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Vol. 4; No. 5
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
May, 1943
48-Hour Work Schedule Starts Monday
EVERSHAN NAMED
EDITOR OF ECHO
Lucille Roberts Ap-
Pointeidl Assistant Editor.
Policy Announced
The ECHO, which is published
^onthly by and for employees of
^custa, Champagne and Endless
®elt, appears this month under a
editorship.
John D. Eversman, recreational
director, has been appointed editor
Miss Lucille Roberts, libra-
is assistant editor.
Assisting in the publication of
^HE echo is a newly appointed
Publications’ committee, composed
John Eversman, F. S. Best,
^symond F. Bennett, Walter K.
Straus, J. 0. Wells, W. M. Shaw
®*id H. E. Newbury.
The new editorial management
the paper plans to have report-
from every department in the
three companies and each of these
Reporters is to have assistants who
"'ork on the different shifts.
As many of the old reporters
desire to continue to serve
^ill be requested to do so and new
ones will be named for depart-
jnents that do not, at the present
time, have reporters.
The names of the official depart-
jnent reporters will appear under
editorial masthead and it is
poped that before the next issue
published that a complete staff
^ill be chosen.
Editor Eversman requests that
former reporters get in touch
him and advise if they wish
to continue. All other employees
^ho are interested in becoming
^6porters are likewise requested
to contact Mr. Eversman.
After the list has been selected,
® meeting will be held and the
new policies of the paper will be
explained at that time.
, With the view of publishing the
oest paper possible and of carry-
—Turn To Pa^e Twelve
"Tindall And Pooser
Elected To Offices
Message From President
On May 31st our Companies will inaugurate a
new Work Schedule. We will abandon the 42-hour
week which has been in force for a long time and
will adopt a 48-hour week schedule in all Depart
ments where the nature of the work will permit it.
In doing this, we follow the orders of President
Roosevelt and the Manpower Commission, which is
empowered with regulating Labor Schedules.
Our new schedule also has the approval of the
Commissioner of Labor of North Carolina.
Many of our trained men have already joined
the Armed Forces of our country—many more are
expected to be drafted as military conditions make
it necessary.
All of you will agree that we must make it our
patriotic obligation to comply with the President’s
request at once. Our plant is not located in a so-
called “critical” area where the 48-hour week ^ is
mandatory, but the Government recommends that in
dustries all over the country should adopt it.
It has been stated by Mr. Paul V. McNutt, Chair
man of the War Manpower Commission, Gen. Doug
las C. MacArthur and many of our present leaders,
that cigarettes—the same as food^—are of the great
est necessity for the comfort of the millions of brave
men who are fighting for Liberty and Democracy.
Without Cigarette Paper there are no cigarettes.
After careful study of our employment require
ments, all those in charge of our working policies
hope that we can keep up our production schedules,
—^Tum To Page Eight
Plans Are Now Being Made For Big
Ecusta Picnic To Be Held July 5th
Paul Tindall was elected chair
man and Keith Pooser was named
Member of the executive com
mittee of the Greenville section
the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers at a conven-
^on held two weeks ago. The
'j^eenville section comprises all
South Carolina, the western
Part of North Carolina and has 39
members.
Mr. Tindall, who is one of our
^nipany engineers, was formerly
^nipioyed by Sirrine and Co., of
^J^eenville, S. C. He came to
^^iista in November 1939.
Mr. Pooser, our plant engineer,
®nie to Ecusta in February 1939.
He
is also a former employee of
Sirr:
We and Co.
Minstrel Show To
Be Given June 10
The next attraction on the list
for the entertainment of Ecustans
is a Minstrel Show which will be
held in the cafeteria on Thursday
night, June 10. Rehearsals have
already started and judging from
the talent that has already come
out, the prospects are very good
that we will have a top flight
show.
The cast has not-been complete
ly selected, so if you can dance,
sing, act or what-have-you, get in
touch with John Eversman of the
recreation department or the supt.
of your dept, at once. Present
plans are to have a cast of be
tween seventy-five and one-hun
dred people.
The show will start at 8:30 o’
clock and, like at all other Ecusta
entertainments, employees, their
wives and husbands are cordially
invited. This entertainment will
be a double-header for immediate
ly following the minstrel show, a
square dance will be held for all
those who wai^t to d^ce.
Contests And Other Activi
ties Will Be Staged, Simi
lar To Last Year
Last year Ecusta employees said
they were going to have the big
gest picnic ever held in this part
of the country and they did, with
a crowd of over 3000 people pres
ent; but this year we are going to
have a bigger one.
It was announced by the activi
ties committee that Camp Sap
phire had again been chosen as
the sight for the picnic.
Everything will be the same as
last year, with everyone bringing
their own dinner and the company
furnishing lemonade, iced tea, pop
corn, and ice cream or sherbert.
There will be contests, races, band
music, the same as last year, and
anything else you can think of.
Start making your plans to come
to the Ecusta picnic on Monday,
July 5. If you want to enter the
boxing contests or know of any
one else who can box, see Dick
Perrin in the Refiner Room.
A full announcement will be
made in next month’s issue of
The Echo.
APPUES TO MOST
AU DEPARTMENTS,
GIVE EXPLANATION
Tentative Plans Were Draft
ed About Two Years
ago. Details Given
Starting Monday, May 31, most
of the departments at Ecusta will
change from a 42-hour to a 48-
hour work week schedule.
New schedules have been posted
in all the departments that will
adopt the 48-hour basis, and the
schedule that will be used by the
hourly shift workers in the Pulp
Mill, Refiner Room, Machine
Room, Maintenance, Electrical and
as far as possible in the Power
and Water departments, is mark
ed Number Two.
It is significant to note that this
schedule was worked out some
time ago.
In April, 1941, Mr. H. H. Straus
instructed Mr. Raymond Bennett
to make plans and prepare a
schedule for a 48 - hour week,
which, he said, would surely come
sooner or later. A schedule and
tentative plans were made then
and put away in the files.
A few weeks ago when Mr.
Straus announced that the time
had arrived to . put the longer work
week into effect wherever pos
sible and as soon as possible, it
was only necessary to take this
schedule out of the files and pre
pare to put it into effect.
Since there is a considerable
amount of curosity about the new
Number Two schedule, Mr. Ben
nett has made the following ex
planation:
Each person works two weeks
on the first shift, one on the re
lief shift, two on the third shift,
two on the second shift, and then
starts over.
Monday is the day off the first
—Turn To Page Twelve
A Chorus Is Being
Formed At Ecusta
Something new has been added.
We at Ecusta have a chorus. After
only two rehearsals this body of
singers has forty members, about
half are men and half are women.
Our leader, the versatile Mr. John
Eversman, is well pleased with
the voiecs he has to work with,
but he wants about ten or twenty
more voices in the chorus. So
come on down on Monday nights
and sing with us. You don’t need
to have had any vocal training.
Just come out, know how to read,
and be willing to sing! We have
lots of fun as well as music at
rehearsals. Join us.
The chorus makes it first ap
pearance in June in the Minstrel
Show.