Pressure Cooker Company

Pressure Cooker Company Workers Pass Up Vacations
to Put Money in War Bonds

Members of Local No. 6 of the Aluminum Workers of America, employed at the National Pressure Cooker Company, are shown handing over a check for $165,000 in war bond purchases, the largest yet recorded in the county's Second War Loan Drive. The check represents vacation pay, which employees have allotted to war bonds, extra bonds being bought by the company and its employees, and funds from the employees' credit union.

Left to right are Mabel Conrow; Leonard Brink, Union Vice-President; S L. Hagen, County War Finance Committee Chairman; Knute Anderson, Victory Fund Committee Representative; Iris Olson; Gerald McFaul, Union President; and Frank Switzer

Pressure Cooker Employees Receiving Army-Navy "E" Pins

Eight employees of the National Pressure Cooker Company received token Army-Navy "E"' pins from representatives of the Navy Department, during the program held at the auditorium, Wednesday evening.

Lieutenant H. A. Burnell, Naval Advisor for the State of Wisconsin, is shown here (extreme right), pinning the award on Margaret Whelihan, secretary of the firm and veteran woman employee, who served as pin bearer.

Others in the picture (left to right) include: Lieutenant Commander T. E. Brautegan, who represented the Secretary of the Navy; Gerald McFaul, President, CIO, Aluminum Workers of America, Local No. 6, who accepted the pins on behalf of the employees; June Anderson, one of the first women to work in the local factory; Mabel Conrow, veteran employee; Iris Olson, member of the state CIO executive committee; Tom Hoff, oldest employee of the plant; Frank Switzer, active in promoting union-management harmony; Elmer Stanford, former president of the union at the plant; Margaret Whelihan and Lieutenant Burnell.

Principal Speakers at "E" Award Presentation Here

Principal speakers at the presentation of the Army-Navy Production Award to the men and women of the National Pressure Cooker Company at the auditorium, Wednesday evening, are shown with the Burgee Award, given to the Eau Claire firm.

In the picture (left to right): Lewis E. Phillips, President of the company; Colonel Henry J. Keeley, Commanding Officer, Fort Snelling; Lieutenant Commander T. E. Brautegan, Senior Naval Advisor for the Sixth District; A. A. DeBonville, Vice-President of the National Pressure Cooker Company; and Gerald McFaul, President, CIO Aluminum Workers of America, Local No. 6.

National Pressure Cooker Company Publication: September 1943 Volume 1 Number 1

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