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2 CLoli -fr??i ~ Published m jbT * : for employe If I ** and Lydia | T~J Clinton, S. I = direction 01 v. k # ^ .w Crocker, In Member of South _ Atlantic Council of lions Industrial Kdltors Calvin Cooper E. C. Huffstetler Truman Owens The publishers of The items of interest from to your department person A Day to b< November 8?election day those days history will long milestone in the effort of th* mocracy in the world. Democracy lives only wh' nourishing it with their inte States will continue to be gre; willing to take an active part otherwise expressing themseh do the best job. Voting has been called a pt a service. It is all of these thii of stewardship to humanity. Make certain YOU arc ar November 8. lint DaiI ivii nvu pi vanau If you have a youngster a make the sacrifices necessar college education, then sugg< advice of Labor Secretary Mil Secretary Mitchell lecent high school to earn money en< making a $60,000 mistake. He said the lifetime earn: are estimated to average $1 $243,000 and a college gradual "This means the value of grade school education in a and that of a college educatioi $100,000," Mr. Mitchell said. "The practicality of drop] enough money to buy a hotfinancial miscalculation in th Good W Why should any of us, all < manship? Is the reason prim, on our jobs that we turn ou because we have a certain ai us to carry on comparably w it the knowing that if we do degree to the requirements ( lose our jobs? All three of the above re extent. But surely none or reason why we are intcrestet in the plants, in the offices, < leisure hours away from the j the three reasons listed abo motive forces behind our dai the real joy of work. For the real joy of work c in#, from a feeling, that we that we have given something work we have done during our own inner worth, that \ character on the task at hanc work in a spirit of this kind, and just something we have physical bodies- their necess Not many of us are privil results of which will endure time. Only such craftsmen sculptors can hope to see the ravages of time. And yet all the same spirit as these great then we can find an amen in ( to good workmanship: "There is a touch of imi workmanship. The man who die, but his work lives on to 1 wno nave ine ^'iii 01 aiscernrr man writes his own epitaph his work endures, he is rem( gotten. Perfection is the aim < less suffices." onthly by and r es of Clinton f Cotton Mills, L^rJfjCa^T' C., under the f Claude A. dustrial Relat-?: Member of American Director. Association of Industrial Kdltors Editor Staff Artist Photographer Clothmaker will welcome its readers. Turn them in tal rpnnrtors nr tn thp nel office. e Remembered ?already appears to be one of remember. It will be a giant e? United States to preserve deen the people are interested in rest and attention. The United at only as long as her people are in the government by voting and ,'es for the men they believe will ivilege, an obligation, a duty and igs and more. It is an expression nong those who are counted on ile?Price $60,000 it home who seems unwilling to y to obtain a high school or a ?st to him that he consider the tchell. Iv stated that a boy who quits nigh to buy a hot-rod car may be ings of a grade school graduate .79,000. a high school graduate :e $343,000. a high school education over a lifetime is estimated at $64,000, ri over a high school education at ping out of high school to earn rod, say, can be called a major e neighborhood of $60,000." orkmanship 3f us, be interested in good workarilv because it is expected of us t good work? Is another reason nount of self-respect that causes ell at our Anrl finolKr ic? not measure up in a reasonable )f the job load, we are liable to asons may be valid to a certain all of them comprise the main 1 in good workmanship, whether or in our own homes during our obs. Or, let us put it this way: if ve, any or all of them are the ly efforts,?then we are missing omes from within?from a knowhave put our best into the job, j of ourselves to the job. that the the day represents something of Ve have left the imnrint of our I. Unless we enter into the clay's the job is liable to be drudgery, to do to earn a living for our ities and their desires, leged to be engaged in work the for any considerable length of as the musicians, the poets, the fruit of their work withstand the of us are privileged to work in ones of the ages. If we so work, >ur hearts to the following tribute mortality about a piece of good makes a lovely thing must surely )e praised and cherished bv those icnt and appreciation. The craftson everything he touches. While ?mbered even if his name is forof the good workman and nothing THE CLOTHMAKER Pride in the Job Let's talk about something that, off hand, might not seem to have much to do with safety. It's about the pride each of us should take in his workplace in his job. in the tools and equipment he uses on the job. We'll try to show you why a little sound pride in these things helps your safety, helps keep you from getting hurt. In the first place, no one can take pride in anything that isn't pretty good. If it isn't good, he's more or less asnameu 01 11. II it s just fair, he may figure he can get by with it but he won't be proud of it. It's good to have something to be proud of ? justifiably proud, we mean, about something we know is class, something we're willing to tell the world about. It's good for our health. It's good for our state of mind. That makes it good for safety, too. Can one be proud of anything he is responsible for that isn't as safe as he can make it? Not if he cares anything about his own wellbeing and that of others. And, of course, all of us do. We want things right and we want them safe. If they aren't safe they aren't right. We feel snrrv f<ir anv fal_ low who doesn't take pride in anything. He'd have to he a pretty poor fish. Certainly none of us is like that. We are proud of the company, proud of our job. proud of the work we turn out, proud of our safety record, /^nd when any of us goofs on something, it hurts our pride. If you stop and think about it, we think you'll agree that a reasonable amount of pride is necessary foi one's own self respect. That doesn't mean that one should overdo it. If you talk up something of yours too much, it's bragging. No one likes a "big mouth." No one respects a man that lacks some pride, either. So let's not be either one. Some fellows seem to use up their whole supply of pride on things outside their jobs? their homes, the wife and kids, their bowling game, and so on. It's good to have plenty to be proud of in one's life outside of his work. But if one isn't interested enough in his work to want to be really good at it, he isn't likely to be able to hold his job long. More important, still, he will probably get hurt because he won't be good at safety, either. This is a good company, way better than most. The management gives us good equipment to work with. They try in every way to make it safe for us to do our work. They try very hard to keep us from getting hurt. So there is plenty to be proud of. loot's make a list of the things around here that are good enough so that we can take pride in them. It seems to me that it all boils down to the fact that the way a man does his work, the quality of the work he turns out, the way he keeps the Cotton CI MILLIONS OF fiOO r 500 lOO :ioo 200I loo ^ 1&*1 1963 ' ?&* ' ??65 t??0 AMMOAL RATE source: u*. oept. or corAMEK.CE Importing Textil People who try to poohpooh the menace of foreign competition to American jobs sometimes make the claim that foreign wage costs are catching up with American wages and, in addition, that American technology is so far ahead of foreign technology that it outweighs the great wage-cost differential. Unfortunately, both these assumptions are false. European Labor Costs Down As to wages, we now have startling new figures, worked up bv the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in their survey for 1959. This commission finds that labor costs of European manufacturers have steadily declined in relation to those of their U. S. competitors in the past 20 years. Since 1927, hourly earnings in manufacturing have decreased relative to these in the U. S. by about 15 per cent in France, 50 per cent in Germany. 25 per cent in Switzerland and 20 per cent in Britain. European Technology Up When it comes to technol/y /) nyyiy*/**/* a (/.<y. txrvK/d A 7?XM? MILLIONS 1.500 j 1,000 Ml I wS .... >& oJ^i J 1 1947 1940 1949 1950 195' 195? i i960 annual ratt sotfcf us ocrar^mint or < ommf per tools he works with, show what kind of a fellow he is. A skilled worker wants good tools and good equipment. He won't work in a sloppy joint or with bum tools a minute longer han he can help. Safety is a built-in part of OCTOBER. 1960 lW5fc (MPORTG SQUARE "YARDS i // ~ I \9*>6 ?0?6 WOO e Unemployment ogy, foreign manufacturing plants are often equal to, sometimes better than, American plants in the same industry. Recently an American company imported Italian machinery and production techniques for use in the U. S. in the manufacture of nylon, a product which was invented in the U. S. Italian engineers are coming over to see that the new plant gets into proper operation. Competition Gets Tougher With their labor costs falling. in relation to the U. S., and their technology reaching new high levels, European competitors of American companies are posing an ever greater threat to U. S. companies not only in world markets but also in the U. S. marL i*i Japanese competition is a story in itself, especially to employees of Clinton-Lvdia Mills. * American employees generally, have a big stake in the success of efforts being made by their employers to hold down production costs. Their jobs depend on it. WD /MPD/PTD D/r w w w w v ww wr ? r v V WMcri/MS O^DOLLARS ^ EXPORTS iit2 IMP0RTS i E 953 1954 1955 ^956 ^957 1950 ^959 I960 good equipment, good tools, good work. Be proud of the things that are good about your job and your work. It anything isn't very good, take pride in making it better. It pays in self satisfaction. It pays in safety.