Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-09-06
devices do the work of ten men twenty

devices 10 bne WOTk Oh ten men twenty
years ago.
In the broom manufacture, with
machinery, half the number of wage
workers turn out more work than twice
the product.
In the manufacture of carriages it used
to take one man thirty-fve days to make
a carriage. 1t is now made by the aid of
machinery with the work of one man
in twelve days.
A carpet measuring and brushing ma
chine with one operator will do the work
of fifteen men by the old methods.
In cutting out clothing and cloth caps
with dies one worker does the work of
three by old methods.
In the cotton mills in this country the
manual labor has been reduced about so
per cent. Now one weaver manages from
two to ten looms, where one loom was
formerly tended by one worker.
In spinning in the cotton mills in this
country one operative cared for twenty
five spindles that now attends seventy
two spindles-an increase of 1S5 per cent
In the olden time in this country one
weaver with hand loom turned out
weekly from forty-two to forty eight
yards. A weaver now tending six power
looms turns out 1900 yards in week.
In the manufacture of flour modern i'm
provements save rs per cent. of the
manual labor that once was necessary.
In the manufacture of furniture only
about one-half the operatives are required
to do the same work.
In leather manufacture, modern meth
ods have reduced the necessary number
of workers from five to fifty per cent.
In stave dressing, twelve colaborers,
with Barker machine, can dress II, 600
slaves in the same time that the same
number of workers by hand could dress
$500 slaves.
In making tin cans, one man and a
boy with modern appliances, can do the
work of ten workers by the old process.
In making bread boxes three men can
do the work of thirteen box makers by
the old methods
One boy by machinery, in turning
wood work and materials for musical in
struments, performs the work of twenty
five men by the old methods.
By the use of coal mining machines 160
miners in a month can mine as much coal
in the same time as 500 miners by the old
methods.
In the manufacture of wall paper one
worker by the aid Of machinery, does the
work of 100 workers by manual labor,
and in cutting and drying paper by ma
chinery four men and six girls do the
work of 100 operators by old methods.
In the whole country an army of work
ers have been displaced by machinery,
while a large contingent of operators has
been placed in the manufacture of labor
saving appliances. Improved processes
of manufacture and competition make
everything made cheaper to the con-
sumer.
In 1880 there were in the United States
2,733, 600 operatives engaged in manu-
facture, representing and supporting 49,
665, 600 consumers, or one-quarter of the
population then, with S., 5S5, 900, 900
product, or an average of $2045 per hand,
with 1890, 600, 900 wages paid operatives.
The product of the census for 1890 will
probably reach between $1,000, 900, 900
and $4,000, 900, 900, with a very large
increase in operatives representing and
supporting an army of consumers of
everything produced in the country.
Every week there are chronicled numer-
Gus new manufacturing enterprises Civ
ing place to large numbers of workers.
The most notable are the organizations
at Pittsburg and Chicago for the manu-
facture of tin and terne plates, for which
we have paid Great Britain $244 900, 900
in the last fifteen years, and ten-million
iron plant. York Graphic.
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