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(Registered with U. S. Patent Office) Volume VII HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE, 1953 No. 7 MESSAGE EROM THE PRESIDENT TO MY FELLOW WORKERS: Last month my talk with you in this column was devoted wholly to the new relationship between An vil Brand and the Sherrod Shirt Company. We v.anted you to know all facts in complete detail. So there was space for little else. But one point deserves further comment because it is so supremely important in the progress and well-being of us all. Referring to added production facilities I expressed the feeling that “. . . it becomes even more important for you to build into every garment the quality that will enable our Sales Organization to offer, sell and keep sold, hun dreds of new Anvil Brand dealers.” Yet, as we all recognize, selling i dealers is only Step 1 in expanding and maintaining a high place in (he national work ’n’ play clothes market. Only the consumer is the final judge of our future. Merchants may approve the style and workmanship of an An vil or Tom Long garment. They may buy liberally. But it is the wearer who is to be fully satisfied. If he is to buy and buy again he must know by experience that he can rely on Anvil garments for wearing quality as well as for de sign and fit. And competition for that consumer’s favor was never as violent in our field as now. Since 1945 literally scores of new factories have been built to make ou*" ' inds of garments. Thousands W n...chines and related equipment arc turning out thousands of dozens of work and sportswear in excess of production eight years ago. So every time an Anvil Brand salesman enters a dealer’s store he faces new competition — competi tion on price, style, workmanship, finish. As our front line soldiers Anvil salesmen must depend on us in the (Continued on Page Two) ARTHUR ROYALS, top, CLAYTON HOLMES, bottom. Pictures May Amuse, Bui Engineers Are Working With Serious Purpose Are these pictures amusing? They are — at least to the people who know Clayton ami Arthur, and yet their efforts at the machines have a serious purpose behind them. The pictures were made re cently while these two and a third engineer, Bob Pee, (not pictured), were each engaged in the actual construction of a pair of pants. Tht end results were funny, too. While all observers agreed they did a good job for men who had never run sewing machines before, it is safe to predict the sales de partment will never call for these particular garments to use as samples. But after making a pair of pants themselves, each of the three has a more intimate knowledge of every operation in the construction of that garment. And this was the purpose, of the engineering depart ment. It was but one more step in the continuou.s. search the engi neers carry on to find a simpler, an easier way to do things. When a department is being re- engineeriHl, not only the construc- tioti III ill. meat and the lay-out of the department as a whole comes in for the close.^t scrutiny, but also each individual operation is studied. It is studied with a view to combining operations where possible, 01- if not, to reduce the time and the effort needed to per form that operation. The means of simplifying jobs are more numerous than the oper ations themselves. Sometimes it is only in re-arranging the material (Continued on Page Eight) Safety Awards Given Under New Scoring Twelve safety banners were awarded by the safety committee at its meeting last week, and re ports also were heard from the first inspection in which the new scoring cards were used. Four de partments and offices earned per fect scores of 100. They were dun garee II, the ticket and printing office, the Hudson and White Di vision offices. All four earned “ex cellent” scores in the first inspec tion of the past month, and consequently were eligible for safety banners. A score of 90 is necessary to re ceive an excellent rating and a safety banner. The two inspection ratings of other departments and units winning banners were: front room of the pants department, ex cellent and 98; dungaree I, excel lent and 98; maintenance, excel lent and 98; engineering office, ex cellent and 98; rear room of the pants department, excellent and 97; sales division office, excellent and 96; pattern, excellent and 95; overall and boxer, excellent and 9.'!. Other scores for the two inspec tions during the past month were: cutting, excellent and 7(i; ladies’ dungaree, very good and 98; fin ishing. very good and 95; shirts, very good and 100; shipping, fair and 5!i. Chairman Ossie Wright said there were two extenuating cir cumstances in regard to the low score of the shipping department. The janitor has been out on sick leave for several weeks, and the department’s work has been ex tremely heavy which means there are dozens of hand trucks, with orders waiting to be packed, filling the floor space. ■Members of the new committee which made the inspections for the first time during the past month expressed themselves as being very pleased with the new score cards. On these, each department starts out with a possible score of 100, and points are subtracted for speci fied violations of safety or good house-keeping practices. The heav iest penalty (11 points) is reserved (Continued on Page Two)
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