[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Star
Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 79, no. 133, p. 24, col. 1-2
Red Feather
Industry Arm
Is Organized
Community Chest Industrial Employes Division completed its organization Wednesday in a luncheon meeting with division chairmen and Walter C. Burt, general campaign chairman, at the YMCA.
Ed Spence, Kimble Glass Company plant manager, is head of the division’s manufacturing section. Section co-chairmen are J. Ed Dickson, AFL member employed at Kimble Glass, and John Wells, CIO Industrial Union Council representative and Warner Gear employe.
Team captains in the manufacturing section are Charles Yeo, Warner Gear; Kenneth May, Warner Machine Products; Ed Langas, Kimble Glass Company, and Harold Bush of Ball Brothers Company.
The wholesale, retail service and construction section is headed by W. F. Dearborn of Warner Machine Products with Leland Stiff, CIO Industrial Union Council president, and Harold Martin, AFL representative, as co-chairmen. Stiff works at Ontario Manufacturing Company and Martin is a U.S. postal worker.
Team captains in this section are Robert Stough of Tarbet Trucking Company; John Judkins, Fisher Motor Company; Fred Covalt Jr., Covalt Dairy; Paul Wearly of Wearly Monuments; Orville Odle of Odle Paint and Decorating Company and Bob Wine of Kirby-Wood Lumber Company.
Spence pointed out at the luncheon that each team captain will be responsible for enlisting a firm chairman in each of the plants or companies on his list. This firm chairman will be responsible for Community Chest solicitation of employes within his own plant and will be a member of the team captain’s organization.
"Wherever possible, and we hope it is possible in every case", Spence said, "each captain and each firm chairman should choose, where appropriate, a co-captain to help from the ranks of organized labor.
"We are fortunate this year for the first time to have members of the labor unions actively related in the planning of our Chest campaign. We need their help to make this campaign a success."
The Industrial Division is shooting for a goal of $89,000. In last year’s campaign the division brought in $67,837.