WOODFORD R BOEBINGER
THE STANDARD PRINTING CO.
FIRST ST. AT JEFFERSON
LOUISVILLE 2,KY.
MILL WHISTLE
Volume xi
Spray, N. C., Monday, 'Ulay 11, 1953
Number 20
Tanner Heads National
Quality Control Group
R. C. Tanner, head of the Quality
Control Department at Fieldcrest, has
°6en named president of the Textile
Quality Control association, comprised
textile research and quality control
in the U. S., Canada and Mexico.
Tanner’s election came at the Spring
meeting of the group
at Clemson College,
S. C., April 10, at
tended by 250 per
sons. He succeeds
Clyde Moss, of Fire
stone Textiles in
Gastonia.
A native of Cul
peper, Va., Mr. Tan
ner graduated from
Virginia Polytechnic
^ristitute with a B.S. degree in chemical
Engineering. He was associated with a
^ivision of Calco Chemical Co., near
Lynchburg, Va., before joining Field-
crest Mills in 1935. He joined Albe
marle Weaving Co. in Charlottesville,
in 1939, remaining until he entered
jnilitary service in 1941. He served in
army until 1946, attaining the rank
lieutenant-colonel. He rejoined Field-
crest Mills upon his return from mili-
‘3ry service and has been with the Com
pany continuously since that time.
C^onald Keith Named
^iv. Vice President
Hughstoii M. McBain, chairman of
Marshall Field & Company, has an-
*iounced that Donald K. Keith was
Elected a divisional vice president at
the recent meeting of the board of di-
J'ectors. Mr. Keith will develop the
Plans and manage the Company’s pro
posed Milwaukee retail store, Mr. Mc
Cain said.
Mr. Keith, who visited the mills
*'ecently, joined Marshall Field & Com-
Pany in 1936. He worked as a salesman,
^irst in the Company’s wholesale di-
''ision and then in the Chicago retail
®tore. He was named an assistant buyer
1939 and later managed the home
furnishings service, home furnishings
Adjusting, and was in charge of out-of-
town promotion for the store, including
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Bloodmobile To
Visit Fieldale
Tuesday May 19
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit
Fieldale, Tuesday, May 19, under spon
sorship of the Fieldale Rotary Club. A
quota of 132 pints of blood has been
accepted and efforts are under way
to secure donors who will make ap
pointments in advance to give a pint
of blood.
E. H. Goode, president of the Rotary
Club, has appointed Rev. Charles Boyd
as chairman of solicitations and Mrs.
H. Z. Smith as chairman of arrange
ments D. E. Simons at the Towel Mill
and R. T. Ingram at the Hosiery Mill
are in charge of soUcitations in those
plants.
The Bloodmobile will be at the YMCA
from 12:00 o’clock noon until 6:00 p. m.
The Fieldale visit by the Bloodmobile
is a part of the Red Cross blood col
lection program for Henry County.
Contract Talks
Set For Today
Representatives of the Company are
scheduled to meet with the union
bargaining committee Monday May 11
to begin contract negotiations, follow
ing certification of the TWUA-CIO as
legal bargaining agent for employees
in the Company’s North Carolina Mills.
The TWUA was chosen as the rep
resentative of the employees in an elec
tion April 28 when the CIO received
1414 votes and the AFL 1230. How
ever, under the law, the TWUA could
not be certified by the National Labor
Relations Board until at least five days
had elapsed during which time the
losing union might have protested the
election. There was no such protest and
the NLRB on May 7 notified the Com
pany that the TWUA-CIO had been
certified.
The former contract with the TWUA
expired at midnight April 30 and was
not extended. The Company posted
notices informing employees that ne
gotiations on a new contract would be
gin after the union was certified and
that in the meantime and imtil further
Council Audience
Hears Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf, famous television per
sonality as well as successful publisher,
author, columnist and humorist, is
shown as he addressed a joint meeting
of the Carolina Cooperative Council
and the Junior Carolina Council in the
Leaksville-Spray junior high school au
ditorium April 30.
A crowd of approximately 1000 per
sons comprised of council members,
their wives and guests, attended the
program. Mr. Cerf was introduced by
John P. Powell, chairman of the coun
cil program committee.
During the afternoon he visited the
the Electric Blanket Mill where he was
much interested in the operations.
notice the Company would follow those
provisions of the former contract cov
ering employment, discharges, layoffs,
technological changes and workloads,
transfers, promotions, seniority, griev
ances, hours of work and overtime pay,
reporting time, holidays and vacations.
It was pointed out that with the
expiration of the old contract the au
thorization cards for dues deductions
were no longer valid and the Company
is not legally allowed to withhold union
dues.