Arizona silver belt., 1889-11-09
STAMPED T.N-WARE.
flow she Unsuspecting Public Buy Tin
 and Get Iron.

flow she Unsuspecting Public Buy Tin
 and Get Iron.
 ''l doubt not that it will be surprise to a great majority of purchasers, said Charles W. Ellsworth, of the Chi cago Stamping Company, ito learn that the tin of common use is not the real article, but only sheet-iron or steel, with an infinitesimal covering of tin on the surface. It is this fact that, in measure, makes dupes of the public and works to the disadvantage of rep utable manufacturers. In a box of good tin-plate which weighs 1l2 pounds there are only atelt five pounds of tn, so you can see how delicate the film is. Yet tin-plate is imported constantly that weighs but ninety pounds to the box. Besides there is difference in the quality of the filling, or black sheets, as we call them. Coke-linished iron sheets are much inferior to char coal-finished, and these, in turn, to Bessemer steel. Hence there is wide field for inferior manufacture, and the market is glutted with goods that re- tail at a lower price than serviceable articles could possibly be manufactured for. When the public can get neat To liking stamped ware made of inferior plates at a mere song the better staple of goods is run out of the market.
 "The cost of manufacturing poor stamped ware is approximately the same asit is for the best. The differ ence in the retail price of the two lies in the stock. Poor plate tin requires more intermediate steps before the manufactured article is finished, since the brittleness of the filling will not scanned and cracked. After being stamped into the form required the one takes more rubbing to get out the tiny creases than the other. It is all ma chine work, you see. The beaded rim on the inferior goods is an imitation, merely, there being no wire inserted to strengthen the rim as in the case of the better staple. The masses think that tin is tin and that it is the process of stamping that makes the artic es retail so cheap. They ought rather to think that most tin is sheet steel, and that when they want good stamped ware they should go to hardware store and not to 99-cent counters"
 Does the manufacture of stamped tinware require much skilled labor?'
 "No; less, probably. than any other class of tin-work. A man of ordinary intelligence can learn to operate 6 stamping machine in day or two, since all he has to do is to put the sheets in proper form under the die. Rubbing out creases, turning rims, and redipping in molten tin, when this is done, can scarcely be cal ed skilled la- Dor. It is rather little higher form of common labor. Boys do most of the light stamping. in fact, in tin manufacture the workmen require less preliminary training and get better wages in pro portion to the work done than in any other industry know of. There is not detail of the trade that bright man could not become proficient in in from eight months to year, and be compe- tent to earn from SIP to S20 week by piece work. In stamped tin-work the wages run about S2 or S250 a day. Even girl solderers earn from 8 to SIP a week on comparatively little exper- fence.
 "A significant fact regarding the manufacture of stamped tinware is that the workmen do not advance or grow, as the phrase goes. The work doesn't offer facilities for development of per sonal skill. It is chiefly feeding ma chimes, and in a certain sense the men become machines. A man of ten years experience is of little more value than a recruit of a month or two's standing A boy fifteen years of age is worth as much for light stamping as he will be ten years later. since the machines ne- cessitate or induce a certain degree Of speed or dexterity "- Chicago Ne1OS.