Arizona silver belt., 1901-05-30
WORKMEN DISPLACED
introduction of improved Machinery Taking
 Their Jobs.

Their Jobs.
 English workmen, If their ideas are correctly reflected by their trade jour uals, are beginning to view with alarm the rapid and steady decline of various trades and callingS in Great Britain owing io the introduction nf improved machinery in America, Norway, Ger
 many and other coutnries 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 coutnry have crowded out of Englishmen's hands. small wooden articles, such as clothes pegs, skewers, umbrella sticks and
 nousetraps, 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- .ng of wooden houses are shipped into rhe British isles in Such quantities and tt such prices that the carpenter is almost supertluity 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 10 realize that they will soon be practically out 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 town" so as to economize space on the ships,and are put togetherin England by boys al small wages. The stained glass industry. too, has received a setback through the introduction of a sort of gelatine film which can be readily ap- piled to ordinary window glass, and which is a perfect imitation of stained glass. Ii comes, of course. in all colors, and stained glass window which for merly cost $50 can now be perfectly i'm. itated for S2.50. and the stained glass workers cannot compete against such 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-called. are threatened by mod .rn inventions. The shorthand report CTS are watching with dismay the im- proyements being made in the phono- graph. Experts are now at work try ing to devise d scheme whereby the phonOgraph can be run slow enough to enable a compositor to operate his lino- type machine direcely 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 work Jn ranie. a peculiar vegetable fiber "hiCh they expect will supersede cot ton. It grows in the Malay islands, 'hina and Japan, but could be raised in England if the demand warranted. 1t is silky, much stronger than cotton and finer than flax. The chemical treat ment to which il is now subjected rots The fiber, but when that is overcome it ,s thought it will closely push cotton on account of it's cheapness and the ease with which it is cultivated. Chicago Chronicle