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578 Papers of Robert Gregg Cherry
present-day North Carolina manufacturing. We must include a
study of what we consume that might be produced efficiently
and cheaply in North Carolina. And we need to discover
methods of bringing together the realization of the need and the
realization of the opportunity to fill it.
The second thing is to provide North Carolinians with the re-quired
skills. We are lacking somewhat in this respect, and we
can supply this need only through our own energies and plan-ning.
In the decade ahead we will need more skilled workers
than were ever dreamed of, more technicians, more engineers,
and more specialists in the field of industry. The place to get
these is through our system of education.
The financing of industry and its actual development are a
matter for private endeavor and individual enterprise ; the facil-ities
with which to work are already here.
I can't think of a better example of this trend in a new day
and time in our North Carolina industrial picture than that dem-onstrated
here in the plant to which we pay honor today. The
Orange Furniture Craftsmen, a division of White Furniture
Company of Mebane, is a shining example on our North Carolina
industrial horizon today. Your enterprise here, your perform-ance,
your product, your record of industrial safety—the thing
to which we are paying particular attention today—are a tribute
to the company, the officers of the company, and to every per-son
on the payroll. President Sam White, Vice President S. A.
White, and Superintendent J. P. Privett and the industrial em-ployees
have achieved here, with other accomplishments, an out-standing
record of achievement in the field of industrial safety.
During the war, the United States Department of Labor car-ried
on a program for the conservation of manpower in war in-dustries.
The purpose of this program was the prevention of ac-cidents
and the promotion of safe working conditions, whereby
greater production of vitally needed materials could be achieved.
This program proved very successful.
After the war' was successfully terminated, less emphasis was
placed on industrial safety. This immediately resulted in an
increase of lost time accidents. Realizing this increase in acci-dents
was a threat to speedy recovery and reconversion, the
North Carolina Department of Labor was urged by many indus-trial
leaders within the state to carry on this work as a state
program.
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