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“I feel pretty sure we will re-apply” at least for permission to put a sign at Massies Comer, Walker said. “We need to take advantage of every edge and comer we can get.”
Echoing the lament of the textile business in general, Walker said: “If we can sell garments, we can keep people working.”
Walker said foreign competition became a serious threat “two or three years ago (when) we began feeling the impact of it,” Walker said.
For years, clothing produced abroad — particulary in Taiwan, Red China and Korea where the current competition originates — was of inferior quality than that available in this country, Walker said.
But government support within those countries permitted the industry to buy technically comparable equipment: Walker said wages paid those workers were in the range of “35 to 50” cents per hour, whereas an operator here working at 100% efficiency would make $4.98 per hour, based on piece-meal projections.
The textile lobbies nationally are applying pressure on politicians to curb the importation of lower-price goods, to counteract what Walker calls an “unfair” advantage held by foreign markets.
It appears the effort of the textile lobby is drawing support but “you never know,” Walker said.
He added: The swinging “mood of the American people...will make something happen in this area.”
Locally, the fight against imports has become political and very public. Workers at the Avtex plant in Front Royal staged a protest against undercutting imports during that community’s recent Festival of Leaves.
The proposal to add outlet stores to roughly 100 of the Aileen plants
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