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Between You and Me

CHAPTER XXII
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I maun always do less than I could easily manage--sae I'll no be asked to do mair than is easy and comfortable in a day's work." Restriction of output! Aye, you've heard those words.

But do you ken what they were meaning early i' the war in Britain?
They were meaning that we made fewer shells than we could ha' made.

Men deed in France and Flanders for lack of the shells that would ha' put our artillery on even terms with that of the Germans.
It didna last, you'll be saying.

Aye, I ken that.

All the rules union labor had made were lifted i' the end.


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