Arizona silver belt., 1899-12-07
NORKMEN DISPLACED
Introduction of Improved Machinery
 Taking Their Jobs.
Some Artisans Are Now Eutsresy without Employment - Even the so-CaIieS Professions
 Are Threatened

English workmen, II their ideas are correctly reflected by their trade jour nals. are beginning to view with alarm the rapid and steady decline of various trades and calliugs in Great Britain owing to the introduction of improved machinery in America, Norway, Ger many and other countries and the enor- nous exports to England of manuiac- tured goods which were once made in England. but which the reduced cost of manufacture in this coutnry hnve crowded out of Englishmen's hands. Small wooden articles, such as clothes pegs, skewers, umbrella sticks and mousetraps, which have an enormous sale in England, are not made in that country any more. They are all shipped from the United States, be- cause they can be made more cheaply here. Oars for rowboats, flooring and, indeed, all the parts that go to the mak- ing of wooden houses are shipped into the British isles in such quantities and at such prices that the carpenter IS almost superfuity there, except to put the parts together. The blaming mills and sash. door and blind factories of this country deliver at English towns all of the component parts of a house so much cheaper than they can be made in England that the carpenters are in despair This, of course, is due to the improved machinery in use here, which minimizes the cost of production.
 The coopers are beginning to realize that they will soon be practically out of empioyDen since the great cooper ing establishments of this country ship vast quantities of wood cut into slaves. heads and wooden hoops, so that the English cooper has but to put them to- getber They are shipped knock down" so as to economize space on the ships. and are put togetherin England by boys at small wages. The stained glass industry, too, has received setback through the introduction ot sort of gelatine film which can be readily app piled to ordinary window glass, and which is perfect imitation of stained glass. IL comes. of course, in all colors, and a stained glass window which for merly cost $50 can now be perfectly inn itated for S2.5O, and the stained glass workers cannot compete against such prices.
 Label stickers in the canneries are now face to face with a machine which will label 10000 cans in ten hours, which does not give the hand worker much of a chance. Even the profes- sions. so-callcd. are threatened by mod ern inventions. The shorthand report CTS are watching with disr.ay the i'm proyements being made in inc phono- graph. Experts arc now q, work try ing to devise scheme whereby the phonograph can be run slow enough to enable compositor to operate his lino- type machine direccly from the phono- graph and set mp speech without the intervention of written copy" When this is accomplished the shorthand man will have 10 go driving an ice wagon.
 English inventors are hard at work m ranic. peculiar vegetable fiber which they expect will su9ersede cot ton. It grows in the Malay islands, China and Japan. but could be raised in England if the demand warranted It is silky, much stronger than cotton and finer than flax. The chemical treat ment to which it is now subjected rots the fiber. but when that is overcome it is thought it will closely push cotton on account of it's cheapness and the ease with which it is cultivated. Chicago