NOT HOW MUCH BUT HOW WELL QUALITY FIRST THEN QUANTITY 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.

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