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The Caromount News PUBLISHED EACH MONTH BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILSON AND CAROMOUNT DIVISIONS VOL. 7 NO. 3 SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL AND CO. INC. MARCH, 1949 GET A STEP AHEAD WITH SAFETY SHOES 4 tb si' ii 111- Ol" be Cs- no vV cle >cl, aP ,f re lie it lefl te lef y lie nil' lof ¥ [lie r Ilf' Safety Shoes To Be Available To Employees Safety shoes may be the solu tion to your toe worries and the employees at Caromount will have an opportunity to obtain these shoes on a convenient payroll de duction plan and at a savings in cost. Safety shoes are neat comfort able shoes that appear as any other shoe hut they have the added pro tection of a reinforced steel cap which protects the toes from fall ing objects, trucks, jacks, etc. This shoe can hold up a 3000 pound weight without injury to the toe. (’ai-oinoiint Case Histories William Trevathan of the Weav ing Department recently had a cross bar fall on his right foot (.'ausing a fracture of the big toe. Mrs. Ertie Edwards of the Fin ishing Department suffered a frac ture of the little toe when a jack Please Turn to Pase Two Janies Modliii, Final Fxaminin^; J. 'r. Fppes, Dyehouse; and Owen Solnion of the Weaving Deiiartinent are shown examining Samples of the safety shoes which the company plans to make available to all employees at cost. The above employees are mem bers of the Safety Inspection Committee for March and April. Hay Harnhill of the Storeroom, the other member of tliis com mittee was absent when the picture was taken. Miss Stancil Honored ! Wilson Gives Funds Miss Jeanette Stancil, daughter Mrs. Deanie Stancil of the first ^hift Warping Department was ^^Pped by the National Honor So- 'iety of Rocky Mount High School a chapel program, Tuesday, yarch 15, at 12:15 p. m.. Miss j'ancil was one of nine students the Junior Class to receive *^'is honor. , To he eligible for membership the National Honor Society a ^'adent must he a member of eith- the Junior or Senior class and ''jUst have outstanding qualifica- ’'ans in the fields of leadership, Vholarship, character and service. Miss Stancil is 16 years of age Jad has made a very commen- able record as a student. I The Reverend Charles Mc Laughlin, pastor of the Catholic Aurch, Our Lady of Perpetual jelp, gave a very impressive ad- '*■688 to the students encouraging ^ 0 r e leadership participation ^^orig students. The Red Cross Drive for the Wilson Division was completed March 7, 1949. The quota for the plant was S125; and the contribu tions were $120.50. This figure included both the contributions of the employees and that of the company. Ward For Alderman R. Quillen Ward, Personnel Di rector, has filed his candidacy for Alderman from the Fourth Ward in the city election to he held in Rocky Mount on May 2. In announcing Ward’s candi dacy The Evening Telegram, Rocky Mount’s newspaper, stated, “Quillen Ward, the newcomer to the political scene, has compiled an enviable record of public ser vice.” Mr. Ward promised, if elected, to represent the Fourth Ward, that ‘T shall at all times stand for what is right and help to obtain the best for the citizens of Rocky Mount.” Looks Like Yankees Are Getting Upset About Us N. C. Folks Hartford, Conn., March 20 ,APj New England Manufac turers were asked today to raise a $500,000 fund to “organize Southern labor” and protect theii own Northern industries. Chester Bowles, Governor of Connecticut, offered the plan as a protection against what he called “competition from sweat shop operators.” _ He suggested it at the New Eng- land Council’s 94lh |uarterly meeting, which heard wmrds o re assurance for the business world. Bowles said there were signs of Loomfixer In Friendly Contest With Weavers Charles Johnson, loomfixer, de cided on a novel way to increase the quality of cloth produced in his section. Knowing that all mor tals are interested in eating, John son presented the following plan to his weavers. Each time a weaver made a grade IV piece of cloth he was to put a dollar in the kitty. Then at a set date they were to gather for a barbecue and chicken din ner which was to he paid for from funds in the kitty. If the kitty did not contain enough money, then the loomfixer would pay the dif- ierence. Everyone agreed to this plan and at the end of the first week the kitty had grown to $8.00. These weavers were weaving diffi cult (|ualities of cloth and it was hard to get by without any im perfections; but the second week rolled by without a single “rail road track” or “hranchline” (wrong draws). Although the kitty was not showing the price of a supper, Johnson was gratified to know that the weavers in his section were turning out good qua lity cloth. On March 9 they gathered at Josh Bullocks where they enjoyed (Please Turn to Pnjte Two) a growing New England inferior ity complex,” that the section was living too much on past glories. Then he suggested the manu facturers’ associations of the va rious states raise the half-million dollar fund to assist labor unions, particularly the textile workers', “in their efforts to organize South ern labor.” “This is a practical solution,” Bowles said, “that will go a long way toward halting the drain in certain fields of manu facturing away from the Northern states.” —Journal of Commerce. Schell To Address Chamber of Commerce Mr. H. H. Schell, President, Sidney Blumenthal and Co., Inc., will he the speaker at the Forty- fifth Annual Meeting and Banquet of the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce, Monday, April 4, 1949, at 7:00 P. M. at the New Ricks Hotel. Mr. Schell has appeared before numerous business and industrial meetings in the j^ast few months as the speaker following extensive work in Europe on important in ternational conferences dealing with the recovery of that continent. His message will undoubtedly be an aid to understanding the Eu ropean and Russian picture in their true perspective. Mr. Schell’s talk will be broad cast over Stations WEED and WGIM. Employees of the Caro- hiount and Wilson Divisions of Sidney Blumenthal and Co., Inc. are especially invited to listen.
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