British Make-Work Takes a Blow

When the British Left insisted on a law to forbid price-fixing by industry, it failed to foresee the resulting competition for jobs as well as markets

On January 26 an unobtrusively planted time bomb exploded under British industry. The detonation stirred little excitement over most of the country but the results will be drastic enough, and this may well be the first of a series of explosions calculated to give the British economy the severest shaking-up it has had for a generation.