The capitalist enclaves would reach so deeply into the country's pool of labour that the remaining supply of farmers, traders, dockworkers and bag-carriers would fall short of demand.

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About 150 truck drivers, dockworkers and mechanics, most of them Teamsters members, piled into a conference hall to hear the president of Roadway Express tell them they had to work more efficiently.

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He wrote a plan to improve service in his Greenville, S.C. facility that includes teaching dockworkers to use computers to communicate with customer service reps and keep them up-to-date on the status of freight.

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