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FINE RAPER AND FILM GROUF
Vol. XXII, No. 3
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The Bicentennial spirit is every
where. This message is stamped on
crates of machine wire received by
Ecusta from Lindsay Wires in Cleve
land.
THIRD-YEAR WAGE
HIKE GIVEN OKAY
A 10 per cent wage increase went
into effect July 5 for approximately
1,900 hourly workers in the Pisgah
Forest plants of the Ecusta Paper
Division, Film Division and service
units, following Company-Union
agreement on the wage adjustment
for the third year of the contract.
The wage adjustment was the only
item open for negotiation by the
Company and Local 1971 United
Paperworkers International. The
Company and the Union had agreed
to begin negotiations at the earliest
opportunity in 1976 provided by the
agreement. The Company offer was
presented by the Union to the mem
bership July 20 and was approved
in balloting July 23.
The 10 per cent wage increase
provided for a minimum of 50 cents
an hour and was made retroactive
to July.
Photographs of the July 23 elec
tion and the signing of the agree
ment are on inside pages.
SERVICE PHOTOS
The photo-feature of employees in
service will be continued through
1976. Entries for the fourth quarter
will be welcomed.
COMMISSIONERS EXPRESS APPRECIATION
William M. Ives, chairman of the Transylvania Board of County Commis
sioners, wrote the following comments September 30, 1976:
The Board of Commissioners wishes to express their deep appreciation to
the Olin Corporation for their generosity in allowing the Transylvania County
Bicentennial Fair to use Camp Straus. As you surely know, the availability of
a site had a great deal to do with the tremendous success of the Fair.
We also wish to express our thanks to Olin for the gift of the picture showing
the many phases of your operation in Transylvania County. It has been hung
in the Fisher Administration Building where it will be seen by all who visit
the offices of the County Commission.
As this term of office for the Commissioners comes to a close, please express
our thanks to all the staff and employees of Olin for the wonderful coopera
tive spirit with which we have been helped in tackling community problems.
We are also quite proud of the great effort and huge sums of money that have
been spent to control pollution in recent years. All of this makes Olin a truly
fine industry to have in our county.
BALDWIN THANKS ALL WHO WORKED
TO MAKE BICENTENNIAL A SUCCESS
Appreciation for work done by
all Olin personnel toward the suc
cess of the Transylvania County
Bicentennial celebration was ex
pressed in a letter from Group
President Garza Baldwin, Jr., to
Bob Robinson and Ray Israel. The
letter follows:
Dear Ray and Bob:
I hope you have had a chance to
relax after your recent highly suc
cessful project in behalf of the com
munity. Your leadership roles in the
Transylvania County Bicentennial
celebration clearly deserve high
commendation.
I realize that you had a great amount
of assistance from a lot of people
and that many other Olin employees
made substantial contributions to
theeffort. In fact there were so many
involved that naming individuals
other than yourselves would suffer
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inevitably from the unintentional
omission of some. I would ask,
therefore, that you convey to others
my appreciation and that of our en
tire organization because of the es
sential part they played in the Tran
sylvania Bicentennial celebration.
In my judgment, the celebration
was an unqualified success. Months
of planning preceded the actual
celebration activities and continued
through the concluding ceremonies.
As I recall, it was last November
when it was suggested that Camp
Straus be considered among other
alternatives as the location for the
fair. I know that this was preceded
by much thought and planning by
you, Bob, as co-chairman of the Fest
ival, and by you, Ray, as chairman
of the Fair Council. The fair brought
the months-long Bicentennial cele-
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