Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Page 2 Editoriall I want to relate to you something that is extremely important to each of us and our families. I want to talk about my job and your job ? our jobs together as employees in the textile industry. And I would like to start by saying that the most important thing we can learn together is how do we protect our jobs? How Ho viOi I onH I oe inHiwiHuoIr nro^Aoi f uu jruu anu i, uj it iui viuuaio, UiC JUU5 that we have? What can we do? Well, it's pretty obvious that Number 1, we can work harder. We can be at work on time and keep absenteeism to a minimum. While we're on the job, we can do everything we possibly can to make our products better. We must make sure that the quality is first and foremost, if we expect to compete against imports. I'd like to dwell on one very important part of this business of protecting our own jobs. In order to impress upon you the fact that the more apparel that we buy that is made ? not in the United States ? but in the other countries of the world, the more textile jobs we are going to lose. I am suggesting to you as textile employees that you look at the labels on each Ammons Named Geneva Plant Industrial Nurse Mrs. Connie Ammons has been named Industrial Nurse for Geneva Plants 1 and 2, according to Personnel Director Bob Dettmar. Mrs. Ammons joined Clinton Mills of Geneva following employment with Wiregrass Hospital. She also has considerable experience in Public Health nursing gained through her association with Covington County Health Department in Adalusia, Alabama. A native of Holmes County, she attended Chipola Junior College, University of North Alabama, Troy State University and George C. Wallace Junior College where she received her R.N. degree. As Geneva Plants nurse, she will be responsible for all medical clinic activities which includes treating occupational injuries, administering first aid, administration functions as related to Worker's Compensation, and various pulmonary and audiometry testing functions and required OSHA data. The Geneva plants medical facility is equipped to treat virtually all occupational ; ' k Rose Pennington \ - \ y Speaki textile item you buy. There is a law that says any piece of apparel made outside the United States has to be labeled by the country of origin ? where the garment was made. Beginning today or whenever you next go into the stores where you shop, please look at the labels and see where the garments were made. If it's not made in the United States, it contains none of our material. None of us had a hand in making any part of it. It doesn't keep our company running. It doesn't keep us working. When you find a garment that is made in a foreign country, why don't you tell the clerk? Better still, tell the store ordepartment manager, "Look, I'm a textile employee and when you import these garments and apparel of any kind from countries other than the United States, you are putting my job as a textile employee in jeopardy. You might even cause me to lose my job." Tell your friends why they should buy American-made garments. Be sure and tell your family. And at least, let all of us in this industry work together and try to impress upon the retail stores that we want a choice. SI&? --^%->-^i^^^Bwvv Connie Ammons injuries which normally arise out of and in the course of employment. Mrs. Ammons, her husband, Bill, and two children live at 119 East Brannon Street, Geneva. Pennington AetftTerh Hnnnr V W WWII W W Clinton Industrial Engineering Trainee Rose Pennington was honored by Piedmont Technical College during its May 17 Honors Assembly Program for being the outstanding senior in the Industrial Engineering Technology curriculum. Rose, who joined Clinton Mills three years ago, has been a student at Tech. for the past two years. She has maintained a 3.97 grade point ratio during the course of her study. ng . .. We want to have the opportunity to buy a garment that is made in the United States. Nationally, companies like ours are working together to encourage the buying of American-made textile and apparel products. The campaign has a logo ? a red, white and blue star with the slogan "Crafted With Pride In USA." Look for that star on a label that says Made In the USA when you buy and urge others to join you in shopping for American-made tex tiles and apparel. I am very serious when I say that all of us need to be concerned about imports and about our jobs. We must produce the best quality products we can, and we should look for and buy products "Crafted With Pride In USA." Thank you very much. The Editor %nu mm If You Don't Su American Textl Apparel, Who I vnn m if UAiir r\\Airi inK ie irk iIai www WW * JVUI WTf I I JVW IJ III iCAlll^. businsses that depend on a healthy YOU DO if members of your family 1 YOU DO is you operate a retail cloth apparel employees as customers. YOU DO if your community depend companies and their employees. YOU DO if you work for a bank, a gro business where textile and apparel < WE ALL DO it we keep buying mor products and allow imports to take If vou don't think vou could hp affp Over 700,000 American textile an By 1988, it is estimated that over I wilt be imported, unless the presen Foreign shoe companies increased of the U.S. market. The same couk Imports temporarily bring lower pr retailers?but the loss of American jc to pay. The result will be higher ta rates, affecting all Americans. (L B Tammy Rene Meredith was 4 years old May 22. She is the daughter of Deborah and Don Meredith. Deborah is a No. 2 spinning employee. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Steve Meredith and Ralph and Tommie Ruth Nelson. CRAFTED IAIITU DDIHC vviiii r iviul IN AMERICA pport les and .oses? ?, apparel, fibers, or one of many other textile industry. work in these industries. ing store which depends on textile and Is on taxes paid by textile and apparel eery store, a service station or any other employees spend their paychecks. e and more foreign textile and apparel over the U.S. market. nlpacp think aoain id apparel jobs have already been lost. lalf of the apparel bought by Americans t trend is stopped. their prices after they captured over half j happen in textiles and apparel. ices for consumers and high profits for ibs is a heavy human and economic price xes, more inflation and higher interest