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WHATwwEUTAMFFSMiiai70YOU Let’s Not Import Unemployment Foreign textiles sold in our United States in 19S4 set a 30-year record! Congress is now considering a plan to cut our protective tarif even further...Inviting more foreign imports. We can't compete with textile workers who are paid an hour. U.S. tariffs help to equalize the !0-to-t wage cost odds against us... lowering tarifs will raise the^ odds. No. 5 OF A SERIES Did you know that Japanese mills make towels and blankets? Did you know that those blankets and towels are sold in the U. S. at such low prices that mills making similar products find it difficult—some times impossible—to compete? Did you know that Japan can make practically any textile product, ship it to this country, pay the present tariff, and then undersell the American mills? And did you know that the reason this can hap pen is because of the high wages paid in American mills as compared with the extremely low wages paid in Japan? Japan’s textile wage rate is less than 14 cents an hour. Japanese mills can and do use the sam® machinery as American mills use. Japan’s industry buys raw cotton at the same prices American mill* pay. . c This leaves the wage factor the only basis competition. American efficiency cannot be eX' panded at will and certainly cannot be stepped uP to bridge the gap between American wage levels and Japan’s, which are only one-tenth of ours. The present tariff is not high enough to keep Japanese goods from capturing American business' To have fair competition with Japan U.S. textU tariffs would have to be fantastically high, the Administration’s program asks further reduC' tions in the tariff. It makes one wonder how muci more U.S. industries will be called on to give. r'-.i il-i rl Sales [ : Side I Lights By ARDELLE COLEMAN Merchandise Publicity Manager One of the men in our Quality Con trol department recently sent up a re port which read in part: “Only about 5% of the volume of a typical blanket is occupied by fibers, while 95% of the volume is occupied by air. Consequently, the thermal con ductivity of the fibrous material it self has very little influence on the overall heat insulating characteristic of the blanket. “The kind of fib ers contained in the blanket influence the thermal con ductivity of the blanket only to the extent that they affect the ability of the blanket to , retain its thicknessf during use and\ cleaning.” How’s that for an engineer’s ex planation of a fact that women who buy blankets in the United States have been discovering. The fact is, a blanket need not be wool to be warm. Fieldcrest has been making blended fiber blankets for some time, and not only our company but others are prov ing that women who purchase them, generally speaking, are getting the most warmth, style and cleanability for their 1955 blanket dollar in blends. We have been concentrating on ny- lon-rayon-cotton blends, with each fiber making its contribution to one Or more of the desirable features: springiness of nap (and its retention), clarity of colors, strength and ease of cleaning. The blend is varied accord ing to the weight desired (we have it in summerweight and varying winterweights). Blanket Fashions Blankets, like other domestics, are fashion items. You have known it and now the women who buy have proved it. Fieldcrest has proved it, too, with an irrefutable case history in its all cotton, printed “May Garden” blanket. Five years ago, cotton blankets were as homely as old-fashioned long draw ers. Now, dolled up with screen print ed designs, delicate, soul-satisfying colors, or fancy bindings, they appear in displays and windows of America’s outstanding department stores. From there, they’ve found their way into the most fashionable homes. Issusd Every Other Mooday For ployees and Friends of Fieldcrest 10^ | Inc., Spray, North Carolina Copyright, 1955, Fieldcrest Mills^_^^j OTIS MAELOWE Vol. XIII Monday, Mar. 21, 1955 No Service Anniversari^ Thirty-Five Years ^ E. Tate Sparks Sheet' i Leander A. Coley To"' Thirty Years Ernest A. Rogers Finish* Twenty-Five Years Edgar L. Troxler Bla’’ ,g[ Cornel J. Kasey Twenty Years Leslie M. Oakley „ G. Edwin Fuller Kara® ( Stella M. Blackwell Bla'^^t Maggie W. Stone Lizzie L. Stigall Oscar O. King James W. Smith Bla[^ - - - Blar'l' Blaf Laurence C. Overby Fifteen Years Della L. Wilson Ten Years Essie S. Hubbard • Garland E. Rakes Mozelle J. Stone Ethel B. Houchins Evelyn L. Wright Blca^ FIELDCREST MILL WHILS^
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