Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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page 10 All 01 To Mat Mr* ^ 4-Mark Daven Lydia Clo Mary Lyons Office H *x Ik ^Px _ T.0"1 Pt *~/ii n Berry Templeton Lydia Shop ' . *** xSherri Moore Bailey Weavini How Ir In the last 10 years, 500,000 j industry have disappeared. Thost from countries that pay very low The average hourly-paid persoi makes far more money in one Chinese textile employee make; hourly-paid Clinton person make; Korean Textile employee makes The United States textile ind world. But there's no way to con tries that have such low wages. Why are low-wage textile and jobs in the United States? Bee billions of dollars worth of forei into this country each year?whil of ways to keep our textile proc countries have a flat ban again; I Us Ari te Supe Hp HZ K ft t & r ?/; )\ Pearl James No. 1 Spinning rWyatt Spinning I ; John Smith Security nports obs in the U.S. textile and apparel i jobs have been stolen by imports wages. t working in a Clinton textile plant eight-hour day than the average 5 in a whole month. The average > more in one hour than the average in a full eight-hour day. lustTy is the most efficient in the ipete on an equal basis with counapparel products stealing so many ause the U.S. government allows gn-made textile products to come le many other nations use a long list Jucts out of their countries. Some ?t any textile imports. b Working' ?rior Quality Ozzie Johnson I No. 2 Warehouse R&E1 Floyd Moore Lydia Weaving r^| Janie Thompson y^m^m vp No. 1 Weaving rndy Ellis ccountina /T^fl H it* Cora Owens Frank McCarson No. 2 Office Bailey Spinning Affect You Some people in the United States, including people ii government, make a lot of noise about "free trade." Th? roadblock to keep foreign-made goods from coming into tf is "protectionism." For some strange reason, they don't the "protectionism" that other countries practice to keep ican-made products. These people want our markets to I the world, while markets in many other countries are cli sorts of clever ways. They're playing world politics with jobs. wnai can you ao aDOui nr (1) Look for the labels on all the textile and apparel pr buy. Don't buy anything that isn't made in the United Stat store manager you want American-made products. Tell v to do the same. (2) Write your Congressman and tell him you want some to reduce the flood of imports that are stealing Ameria (3) Do your best to make the best possible product. Together i Products IL h /\ Annie McGee No. 1 Weaving Luke Smith ^1 Bailey Dixon, Jr. Courier ^Hr /-?^B Ernestine Brown No. 1 Spinning athleen Sinclair Lydia Cloth n our ey say any I i^H out Amer- a ^ a A ^ ^ J be open to American 1 t oducts you I our /^\^M