Cheap-Wage Imports Most Unfair
“We cannot expect the textile industry and its stockholders to risk
their money in new plants and some of the dramatic new processes we
have seen in recent years when their efforts are going to be continual
ly undercut by low-wage imports.
It is most discouraging for a company to develop a new product,
build a modern plant to make the product, train its employees in new
techniques, and then find it must compete with goods which are iden
tical except for one thing.
They sell for a few cents less because they were made by people
earning 37 cents or less an hour rather than the $2 an hour the Ameri
can textile industry pays.” — Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.)
'It Can't Be Done That Way'
According to the theory of aerodynamics and as may be readily
demonstrated through wind tunnel experiments, the bumblebee is un
able to fly. This is because the size, weight and shape of his body in
relation to the total wingspread makes flying impossible.
But the bumblebee, being ignorant of these scientific truths, goes
ahead and flies anyway — and makes a little honey everyday, too.
ERVICE
NNIVERSARIES
Forty-Five Years
Walter H. Yeatts Blanket
Elbridge Lee Hopkins Sheeting
Forty Years
Conrad C. Morrison Fieldale
Twenty-Five Years
Dolly Newsome Columbus
Wallace C. Shelton Blanket Finish.
Calvin C. Evans Blanket Finish.
James F. Belton Blanket
Eddie Jones Columbus
Versia M. Sanders Columbus
Charlie D. Hill Blanket
Twenty Years
Hazel M. Garrett Fieldale
Fifteen Years
Branford M. Jefferson Karastan
Bobby H. Norton Columbus
Edward C. Windham Greenville
Jerome M. Burchett Bedspread
A. Edwin Byrd Fieldale
Chesley J. Cobb Bedspread
George T. Tosh Fieldale
Ten Years
Elred Fuller Columbus
Nathaniel B. Adkins Fieldale
Alex R. Pyrtle, Jr Fieldale
Jessie E. Smith Columbus
George W. Holland Blanket
Chaney Appointed Asst.
Foreman In Drape Dept.
Mill Whistle Will Be
Mailed To Servicemen
Employees and employees’ sons in
the armed forces may receive The Mill
Whistle anywhere in the world if their
families or friends will furnish their
military addresses.
The Company already sends the pub
lication to many servicemen whose ad
dresses are known and will be glad to
add others. The family or friends should
R. Wayne Chaney has been appointed
an assistant foreman in the Drape De
partment at the Bedspread Finishing
Mill. He had previously worked as act
ing assistant foreman in the same de
partment.
Mr. Chaney is an Eden native and
first joined the company at the Blanket
Finishing Mill in 1962. He worked in
the Channel Blanket Department and
later was a Gessner napper operator.
He was employed at the Bedspread
Finishing Mill in 1968 and worked as
a splitting and hemming machine op
erator before he was named acting as
sistant foreman in December, 1969.
give the serviceman’s address to any of
the mill reporters for The Mill Whistle,
or should telephone or mail it to The
Mill Whistle office, Fieldcrest Mills,
Inc., Eden, N. C. 27288.
’ 0iei4k%(Ai.
Copyright, 1970, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Eden, N. C. 27288
Issued Every Other Monday For Emplcy®*'
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
ADVISORY BOARD
R. F. Bell J. S. Eggleston
P. A. Brodie A. H. Justice
J. L. Crabtree J. M. Moore
W. F. Crumley J. M. Rimmer
S. R. Culligan C. C. Wilson^^
REPORTING STAFF
Alexander Sheeting Mill Edna
Automatic Blanket Plant
Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann JJ' p(i
Bedspread Mill Edna (JSi
Blanket Mill Katherine JLiji
Blanket Warehouse Geraldine
Cleveland Service Center Martha
Columbus Towel Mill Mildred Now
Dallas Service Center Barbara A[“',(»
Fieldale Towel Mill Faye W"'
General Offices Hilda
Gladys Holland, Katherine
Karastan Mill
Karastan Service Center Mary StcP .|t(
Karastan Spirvning Mill Evelyn
Laurelcrest Carpets Carolyn hCifi
Midwest Service Center Shirley mfllrri*
Mount Holly Barbara n |«)>
Northeast Service Center Mary k aif
Sheet Finishing Mill
Sheeting Mill Ruth
Winchester Spinning Mill Ann ,
-rif
Vol. 28, Monday, Feb. IG, 1970,
Organization Changes
Annownced At Mills
As a result of the resignation
personal reasons of F. W. Klein, '' f
president-rug manufacturing, effn^ j
January 28, the Company has annouO
the following organization change®'
J. P. Kitchens, manager of the -
ager of the Laurelcrest Carpet
stan Mill, and C. D. Argersinger, n>‘
and Service Center, will report
A. Harris, senior vice president-m^
factoring.
J. M. Moore, named manager of ^
rug spinning mills following
xefl
sid^
to R. A. Harris, senior vice presn
manufacturing.
Additional organization changes ^,
lowing the retirement under the P*
crest Retirement Program of ^
Purcell, division vice president-f®'.
manufacturing,
follows:
were
announced
a
manager of the Fieldale Towel ^
will report to A. L. Jackson, vice pf
dent-domestics manufacturing. ^
T. H. Sherrill, manager of
lumbus Towel Mill, and W. O.
J. R. Wright, superintendent of jj
Worthville Spinning Plant, will
to W. O. Stone.
A. H. Justice, superintendent ot^jt
Mount Holly Spinning Mill, will
to F. E. Barron, manager of the
spread Mill.
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