SSHTE> THE ERWIN CHATTER
Volume 2
Mr. Marks Given Important
Labor Department Post
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MR. MARKS
* COOLS SCHEDULE
FOR AUGUST
August 3—Liberty at
mee.
August 10 —Ellis X Roads In
dians at Cooleemee.
August 17 —Fork at Cooleemee.
August 24—Cooleemee at Prov
idence.
August 31 —Needmore at Cool
eemee.
Safety Contests
End August 31
Both the Inter-Plant and the
Inter-Departmental Safety Con
tests will end August 31st. At the
present time Mill No. 3 is in
second place and Finishing No. 3
is in fourth in the Inter-Plant
Contest.
In the Inter - Departmental
Contest in the mill the Warp
Room, Warehouse, and Yard are
leading and stand to participate
in prizes. In the Finishing Plant
the Napper Room, Bleachery, and
Cloth Room are on top.
Remember you are not com
peting with other departments,
but rather to improve last year's
recosd. Thus every department
has the same chance to win. Keep
August free of accidents and win
these contests.
INTER-PLANT
SAFETY CONTEST
Acc. Improvement
Hat* Or** Last
•it Coat. Y MT
No. 4 Bleacherr M IM% Better
Plant No. • 74 54% totter
Plant No. 1 74 55% B*tter
Wo. t Finishing 17 51% totter
Plant No. C M li% Woe**
Plant No. 5 l«.l 17% Won*
Plant No. 4 §4 M% Won*
Cloth Hoom-Erwin lil 52% Won*
Total all 1.4 17% totter
KEEP AUGUST FUSE OF ACCIDENT!!
The manager and members
of the "Cools" baseball club
want to take this opportunity
to thank ?heir friends and
baseball fans who gave so
generously to the support of
the Cooleemee "Cools" in their
recent drive in Plant No. 3.
Each player appreciates your
interest and invites you to
come out and see them play.
To Be Chief Advisor
On Safety Work
W. G. Marks, Training and
Safety Director in the Industrial
Relations Department, has re
signed from the Company to ac
cept a position as chief safety
advisor for the Division of Labor
Standards in the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor. Mr. Marks was
just offered this recently and
asked to be relieved to take this
new and important place with the
Federal Government as soon as
he could leave his work in proper
order.
He has been with the Company
since August, 1943. He was work
ing with the Department of La
bor prior to entering private in
dustry.
While with the Company, he
has organized a well-coordinated
safety program and helped to in
stall a training program for pro
duction supervision as well as for
other specialized divisions of tex
tile personnel. In his new job,
Mr. Marks will coordinate and
advise in the organization of the
safety program carried on by the
Labor Department in Washing
ton. He has just resigned as
chairman of the "off-the-job"
safety committee of the Textile
Section of the National Safety
Council.
While in Durham, he was very
active in community affairs, and
it will be remembered that while
he and his family were living in
Cooleemee they took an active
interest in local activities, par
ticularly in helping develop rec
reational programs. He has been
very interested in horseshoes and
has promoted this sport not pnly
in areas in which Erwin plants
are located, but over the State
and Southeast as well. His other
recreation interests have been
checkers and chess.
Mr. Marks first served as ed
itor of THE CHATTER, and he
has been cooperative in making
pictures from time to time for
use in the newspaper.
Mr. and Mrs. Marks and their
children, Betty Ann and Billy,
are now at home at 2719 Thir
teenth Street, N. W., Washington,
D. C.
Before leaving the office, the
personnel of the £rwin Audito
rium in Durham and the mem
bers of the Industrial Relations
Department presented Mr. Marks
with an electric desk clock as a
memento of their friendship and
best wishes to him in his new
job.
ATTENDANCE
RECORD
(Week Ending June IS, 1946)
Plant No. 3 90.32
Plant No. 5 89.90
Plant No. 2.... 88.86
Plant No. 6 87.24
Finishing No. 4 - 85.80
Plant No. 4 83.95
Plant No. 1 81.96
This is a good record, but all
plants should be 90% or better
in attendance. As we fight "The
Battle of Production" let each of
us be on the job every day!
COOLEEMEE, N. C., AUGUST, 1946
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Softball Teams
In Full Swing
Other Activities
Being Planned
Four softball teams have been
organized in the various depart
ments of Plant No. 3 and are now
competing with each other for
the plant championship and the
traditional barbecue dinner gu T en
the winning team.
Mr. Ralph Sinclair, teacher and
coach here next year, is directing
the play. He is also at present
working on plans for other ac
tivities, including tennis, shuffle
board and horseshoes and is as
sisting Mrs. Isley on Park Hill.
Everyone is interested in recre
ation of some sort. Come out and
play as often as possible.
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RALPH SINCLAIR
Erwin Cotton Mills Lost $47,000 To
Help Cooleemee Bank Depositors
Nothing was said about it at
the time, but now that the affairs
of the Bank of Cooleemee have
been practically liquidated and
closed up, The Cooleemee Jour
nal has learned that The Erwin
Cotton Mills Company put up
and guaranteed $109,000.00 dur
ing the depression when the
banks were closing, in order to
save the Bank of Cooleemee. The
Erwin Mills felt that it was
worth the risk to save the de
positors and the community all
of the griefs and disturbing in
fluence that the closing of the
bank would have brought about
Mill officials have not given out
Safety Committees Praised By
Vice-President Harris
RECREATION AND
COMMUNITY NEWS
The most popular game on the
playground this summer is ten
nis. The eight and ten year olds
are learning to play. The Girl
Scouts have the court three aft
ernoons a week, and the teen-age
boys two afternoons.
Jack Riddle's new baseball
teams which he organized on the
playground have played two
games with Farmington and won
both games. They have mora
games scheduled.
Fourteen Girl Scouts went on
a camping trip and report a fine
time. They camped on the Craw
ford farm again this year. Chap
erones were Mrs. C. W. Shepherd
and Ethel Spry.
The Library has the following
new books:
Keyes, THE RIVER ROAD
Howard, BEFORE THE SUN
GOES DOWN
Woods, PREPARING THE
.WAY
Yerby, THS FOXES OF HAR
ROW
Porcelain, THE CRIMSON
CAT MURDERS
Michel, THE PSYCHIATRIC
MURDERS
Smith, BECAUSE OF MY
LOVE
Houston, THE GREAT PROM
ISE
Chase, I LOVE MISS TILLI
BEAN
Mac Donald, THE EGG AND I
Wakeman, THE HUCKSTERS
Bridge, SINGING WATERS
details in this generous act of
the Company, but it has been
learned that the Company recov
ered more than half of the
money it put up from the assets
of the Bank of Cooleemee and
had a loss, after the closing of
the Bank of Cooleemee's affairs,
of approximately $47,000.00.
The Erwin Mills, after coming
to the rescue of the. Bank of
Cooleemee, then urged the Dur
ham Bank and Trust Company to
open a branch at Cooleemee,
which it established and which
has been serving the community
efficiently ever since.—The Cool
eemee Journal.
1 C. R. Harris, Vice-President of
the Company, in a recent inter
view stated that he felt the serv
ice of employees on safety com
mittees together with their su
pervisors, who in most instances
act as chairmen of the commit
tee, was one of the greatest single
factors in achieving accident
free-work records. "I am sure,"
Mr. Harris stated, "that any em
ployee serving on one of these
committees realizes that manage
ment appreciates their efforts in
this important work and knows
that they, too, feel a definite
sense of responsibility in aiding
their fellow employees to avoid
accidents."
Too often employee safety com
mittee members take their job for
granted, not realizing that when
selected for service on the com
mittees they are placed in a posi
tion of leaders in safety to do a
most important job within their
own departments. When an em
ployee is selected to serve on a
safety committee meeting, his
supervisor is in effect asking him
to give a little more serious con
sideration to remove any hazards
that might be present and to try
and convince other employees
that safety means only the appli
cation of common sense.
Those employees who are not
serving on safety committees
should commend safety commit
tee members for a sincere desire
to promote their fellow-workers'
welfare. A safety committee,
while it may not seem important,
is nevertheless the most impor
tant part of our program. It is
an honor to serve on a safety
committee and those who are
now serving gladly, do so even
though at times they might be
slightly inconvenienced in mak
ing an inspection or attending a
meeting.
Let's give credit where credit
is due. Your safety committee
member deserves a vote of
thanks and should YOU be asked
to serve, it is an opportunity that
every employee should be anxi
oUs to have.
THE CHATTER staff is anxious
that each issue at THE CHAT
TER reach all men from Coolee
mee still hi service. Give the ad
dress to your department reporter
or to the Employment Office and
THE CHATTER will be mailed
to them.
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