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2 Published monthly ui Claude A. Crocker, Di ana Employee RelatU Congratulations 2 Our center page section ployees' sons and daughters When we realize that the. dents are a part of the 30% Carolina who enrolled in thi better understand that their of our recognition. The many sacrifices that tainment of this goal by the ers will have been well wori apply this knowledge in thi continuing education. The need for an educatio imports were 119.1 million < 79.6 million square yards in imports were 12 million sc 9.9 million square yards a ye 160.1 million square yards < square yards in January of The largest single increa made fiber yarns, which v level of last January. Imports of all types of January, 1967, level, with m ucts again showing the large square yards to 35.4 millioi The rising flood of forei to threaten the future of Clinton Mills and other Ar deeply concerned over the p complete elimination of te> restraints, fairly administei nation's security and the depend on textiles for jobs. orougni to our attention. Tl live will no doubt be recoi beginning of a new techno about through the efforts of to perform many complex j just a few decades ago. It is my hope that, as tl into meaningful occupations tion, their accomplishments and goal for the youngsters them to understand the imp so that they too will be bette happy citizens in the future. / Textile Imp Textile Imports in Janua highest level of any single tn fieriirpc hv fV>o i - ? ?v.ij MJ uiv v/iiicc UI J ment of Commerce. Imports of cotton, wool products in January were The previous high was 28( September of 1966. Imports of products mat blends were 31 per cent higl monthly high in August of The figures were releas the Management-Labor Tex' January was the month the new "Kennedy Round effect. Overall reductions 13 per cent. Substantial rises were r and man-made fiber textiles. ider the direction of irector of Community >ns. no Our Graduates this issue features our er who are 1968 graduates. se graduate high school st of all the children in Sow e 1st grade in 1956, we cc accomplishment is wort} have been made in the a students, parents and teac, .hwhile when these studen nr future work or in the n is ever increasingly beii \e period in which we no 'ded in history as the re logical, age. This has con people educated and traim obs which were unheard lese young people move < or higher levels of educ will serve as an inspiratu coming along and will he ortance of staying in scho r qualified to become usef 1 ^dcrif/77. ?&*** orts Climb ry of this year reached t month in history, accordii textiles of the U. S. Depai and man-made fiber texti 291.2 million square yart ).3 million square yards le of man-made fibers ai ler than the previous reco 1966. ed following a meeting tile Advisory Committee. in which the first step " tariff reductions was in textile tariffs averag ecorded in imports of wc The man-made fiber text square yards compared wi January of last year Wc juare yards compared wi >ar ago. Cotton textiles we :ompared with 160.3 milli 1967. se was in the area of ma vere more than double t apparel were up from t an-made fiber apparel pre ?st increase from 27.5 milli a square yards, gn textile imports contini our industry. This is w nerican textile firms are >roblem. We are not seeki :tile imports but reasonat red, in the interest of o millions of Americans w THE CLOTHMAKER Father's Day ^Father's Day will be observed on June 16th, the third Sunday of the month. On this day, following the precedent set by the observance of Mother's Day on the second Sunday in ? May, fathers throughout the United States and Can? ,?in i? i ??-ii qkaci win uc nuiiuieu Willi special attention from the n- members of their families. According to historians, a- a Mrs. John Bruce Dodd th of Spokane, Washington, in initiated the observance of Xy Father's Day in 1910. Later, the custom of honoring fathers on a special day set aside for that purpose ts gradually spread through r out the United States and Canada. As is also true of Mothers, a Father of the l9 Year is chosen annually. w Among the men chosen to be Father of the Year in %e recent years have been the e(* late Douglas MacArthur, of n ? f< A g AA V iv . AJlOWlliUW^l, Harry S. Truman, and John yn Glenn, America's first asa tronaut to circle the earth yn loi Cooperation One of the great assets of a well-thought-of company is the friendly cooperation of its people. If wc fall short of cooperation we can expect to fall shorl of customers. Customers expect cooperation from the companj with whom they do busi, ness. They prefer to deal ^ UTlfVl O ^ir*vN ^ W**? -4 T?4VU a mill lllclt U11C15 II ? as a regular service. Let's work together tc fill our customers' needs and we'll keep customers satisfied. As we all know satisfied customers are oui , best security. rd of Quote of the Month 0f "We cannot expect the in textile industry and it; e(j stockholders to risk theii money in new plants anc )01 some of the dramatic nev, ile processes we have seen ir th recent years when theii )ol efforts are going to be con th tinually undercut by low Te wage imports. 11 is mos on discouraging for a company to develop a new product in. build a modern plant t( he make the product, train it: employees in new tech he niques, and then find i ,d_ must compete with good; on which are identical excep for one thing. They sel les for a few cents less because hy they were made by people so earning 37 cents or less ar hour rather than the $2 ar jit: ur hour the American textih ho industry pays."?Sen. Her man E. Talmadge (D-Ga.) Future Of M With U.S. Te i Which one of these people ' doesn't belong in this group: ? truck driver, paper mill employee, 1 power company manager, sheep rancher, corn farmer, construction worker, machinery manufacturer, chemist, cotton producer, textile mill employee? The fact is all of them belong. In 1966 the textile industry paid > this group about $10 billion for its services. Truckers earned more than , $100 million from the textile industry, hauling about 90 per cent ' of the textiles moved in this ^ country. Paper manufacturers earned $240 million from the sale of par per cartons and countless other packing materials to the textile ^ industry. Power companies sold the industry more than 16 billion kilowatt hours^of electric power last > year at a tost of $150 million. ; une boutn Carolina power com; pany reported that 38 per cent of its total sales was to the tex1 tile industry. Sheep ranchers sold 370 million pounds of wool to the industry for approximately $190 million. Twenty-three million bushels of corn were used to make 315 million pounds of cornstarch for the textile industry, for which it 5 paid $31 million, r Construction workers built 1 more than $500 million worth of r - Watch For Check your hands. Open 1 and close them. Touch r something. Pick up some thing. Just everyday oc5 currences. Perhaps. 5 Few other living things possess the gifts we take t for granted when we use 3 our hands and fingers. Our hands and fingers 1 are the most efficient and ? useful tools on earth. But ? whatever usefulness they 1 bring us can vanish if we lose our fingers. There is no replacement. Nearly 25 per cent of all disabling injuries in American industry involve hands APRIL-MAY, 1968 Ullions Rests Ktile Industry new plants for the industry, and textile machinery manufacturers sold it about $640 million worth of new equipment. Man-made yarn and fiber plants supplied the industry with a whopping $2.4 billion worth of fibers ? about 4 billion pounds. Cotton producers sold the industry about 9V^ million bales of raw cotton at a cost of more than $1 billion. Add to all of these expenses the $4.6 billion in wages paid textile employees last year and the total bill comes to about $10 billion. It has been estimated that more than 15 million American workers and their families depend on the textile industry for at least a part of their livelihoods. This is the main reason the industry objects to the three billion square yaras 01 textile imports flowing into the United States annually from low-wage foreign countries. They take jobs from millions of Americans who depend on the textile lifeline. Chemists, construction workers, cotton producers, corn farmers, truck drivers, paper mill employees, power company employees, sheep ranchers, machinery manufacturers, textile wiupivjjvvo uivjr av a uig giuup. Pinchpoints or fingers. The principal cause of these injuries is getting hands or fingers caught between objects. The name is pinchpoints. Pinchpoints are everywhere: auto doors, desk drawers, machinery in motion, you name it . . . Two hands, ten finders, millions of movements. It is no wonder hand and finger injuries are the number one safety problem in America. Make sure it docs not become your problem.