HOSIERY MILLS
INCORPORATED
HIGH POINT. NORTH CAROLINA
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THE VOICE OF MELROSE AND GLENN MILLS
HOSIERY MILLS
tNCORPORATEO
HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROIINA
Volume 2
MELROSE HOSIERY MILLS
(Seamless and Full Fashion Plants)
HIGH POINT, N. C., JANUARY ISSUE
GLENN HOSIERY MILLS
(Infants' and Misses’ Goods)
No. 5
BONUS AND INSURANCE PAYMENTS
AMOUNT TO $42,000.00 FOR YEAR
It IS the policy and function of the Personnel Department to act as a
two way channel between management and employees. On the one
hand, to bring problems and attitudes of workers to the attention of
management. On the other hand, to bring policy and company informa
tion to the attention of workers as they show interest and responsibility.
Few workers in receiving individual bonus of 2 or 4% of annual
will be able to guess the aggregate sums of these individual
checks. This past year the bonus to Melrose and Glenn employees
amounted to $23,000.00.
At the same time it may be well to interpret the group insurance
cost to Melrose during 1946. When an employee has seventy-five cents
deducted from his pay to apply on group insurance, the company puts
one dollar and fifteen cents with that sum to buy hospital, sickness and
death protection. The group insurance for Melrose employees during
1945 cost the company $19,000.00.
In a sense this means a total outlay of $42,000.00 in addition to the
payroll. This money could have been kept by the company, but Melrose
on its own initiative was glad to share this sum of money with the
employees.
As the two-way channel of partnership develops there are other things
the company woud like to share with employee “associates.”
IfterWyear
The Melrose Glenn Credit Union
is established. The North Carolina
officials state that credit unions
seldom pay their own way the first
year. Our organization has paid
its way and probably will be ready
to offer a small dividend. The
amount of dividend, of course, de
pends upon the interest earnings.
The positive thing about our or
ganization is that it has helped a
large number of people at small
cost and at the same time estab
lished a strong credit union. We
have handled nearly $8,000.00.
There have been no losses.
This means that YOUR credit
union now has built a fund with
which to do business. As goods
become available in the shops you
can borrow from your credit union,
pay cash and save paying carrying
charges. This will be a great help
to our people when they under
stand how the credit union works.
We now have insurance protec
tion so that if a borrower dies, his
loan is paid in full. There is a
further feature that we can secure
when enough of our people belong
and cooperate to get the maximum
results. We can secure a general
policy that, in event of death of a
borrower, the entire loan will be
paid, and in addition the Credit
Union will pay twice the amount
of shares, or savings. What could
beat that? For instance, if a bor
rower who dies owes $250.00 and
has $200.00 in savings, his credit
union cancels the $250.00 and pays
the $200.00, PLUS an additional
$200.00. This is made possible thru
the national organization which
has thousands of members. We
do not have this feature, as yet,
but it is attractive enough for us
to consider.
Your money is SAFE. All rec
ords are examined by N. C. offi
cials. It will pay you to get ac
quainted with the credit un'on
IDEA.
Service Pins To Be Presented
To Many Melrose Employees
An attractive Melrose emblem is in process of preparation for em
ployees who have been with the company five, ten, fifteen and twenty
years. The company was organized in July, 1922, so it will be 1947
before a twenty-five year pin can be presented.
There will be approximately 200 pins in the first presentation.
The design of the emblem is an irregular edged button about the size
of a dime with the words “Melrose Hosiery Mills” around the border
and the number of years service in the center—5, 10, 15, 20, 25. The
five year pin will be of silver, the ten year of gold, the fifteen and
twenty year with a different colored gem and the twenty-five year with
a small diamond. The pin for men will have a post with screw cap to
fit into coat lapel and the women’s pin will have a clasp.
The pins will be ready in about 90 days. For convenience in keeping
records the bonus period of October to October will be used to measure
the time. Hereafter it may be possible to present pins at the annual
Christmas Party.
Below is a TENTATIVE list of eligible employees. This list is pub
lished at this time with the request that individual employees check the
list for accuracy and report any errors to the Personnel Department.
(Please turn to Page 6)
PAYROLL STAFF
Orther-Rater To Be
Used In Plants
On the basis of a suggestion
from a Melrose employee, consid
eration has been given to the
Ortho-rater and it is to be in
stalled. This modern device en
ables employees to test their vi
sion. It is a service to Melrose
employees in keeping with pro
gressive management. Mr. Boyd
is scheduled to go to Purdue Uni
versity, West Lafayette, Indiana,
February 10-22 for special train
ing'in the use of the Ortho-Rater.
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RACHEL GARNER MARY MOORE
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BEE BRATON CAROLEEN BYERLY
BEATRICE MOORE
SUE ALLRED
The payroll office in Melrose is a busy place. An enormous amount
of detail is handled. The recording of tickets used in piece-rate
payments, the preparation of semi-monthly payrolls, insurance
records, payroll deductions of several kinds, withholding tax data,
permanent records of hourly earnings, and bonus payments are
some of the items . Reports to various branches of government are
processed for purposes of tax, unemployment compensation and
social security. Because of the volume of work handled it is easy to
understand why these office employees must work according to set
schedules and why it is not possible to interrupt these schedules
for exceptional personal requests. When it is necessary for some
request to get to the Payroll office it can be handled at an opportune
time through the Personnel Department.
MEL-ROSE-GLEN ’46
Suggestions are welcomed for
making Mel-Rose Glen interesting
and serviceable. This paper be
longs to all of us and can be adapt
ed to meet readers’ suggestions.
With this issue pictures sched
uled for 1945 are complete. Group
pictures have been presented of all
departments in each of the three
plants.
Do you want a SWAP AND
TRADE column that can be kept
live with bargains that may be
offered ?
Do you want a QUESTION AND
ANSWER department ? Questions
on government agencies that affect
workers, questions of information
of any kind? Answers can be
.‘■olicited from competent sources.
Do you want a HOW I DO IT
column which will carry recipes
on anything from how to bake a
cake to how to put away your fa
vorite home cured ham ?
Do you want more jokes? More
poems ?
Woud you want brief personal
story on oldest employee, employee
from farthest distance, employee
with special skill? Are there hu
man interest stories among our
people that could be featured?
NO LOSSES
One reason a credit union has
such low losses is because money
borrowed is “sacred.” It is the
savings of fellow-employees. There
may be some people who will de
lay or jump payments to an im
personal firm or store, but few
people will take advantage of their
own fellow employees.
We have teeth because solid
food must be chewed and mixed
with saliva before it can be swal
lowed easily and digested properly.
Unless this work is well per
formed the health of the whole
body suffers. A much better job
of chewing can be done by a per
fect set of strong, sound teeth than
by a set of decayed, crooked teeth.
Decayed teeth are a menace to
health not only because they do
their work badly but also because
they are centers from which infec
tion may be carried to other parts
of the body.
Sound, even teeth make a large
contribution to good health and
good looks. They are worth taking
care of properly.
Strong, even teeth in a healthy
mouth depend largely upon good
general health, upon foods which
give the teeth the nourishment and
exercise they need, upon skilled
dental care, and upon cleanliness.
The foods which promote gen
eral good health are also the foods
which help to build strong, sound
teeth. The teeth are like other
tissues in the body in that they re
quire especially those food sub
stances of which they are largely
composed. Tooth building materi
als are the minerals, calcium and
phosphorus, and viamin A. From
tomatoes and citrus fruits, such as
oranges, lemons, and grapefruit,
come the needed supplies of vita
min C. While these elements are
also contributed in varying
amounts by additional foods which
are important for health—other
vegetables and fruits, meat, cheese,
eggs, and breads and cereals (es
pecially those made of whole grain)
—it is difficult to get enough cal
cium, phosphorus and vitamins A
and C without using liberal
amount of milk and either citrus
fruits or tomatoes. Vitamin D is
made by the body when the skin
gets enough sunshine. It is also
present in milk, egg yolk, and in
a few other foods, but it is not
found in large amounts except in
cod-liver and halibut-liver prepar
ations and in foods in which the
vitamin D content has been in
creased by irradiation or some oth
er process.
Teeth must be taken care of
properly and repaired when neces
sary if they are to do good work
and escape destruction. No one
is capable of caring for the teeth
propertly without the help of a
dentist. He alone has the knowl
edge and skill necessary to keep
all the teeth “functioning normal
ly and with comfort.”
A decayed tooth is an infected
tooth. If the progress of decay is
not checked, nerves and other soft
tissues inside of the tooth become
exposed and infected.
Costly and painful repair work,
the loss of permanent teeth, and
serious root abscesses may be
avoided by going to the dentist ev
ery six months or at such inter
vals as he may find necessary.
Nature does the building of good
teeth, but we must provide the ma
terials and arrange for the proper
up-keep.