The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-24

OF employees
IS REWARDED.
Free Life Insurance is Given by
the Travis Glass Company
to EMPLOYEES.

day, Thursday. carried with IT. an an
nounccmcnt as follows:
Mr.. J. r. Jones.
Employee Of Travis Glass Co.
Dear Sir:
40 doubt you have grown weary Of
hearing about efficiency team work
etc. but that largely because those are
the most misused words in business
today; but listen:
"a real goc,. working factory organ
ization neither starts nor stops with
nimble brains-it requires that and
more.
Our 25S trained workers are simply
one Happy Dutch Family, enjoying
the simple life to the full-they are
big eaters, strong lovers. devoted en-
ployees. 1t is a pleasure to see the
Intelligence and the enthusiasm with
which they cooperate with the man
aEement in one constant common effort
to turn out more milk bottles and bet
ter milk bottles.
las tangible evidence of our appreci-
alton for your loyalty 10 this company.
We have instructed the Equitable Life
insurance Society or the United States
10 deliver to you, Cprovided you have
been worker with us for continuous
period OF six months or moreJ, a Ger
titicate of insurance in the sum of $500
>
and payable to beneficiary to be named
by you. Please fill out the incloscd
blank and return same 10 this Office
And now we want to extend to you
the seasons greetings and to express
the wish that you may continue to be
prosperous and happy.
yours very truly,
TRAVIS GLASS COMPANY,
(Sfgncd( III. Il. TRAVIS,
President"
1t is needless to say that this insur-
anCe was highly appreciated by the
employees. 1t is difficult for glass
house workers TO obtain regular in
surance and in addition many of those
included in this group have individual
impairments that might cause life
Insurance company to hesitate in issu-
ing individual insurance.
While this innovation on the part
Of the Travis Glass Company comes at
Yuletide. and is very opportune as an
expression of the spirit of the season,
it is more in the way of recompense
for efficient service and loyal cooper
alton on the part of those workers in
cluded in the group insured.
Progressive innovations, abreast. il
not ahead of the times, have in the
past been adopted by the head of this
concern, that were calculated to i'm
prove the conditions under which the
men We're working, in order that they
could give to the Travis Glass Com
.pany, in each and every case, the SER
vice of an expert, rather than to per-
form the duties of a mechanical cog
in an inhuman machine. The human
interest which Mr.. Travis has shown
in his men, and this insurance feature
is the climax of a series Of such dem
constructions; has resulted in attracting
to his plants an efficient and loyal body
of co-workers. Not unlike the tradi-
tional Mouse trap" the Travis
Extra Strong milk bottle has been so
perfected that orders stream in from
all parts of the world, and these bottles
are in use in every civilized country.
An important factor in this success
has been the well nigh perfect eftic-
tency OF each man involved in the pro
duction and shipping of the product.
Experienced and accurate mould max
ers finish mould that produces a
seamless and uniform quantity bottle;
expert mixers and glass men scrutfnize
the quality and condition of glass and
operate the automatic bottle blowing
machines; the boys and men in the
finishing and shipping departments
work with an enthusiastic personal in
terest; all these features have helped
LIZ 1 ltAFA6 company W ClSilG u WIZ ~
wide demand for their product.
In assuming the burden Of this
enormous amount OF insurance, Mr..
Travis demonstrates the fact that an
appreciative employer is not unaware
of the efficiency and loyalty Of each
employee
n IN interview Mr.. Travis said:
We cannot attribute our success
to the superiority of any single de-
..,.
we do claim that the high degree OF
efficiency and loyalty existing in our
plants at Clarksburg. Cedar Grove
and Weston. have enabled us to pro-
duce an article, which 1 do not hest
'nte to saw. has attained its enormous
demand pure on merit. Ny object in
delivering these policies was to im-
press upon our co-workerS my APP
probation Of efficiency and loyalty OF
those enjoying the benefits of this
plan. do not want to be understood
as phIlanthropist, but have taken
this action after mature deliberation
and arriving at the conclusion that
could AFFORD to assume the burden
| OF this insurance cost, for deserving
| In order to impress upon their minds
| that am not uno bServant of the vel
fare of meritorious employees. and
| hope by this method to show my ap-
/ probation OF their interest IN oul
business, by extending benefits tc
I their mothers or families in event Of
\ their DEATH"
/ The human interest manifested by
this action on the part of a pro
i gressiye manufacturer. makes his fac.
tory attractive to the man that ha:
skilled labor to sell. There is nc
doubt that a well ventilated and wei
\ lighted factory. convenient arrange
ments, and a human interest from the
boss" go along way toward making
the life of any worker more wortl
living. The Gact that Mr.. Travis ha!
extended his human interest beyond
the gates of his factories and provides
benefits to his men, that relieve t
an extent. the dire situation that en-
tiers the home OF a mother or wife
when the grim reaper CLEANS son o
q father. can hardly be excelled as
method of demonstrating his appre
citation of those meritorious qualitte