Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-06-05
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NUnkMEN DISPLACED
Introduction of Improved Machinery
Taking Their Jobs.
Some Artisans Are Now Entirely
without Employ ment - Even
the SO-Called PrOfessiOns
Are Threatened.

English workmen, if their ideas are
correctly reflected by their trade jour-
nails, are beginning to view with alarm
the rapid and steady decline of various
trades and cailings 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 manufac-
tured goods which were once made in
England, but which the reduced cost
of manufacture in this country have
crowded out of Establishments hands.
Small wooden articles, such as clothes
pegs, silewers, 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 max
| ing of wooden houses are shipped into
the British isles in such quantities and
at such prices that the carpenter is
almost a superiority there, except to put
the parts together. The planning mills
and sash, door and blind factories of
this country deliver at English town.
all of the component parts of house
so mach 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
| %ho+ %box- will soon no y,ractiOa llv ont
Of employment. 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-
gether. They are shipped knock
down" so as to econcmize 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 of a sort of
gelatine film which can be readily APP
piled to ordinary window glass. and
which is a perfect imitation Of stained
glass. 1t comes, Of course, in all colors.
and stained glass window which for
J merly cost $50 can now be perfectly i'm
!, itated for $3.50. and the stained glass
, workers cannot compete against such
f prices.
, Label stickers in the canneries are
now face to face with machine which
will label 10000 cans in ten hours
which does not give the hand worker
much of a chance. Even the profess
+ sions. so-caled. are threatened by mod
ern inventions. The shorthand report
, ers are watching with dis..ay the i'm
provements being made in the phono
graph. Experts are HoW at work try
ing to devise a scheme whereby The
enable compos:tor to operate his limo
type machine directly from the phono
graph and set up a speech without tn
Intervention of written copy" Whel
this is accomplished the shorthand maj
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at worl
on ranie, a peculiar vegetable fibe
- which they expect will supersede cot
ton. 1t grows in the Malay islands
China and Japan, but could be raised il
70 England if the demand warranted.
. is silky, much stronger than cotton an
3: finer than fax. The chemical trea,
D. ment to which it is now subjected rot
the fber, but when that is overcome
is thought it will closely push cotto
on account Of its cheapness and the eos
with which it 10 eultivated.-Chicag
Chronicle.