I am including just a few articles that may be of interest. Also, I am missing the No. 7 News Cast. If anyone has a copy that I may use, it would be appreciated greatly. I have Vol. 1 # 1-6 and 8 & 9 but none after that. I don't know if any were printed or not. If anyone knows, please let me hear from you.
WHAT WILL YOU CALL IT?
$25 War Bond for a Name!
$25 War Bond for a Name!
The first company news paper Vol.1 No. 1 March 1945
This little paper will print each month news about what goes on with the men and women who are making Lindeman equipment, and those who are in the armed forces. While little in size, and in circulation - less than 300—we hope it will be to everybody at Lindeman the biggest news of every month, because it will concern the part we all have in making Lindeman products, the way we make our living.
The reporters, we hope, will be everybody at Lindeman. By the next issue persons in each department will be named who will undertake to gather items from that department.
Since everyone is to share everyone should have a chance at choosing a name. A $25 war bond will be the prize for the name chosen. A box has been set up where name suggestions may be dropped. All suggestions must be in the box by April 14. Ticket number of winning entry will be posted on the bulletin boards.
Rules are simple. Everyone on the Lindeman payroll on the date of this issue is eligible, except those acting as judges.
The name should be brief not over three word, two may be better.
If the name can suggest the kind of equipment made at Lindeman that is good. It may or may not include the word "Lindeman.”
For instance, there is the "Essco Ladle,'' paper issued by Electric Steel Foundry Co.: There is ''High Gear" by Western Gear: ''Bee & Cee, " issued by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., at Mills B and C:, in Everett.
Judges to select the winning name will he J. G. Lindeman, Curtis Edwards, and Rolfe Whitnall, advertising agent who has helped with Lindeman advertising for many years.
So wind up your think engine and start now. You may put in as many suggestions as you wish all must be in the box by April 14th.
The reporters, we hope, will be everybody at Lindeman. By the next issue persons in each department will be named who will undertake to gather items from that department.
Since everyone is to share everyone should have a chance at choosing a name. A $25 war bond will be the prize for the name chosen. A box has been set up where name suggestions may be dropped. All suggestions must be in the box by April 14. Ticket number of winning entry will be posted on the bulletin boards.
Rules are simple. Everyone on the Lindeman payroll on the date of this issue is eligible, except those acting as judges.
The name should be brief not over three word, two may be better.
If the name can suggest the kind of equipment made at Lindeman that is good. It may or may not include the word "Lindeman.”
For instance, there is the "Essco Ladle,'' paper issued by Electric Steel Foundry Co.: There is ''High Gear" by Western Gear: ''Bee & Cee, " issued by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., at Mills B and C:, in Everett.
Judges to select the winning name will he J. G. Lindeman, Curtis Edwards, and Rolfe Whitnall, advertising agent who has helped with Lindeman advertising for many years.
So wind up your think engine and start now. You may put in as many suggestions as you wish all must be in the box by April 14th.
WAR BONDS AT LINDEMAN
THOUGHT FOUNDRY
This paper, as noted elsewhere in this issue, is intended to get members of the Lindeman organization better acquainted with what we are making, what we intend to make, and, to help everyone to get better acquainted with others in the various departments.
We, who have been with this company since the early years of its life have seen it built up the hard way. The original cash capital was $158. The only other ''capital'' we could put into it was our time and whatever skill and experience we had accumulated. And, I think, we brought one other thing. We all had worked by the day or by the hour. But no matter what we were paid, or how often, we had thought of the job as our own private little business venture. In other words, this job was as much our business and a business within itself as the work of a doctor or lawyer, or any other profession or trade, or, for that matter, the business of a company.
We thought of our jobs that way, and knew that if we didn't take proper care of this little personal business of ours, plan for the future and all that, it would go into ' 'receivership, '' just as a ' 'company' ' will also if it does not watch it's P's and Q's.
Carrying the thought a little further, it becomes evident that for each of us within this organization to properly operate our little individual business the job we must do several things. First, we must watch our ''sales" the sale of our effort and skill to the company, which combines our efforts and skills into products it sells in turn to ultimate consumers.
Next, we must study our possible market for larger sales in the future, to gradually increase our little individual business and thereby increase it's income to us. The sum of our individual little businesses is the companies business.
We believe there are enough individual ideas experiences and skills right here and enough individual ambitions to move forward, to keep Lindeman products going to market in steady and increasing volume tor many years. This little paper is intended to inform everyone in the organization, to promote better understanding of what it is all about, and to try to bring out whatever each individual may contribute to help make our individual business encl. the companies business more successful.
We shall probably ask different persons in the organization to express their own individual thoughts as to how these purposes can be achieved.
--JESS LINDEMAN.
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