Show Carlisle Company Nears Completion Of First Contract OTHER CONTRACTS ALREADY SIGNED WILL VILL CARRY WORK VORK THROUGH SEPTEMBER UNSTEADY LABOR SUPPLY ONLY BIG DRAWBACK The Carlisle Manufacturing Company Company Com Corn pany will complete its first major government contract in the Manti plant about the end of this month according to Mr Carlisle This contract contract contract con con- tract for new blue shirts for the theAir theAir theAir Air Corps is the first one entered on since the clearing out of the trousers left by the Corporation swindle In a plant visit on Tuesday the editor was surprised at the ad advance advance advance ad- ad vance made by the company since his last visit There were many more machines and operators and the piles of blue shirts seemed more numerous as well as much higher Also the north end of the main section of the building is now taken taken tak tak- I en up by a contract for white Navy pants an operation not present on the previous visit About Employed Mr Carlisle told that there are about persons employed at the plant at present and on the day of our visit 27 were absent Being a day after a double holiday Mr Carlisle found it easier to excuse those absent but says absentees have been a detriment to the op operation operation operation op- op of the plant all along He pointed to the type line system in making the shirts and told that two or three women out of any given section might practically practically practically other production The Government has issued priorities priorities priorities to the Carlisle firm so it may get first call on machines steel dies and other items and material material material ma ma- necessary to get out the clothing for the armed forces If only the few cronic stay would keep the importance of the operation in mind and contribute a priority on their time Mr Carlisle Carlisle Carlisle Car Car- lisle believes he would have few complaints Prompt deliveries he says will Continued on last page I I I Carlisle Company Nears Completion Of First Contract Continued from page 1 have a n great grent bearing on the awarding awarding awarding award award- ing of new contracts and prompt deliveries cannot be made if workers workers workers work work- ers let trivial happenings keep them away from the job H He c finished finished finished fin fin- his comments on the workers by stressing that he realized that sickness and pressing matters would keep a certain percentage of the workers aw away y much of the time Will Next Make l Khaki Shirts As the order for Air Corps shirts is nearing completion Mr Carlisle is looking forward to his next work which will be khaki shirts for the Army Anny This next contract will call for the production of about 3 times as many shirts as were done on the one now being completed completed completed com com- and the material used will willbe willbe willbe be heavier Mr Carlisle tells This larger contract may mean the plant will take around workers for fora a successful operation Need More lore Room The more bulky material anc and more numerous items plus the need to expand the floor space used for forthe forthe forthe the pants contract will mean that tha the plant will have to have more room Members of the Armory board were to meet with Mr Carlisle this week to decide about letting the plant use the office space in the front of the building and moving the lunch counters and possibly part of the storage into the Armory Armory Armory Ar Ar- mory section Mr Carlisle says that if this is done arrangements will be ma made e so the High School basketball team can finish its schedule schedule sch dule on the Armory floor Quality Improving Improving- The quality of the work now coming out of the plant is improving ing steadily we were told At the beginning of the operation it took much time to impress the value o of quality on some of the new workers work work- ers and Mr Carlisle frankly ad admits admits admits ad- ad mits that this first contract cos cost him about as much money as ten tei country editors make in a year With another shirt contract on the hook he hopes to make back the money he lost on this beginner in inthe inthe inthe the Manti plant The women in the plant like to stay on the same job day after day and so improve their efficiency Mr Ir Carlisle said Most of them do their jobs well and increase their production of goods steadily Only Three Accidents As this cont contract ct nears a finish the plant reports only three accidents accidents accidents acci acci- dents to workers thus far One was a freak accident and the other two were very rare ones None of the three mishaps was serious IThe The plant now boasts a new au automatic automatic automatic au- au cloth spreader which was laying out layers of white cloth on the cutting tables when we vis vis- It lays the cloth down more evenly than the old operated hand-operated model and has a very ingenious device to grasp the cloth and start the spreader back in the other di direction direction direction di- di at the ends of the table The white cloth was being cut for forthe forthe forthe the Navy pants which now occupy about 50 of the women sewers and inspectors in the plant Operates Die Cutter The plants plant's big die cutter which was not in operation on our last visit was being operated by Gail Alder on Tuesday It cuts neatly through stacks of cloth about three inches high and enables them to use small pieces of cloth which might be impossible to cut with the regular power cutters Mr Carlisles Carlisle's Salt Lake City plant which formerly made many Western shirts is now turning out white parkas for the armer forces To Hate bate much of the office work for the Manti plant has been carried carried car car- ried out in Salt Lake City but Mr Carlisle says that will be changed as soon as they get the front end offices set up Workers in the plant come from 10 Sanpete cities and towns Re Represented Represented Represented Re- Re presented are Manti ManU Ephraim Mt Pleasant Spring City Chester Moroni Moroni Moroni Mor Mor- oni Sterling Mayfield Gunnison and Centerfield If th these se workers will just keep coming to work regularly regularly regularly reg reg- reg- reg allowing only sickness and very urgent problems to keep them off the job and if they will keep trying for quality as well as quantity ty in their work Mr Carlisle feels sure he can work out the problems in his end of the work and can keep on getting good contracts for fot his Manti ManU plant e |