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By PAUL McFARLANE
Rappahannock News staff writer
The American textile industry is fighting back against low-price imports.
And in Rappahannock County, that struggle cannot be closer to home.
The textile industry may have taken its lumps from imports recently — much the way foreign car makers picked away at Detroit’s hold on the auto industry at the turn of this decade. Nonetheless, the fight being waged by the textile industrv is not expected to cost local workers their jobs.
Wayne Walker, for 20 years the manager of the Flint Hill Aileen, Inc. plant, said this week the 300 employees there are in no danger of losing their jobs, despite rumors to the contrary.
“I see nothing to indicate” the com
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