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No. 10
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HOW WELL
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
October, 1945
Wling Season Off To Good Start
IPANYGETS
A CKTIFICATE
Cent Reduction In
'dent Frequency First
‘I* Months of 1945
States Department
has issued a certificate
(jj ®vement to Ecusta Paper
I *uon for having over a 40
reduction in accident fre-
5 the first six months of
i„,.,‘^onipared with the first
of 1944.
October, 1944, all pulp and
^•adustries in nine South-
, States have conducted a
)u .^®duce personal injuries
^ned an overall reduction
Ijj cent for the first three
(I®* the drive. On January 1,
J ?P®rtment of Labor ad-
^ ®^lls that a reduction in
of 40 per cent or more
1}^ ‘jrst six months of 1945 as
Ij^ ^ with the first six months
I Dj^''^0'ild entitle said mills
schievement award,
great pleasure to
reduction here
Corporation for
Period was 66 per cent,
ioyg off to each and every
tiu’ was only through
^ ® 2oal
(rjg *‘®ached. The fact that
u^uency rate was 3.1 this
l!ij A®®^nst 9.1 for first six
1944 means that we
Sts “'thirds less lost time
^ ,jPer million manhours
is, indeed, a record
of and every one of
^^solve now to do our
frequency
i{ ,;"«eping this
3s possible.
■keeping
aU ^
^ remember that Acci
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% DISPUY
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' K^*8e Extension Edi-
I^Uds Program In
Broadcast
%*^^®-Wide radio broadcast
ejf'ember 20 by Mr. F. H.
LCqii editor of N. C.
i* tu ®Se, he highly lauded
p part in the Victory
;?aij carried on here
, W Orest during the past
i, ®^®ted that three years
As j Victory Garden pro-
nationally as a
Jlvj^j^cy measure and when
f,? County Farm Agent,
Jn i *3zener, called together
J W discuss an expanded
for the county,
®*it, Harry Straus, was
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
TO ALL EMPLOYEES:
I want to discuss with you the general wage ques
tion which is now being debated so heatedly from one
end of the nation to the other.
From everything I read, it seems to me that the
problem is a fairly simple one. It boils down to the
fact that during the war the cost of living has risen,
while hourly wages have not gone up in proportion.
The wage earners of the nation are saying that this
condition wasn’t so bad while they were getting a lot
of overtime work at premium pay. But, with the cut
back in hours, and with the loss of overtime pay, the
workers of the country are beginning to feel the pinch
of increased living costs. The question is, what is the
fair thing to do?
My answer is that, since the cost of living during
the war has gone up more than straight-time hourly
wages, all employers should take this into considera
tion whenever the work week is reduced from 48
hours to 40 hours a week.
As far as our plans are concerned, we expect to
continue on the 48-hour schedule for the time being.
However, when we do go back to our normal pre
war schedule, we will increase wages so as to help
you take care of the increased cost of living.
I feel sure that you want to know your Company’s
thinking on this problem, and, therefore as is my cus
tom, I want to give you this advance information.
Cordially yours,
HARRY H. STRAUS, President.
ECUSTA BOWLERS
IN SECOND PLACE
Only One Game Behind The
Champion Y. M. C. A.
Team Of Canton
Our strong Ecusta Bowling team
is in second place in the Tri-City
Bowling League, just one game
behind the first place team, from
the Champion Y. M. C. A.
In Tuesday’s matches, Ecusta
won over Allen Transfer No. 2
by 2 to 1. Next Tuesday Ecusta
rolls against Asheville Tire and
Recapping Co. and the following
week they are scheduled to meet
the first place Champion team, of
Canton, N. C. However, since that
is the date of our Five Year club
meeting, this game has been post
poned until the following Satur
day, November 10th. The match
will be bowled on the Asheville
alleys and it is hoped that many
of our bowling fans will go to
Asheville that night to give their
support to the team and help them
fight for first place in the league.
The Tri-City matches are held at
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VICTORY LOAN
DRIVE STARTED
Success Of Campaign Will
Help Prevent Inflation
In The Nation
The Victory Loan Drive, which
will be the last war financing ef
fort, has now started. One of the
reasons why it must be successful
is that it will take money out of
circulation and help prevent in
flation. China is a good example
of what will hgppen when infla
tion comes to a country; wages are
high, prices are higher and the
savings of a lifetime will not buy
a meal.
• ^ former beaterman
m the Refining Room, is a chief
motor machinist in the navy who
recently wrote us from Shanghai,
thma. He sent us three 3000 yuan
notes or Chinese dollars, a 20 and
a five, all worth less than 10c in
good old U. S. dollars.
He said the price of the yuan
varies from day to day. One day
2®^ 120,000 yuan for
a dollar and 200,000 the next He
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2MEN^TEAMS
TIED FOR FIRST
PLACE IN LEAGUE
Two Divisions* In Ecusta
League. Season to Last
For Twenty Weeks.
In the second round of the 1945-
46 season of the Ecusta Men’s Tan
Pin league, Maintenance defeated
Refining Room 3 to 0 while Control
defeated Champagne 2 to 1 and
Machine Room won over Pulp Mill
2 to 1.
This put Control and Mainte
nance tying for first place, each
having won 5 and lost 1, while Ma
chine Room was close behind with
4 wins and 2 losses. There are 7
teams participating in the men’s
division and 7 in the women’s
league. All matches are being
rolled on the Centennial Alleys in
Brevard.
In the opening games of the
Women’s Duck Pin League Wed
nesday night Champagne won over
Inspection 3 to 0, Office beat Con
trol 2 to 1 and Finishing defeated
Endless Belt 3 to 0.
All of the matches will be played
on Centennial Alleys, with the
men bowling on Monday nights at
7:30 and the women on Wednesday
nights at 8. Immediately following
the opening meets of the men’s
league on the 15th., the alleys were
shut down for a few days for re
surfacing, thereby holding up the
starting date of the women’s duck
pin league season. However, the
work was finished in time for the
men to resume the bowling for
their second meet last Monday
night and the women to open their
season on Wednesday.
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bandtopuT
FOR YULE PARTIES
More Than Forty Children
Taking Instrumental
Music Training
Plans are being made for the
Ecusta young people’s band to
take part in the employee Christ
mas parties which will be held
in the cafeteria again this year.
A special program of Christmas
music has been worked out and
rehearsals are already underway.
Approximately 45 children of
Ecusta employees are now receiv
ing band instrument training.
It was announced some time
ago that there were only a lim
ited number of instruments in the
Ecusta band collection and that
these instruments would be loaned
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