Britain: Never Have So Many Done So Little for So Much

Britain is fighting another battle these days, a struggle to pay its way in the competitive world economy. The country is getting scant help from the British workingman, who too often thinks that the only fight he has to wage is the battle against his boss. Padded payrolls and plain sloth are slowing production at home, losing business abroad and aggravating the chronic trade deficit and the sterling crisis. Examples:

> In Liverpool, dock-wallopers practice a custom called "welting"; half of an eight-man crew works while the other half loafs, and at...

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