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NUMBER 19
Sheeting Mill Holds Safety Barbecue
^ITH A SMILE
isirxiLii!. —Doris Gregory (left) and Mary Mang:ruin, of Sheeting Spin-
are handed plates of barbecue by Dan Squires, assistant foreman. The super-
*•'* donned white coats and served barbecue to all employees as an award for
"eir
good safety record in 1958. (See pages 4 and 5.)
^age Increase Averages VA Cents Per Hour
|.^ychecks this week will reflect a
!( wage increase averaging 7’^
Vt hour for employees in the
,, ^ Carolina mills. A similar increase
^ill
Put into effect three weeks earlier
Company’s non-union Towel
3t Fieldale, Virginia.
Company and the Textile Work-
,1, P^ion of America, AFL-CIO, agreed
® general wage increase for North
'l ^ina employees Monday, March 23.
j, action followed a meeting the day
'Wtv Bi-County Joint Board
llg Web Union members voted to accept
i^^j^ounter-proposal made by the Com-
Wage hike was made effective as
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^ in earlier wage negotiations.
, P. m. Sunday, March 8. Paychecks
® distributed at the North Carolina
® this week are the first to be fig-
at the new rates,
also will include i
.^active adjustment,
^^ividual
This week’s
three weeks
increases were calculated
(Continued on page eight)
C. U. Joint Accounts
Members of the Fieldcrest Mills
Credit Union are advised that joint
memberships are permissible for
husband and wife or other parties
who wish to enter into a joint
agreement.
Undei a joint-account with the
right of survivorship, each party
may deposit or withdraw funds. In
case of the death of one of the
parties, the surviving member or
members become the sole owner
or owners of the account.
Credit Union members who wish
to set up a joint account may sign
a card bearing the contract or
agreement between the parties.
These cards are available upon re
quest from the industrial relations
supervisors in the various mills.
Employees Earned Award For
Their Outstanding Safety
Record During 1958
Employees of the Sheeting Mill en
joyed a barbecue dinner March 24 as
an award for their outstanding safety
record in 1958. The barbecue was served
in the mill by the supervisors who
donned white waiters’ jackets for the
occasion.
Plates of barbecue, “hush puppies”,
coffee, and cold drinks were served in
all departments on all three shifts on
a schedule that approximated the em
ployees’ usual lunch period.
The Sheeting Mill employees earned
the barbecue by working the entire
year of 1958 without a lost-time acci
dent. The last disabling injury to occur
at the mill was on October 31, 1957.
The Sheeting employees have since
accumulated nearly one and one quar-
ter-million man-hours of safe work.
Application has been made to the
North Carolina Department of Labor
for a Certificate of Safety Achievement
based on the Sheeting Mill’s record in
1958. The award will be presented later.
When the Sheeting Mill reached one
million man-hours of safe operation
last January, miU management and
supervisors signed a congratulatory let
ter which was distributed to all per
sonnel at the Sheeting Mill.
The letter pointed out that of more
importance than the record itself was
the fact that Sheeting employees be
cause of their interest and participation
in mill safety, suffered no lost wages or
hardship for a long period.
Jr. Council Will Hear
Talks By Guinan, Hoit
Walter B. Guinan, president of our
Karastan sales division, and Frederic
W. Hoit, president of our Fieldcrest
sales division, are scheduled to address
the Junior Carolina Council at its final
meeting of the year Tuesday evening,
April 14, at 7:30 o’clock at Consolidated
Central Y.M.C.A.
Mr. Guinan and Mr. Hoit are expected
to discuss activities of the sales organi
zations. The sales officials will be intro
duced by Harold W. Whitcomb, presi
dent of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.