Arizona silver belt., 1900-11-08
MOKKMEN DISPLACED
Introduction of Improved Machinery
 Taking Their Jobs.
some Artisans Are Now Entirely without Employ ymcnf - Even the so-CaIied Professions
 Are Threatened.

English workmen, If 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 callings in Great Britain owing to the introduction of improved machinery in America, Norway, Ger many and other coutnries and the enor- nous exports to England of manufac- ,ured goods which were once made in England. but which the reduced cost of manufacture in this coutnry have crowded out of Englishmcn's hands. Small wooden articles, such as clothes bnps, skcwers, umbrella sticks and mousetrnp., 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 Il supertluity there, except to put the parts together The blaming mills ai.i sash. door and blind factories of this country deliver at English towns all of the component parts of a house su 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 employment, since the great cooper ing establish ments of this country ship vast uuantiiies of wood cut into slaves, beads and wooden hoops, so that the English cooper has but to put them to- gether They are shipped knock down" so as to ecouomize space on the ships.and are put togetherin England by boys at small wages. The stained glass industry. too. has received a setback through the introduction of sort of gelntine film which can be readily ap- piled to ordinary window glass, and which IS perfect imitation of stained glass II comes of course, in all colors, and a stained glass window which for mcrly cost $50 can now be perfectly i'm itated for S2.50. and the stained glass workers cannot compete against such prices.
 Label stickeI's in the canneries are nov face to face with machine which will label 10000 cans in ten hours, which does not give the hand worker much of chance Even the profes- sions. so-called. are threatened by mod rrn inventions. The shorthand report rrs are watching with dismay the i'm provements being made in the phono- graph. Experts are now at work try ing to devise scheme whereby the phonograph can be run slow enough 10 enable q compositor tu operate his lino- type machine dirccely from the phono- graph and set up speech without the intervention Of written copy When this is accomplished the shorthand man will have to go driving an ice wagon.
 English inventors are hard at worla lu ruuic. peculiar vegetable fiber which they expect will supersede cot lon II grows in the Malay islands,
 'hina and Japan. but could be raised in England if the demand warranted. IL is silky. much stronger than cotton and finer shan flax. The chemical treat mrni to which it is now subjected rots the fiber. but when that is overcome it is thought il will closely push cotton on account of it's cheapness and the ease with which it is cultivated Chicago Chronicle