No Special Favors Are Wanted
The American textile industry is the most efficient in the world.
The U. S. industry is the most diversified; it has access to the largest
sources of raw material; it has the most capable management. The
industry spends hundreds of millions annually on modernization.
Yet, this vital industry is being weakened, and some segments of it
destroyed, by the ever-increasing flood of imports. These goods are
made by foreign mills that buy American cotton eight cents a pound
cheaper than U. S. mills can buy it and have it processed by employees
who make as little as one-tenth of an American textile worker’s
earnings.
The U. S. has probably the lowest tariff structure of any country.
With the possible exception of Canada, the U. S. market is the easiest
to enter and the most inviting in all the world.
The American textile industry realizes the absolute necessity of a
high level of international trade. It realizes it must carry its full share
of that load — which means carrying its share of imports.
The industry wants no special favors, no special tax relief; no sub
sidies. It asks only for the privilege of competing in its home market
on just reasonably equal terms.
But, is it fair when our government’s policies place the industry in
a completely impossible competitive position and then force it to carry
substantially in excess of its share of imports, without the slightest
indication of where the limit will be? How on earth can any respon
sible business plan for the future under such a handicap ?
Top Weavers, Fixers Tariff Quiz
Include New Names
by DuPont’s Dyes & Chemical Division
Several new names appear on the has had wide distribution Check one of
Towel Mill’s list of “top” quality weav- the answers to each question and then
ers and loomfixers, mdicatmg keen turn to page six for correct answers
competition for the designation as lead- , * ■
i„, 1- have
For the purpose of encouraging quali- ^ i'kaw
ty and efficiency in the weave room, . ' CoO%) (75%)
the Towel Mill each week singles out ' average —
for recognition those weavers and fix- (5%) (10%) (25%)
ers with the best quality records. The 3. How do average British tariffs com-
names of the leading operators are post- pare with those of the United States’
ed on the weave room bulletin board (Half) (Equal) (Double)
and published in The Mill Whistle. (Sixfold)
The “Weavers of the Week” are those 4. What percentage of our imports are
with the lowest per cent of seconds admitted duty free’
with respect to the standards for the (25% + ) (50%-)-) (7517 4,\
various loom groups. = tu- .. • , °
The “top” loomfixers are determined natinns trad-
through a combination of low seconds have hicrhpr many
and high loom efficiency on the sections s than the U. S.?
for which they are responsible. _ ^ .(^2) (28) (35)
Top quality weavers and fixers for the ^ ^ your estimate of the value
most periods of record are listed below. o Japanese imports into the U. S. in
Weavers—W/E October 9 1959?
Dobby Terry Billie Hubbard ($100 Million) ($500 Million)
Jacquard Terry David Riggs (51 Billion)
Draper & Cam •••■ Paul Clifton What would you guess is the U.S.
Warren Shartzer tariff on foreign cars sold in this
Fixers—W/E October 9 country?
Dobby Terry James Campbell (8.5%) (20%) (30%)
Jacquard Terry Carlton Rakes 8. What is the British tariff on Ameri
Draper & Cam .... Linwood Williams can cars going into that country’
Weavers—W/E October 2 (8.5%) (20%) (30%)
Dobby Terry .. Kern Thornton 9. Approximately what per cent of the
Jacquard Terry Tonsie Cruise watches sold in this country do vou
Draper & Cam Paul Clifton think are imported’
Warren Shartzer (25%) (50%) ‘(75%) (100%^
Fixers—W/E October 2 10. Average hourly earnings in manu-
Dobby Terry Albert Joyce facturing in the U. S. exceed average
Jacquard Terry Eugene Joyce hourly European earnings by-
Draper & Cam Linwood Williams (50%) (100%) (3007o) (400%)
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THE mTU^ WHI
Issued Every Other Monday For EnjP^
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills>
Spray, N. C.
Copyright, 1960, Fieldcrest MillSi,
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
Member, American Association
Industrial Editors
Vol. XIX Monday, Oct. 24, 196^
SERVICE
UNNIVERSAB^I
Fieldcrest Mills extends con
tions to the following' employ®®*^
since our last issue, have obserf*'
able anniversaries of continuous
ice with the company.
Forty Years
William Henry Kirks
John W. Merriman
sm
Thirty Years .
James J. Stegall
Edmond J. Adkins .... AutomatjJj
Addie P. Young ® 3
Twenty-Five Years ^
Hilda M. Joyce
Mary W. Shelton ■
M. Elaine Walker '
Raymond C. Carter
Lillian C. Kestner
Mildred G. Doss • f
Evelyn M. Dunn ^5
Inez P. Hodges ■ J
Carrie J. Howell
Pete Hairston Centra^
Charlie Moyer
Twenty Years
Floyd A. Voss
Minnie A. Smith •
Mabel H. WoodaU -J,
Myrtle W. Wright %
Myrtle K. Harris
Lucy M. Rakes
Mary W. Roach
S. B. Spears
Gertie H. Shaw
Fifteen Years
Clyde H. Hall
Elmer Wade jffJ
Josephine A. Dix Bedspre^
Woodrow W. LaPrad •' fj
Phyllis B. Petty
Lucy W. Clarke ^eaksV*
Elizabeth B. Crouch
Earley C. Kimball .
Ethel C. Frazier ..
Lemuel H. Hopkins
Mamie S. Horsley .
Louis E. Outland ..
James A. Wray '
James B. Allen Centr
Clarence W. Boyd ' gti *
Ralph D. Mayes
Bedsprea'^^
-H
4
Bedsprea‘*jl>y
Elizabeth W. Hankins
Leona L. Jefferson .
Joe Kallam
Ten Years
Autom^^l»5
THE MILL
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