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The butter-shifts of the Ruhr show how far modern Europe has retrograded in the direction of barter, and afford a picturesque illustration of the low economic organization to which the breakdown of currency and free exchange between individuals and nations is quickly leading us. But they may produce the coal where other devices would fail.
"Some 60,000 Ruhr miners have agreed to work extra shifts so-called butter-shifts for the purpose of furnishing coal for export to Denmark hence butter will be exported in return. What of the prospects of whisky-shifts in England?
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