The clothmaker. [volume] (Clinton, South Carolina) 1952-1984, April 15, 1968, Page 2, Image 2
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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.