Service
Anniversaries
Thirty Years
Posey Priddy Karastan
Twenty-Five Tears
Henry Crowder, Jr Bedspread
^nies N. Murray Karastan
Daniel W. Patterson Rayon
’'''iWatn s. Barker Karastan
Fifteen Years
toward Hyler, Jr Blanket
Wade Williamson Blanket
Robert E. Burnett Blanket
^tella B. Talbert Bedspread
^elvin Gourley Towel
^chie L. Ross Hosiery
Calvin Stultz Blanket
arry v. Barrow Blanket
Martin Harris Blanket
- • H. Richardson, Jr. .. Standards Dept.
M. Thornton Blanket
Ten Years
Bessie T. Smith Towel
*lossie H. Shively Karastan
«omer L. Dodson Towel
^ona M. Frazier Karastan
*Usie M. Grogan Karastan
R, Hall Blanket
^able C. Kiser Karastan
«attie O. London Karastan
Winnie D. Scott Karastan
^*eoph(,s B. Turner Karastan
«aunard G. Hairston Sheeting
B. Hawkins Rayon
..'^by jj. Moorefield Karastan
j. Dillard Towel
M. McCollum Karastan
^rady W. Vaughn Towel
R. Clough Karastan
^allie W. Cox Karastan
K. Sawyers Karastan
^heodore R. Taylor Rayon
^athan Broadnax Finishing
Vernon Smith Blanket
violet T. Berrier Karastan
^®rtha C. Keaton Karastan
*tobert P. Moyer . Blanket
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^LRB Orders Labor
^lection By April 9
Under a ruling by the National Labor
Relations Board, an election will be held
"ithin 30 days of March 9 to determine
'Whether our employees wish to be rep-
Jesented by the. TWUA-CIO or the
TW-AFL or have no union. The date
the election and details of how the
Piloting will be conducted are to be
Announced later.
Employees eligible to vote will have
choices: TWUA-CIO, UTW-AFL,
no union. If none of the three gets
. 'Majority—that is, over 50 per cent of
votes cast, then the run-off election
be held between the two with the
'Shest number of votes.
The election order was an outgrowth
"Monday, march i6, 1953
II
Camera Tour
The photographer snapped this picture at shift change time in the Hosiery Mill.
Margaret Vernon and Ruby Watson, left, are preparing to leave while Hazel Gar
rett and Barbara Alley have taken over for the second shift.
Shown is the pre-boarding operation which immediately follows greige examin
ing. Using high temperature and steam pressure pre-boarding sets the permanent
shape of the stockings. The next operation is dyeing.
MILL VISITORS A group of 18 business administration students from the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a tour of the Blanket and Sheeting Mills
last week as a field trip in their studies of production management and time study.
Picture above shows some of the visitors in the carding department at the Blan
ket Mill. Operator in foreground is Woodrow Murphy. At extreme right is Dwight
Livingstone, of the Training Dept, who was a guide for the tour^
of a dispute in progress since May 1952
between the TWUA-CIO and the UTW-
AFL—each claiming it represents a ma
jority of Fieldcrest employees. The
UTW-AFL filed a petition with the
NLRB requesting an election to determ
ine whether or not either union repre
sents a majority of the workers.
Under terms of the NLRB order, all
of the North Carolina mills will vote
as a unit, Snd the overall vote will de
termine the outcome. If the employees
choose one of the unions that union will
represent the workers in all of the North
Carolina plants, rather than in just the
mills where that union obtained the ma
jority vote. Approximately one-third of
the employees in our North Carolina
mills have never been members of any
union.
The Company has advised the TWUA-
CIO, the present certified bargaining
agent, that it desires to terminate our
present contract at its expiration date,
April 30, 1953, and that no contract ne
gotiations would be entered into until
the question of representation has been
determined.