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...assess the impact of the front, TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof visited Bradford, a sooty Yorkshire mill town that once was known as "the wool center of the world." Bradford is typical of declining industrial cities with a growing race problem, and pro-front sentiment is strong. Amfitheatrofs report...
...caste system separates the "jocks" (often children of the town's wealthier residents) and the "wall rats," so named because they once congregated along a wall behind the school to smoke before an inner courtyard was designated this year as a smoking area. Their fathers are apt to be mill hands or fishermen, and they tend to come from poor or broken homes...
...back finally caved in, and the doctor said any man who works 46 years in a mine, mill or construction job, as I have, deserves a rest. So I retired on 80% Social Security and a small carpenter's pension. Millions of Americans work very hard for their money and are glad to retire at 65 or earlier...
...occasion of Carter's remarks was itself unusual: a White House conference on steel, attended by mill and union bosses and presided over by the Administration's chief trade negotiator, Robert Strauss. That it was called constituted Administration recognition that the steel industry is in bad trouble: rising imports of cheaper steel from Japan and Europe in August captured almost 20% of the American market, causing layoffs of some 60,000 American workers, slicing steel company profits and forcing the closing of old mills in several cities. Steelmen have long complained that much of the foreign metal...
...ultimately bring to the U.S. steel industry is questionable. The Treasury Department will have to thrash out pricing problems that approach the metaphysical. According to the way they add up the numbers, for example, the Japanese steelmakers contend that they are not dumping, just producing steel more efficiently. American mill executives swear that cannot be true. Says Speer: "No foreign producers, including those in Japan, can manufacture steel, ship it to this country and undersell our domestic product without engaging in unfair trade practices...