Cnatnam Blanketeer
JUNE 28, 1938
Bumper Wheat Crop In City Limits
Inspecting a bumper crop of wheat grown in the city limits of
Elkin, by our general superintendent, Mr. W. A. Neaves, seems to be
an interesting diversion from selling Chatham Blankets, for the
time being. Mr. Jack Clark of the Chicago office sales force, is
shown here with our superintendent as the two made a tour of Elkin,
and the Elkin plant. Mr. Clark also visited the Winston plant dur
ing his stay in the state.
Vol. 5
PAPER PLANNING
SAFETY CONTEST
Hope to Make Every Employee of
Chatham Manufacturing Co.
“Safety Conscious”
It is our desire to make each and
every employee of the Chatham
Manufacturing company “Safety
Conscious” at all times. The
number of fatalities resulting
from a small scratch is alarming.
In the past few years there have
been any number of serious ill
nesses which in all probability
could have been avoided had the
injured worker reported his acci
dent to our first aid room at the
proper time. Our first aid room
and competent mill nurse were
instituted solely for the health
and best interests of the em
ployees, and they are urged to
take advantage of this splendid
opportunity to safeguard their
health.
For the purpose of insuring
greater safety and more concern
for their health among the em
ployees, we are starting a SAFETY
CONTEST which will begin July
1st and end October 1st. If the
results of this contest prove suc
cessful, it will become a perma
nent institution.
The Safety Contest will consist
entirely of the number of points
each worker is able to obtain for
himself during the course of a
year. At the end of each three
months Merit Badges will be
awarded to the employees who
have earned a sufficient number
of points. And at the end of a
year a higher Badge will be
awarded and the system will con
tinue in this way according to the
number of points earned.
(1) Each employee will start off
with 100 points to his credit.
(2) Accidents which require
First Aid aUention will deduct 5
points from the injured em
ployee’s credit.
(3) In case of minor accidents,
consisting of small scratches and
conditions resulting from burrs
and other small particles embed
ded in the hand, there shall be no
penalty for First Aid attention—
but a penalty of 10 points shall
be deducted from the credit of
any worker who fails to report
such an accident,
(4) Accidents which require a
doctor’s attention will deduct 50
points from the injured em
ployee’s credit with the addition
of 5 points for each day missed
from work.
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Science Offers
New Discoveries
Tangible evidences of the con
tinued activity of American re
search laboratories are show by a
list of some of the newest dis
coveries in the industrial field.
A weapon against termites is
provided by a paint through which
the troublesome insects cannot
bore. The latest in automobile
enamels is “dust dry” within
fifteen minutes and finished in
one hour. Difficulties experienced
in making metals like copper and
aluminum stick to other surfaces
have now been overcome by a new
type of adhesive.
The latest type of pen point to
be developed is made of stainless
steel. It is as flexible as steel, as
corrosive-resistant as gold.
A new pyrometer goes for a ride
through the baking oven and re
turns with a complete log of the
temperatures encountered on the
journey, thereby eliminating un
even baking.
If a person is right with him
self, he is liable to be right with
everybody else.
Machines Increase
Jobs, Study Shows
Total employment in industries,
instead of declining as a result of
technological advancements (ma
chines), has actually increased in
the recent era of intensive me
chanical progress.
That is proven in at least one
large industrial field by statistics
just compiled.
The figures cover the past
eleven-year period in the steel in
dustry. From 1926 to 1937, the
statistics show employment in
creased 28 per cent, in that
branch of the industry producing
sheet steel (in which technological
progress has been especially
marked). In the entire industry,
the gain was 23 per cent. The in
crease was made, too, despite
slowing of production by the de
pression.
In addition to greater employ
ment created by the use of ma
chines, the statistics also reveal
that the average work week has
been reduced during the 11 years
from 54 hours to less than 40
hours per week.
No. 4
CO-OPERATION
IS IMPORTANT
Everyone Connected With Com
pany Should Work Together
for Best Interest of Plant
(By Beatrice Burcham)
Chatham Manufacturing com
pany represents a group of people,
great and small, working with one
purpose, to make and sell Chat
ham products. A part of this
group furnishes money and dirsc-
tions, while the other furnishes
labor, both of which are vitally
important for the success of any
corporation. Our materials are of
the best, our company is old and
well founded and our products
known the world over. The em
ployees enjoy almost ideal work
ing conditions, and more than
average wages for a mill of this
type. Thus we see our company
does not lack in those things
which make an industry progress.
There is one thing in which we
do not exert our full support,
namely, “Co-operation”. Each de
partment of our mill is more or
less dependent upon the other.
The card room is useless without
raw materials, which have been
prepared to go through the pro
cess of carding. The spinning
room is unimportant without the
card room and the weave room
wholly dependent upon both the
carding and spinning rooms. Then
the various other departments in
which dyeing, inspecting, finish
ing, etc., are carried on and thus
we see that all are necessary to
complete our products. The pro
cesses which are carried on in our
Winston Mill are so dependent on
the processes carried on in the
Elkin mill, that the mill in Win
ston could not exist without the
Elkin mill. We are all employees
of Chatham Manufacturing com
pany and we are being paid by
the company to make its pro
ducts. Our particular job may
be little or it may be big, but each
one is important and should re
ceive our utmost attention. We
can make our jobs important by
co-operating with our fellow
workers. If, sometime, we are
given orders that we do not like,
we must remember that even the
ones who give orders are also told
what to do. It is quite easy to
understand that if each employee
does his best at whatever he is
told to do and fully desires to
co-operate with his co-workers,
the results will show in his work,
and vice-versa—a worker who
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