri-City baseball park September 23. Total mem
bership in the Fieldcrest Mills 25-Year Club now stands at 550.
Company Officials Praise Mem
bers For Faithful Services
Through The Years—Luther
Hodges Cables His Greetings
From Frankfurt, Germany
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The long records of service of mem
bers of the Fieldcrest Mills 25-Year
Club were praised and their loyalty
and steadfastness was described as the
Company’s greatest asset in a talk by
Harold W. Whitcomb, assistant general
manager of the mills, at the 25-Year
Club’s brunswick stew at Tri-City base
ball park Saturday afternoon, Septem
ber 23. It was the club’s eighth annual
meeting.
Following Mr. Whitcomb’s talk Mil-
ton C. Mumford, general manager, spoke
briefiy, expressing his pleasure in meet
ing with the group and thanking them
for their faithfulness and dependability.
Garret L. Bergen, Company executive
from Chicago, brought greetings to the
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Governor Scott Speaks
At Carolina Council’s
30th Anniversary Meet
The Carolina Cooperative Council
which began in 1920 following comple
tion of a course in modern production
methods, observed its 30th anniversary
with a special program in the Leaks
ville High School auditorium September
21. On hand for the celebration were
virtually all of the 47 charter members
now with the Company or who have
retired under the Marshall Field &
Company pension plan.
The Honorable W. Kerr Scott, Gov
ernor of North Carolina, delivered the
principal address. The crowd which
packed the auditorium heard the Gov
ernor give an accounting of his “Go
Forward” program, describing progress
to date on improved roads, more rural
telephones, better medical facilities and
other advantages for citizens of the Old
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Fieldcrest Leads In
Purchase Of Bonds
Fieldcrest Mills is leading the state in
the percentage of employees now buy
ing U. S. Savings Bonds through the
payroll savings plan. Kenneth C. Wible,
deputy director for the U. S. Savings
Bonds office in Greensboro, has ex
tended congratulations to employees of
Fieldcrest Mills for outstanding achieve-
men in the peacetime Savings Bonds
program. Mr. Wible said that Fieldcrest
was in the lead gmong the larger in
dustries employing over 4,000 people.
Records show that 18% of all Field
crest people are buying bonds.