The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-30

land is now at work on a large scale
in the manufacture of munitions of
war.
For several years there has been
only one large Irish factory of war
material, Kynoch's in County Wick
low. 1t is an off-shoot of the Bir-
mingham firm of which Arthur
Chamberlain, brother of the famous
English statesman, was the head.
But the necessities of war have in
Ireland, as in England, turned other
trades into the munitions business.
When the demand was made in
Great Britain for a great extension
of the manufacture of all sorts of
war materials, Mr.. Redmond saw to it
that Ireland should have a shaie in
the scheme. Representatives of Mr..
Lloyd Georges new department came
over to Ireland and got into touch
with leading business men in Dublin
and throughout the country. The
Dublin chamber of commerce gave
active assistance and formed a spe-
cial munitions committee.
The work is now well in hand and
no less than 10 firms in Ireland
are engaged in it. Large orders
have been placed in Dublin, and n
firm has an order for 10000 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 office which is en-
pected to ensure not only the execu-
ton of war contracts but a continu-
ance OF government work after the
war. a central arsenal is beinc con-
structed and equipped with epec.ai
machinery.
Every available machine is being
pressed into the service, even those
used in the city of Dublin technical
schools for the training of pupils.
The employees of the new works are
to be divided into five classes,
skilled and unskilled men, skilled
and unskilled women and auxiliaries
who will work at times when the
regular hands are resting, as at
week ends. Employment is not to be
restricted to men outside military
age, the idea being that the NUM-
tons worker is as useful as the sol
der.
Belfast, whose main activity in the
v,n =. tD,a, Io- IA-- ~
in the output of shipping from its
famous yards, has also gone serious
ly into the munitions business. Cork
and Limerick, and even some of the
smaller towns throughout the coun-
try are also employing all the ma
chinery they car command in max
ing shell or parts of shells.
Munitions are 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 lever has in the past Sc
cured a fair share of government eX-
penditure, and at the beginning of
the war was greatly hampered III
competing for contracts by the fact
that the depots for examining and
receiving goods were in London.
Agitation, however, led to the es.
adjustment of a depot in Dublin
where certain classes of goods of
But there are still restrictions lin
iting 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 government services.
Ireland's chief industry is and
must remain agriculture, and one of
the most indispensable of war mu~
nitiOns is food. A vigorous cam
paign has been INSTITUTED under
government auspices to increase the
output of food products in Ireland.
She used to be told that her func-
ton IA to be the fruitful mother OF
flocks and herds. Now the cry is
for tillage. The difficulty is that
the grazing ranch system which be-
longs to the old theory 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 II hand they are told that
it is the duty of the farmers to en-
list that the state has done a good
deal for the Irish farmer and that
his time has come to show his graf
itude by shOuldering a rifle in the
new armies. Comment is freely
made en- the fact that the farmers
and the farmers sons have not en-
listed in the same proportion as 9th
err classes. The complaint is true
as regards farmers of all parts of
Ireland and of all parties and creed.
1t is true of English farmers as