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Will You Be On The Job Monday? That old chestnut “taking a day off to attend my grandmother’s funeral” may be about worn Out, but the alibis for absenteeism con tinue to flourish. Over 21/0 million workers are out every Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal — over 4 per cent of the total working population. The same is true every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The cost to industry of absenteeism is $10 billion annually, and twice as much if you include the cost of employee benefits, medical bills and record-keeping. Naturally, when people are sick, absence is to be expected, but other causes seem to be emotional, family environment, recreational habits and general morale. And absenteeism is contagious. When times are bad and jobs hard to find, absenteeism is almost nil. When times are good and j^bs easy to come by absenteeism sky rockets ! Too frequent absences from the job in many cases result in fewer opportunities for promotion to a better job and higher pay. Employers must run businesses efficiently and give the type of service that custo mers demand. This calls for employees who are dependable. Unnecessary absence from the job is not only a subject to think out —it’s worth doing something about. “Textile mills like to train their own employees. The industry gladly makes a substantial investment to train the workers it seeks—and starts them on the promotion ladder. “Million of dollars in the aggregate are spent developing the skills possessed by men and women by the time they have reached middle age in the textile industry. It does not seem human to sacrifice those jobs through an illogical textile import policy. “It does not make sense to have to spend additional millions of dol lars to retrain those middle aged men and women — to make them turn their backs on the textile and apparel skills they have acquired and try to fit them for other jobs.”—Sen. John O. Pastore (D-R.I.) Beneficiaries Need To Be Kept Current In Bangor, Maine, a young business man was instantly killed in an automo bile accident. He left three small chil dren, a wife, and an insurance policy valued at $30,000. His mother was named beneficiary. He had bought the policy years before his marriage, but had failed to update it by providing for his wife and chil dren. The ensuing months were sheer torture for the young wife with legal red tape, embarrassment, and financial strain as she tried desperately to claim the policy and hold her family together. Cases such as this occur all of the time throughout the nation. It is some thing with which each of us should be concerned. Employees are reminded to check all their insurance policies to see if the ap propriate beneficiary is named, especial ly in old policies. Death of a beneficiary, marriage, children, divorce or other circumstances warranting a change in insurance poli cies and other legal documents should get priority in an employee’s personal affairs. Employees who have a need for mak ing changes in their Fieldcrest policies should contact the personnel manager at their particular location. Charles Wilson Named To Post At Greenville Charles C. Wilson was appointed per sonnel manager of the Karastan Spin ning Mill at Greenville, effective Jan uary 8. He is a native of Greensboro and received his bachelor of business administration degree from the Uni versity of Georgia. With Fieldcrest since October, 1967, he underwent a period of training in the Industrial Relations Department at Eden prior to his assign ment to the Greenville plant. He and Copyright, 1968, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. Eden, N. C. 27288 issued Every Other Monday For Employees and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. OTIS MARLOWE EDITOR Member, South Atlantic Council Of Industrial Editors ADVISORY BOARD J. J. Beck J. S. Eggleston P. A. Brodie A. H. Justice E. A. Clark R. B. Mitchell J. L. Crabtree J. M. Moore W. F. Crumley J. M. Rimmer B. W. Whaley REPORTING STAFF Alexander Sheeting Mi!l Edna Bsifll'** Pauline Yelton Automatic Blanket Plant Janice Enn'J Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann Midkif’ Bedspread Mill Edna HopP^[ Blanket Mill Katherine Turney Central Warehouse Geraldine Perkin® Draper Offices Mamie Dickson General Offices Hilda GroQso Gladys Holland, Katherine ManleY Karastan Mill Irene Meek® Karastan Service Center Mary Stephen® Karastan Spinning Div Evelyn Beaslev Laurelcrest Carpets Carolyn Brancn Mount Holly Barbara Colling Muscogee Mills Mildred Newsom® New York Offices Betty Lencs^® Northeast Service Center Mary Kulpaj Nye-Wait Division Mary Sneck Sheet Finishing Mill Faye Ligh' Sheetino Mill Ruth Minter Towel Mill Faye Warren Winchester Spinning Mill Ann Wilson Vol. XXVI Mon., Jan. 22, 1968, No. U ^ ^^SERVICE l^'^^ANNIVERS ARIES Headed by a Sheeting Mill employe®) Paul W. Harvey, who completed 40 years of continuous service Saturday; January 20, the list below shows nam®* of Fieldcrest employees who since oUf last issue have completed various mil®' stones of uninterrupted service with the company. Forty Years Paul W. Harvey Sheeting Twenty-Five Years Charlie R. Spurlin Muscog®® Herman J. Smith Bedspread Robert O. Watson Towel Oscar J. Simmons Karastan Silas Stone Towel Twenty Years John L. Luker Nye-Wail John T. Macisaac, Jr General Offices Fifteen Years Dorothy W. Davis Towel Odell L. McCart Muscoge® Audrey L. Moody Muscoge® Ten Years H. M. Bergen, Jr Fieldcrest Sales Charlie D. Cassell ToW®l Lillian B. James .... Karastan Spinning Nellie M. McLawhom .... Karastan Spin- John P. Robertson Fieldcrest Sale® Jack F. Crowder Specials his wife, the former Sally Cochran, ot Greensboro, have moved to Carriage House Apartments, in Greenville. THE MILL WHISTLH
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