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SSHTE> THE ERWIN CHATTER Volume 2 Mr. Marks Given Important Labor Department Post % ■'■'■,s&& feci»L 'ByflHH \ . fl MR. MARKS * COOLS SCHEDULE FOR AUGUST August 3—Liberty at mee. August 10 —Ellis X Roads In dians at Cooleemee. August 17 —Fork at Cooleemee. August 24—Cooleemee at Prov idence. August 31 —Needmore at Cool eemee. Safety Contests End August 31 Both the Inter-Plant and the Inter-Departmental Safety Con tests will end August 31st. At the present time Mill No. 3 is in second place and Finishing No. 3 is in fourth in the Inter-Plant Contest. In the Inter - Departmental Contest in the mill the Warp Room, Warehouse, and Yard are leading and stand to participate in prizes. In the Finishing Plant the Napper Room, Bleachery, and Cloth Room are on top. Remember you are not com peting with other departments, but rather to improve last year's recosd. Thus every department has the same chance to win. Keep August free of accidents and win these contests. INTER-PLANT SAFETY CONTEST Acc. Improvement Hat* Or** Last •it Coat. Y MT No. 4 Bleacherr M IM% Better Plant No. • 74 54% totter Plant No. 1 74 55% B*tter Wo. t Finishing 17 51% totter Plant No. C M li% Woe** Plant No. 5 l«.l 17% Won* Plant No. 4 §4 M% Won* Cloth Hoom-Erwin lil 52% Won* Total all 1.4 17% totter KEEP AUGUST FUSE OF ACCIDENT!! The manager and members of the "Cools" baseball club want to take this opportunity to thank ?heir friends and baseball fans who gave so generously to the support of the Cooleemee "Cools" in their recent drive in Plant No. 3. Each player appreciates your interest and invites you to come out and see them play. To Be Chief Advisor On Safety Work W. G. Marks, Training and Safety Director in the Industrial Relations Department, has re signed from the Company to ac cept a position as chief safety advisor for the Division of Labor Standards in the U. S. Depart ment of Labor. Mr. Marks was just offered this recently and asked to be relieved to take this new and important place with the Federal Government as soon as he could leave his work in proper order. He has been with the Company since August, 1943. He was work ing with the Department of La bor prior to entering private in dustry. While with the Company, he has organized a well-coordinated safety program and helped to in stall a training program for pro duction supervision as well as for other specialized divisions of tex tile personnel. In his new job, Mr. Marks will coordinate and advise in the organization of the safety program carried on by the Labor Department in Washing ton. He has just resigned as chairman of the "off-the-job" safety committee of the Textile Section of the National Safety Council. While in Durham, he was very active in community affairs, and it will be remembered that while he and his family were living in Cooleemee they took an active interest in local activities, par ticularly in helping develop rec reational programs. He has been very interested in horseshoes and has promoted this sport not pnly in areas in which Erwin plants are located, but over the State and Southeast as well. His other recreation interests have been checkers and chess. Mr. Marks first served as ed itor of THE CHATTER, and he has been cooperative in making pictures from time to time for use in the newspaper. Mr. and Mrs. Marks and their children, Betty Ann and Billy, are now at home at 2719 Thir teenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Before leaving the office, the personnel of the £rwin Audito rium in Durham and the mem bers of the Industrial Relations Department presented Mr. Marks with an electric desk clock as a memento of their friendship and best wishes to him in his new job. ATTENDANCE RECORD (Week Ending June IS, 1946) Plant No. 3 90.32 Plant No. 5 89.90 Plant No. 2.... 88.86 Plant No. 6 87.24 Finishing No. 4 - 85.80 Plant No. 4 83.95 Plant No. 1 81.96 This is a good record, but all plants should be 90% or better in attendance. As we fight "The Battle of Production" let each of us be on the job every day! COOLEEMEE, N. C., AUGUST, 1946 I CERTIFICATE OF SAFETY ACHIEVEMENT CERTIFICATE OF SAFETY /MI>iiEVEM£NT ff »• fctuwMniifiiWi «r th* **vvm ««»«*« mmt% *» m • -n# nt» v >*>»«» ® | Civ f f I B: »»*«»«ni'«( Mm*?**. >* «*•*• ««■(««•* »• HI IJ. MliMi n J " r "Ir'" ' mimuim Mwmmtß ';^p ■DTUM >« mwia»»»»»V,H! wi ,««•»«MSW; WWW mww *»■ -li'Tiilt i iiiinm Hiß» anf m ini ' illfi inr '"lit if ll' li'tfl'l' >•" I «>!«.!. I >M»k «W •- |jj Softball Teams In Full Swing Other Activities Being Planned Four softball teams have been organized in the various depart ments of Plant No. 3 and are now competing with each other for the plant championship and the traditional barbecue dinner gu T en the winning team. Mr. Ralph Sinclair, teacher and coach here next year, is directing the play. He is also at present working on plans for other ac tivities, including tennis, shuffle board and horseshoes and is as sisting Mrs. Isley on Park Hill. Everyone is interested in recre ation of some sort. Come out and play as often as possible. mm I^Hi RALPH SINCLAIR Erwin Cotton Mills Lost $47,000 To Help Cooleemee Bank Depositors Nothing was said about it at the time, but now that the affairs of the Bank of Cooleemee have been practically liquidated and closed up, The Cooleemee Jour nal has learned that The Erwin Cotton Mills Company put up and guaranteed $109,000.00 dur ing the depression when the banks were closing, in order to save the Bank of Cooleemee. The Erwin Mills felt that it was worth the risk to save the de positors and the community all of the griefs and disturbing in fluence that the closing of the bank would have brought about Mill officials have not given out Safety Committees Praised By Vice-President Harris RECREATION AND COMMUNITY NEWS The most popular game on the playground this summer is ten nis. The eight and ten year olds are learning to play. The Girl Scouts have the court three aft ernoons a week, and the teen-age boys two afternoons. Jack Riddle's new baseball teams which he organized on the playground have played two games with Farmington and won both games. They have mora games scheduled. Fourteen Girl Scouts went on a camping trip and report a fine time. They camped on the Craw ford farm again this year. Chap erones were Mrs. C. W. Shepherd and Ethel Spry. The Library has the following new books: Keyes, THE RIVER ROAD Howard, BEFORE THE SUN GOES DOWN Woods, PREPARING THE .WAY Yerby, THS FOXES OF HAR ROW Porcelain, THE CRIMSON CAT MURDERS Michel, THE PSYCHIATRIC MURDERS Smith, BECAUSE OF MY LOVE Houston, THE GREAT PROM ISE Chase, I LOVE MISS TILLI BEAN Mac Donald, THE EGG AND I Wakeman, THE HUCKSTERS Bridge, SINGING WATERS details in this generous act of the Company, but it has been learned that the Company recov ered more than half of the money it put up from the assets of the Bank of Cooleemee and had a loss, after the closing of the Bank of Cooleemee's affairs, of approximately $47,000.00. The Erwin Mills, after coming to the rescue of the. Bank of Cooleemee, then urged the Dur ham Bank and Trust Company to open a branch at Cooleemee, which it established and which has been serving the community efficiently ever since.—The Cool eemee Journal. 1 C. R. Harris, Vice-President of the Company, in a recent inter view stated that he felt the serv ice of employees on safety com mittees together with their su pervisors, who in most instances act as chairmen of the commit tee, was one of the greatest single factors in achieving accident free-work records. "I am sure," Mr. Harris stated, "that any em ployee serving on one of these committees realizes that manage ment appreciates their efforts in this important work and knows that they, too, feel a definite sense of responsibility in aiding their fellow employees to avoid accidents." Too often employee safety com mittee members take their job for granted, not realizing that when selected for service on the com mittees they are placed in a posi tion of leaders in safety to do a most important job within their own departments. When an em ployee is selected to serve on a safety committee meeting, his supervisor is in effect asking him to give a little more serious con sideration to remove any hazards that might be present and to try and convince other employees that safety means only the appli cation of common sense. Those employees who are not serving on safety committees should commend safety commit tee members for a sincere desire to promote their fellow-workers' welfare. A safety committee, while it may not seem important, is nevertheless the most impor tant part of our program. It is an honor to serve on a safety committee and those who are now serving gladly, do so even though at times they might be slightly inconvenienced in mak ing an inspection or attending a meeting. Let's give credit where credit is due. Your safety committee member deserves a vote of thanks and should YOU be asked to serve, it is an opportunity that every employee should be anxi oUs to have. THE CHATTER staff is anxious that each issue at THE CHAT TER reach all men from Coolee mee still hi service. Give the ad dress to your department reporter or to the Employment Office and THE CHATTER will be mailed to them. No. 3
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