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2 GLOTHMAK CLINTON Mil Plants-Clinton Published monthly i Claude A. Crocker, [ and Employee Relat iSSkt JBii A Day To Coun Days off with pay ? w holidays or vacations?are enjoyed by employees of CI benefits include programs t hospital expenses, plans to f insurance; and scholarships purposes. It is estimated that U. ? spend 70 billion dollars this 3 for their employees, in ac employees make. Still m employees on their own to i future welfare. So we see that employ increase our standards of li unforeseen emergencies. If money, as we see our paych to provide the umbrella of | we need it. This is all part of the larj Mills shoulders for its cmpl JOB SE The textile industry is competitive each day. This us in its own way. For a cc -1. 1 _ *i aoie position in a complex i a product which can succc sold by other similar firms, depends on its people and Job security is one thin work. In order to improve be progress and growth. T manufacturing quality item our competitors. Too often we feel our jo is vital to a successful operat the job would not have b< determine how well we r company's strength lies in they produce. U. S. Textile J Domestic The U. S. textile industry is losing some of its domestic markets to the rising flood of textile products from abroad. Last year the equivalent of more than .'1 billion square yards of foreign textiles came into the American market. These were in the form of yarn, finished cloth and apparel. This means that the U. S. industry did not sell thousands upon thousands of pounds of yarns and thousands upon thousands of yards of cloth it could have otherwise. [ER LLS Superior Quality Fabrics i No. 1?Clinton No.2-lyii??lailoy jnder the direction of )irector of Community ions. r Your Benefits hether national or seasonal among the many benefits inton Mills. Other "built in" o help pay for medical and jrovide for retirement; group ; and loans for educational >. business and industry will ^ear to provide extra benefits Idition to the contributions ore millions are spent by enhance their protection and ers put aside huge sums to ving and to protect us from we do not actually "see" this ecks, we know that it's there arotection and security when ge responsibility that Clinton ioyees. CUBIT Y becoming more and more competition affects each of >mpany to maintain a profitmarket, it must manufacture issfully compete with those The success of any company the jobs they perform, g all of us look for in our our job security, there must hese two things come from is which can compete with b is unimportant. Every job ion. If it were not important. ^cn created. It is you who neet our competition. Our its people and the products Industry Losing Markets It also means that if this much of the market is taken away from the entire industry, each company within the industry lost its propor tionate snare. And as each company was the loser, so was each textile employee. Without this excessive amount of imports, the employee's pay check could have been that much bigger. Therefore, he should back the company's and the industry's stands for reasonable controls on textile imports. THE CLOTHMAKER Textiles In Auto Industry A comfortable automobile ride today depends more and more on the textile industry. In a year's time two million 500-pound bales of textiles were used in the auto industry for everything from radiator hoses to radial tires. More than 225 million square yards of fabric into headlining and upholstery; 72 million yards are used for seat covers; more than 30 million yards make up convertible and landau tops; about 60 million yards of carpet cover the floorboards; and well over half a billion pounds of cord and fabric are used in the tires. Luxury means more and more textile usa^e. General Motors estimated that textile consumption in automobile interiors would exceed 64 million square yards annually. Know Your Congressman rj*P m. J" aMf The power of the House of Representatives is strong and compelling, because its 437 members, directly representing the people in the districts are responsive to the people's will. Each Congressman speaks for approximately .'190,000 citizens. Do you know your Congressman? Probably not many of us do. James R. Mann, 49year-old Freshman Congressman from Greenville, was elected to the 91st Congress, November 5, 1968. After graduating from the Citadel in 1941, Congressman Mann entered the U. S. Army as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was discharged in March, 1964 as a Lt. Colonel. He received his law degree in 1947 from the University of South Carolina Law School. Q & A On Profit Sharing Q. Is there any cost for the employee in the fund? A. No. It is one of the many extra benefits provided employees of Clinton Mills in addition to regular wages paid. Q. What happens to my personal Profit Sharing Account if I die? A. The full amount of your account will be paid to vour designator! bono ficiary. Q. What happens to money not payable because of termination before completing 10 years in the plan? A. The money is credited annually to the accounts of the remaining participants. Q. Must I pay income tax on amounts put into my account? A. Not currently. Under today's tax laws, you do not pay any taxes when money is credited to your account. However, when benefits are received by you, they will be subject to the tax laws in existence at that time. Mann has a wide range of political experience. He served in the S. C. House of Representatives from 1949-52. He was appointed Solicitor from the Thirteenth Judicial District by Governor James F. Byrnes to succeed Robert T. Ashmore upon his election to Congress. He was elected to this post without opposition in 1954 and 1958. In 1962 Mann returned to full time law practice. Many important issues are debated in Congress by Mann and his colleagues. Issues such as imports, taxes, defense, etc. are discussed daily. It is not unusual for a Congressman to acknowledge that he would have voted differently on matters if he had heard from the people in his district. It is quite important that you know your Congressman and keep him informed on your feelings about current iwnps Congressman Mann is active in many local civic and fraternal organizations and is a member of the Earle Street Baptist Church. He is married to the former Virginia Thomason Brunson and they have four children: David Brunson, 20; William Walker, 17; James Robert, Jr., 22; and Virginia Brunson, 16. APRIL, 1969 i Creature Of Habit If man is nothing else, he's a creature of habit. He likes to go to bed at the same time each evening and get up at the same time each morning. He has a set pattern for getting dressed, an established route for going to work, a routine way of performing his job. For just about every activity in which a person involves himself, he seems to require an established routine for doing it. When we first engage in some new endeavor, this is not true. At first we are likely to experiment freely with various techniques, tried and untried, until \irn "finrl t ot nr?4 ??v. iiuu uiic mat ^aiuicb us. Once that particular method is found, however, it soon becomes THE ONE AND ONLY WAY TO DO IT. Not that we do so consciously. It is precisely because we are unaware of this fact about ourselves that methodic procedure can and does become second nature to us. In many ways habit can be advantageous to us. Take for instance our jobs. If we are ever to perform them easily, and efficiently, we must first conquer a basic pattern. Then, moving mechanically without having to think it over and argue with ourselves about it, we just simply ao it. Habit has many disadvantages. Because we are not constantly aware that certain methods are habit, we may find ourselves following an established pattern just simply because it has always been done that way. Whether we like it or not, whether we admit it or not, the world around us changes. These changes call for readjustment of our goals sometimes. The laws of nature may be unchangeable, but the society that is modern day America is not. And though ~ r>wiueiiuiL:^ vvu may uui lft'i that we are a part of thatever-moving, ever-growing stream of things, we still are. That is why, ever so often (at PERIODIC intervals, of course) it is advantageous for us to stop and examine t h o s e patterns irtiich \?ro Jinirii col for otir_ selves to follow. It could very well be that those patterns are no longer sufficient for the goals we had in mind when we established the method(s). We don't want change for change's sake. But if change is better, more efficient, less expensive, more fulfilling then it is time to change.