Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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President's Message Dear Fellow Employees: Our Company is joining other textile manufacturers, fiber and apparel pro ducers in a nationwide effort to send 4,000,000 handwritten messages to President Ronald Reagan urging him to pass the Textile Fair Trade Bill. Within the next few days, every employee will be contacted and encouraged to write the President. In addition, employees will be requested to get their spouses, children, in-laws, neighbors and friends to write a card or letter. Some special tips on writing to President Reagan are as follows: 1. Write a personal letter in your own words. A hand written letter has much more impact than a form letter. 2. Be specific in your message. Tell the President you want him to pass the Textile Fair Trade Bill. 3. Identify yourself as a textile employee. 4. Use sample letters printed in this publication only as a guideline. Please do not copy the same letters. Your personal thoughts have a greater impact. 5. The writer should sign his or her own name and include his or her correct mailing address. Our goal is to have four letters or cards from each employee in our Company. When your messages have been written, return them to your Assistant De partmental Superintendent so we can put on them the correct amount of postage as well as keep an accurate record of the total number written from each plant. I am confident our chances for Mr. Reagan’s support will be in direct proportion to our efforts put forth and the number of letters written. Sincerely, / George H. Cornelson Sample Letters Dear Mr. President: I'm a Democrat, but I voted for you. If you don't pass the Textile Bill, I’ll never vote Republican again. Sincerely, Signature and mailing address D&AR Mr. PResic/esyf: PleA^se Aelp tAe Tkxfi/e -Bill. My J°6 depe//c/s on //. S/NceR* ly, Si<)NAJ(/Re A//c/ Ac/d/fess ADDRESS ALL MESSAGES TO: President Ronald Reagan The White House Washington, DC 20500 Letter Wri Clinton employees are taking advant age of a letter-writing campaign assem bled by Clinton Mills and others in the textile industry to tell President Reagan how they feel about the administration actions on textile imports. The Company will be monitoring very closely how many messages are sent. “The enthusiasm of our employees for this large campaign has exceeded our expectations,” says Director of Com munications Mack Parsons. “A number of our employees have turned in seven or eight letters from members of their families. This underscores how serious our employees feel about the import pro blem. Figures released July 30 by the U.S. Department of Commerce showed im ports of textiles and apparel for the first six months of the year reached the high est six months level in history. Textile and apparel imports for June 1985 increased 10% over June 1984’s total of 864 million square yards to 953.8 million sq The effect of 1 import penetrati Betty Samples Sends Message to President Employees will be afforded an opportunity to write President Ronald Reagan, on the job, if they so desire. Shown here is Plant No. 2 weaver, Betty Samples. Her message to the President read: Please stop imports. I’ll never vote for a Republican again if you veto this bill. We must limit textile imports now. Sincerely, Betty Samples, Route 3, Box 353, Clinton, SC 29325.