Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-07
IRELAND THROBBING
WITH ACTIVITY IN
MUNITION MAKING
After Demand for Munitions Of
War Became Great Ireland
Got Her Share of the Work to
Do for the British Empire.

DUBLIN. Nov 6-Ireland is now at
work on a large scale in the manufac-
ture of munitions of war.
For several years past there has
been only one large Irish factory of
war material, Kynoch's in County
Wicklow. It is an off-shoot of the i
birmingham firm of which Arthur
Chamberlain, brother of the famous
English statesman. was the head But
the necessities Of the war have in ire
land. as i'm England turned other
trades into the munitions bushes I
When the demand was made i'm Great
Britain for a great extension Of the /
manufacture Of all sorts of war ma
terials Mr. Redmond saw to it that .
! Ireland should have share in the /
scheme Representatives of Mr.. I.
Lloyd Georges new department came .
over TO ireland an dgot into touch /.
/ with leading business men in Dublin I.
| end throughout the country. The Dub
| lin Chamber of Commerce gave active
assistance and formed a special muni-
tons committee.
The work is now well in hand and
no less than one hundred and seventy
] firms in Ireland are engaged in IT,
/ Large orders have been placed in
Dublin, and one firm has got an order
for twenty thousand pounds, a small
figure on the general scale of this
war, but a good deal of money for a
city where employment is scarce and
industry backward Mr.. Lloyd George
has established in Dublin a branch Of
flee which is expected to ensure not
only the execution Of war contracts
but a continuance of government work
after the war A central arsenal is
. being constructed and equipped with
special machinery. Every avaible ma
chine is being pressed into the service.
even those used i'm the City of Dublin
Technical Schools for the training Of
pupils The employees at the new
works are to be divided into five class
es, skilled and unskilled men, skilled
and unskilled women and auxiliaries
who will work at times when the reg
ular hands are resting as at week
ends. Employment is not to be re-
stricted to men outside military age,
the idea being that the munitions
worker is as useful as the soldier
Belfast whose main activity i'm the
war interest has been the increase in
the output of shipping from its fam
GUS yards has also gone seriously into
the munitions business. Cork and
Limerick, and even some of the small
er towns throughout the country are
also employing all the machinery they
can command i'm making shells OF
parts Of shells.
Munitions are not the only branch
of war trade of which Ireland has de
manded and received a share Some
of the textile factories have had good
orders for clothing materials. Ireland
never has in the past secured a fair
share Of government expenditures, and
at the beginning of the war was great
Is hampered i'm competing for con-
tracts by the fact that the depots for
examining and receiving goods were
in London. Agitation however, led
TO the establishment of a depot in
Dublin where certain classes of goods
of Irish manufacture are dealt with.
But there are still restrictions limit
ing the classes of goods, and an effort
is being made to widen the utility of
the depot by admitting to it all the
goods produced in ireland which are
required for military and other govern
ment services.
rwT { nd
remain agriculture, and one of the
most Indispensable of war munitions
is food A vigorous campaign has
been instituted under Government au-
spices to increase the output Of food
products i'm Ireland. She used to be
told that her function was to be the
fruitful mother of hocks and herds.
Now the cry is all for tillage. The
! difficulty is that the grazing ranch
/ system which belongs to the old the
DRY has not been abolished, and the
/ people have not complete access to the
/ land. They are puzzled by the two
/ voices with which they are addressed
on their duty in the war. On the one
hand they are told that it is the duty
| of the farmers to enlist, that the state
has done a good deal for the Irish
farmer aud that his time has come "a
show his gratitude by shouldering q
rife in the new armies. Comment is
| freely made on the fact that the farm
ers and the farmers sons have not en-
/ listed in the same proportion as Other
classes. The complaint is true as re
! CARDS farmers of all parts of IRELAND
and Of all parties and creeds 1t b
true of English farmers as well. Blu
now there is the new campaign TO
increased food production which can