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what Does It Mean To Me? Press reports suggest that the Congress is about to consider new cotton legislation and it is possible that the bill will be introduced by the time this is in print. Even at this point it appears that many people do not understand the need for a permanent one-price cotton law. Someone asked not long ago, “Just what is one-price cotton?” As an employee of the textile industry, you may ask, “What does one- price cotton have to do with me?” As you have read before, one-price cotton gives U. S. mills the right to purchase American cortton at the same price that foreign mills can purchase it. Up to the passage of this bill, foreign mills could purchase American-grown cotton at 81/2 cents per pound, or approximately $42.50 per bale, cheaper than American mills could. This, along with their cheaper labor, made it impossible for U. S. mills to compete. What has one-price cotton meant to our industry? Since this system was begun last spring, the textile industry has re versed the long downward trend in employment. At the present time our industry is providing better jobs at higher wages than ever before. Textile companies are investing more of their net worth in new and better machinery and equipment than any other industry. The entire industry is operating at near capacity and a majority of employees are receiving overtime pay. This means much to the many communities who look to textile payrolls as a means of livelihood. One-price cotton not only aids the communities and the merchants, it also helps the farmers and the government. Cotton consumed for the first five months of this crop year was six per cent above the com parable period of last year. This increase in usage gives the farmer and the. government a better chance to dispose of the surplus. Less cotton on hand vs^ill reduce the government’s warehousing and carry ing costs. President Johnson, in his 1965 farm message to Congress, had this to say: “The cotton program of 1964 should be extended and im proved. It is essential that cotton be competitive with other fibers and in world markets.” The present law is good only to August 1, 1966, and it is necessary and proper that the textile industry do everything possible to have this law extended. THE Ml LI, WHISTLE Towel Mill Names Top Weavers, Fixers The Towel Mill’s top quality weavers and loomfixers are listed below for the most recent periods of record. In order to encourage quality and ef ficiency in the weave room, the mill each week gives recognition to the weavers and loomfixers with the best records. Names of the top operators are posted on the weave room bulletin board and are published in The Mill Whistle. The “Weavers of the Week” are those with the lowest percentage of seconds with respect to the standards for the various loom groups. The top fixers are determined through a combination of low seconds and high loom efficiency on the sections for which they are responsible. Weavers—W/E May 2 Dobby & Cam Delmo Scott Jacquard Terry Norman Rakes New C-7 Looms Lauren Via Fixers—W/E May 2 Dobby & Cam Bert Finley Jacquard Terry Edwin Hail New C-7 Looms Eugene Joyce 2 New Bill Would Bring Hike In Payroll Taxes If the Social Security-Medicare bill pending in Congress should be enacted in its present form, the maximum pay roll tax levied on employees will rise to more than 12 times what it was in the early days of Social Security. Under the bill as reported by the House Ways and Means Committee, the maximum tax, including the new tax imposed to pay for the Medicare pro gram, would reach a top figure of $369.60 a year by 1987. This would be the amount which a person earning $6,600 or more a year would have to pay. Of course, the em ployer would have to pay an equal tax for each such employee, so that the total tax levied for each person at this salary level would be $739.20 a year. Weavers—W/E April 25 Dobby & Cam Mattie Lackey Jacquard Terry Kenneth Arrington New C-7 Looms Lauren Via Fixers—W/E April 25 Dobby & Cam Glenn Clark Jacquard Terry Edwin Hall New C-7 Looms Jesse Davis Copyright, 1965, Fielderest Mills, ln«’ Spray, N. C. ,loye®‘ Issued Every Other Monday For and Friends of Fielderest Mills, l”^ OTIS MARLOWE editor Member, South Atls''*' Council Of industria Editors ADVISORY BOARD R. F. Bell J. M. Moore J. L. Crabtree J. M. Rimmer J. S. Eggleston S. R. Thomas E. F. Fowler J. T. White _—^ REPORTING STAFF Alexander Sheeting Mill Edna " t Pauline Automatic Blanlet Plant Bedspread Mill Edna Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann Bianicet Mill Katherine J^inS Central Warehouse Geraldine re Draper Offices Mamie General Offices Hilda Gladys Holland, Katherine Karastan Mill * Karastan Service Center Mary S>eP jjy Karastan Spinning Div Evelyn Mt. Holly Spinning Mill Elizabeth “ Kif Muscogee Mills Mildred Nf*„cse* New Yori Offices Betty Nye-Wait Division MafV i jjhl Sheet Finishing Mill Faye S|jy Sheet Finishing Office Sheeting Mill Towel Mill Faye Warren, Fannie n“. jef Worthville Sheeting Mill Jamesji||^^ Vol. XXIII Mon., May 17, 1965, ^^ERVICE %NNIVERSARl^^ Forty-Five Years , . Lucy D. Conner Sheet Finis® Forty Years Mamie F. Jenkins George M. Vass Sbee" Thirty Years vgt Bertha H. Jones Ruby F. Graham del Mae A. Phelps Musco® j Iris V. Warrick Twenty Years Geraldine H. Perkins .... Central ^ . Edgar P. Norris Musco® j Myrtle H. Brown ® Kathleen W. Mills Indus. Bela«^i El via H. Martin .. Marvin W. Smith Fifteen Years 'js Dorothy F. Deichler Karastan S Raymond E. Taylor Ny®' Ten Years gfj- Matthew M. Roberts Ble&^^ge Barbara J. Cotton W. Brantley Combs BedsP*’ Charlie R. Spencer B. David Wilson Gladys Littleton Musc®= Janet F. Weddle Central ‘Wi; . John F. Buck Karastan Spin'’* y General J. Pulliam, Jr Bleac'^ Buy . . . Sell . . . FOR SALE: Genuine squirrel brand new, never worn. Must sacn j Will sell for $100. Contact Beasley, Greenville Office. ^ THE MILL WHIS'T^
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