Profits Make Jobs Possible
Even in the midst of thriving economic activity, we’ve had some
persistent unemployment. Numerous experts have been studying the
situation, searching for the cause of this remaining unemployment. It
might be helpful to look at the other side of it and ask, not only what
causes unemployment, but ‘What causes a job?’
Leaving aside for the moment the specific and complex factors, what
is it, after all, that determines the number of job opportunities that
become available in American business and industry?
The answer can be simply put. Jobs are made by profit opportuni
ties. In our kind of ecomomy, people are employed because other
people see prospects of making a profit out of an enterprise that will
involve the need for workers.
Conversely, the number of available jobs decline when there are
not sufficient profit opportunities in the economy. Among the quickest
ways to kill off profits are to keep piling higher production costs on
the back of business, and to keep on putting the tax squeeze on busi
ness earnings.
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J. R. BERKLEY
J. T. WHITE
Two Complete 40 Years Of Service
Two well-known employees of Field-
crest Mills have recently completed 40
years of continuous service with the
company.
Jasper R. Berkley, Finishing Mill,
and Joe T. White, Karastan Mill, both
completed 40 years September 18.
Each of the veteran employees was
honored in an informal ceremony on the
anniversary date and was presented
with the Fieldcrest diamond-and-gold
40-year service emblem, a gift, and a
letter of commendation from President
Harold W. Whitcomb.
Mr. Berkley, an assistant foreman in
the Beck Dye Department at the Finish
ing Mill, was born in Charlotte County,
Va. He first joined the company at the
Rhode Island Mill where he was an
assistant foreman in the Dyeing Depart
ment. He later was assistant foreman
and foreman of the Dyeing Department
at the Woolen Mill.
After the Woolen Mill was closed in
1948, he worked briefly in the Karastan
Dyeing Department before being trans
ferred to the Bleachery as an assistant
foreman in the Piece Dyeing Depart
ment. He became an assistant foreman
in the Beck Dye Department in 1953 and
continues to serve in that position at the
present time.
Mr. White, an assistant foreman in the
Karastan Weave Room, is a native of
Bland County, Va., and first joined the
company at the Karastan Mill Septem
ber 18, 1922. He has never been off of
the payroll for any reason during his
entire 40 years of service.
He first was an assistant foreman in
the weave room for about 20 years and
then was foreman from 1942 until
1949. Since 1949 he has been an assistant
foreman devoting much of his time to
machinery improvements. He was with
the mill prior to the development of the
Karastan oriental - design rug and
through the years has been active in
supervising loom building and loom im
provements at KarastarL.
Issued Every Other Monday For Employees
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.,
Copyright, 1962, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Spray, N. C.
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
Member, South Atlantic
Council Of Industrial
Editors
Vol. XXI Monday, Sept. 24, 1962, No. 6
0SERVICE
^^^fANNIVERS ARIES
Forty Years
Jasper R. Berkley Finishing
Joe T. White Karastan
Thirty-Five Years
Lee Allen Baliles Sheeting
Luther M. Compton Towel
Virgie Y. Luther Sheet Finishing
Thirty Years
George E. Booker Karastan
V. Reid King Karastan
James W. Wade Blanket
H. Elwood Williams .. General Offices
Lillian R. Joines Leaksville Cost
Willie O. Young Karastan
Annie T. Underwood Sheeting
Twenty Years
Alice R. France Towel
John G. Minter Blanket
Margaret C. Slaydon Sheeting
Lois H. Motley Blanket
Sallie J. Hutchinson Towel
Edith C. Spain Sheeting
Mozelle Sumner Blanket
Fifteen Years
David H. Edwards Bedspread
Benjamin F. Talbott Blanket
Willie H. Burgess Sheeting
Boyd L. Fisher Sheeting
Hallie J. Scott Towel
Cecil B. Hylton Towel
Obie Martin Central Whse.
Jean S. Carter Towel
Emma D. Hall Blanket
Annie P. Roop Towel
Alice B. Trent Sheeting
James V. Hylton Towel
Joseph Hampton, Jr Blanket
Wendell L. Koger Towel
William R. Lovick Karastan
Elizabeth B. Rakes Towel
William E. Balser Karastan
Annie M. Fulcher Towel
Ten Years
Joseph Holliman, Jr Blanket
Claude A. Cobler Towel
Paul W. Coleman Finishing
Hobert P. Hundley Karastan
J. Elwood Mize . Towel
Henry O. Boyd Sheeting
Ralph W. Martin Towel
Elizabeth L. Carter Blanket
Willie J. Eanes Sheeting
Thomas J. Handy Towel
Norman E. Shively Bedspread
Mary Cox Karastan Spinning
Kenneth E. Pilson Towel
Burney Tripp Karastan Spinning
Nancy A. Watkins ... Bedspread Finish.
Lemie L. Wright Towel
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