Edwards Statement Regarding Textile Jobs

Thursday, January 29, 2004

Edwards Statement Regarding Textile Jobs

GREENVILLE, SC: In advance of the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition's policy agenda announcement today in Spartanburg, Senator John Edwards released the following statement:

"I welcome the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition's call to arms. We need this kind of specific agenda to save textile jobs in the Carolinas, and to get a fair deal for our workers.

"I am proud to be the only candidate who has already proposed to keep the textile quotas in place until China plays by the rules. I'm proud to have offered the most specific plan to invoke safeguards to stop China from flooding our market with textiles, to crack down on currency manipulation, and to bring new businesses venture capital to the areas that are losing jobs now.

"For me, saving textile jobs isn't about another government program. This is a personal fight for me to save the kind of towns where I grew up and the kind of town where my parents still live. I know the people who work in these mills, I believe in them, and I will never give up because this is our fight together."