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UNIROYAL CHEM-TEXTS
Vol. 3, 1969 PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL No. 8
United Givers Goal $22,000. “Give Where You Work” Vital To Drive’s Success.
Who Benefits? All of us benefit in some way, whether residents of Naugatuck, Beacon Falls or not. The Agencies provide services to most surrounding towns in which employees live. Their excellent work affects us, our families or friends in some manner. Some Agencies like the U.S.O., Salvation Army, United Cerebral Palsy and the Red Cross are national in their service. Veterans and families with sons or daughters in the U.S. Armed Forces know what the U.S.O. has done in every part of the world to bring “home and welcome” to a lonely serviceman in Vietnam, Germany, Thailand, or some far-from-home base in the U.S.
Tax Deductible All contributions to the United Givers are tax deductible and can be deducted from your income tax.
The Agencies Agencies participating in the United Givers and the Red Cross, Child Guidance Clinic, Child Welfare, New Haven, Cheshire, Middlebury, Wolcott, Watertown, Woodbury or other towns, the success of every United Givers drive depends on “giving where you work”. This is the basic policy of the United Givers and the only way that any community can attain its goal to meet the needs of the Agencies.
Payroll Deduction The most convenient way to contribute is through the payroll deduction plan. Your pledge will be deducted from your paycheck on a regular basis. Deductions will start January 1, 1970 and continue through the year. The 16 Agencies in the Fund desperately need the help to not only continue their work but to improve facilities and services to people. If every employee contributes through the payroll deduction plan, the success of this year’s drive will be achieved only by those who “Give Where You Work”. Whether an employee lives in Naugatuck, Beacon Falls or not, The Agencies provide services to most surrounding towns in which employees live. Their excellent work affects us, our families or friends in some manner.
How Much? Is one hour’s pay too much? It sounds high but most employees could contribute this amount. With the highest standard of living in the world – 2.3 cars per family, good incomes, color T.V. a boat – most of us are fortunate to enjoy the good things of life. Your one hour’s pay a month can work wonders in giving some happiness to the many people around us who desperately need help. If your pocketbook finds this amount too much, you can reduce it accordingly to what your heart can afford.
“GIVE WHERE YOU WORK”
Uniroyal Pays 20% Increase In Benefits
Starting August 1, 1969, Uniroyal absorbed the 20% increase in the Hospitalization, Surgical and In-Hospital medical benefits. This insurance coverage now averages $30.37 a month for each eligible employee, all of which is paid for by the company. For 12 months this benefit amounted to $364.44, and the employees had to pay nothing themselves and his family.
Who can refuse to help others who need our help today when tomorrow we or someone in our family may need help?
Eric Johnson of Synthetic Production was named to head the United Givers annual drive conducted at the Naugatuck location to support the many charitable, social, and youth activities of the 16 Agencies in the Fund. The drive started on October 6. The once-a-year campaign to raise $22,000 has always resulted in a generous response from Uniroyal Chemical people, as evidenced in last year’s drive in which close to 70% of the employees contributed, topping the goal with a 102% performance.
Give Where You Work
The success of this year’s drive will be achieved only by those employees “Give Where You Work”. Whether an employee lives in Naugatuck, Beacon Falls or not, The Agencies provide services to most surrounding towns in which employees live. Their excellent work affects us, our families or friends in some manner.
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FROM THE FACTORY MANAGER
DEAR FELLOW EMPLOYEES:
October again brings us each the opportunity to invest in the sixteen agencies supported by the United Givers of Naugatuck and Beacon Falls. Each of these agencies, working in essential health, welfare and educational activities, makes our community a better place to live for our families and our friends.
Beyond this, many of the agencies have an outreach of service beyond our borders to neighboring towns and to the nation.
We at Uniroyal Chemical have, in each year’s campaign, shown a greater willingness to give to these causes. Yet, our average gift per employee last year was something less than $13.00 per year for all of these needs. Our average is this low because one-third of us did not give last year and some half of us gave a cash donation rather than spreading our giving by utilizing the payroll deduction plan.
When the canvas comes to us this year, let’s all give something and let’s all pledge on payroll deductions. I think we’ll all be pleasantly surprised when the results are in.
Sincerely,
John D. Evans
Three Named Chairmen For Borough’s United Givers Drive
Over the years, the Naugatuck plant has participated in community activities by sponsoring the Junior Achievement, Naugatuck High School Career Observation Program, the Explorers, the United Givers, and other community service programs.
For its campaign drive this year, the United Givers of Naugatuck and Beacon Falls named Ron Mitchinson, Industrial Relations Manager, as Chairman of the Corporate division and Fred Winsch, Labor Relations Manager, as Chairman of the Commercial group.
The annual United Givers drive is one of the major events in the community to support the charitable, social and youth work of the 16 Agencies in the campaign. This year’s goal for the campaign is $145,000 to help continue and improve the worthwhile activities of the participating groups.
Dr. Jelley New Plant Doctor
Dr. Edward Jelley accepted the position of plant physician replacing Dr. Elser. Dr. Jelley, a prominent physician with offices in Naugatuck, will be available at the Chemical Plant hospital from 8:30 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. and at the Synthetic Plant hospital from 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M., Monday through Friday, except holidays.
The Chemical and Synthetic plant nurses, Adeline Farrar, R.N. and Ann McAllister, R.N., are on duty from 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. The Chemical nurse is also on duty Saturday mornings, 8:00 A.M. to 12 Noon.
To prevent cuts, bruises or dust in the eye from becoming serious injuries, employees should see the plant nurse immediately and have the problem taken care of as a preventive measure against further complications.
In case of an accident or injury during the second or third shift, the night general foreman should be contacted by calling the plant watchman on EXT. 670 who will contact the general foreman by radio for immediate attention.
Dividend Declared
Uniroyal declared a dividend of 17½ cents a share on its common stock. The dividend was payable September 25 to stockholders of record on August 25.
A dividend of $2 a share on the 8 percent first preferred stock was also declared and payable September 25 to stockholders of record on August 25.
“GIVE WHERE YOU WORK”
Employee Snow
Tire Sale On
The special employee snow tire sale runs for two months until Nov. 28. On sale are the Glas-Belt Snowplow, Glas-Belt Winter Patrol, Snowplow, and the Winter Patrol.
Purchases may be made at Uniroyal Home and Auto Centers and Uniroyal Tire Dealers.
Slips can be obtained from Industrial Relations: Ann McAllister, Synthetic plant nurse; Luella Anderson TSSC; and Diana Strollo, EMIC.
New Staff
For Chemical
Control Center
New assignments were made to the Chemical Production Control Center which was recently established. Heading the new system is Walt Frankenberger, and working as Technical Assistant is Clark Mackmin.
Tom Dowling will coordinate mechanical work in the chemical plant.
Matt Mathewson will work on scheduling, raw materials and quality control. Also assigned to the Center, Mildred Entel will handle the clerical responsibilities.
As a result of the new staff assignments, several changes were made in the plant. John Honeyeski assumes responsibility for all blizacles operations. Tom Engle takes over as Foreman in blizacle operations. Lloyd McCoy assumes charge of Bldg. 100. Earl Roller becomes Foreman of the Central Finishing Dept. Bob Conlin was made Foreman of Bldg. 88 and Tom Carey assumes the position of Production Clerk.
Fathers-Sons
See Amazing
Mets Play
The photo below shows some of the eighty-three who attended the Mets-Dodgers baseball game at Shea Stadium on Saturday, August 23. The Father-Son baseball trip sponsored by the Foremen’s Club was a big success and, according to Lou Kaiser, the Club’s president, the inspiration that started the drive to first place in the National League pennant race.
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Synthetic’s “A” Crew Hits 9 Batches Daily
$820 Awarded For Suggestions
By W. Kirkendall
Ed. Semaskevich of the Chemical Mechanical department received a total of $200 for two suggestions he submitted recently. One idea which reduced the number of belts required on equipment and maintenance costs brought Ed. $150. His other idea, worth $50, reduced the amount of wear on gears and helped save the Company money on maintenance. By utilizing his long experience as a mechanic and applying it to his work Ed obtained a high cash award for his interest in helping the plant’s operations.
Other high awards went to Carmine Iannuzzi, $115; Harry Hodick, $65; John Hoey, $60; J. DaSilva, $52.50; R. Rubick, $45; Ed Atwood, $40; John Grosso, $37.50; and Orlando Gialinelli, $30.
Cash awards for their suggestions were also received by Walter Campbell, Lyle Bassomete, Frank Commendatore, Mike Yuchnysk, John Sicolla, Dom Persutti, John Dudo, John Slasenski, Art Mencio, and John Weaver.
Total cash awards amounted to $820. Of the 88 persons who submitted suggestions, 39 received cash awards and 6 received honorable mentions, so that one out of every two employees submitting suggestions received an award for their ideas to improve the plant’s efficiency, reduce costs, improve production and provide safer working conditions.
Explorers Start New Season
By Bob Smith
West Point, Sikorsky Aircraft and M.I.T. are just some of the exciting trips that the Explorers made during the year, along with ski trips in the winter months.
The Explorers meet regularly on Monday evenings at the TSSC building and conduct science projects under the supervision of Chemical plant personnel. To join the group a boy must be 14 years old, in the 9th grade or higher, or 15 years old regardless of grade.
Sponsored by the Chemical plant, the Explorers provide students the opportunity to explore the many different types of careers available in science, chemistry and industry.
If your son or a friend is interested in joining the Explorers, contact Bob Smith, EXT. 674.
Appointments Announced
Kirk Kirkendall named Foreman of Janitorial Services.
Milt Makowski made Employment Manager for plant personnel.
Neil Melow, recently discharged from the Armed Forces, returns as Industrial Relations Supervisor.
Al Meillener joined the Agricultural Chemical Sales Department.
Bob McCoy appointed Group Leader, Colloids Product Development group.
H.T. Dave assumes duties of Chief Process Engineer at Synthetic rubber plant.
Ben Smith named Senior Research Scientist with special assignments in the Colloids Product Development group.
Ray Frank assumes the duties of Acting Plant Traffic Manager.
What Do You Want To Know
CHEM-TEXTS is printed to keep you and your family informed on plant activities, benefits, safety and other information on what is happening in the plant and Uniroyal.
To make CHEM-TEXTS interesting and informative to you, it would be helpful to the editor if you submitted your suggestions on what you would like to know.
Send your suggestions to the Editor, CHEM-TEXTS, they will help make it a better newspaper.
All employees are eligible to submit suggestions. Suggestion blanks are available throughout the plant.
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New “Idea Plan” Offers $1000 Cash Awards
830,000 Hours: Open House Held For Retirees
No Accidents
By Bob Shortt
The plant almost reached the magic 1,000,000 man-hours worked without a lost-time accident. During July and August, no lost-time ac-cidents occurred. However, on September 6, after reaching 830,084 man-hours, an employee slipped from a ladder and fell back-wards into a ditch, fracturing his forearm.
As of August 31 there were 3 less lost-time ac-cidents for the same period in 1968, a slight improvement. There was a decrease of 16 serious injuries for the same period.
Whether at work, home, or on the road, safety is your personal responsibility. Your unsafe act may result in a serious injury to a fellow em-ployee.
The irony of safety is that the person responsible for the accident, often escapes in-jury.
As the paper went to press another lost-time accident was reported on September 11, when a driver stopped to give a ride to an employee walking to work. The station wagon was hit in the rear and the driver suffered from a whip-lash, loosing several days of work.
Housekeeping Prevents Fires
The week with October 9 is the day of the Great Chicago Fire – has been set aside as Fire Prevention Week to focus attention on the tra-gic loss of lives and families from fire. Starting October 6, the plant will hold a week-long series of fire drills, tours and demonstrations on the proper action to take in case of a plant fire and the safety measures to prevent them.
A major cause of fire in the plant is poor housekeeping and only the alertness of safety-minded employees and the quick response of the fire department to alarms has prevented serious damage.
Good housekeeping in your area makes it safer to work in and certainly more enjoyable, as well as a major contribution in fire preven-tion.
Fire Prevention in our plant is a 52 week a year oper-ation and we feel sure that employees realize this and make it a year-round practice.
For many years, Uniroyal Chemical has operated a Sug-gestion System for employees to submit original ideas and receive cash awards for them. To encourage employees to participate more fully in the plan, and to reward them more for their originality and experience, Uniroyal has in-stituted a new “Idea Plan.”
The Company has raised the minimum award from $15 to $25 and from $15 to $1,000, the local plant level to $1,000. If an idea is worth more, it will be submitted to a man-agement committee for con-sideration for an additional award.
The new Plan will cut out the red tape and eliminate the long delays before a sug-gestion is acted upon. Em-ployees will be informed as quickly as possible whether their ideas have been ac-cepted or rejected.
For effective and im-mediate handling of sub-mitted ideas, Larry Koth, Industrial Engineering Man-ager, has been designated the plant’s “Idea Plan” Ad-ministrator. Each depart-ment will have an idea coordinator.
Department coordinators selected so far are: Lou Coscia, Research and Development; Larry Mambrlno, Control; Pat Petti, Purchasing; Sam Git-lette, Chemical Production; and Mitt Makoski, Industrial Re-lations; Ernst Krauss, Engin-eering; Bill Albahis, Materi-als.
Employees will be kept fully informed on the details of the new Plan as it is im-plemented. Now’s the time to start thinking and let us know your ideas on work methods, equipment or supplies, cus-tomer service, product quality, new products, safety, cost reduction, production in-crease, shipping, packaging and many others.
The new Uniroyal Idea Plan provides every employee the opportunity to increase their earnings, simply by jot-ting down and submitting the hundreds of ideas in his head. $1,000 … and even more is worth a try.
Ed Weaving, plant protection supervisor, shows how a gasoline tire can be put out.
After a tour of the Reclaim plant, retirees are greeted by R. Mitchinson, Industrial Relations Manager. In front, left to right are: N. Valtey, W. Hayes, R. Finsel, J. Stayas and W. Mitchinson. In back are, left to right: W. Maciokas, G. Wooley, C. Ward, G. Legault and T. Basile.
150 retired employees at-tended the “Open House” which included tours of the Chemical, Reclaim and Syn-thetic plants renewed friend-ships, and lunches at the Syn-thetic cafeteria.
Noteworthy to the retirees were the many improvements to the plant during the past few years: the new front en-trance, the modernization of the Reclaim plant, the new Control Center and other building improvements.
Several commented on the courtesy of the Foremen and Supervisors who conducted the tours and the plant driv-ers who provided rides.
Fred Wintsch and Mitt Makoski were in charge of the program. Molly Cobbol and Marion Huff served as recep-tionists.
PUBLISHED BY THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT UNIROYAL CHEMICAL, NAUGATUCK, CONN. 06770
EDITOR: William H. LeLavie
UNIROYAL Chemical Naugatuck, Connecticut 06770
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