news
October 1981
Fibers & Textiles Company Gastonia, North Carolina • Bennettsville, South Carolina
Bowling Green, Kentucky • Hopewell, Virginia • Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
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Messages of this type were often distributed with paychecks at the
M-J mill in the 1930s.
Carolinas: Textile Week
In North Carolina and South Carolina, annual
Textile Week will be observed Oct. 18-24. Plant
tours and public display of many products are
planned, among other events and activities.
Wages for 3 8-hour shifts, just
beginning in 1933.
From 12
to 8 hours
Myrtle (Mrs. James) Faulk
ner was working at the Man-
ville Jenckes Gastonia textile
mill when the 8-hour em
ployment day went into
effect in 1933. At age 14 she
had started with Loray Mills
in 1929; took up again with
Manville Jenckes when that
company began operations
following the Loray shut
down in the early 1930s.
Back in those days when
they had 12-hour work
shifts, Myrtle did slashing,
spinning, warping and rov
ing. It was all-cotton produc
tion then.
MjTtle met her husband,
James, while both were
working at M-J. He was a
doffer in spinning. They
were married and both went
to work at Parkdale Mills —
she for 45 years and he for
50.
The Faulkners, who live on
Chapel Grove Road, have 3
daughters, 1 son, 14 grand-
Stock bought at $ 11.33
The most recent report (end of August): Fire
stone Common Stock was purchased for accounts
of participating employees at an average $11.33.
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company is the
company’s buyer for the stock.
At the end of August, 6,442 Firestone people
were participating in the Stock Purchase &
Savings Plan.
Ninth year: Films for schools
Firestone-Gastonia is supplying — for the 9th consecutive
year — monthly educational films during the school year
to junior/senior public and private high schools in the area.
Providing the series to schools,
the company hopes that the in
structional films will give stu
dents a wider view of the world
and help them in their current
studies.
FIRST in the series is a presen
tation on the growing importance
children and 4 great
grandchildren. Several of
their family have worked at
Firestone (it dates from
1935): and some are here at
present.
Odus Hambrick, bobbin
painter in TC Twisting,
brought these pieces from
his mother-in-law’s scrap
book.
of robots and the high technology
in industry today. “Robotics" was
released to the schools in late
September.
Other films scheduled during the
1981-82 school year include "China
Today," a review of the last 50
years of conflict and changes in
that country; and "The Information
Revolution," examining and ex
plaining effects of the explosion in
word-processing and information
transmission — an area of promis
ing careers for today's students.
OTHER TITLES: "Drought and
World Hunger,” “Bully Pulpit," a
look at Presidential power and the
art of communication used by
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald
Reagan in the first 200 days of
their administrations: "Medical
More on page 2
‘As if our names
were printed on every roll’
QUALITY & PRODUCTIVITY - You can’t take them
apart without sacrificing work, time and material (so,
money) and a lot more. One without the other means loss
of profit. The principle is true of making any product and
generally true of supplying any service.
Whether we shop for groceries or an automobile, we as
customers expect to receive a quality product for our money.
The same applies to the services that each one of us sells
to our employer. Our company expects to receive a quality
product — that is, our work — in return for what it pays us.
A QUALITY product can be brought into being with less
overall effort and cost than a product of poor quality. A roll
of fabric lacking quality has to be rerolled and repaired,
and this calls for more effort and expense (about $35/roll).
Although the rerolled package can be dip-treated satis
factorily, it is not “as good as” a roll that is produced to our
quality standards in the first place.
A ‘thumb rule' is textiles: The better a machine runs the
better quality it produces. When any one of our machines
runs “bad,” more work is required of the operators and
the quality is not “as good as.” If the machine runs “very
bad,” we will get below-standard quality. When this hap
pens, someone must work harder to produce that same
fabric, while someone else must work hard to bring the
fabric up to the needed quality standard.
Over the years we have become very good at fixing
defects, but not so good at preventing defects.
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Preventing defects (‘heading off the problem before it
occurs) will produce better fabric with less work, and usually
the machine runs better.
Something to remember: Quality improvements yield
high returns with practically no capital investment. The
biggest investment needed is our pride in producing fabrics
as if our names were stamped on every roll.
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by Carroll Cloer
Manager, Quality Control
Firestone-Gastonia