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WHISTLE
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY, INC
Manufacturing Division, Spray, Narth CaraliiM
Volume Three
Monday, June 4, 1945
Number Twenty-Four
Vacation Begins June 30
Notices appearing on bulletin boards
in all the mills and offices announce that
“In order that all employees may have
a well earned vacation, we plan to Close
this plant at the end of the second shift
Saturday, June 30, and to resume opera
tion on regular schedule Monday morn
ing, July 9th.”
This will be the first summer vacation
Marshall Field and Company employees
have enjoyed for several years, due to
the urgent need of textile goods by our
armed forces. There is no appreciable
lessening of that demand, but because
of the war strain under which employees
have been working during the past few
years it is felt that a short rest will en
able us to get down to the real, serious
business of turning out more and more
goods to help in defeating Japan.
According to the notice posted in the
^plants “Various government officials
have stated that textiles are one of the
most critical items necessary for the
prosecution of the war against Japan.”
And that means that there can be no let
up in our production. It means, on the
other hand, that we must put on more
pressure; put in more time at our work,
and more of our brains and energy into
the job.
This vacation, incidentally, is chiefly
for the purpose of giving employees a
“breathing spell;” a rest in order to be
fit and ready to carry on at an even
greater speed than ever before. Since
there will, of course, be a great loss in
■ production because of this vacation per
iod the management (and your fellow
workers) urge that you put in every
possible minute on j'our job so that the
loss of production during the vacation
period will be somewhat offset.
We have, sad to relate, a record of ab
senteeism that will always remain a
black mark against our war record un
less we erase it right now. We have a
high rate of absenteeism; by far too
high. But there is still time to correct
this. By working hard and steadily be
fore vacation, by working just as hard
and steadily alter vacation we can erase
fcjhis shameful record and replace it with
record we shall be proud to show our
servicemen when they return to work
side by side with us.
Let’s go—NOW.
T , . . —
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This is a family group in more than one way, for the charming young woman who
is the mother of these sweet little girls is also a member of the Mill Whistle family.
She is Charlotte Martin, who writes those newsy columns from the Bleachery, and
the little girls are Harriet and Beth. Daddy Harry is employed in the Karastan Mill
and needless to say he’s very proud of his little family.
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BOX SCORE OF MILL QUOTAS
MAY 20, 1945
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Karastan
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