New-York tribune., 1903-03-30

Having gone carefully into this qpeshhofhf hffer
nd that orngan ,a IN the tbs East HTorkngman
Ga .hs na1 eat IS less WeH off, despite the fact tha'
be receives excellent wages IN With is that the
Es1es hss to PoK PPoKng pig so
R1OduGngy gysre an aEfS' WiaS Similar article produced IN
countries wnere wages are eoT resstsd foreign
tine nSe bV means Of Excessive tariffs ns HIS
Wooflen goods are rather nncb better article
5s did that when the tari was lower and Engse
Ion p. Tss no sPtak from the euTou
point is that in those industries Wn5Sn da not at ali
tRow that sdapvness renaTkabe IN I'll oths
iToT tqade and shoe Industry random instances
-chiehy because there are are no 2e csiled upon to
sSngets5tGn s9EBs 9se@sefSes fS when '"ss a IN
line Of progress IN d al sranpe With Tro-
peSn competition on one SIDE Of 1.-The the sde biES
thre haYs YuP eefn Hn who paid ARD
are paying nigh wages are 6E Sv nyyoducins
1sr tads froP oTPce SnOse M price saving
maeneFy "a has ssct yea are ths at WoE Rs IN all things
labor saving machinery has been Srougnt int0
happens to have Ine inventive faculty more largely
deeoped rhs1 has has the Knew that
the American mind is not cTeaa1ei IL fS beeause
sSE samnF 0s bocE Of high wages which stood
in the way Of competition with cneaPiGy peS To
European goods met IN the open Market ha0 ~
0J ove5GO1 yo1 are IN New-York take q walk along
n9 Lance at the names Of the shopkeepers Il is
ssfsF tie fxssgen SsseIeT to to I ds ene ONCE at
inFton and run your eye along the lists OF IN m
osn5Sn o 6aes sna 6ens n9u Not BY any
u Pus Of HPest many ToP of them
BRITISH dgfe I. gh4 hsye secpnse e American
Patent once is infinitely superior to our own anq
because the American manufacturer is keen atLeF
anything and everything that is noVel anu ah lii-
READY TO UTILIZE INVENTIONS,
Neither the British empIoyer nor the BRUSH is,
workman is SO alive as the Sc B4ts no
is sometimes suspicious Of new Invention oT9ugn5 us
o 9 nossbe n he says he win think about
it: that perhaps he will give it trial; that ne VII
sss sny h0w oneg so@e on 0'hsr it. When there IS sha
rather prides himself on his sapience and M reminds
Inc American manufacturer is hardly ever an
DsW ,6ea he doesn't want to see now
firms get on with it before he ventures: if tneTe
Before anybody else has chance. He sees quickly
ThToT Ting on one Side because Of the faults
He sets aDoqt yng to put nraeca faem as man II ne IS
idea SeaK ne out IS tae ae'E5 IDEAS ai'0 aS
4sny inventions in active use in !n America to,6a.
fscturer in England thought well to take up. In
the first state they were probably nor worth taxing
thing who altered. adapted and improved the
how many are the inventions respecting railway
engineering, brought out by Enslishmen not used
u
The most striking recent instance of an English
ing adapted in America is the Eorthgop, loom loom
man which Automatically; when a warp breaks,
stops the machine instantly. and does not GO on
Firl Of experience to look after three or four Or
naT Seg cF ae ye tS scepns to bTeaS o
stop it and repair the warp: and she is not always
IN @s se s Tepsg Mn @
chine another may go wrong With the NoTthT,oP
lot more than fortnight's experience, can look
after twenty looms ~ TIL -. NJ,
River last autumn saw thousands Of the North
0 50P GoI 6eeVe az Single NoTthTop loom in al Lam
cashire-the centre Of the cotton industry or the
has adopted them ~ 10 any extent The Criticism Of
Lancashire manufacturers against the loom was
bear the strain Of the automatc meGhanisp MS and
is that the warp is rough and stronger. But 1t
should not be forgotten that when the loom was
rsT s taHe adT roDr 10 and strong warn T6ere was no
doubt however about the invention being OF use
hung back from any attempt at adaptation: and
only now. when improvements nave been enected
ing TO the possibility-probabilty, maybe, very
MFeIy-that the NorthFop loom can be made ser
viceable in the Lancashire mills.
TRADE UNIONS AND MACHINERY.
Now. whatever trade union leaders say to the
an sn ob5econ to to 6or saving machnery The
motive of resistance, from his llmlted point 9I
and children to keep. and increased machinery may
throw him out of work Certainly it will reduce
as nof aTe2 then eI his likely to be
missed at Is the Sopk GeR than he
work. II he does twice as much work as he has
e dSng o3SsT af ebap R oa o 10 o s h and Is let
Is his easy philosophy. Trade unions have laws
eIouS in effect on trade and bad for the good work
they M nss sssD % s se5 ms afS Down fha3
they help up the wages Of the incompetent
unions Urging Pestrictdn Of outp9 But there
no aniuosity to labor saving machinery.
his Rs Class Fsf IN the SSF %ord give him tins snd vi
tura out better article than anybody 10y eide G sGna b
siueEishness, the American worker becomes but a
PUase G9nd IS alert aH os Got feel that
chinery is going to dispiace him. 1t is exceptional
eat on fGn dnisrSn sapPSed by
the FIRST place the British workman has not tRst hat
second MACE it is none of his bHsness - invent
n the b targ s5vpese Tsea ABOUT u the
fourth, the chances are he might be Snnbhed for
Nothing like this exists in America: There is a
much closer M 1 ca 6e @her Bdss but IL
is only term: and is no admission the employer
On h'S how TSste thing Should be done he viii cheek
back bis empoysr There Is no af1 Yes sir and tR
empioyer proposed that way The workman ;n knows 10
od e ss trs for f him he thinks Of
liberation whereby he can turn out twice as much
ce. tee as much for the same pay They are
partners and the workman will get at least half
the advantage So there is an incentive to all the
mechanics of Ametdca to adapt They make 1t
their business to improve and II is by this whole
sale adoption of labor sA ing machinery that the
dificuIty Of high wages has been largely overcome
But there IS another result With almost every
thinR being cone by machinery there IL need for
skilled artisanshIp. The brains In the machine
and ali the manufacturer requires is somebody 70
look after the machine. That is often q simple
matter, So what British workman learns to do
sfter seven years apprenticeship is I'm America
done by a machine looked after by a lad who mas
had only fortn.gk&s tuition.
YOUTH AT THE HELM
That Is why as the Englishman walks through
American workshops he Is startled to see few