Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-07
IRISH MILL RUNS
IN AMERICAN WAY
Big Plant Breaks in Work.
men to Make Steel as 1t
Is Made Here.
BY RUTH RUSSELL.
Special Correspondence of The Even
ing Star and Chicago Daily News.

Copyright. 1872
CORK, Ireland June 3.--On the edge
of the sidewalks in Cork there is a
human curbing of idle men. Just now
most of them are sons of farmers or
farm hands, for the farmer of the
south is turning his acres back to
grazing and extra hands are not
needed.
Why don't they get jobs?
"Irishmen are temperamentally
ayerse to industrial:zation," says Cor
don Campbell, the new secretary or
the ministry of labor. who has done
much in the settling of labor disputes.
In support of his theory. the TIT ma.
Nog." the great Cork industries fair,
with it's dozen little booths, IKE
small church bazaar, might nave peen
offered as indication.
l. In spite of the current belle1.
great American factory has sprung up
in Cork. 1t is employing 400 men ana
plans to have 1000. It's faith IN irish
labor has been twice confirmed. An
English firm has purchased Two great
shipbuilding areas in Cork Maroon
The Cunard and White Star lines an
nounce that they will make tneir
Queenstown call again.
At the American Factory.
How goes Irish labor at the Ameri-
can factory?
On an epochal day this spring that
marked the coming OF big INDUSTRY
into southern Ireland. irish laoorers
handled their first molten metal az
Henry Ford's factory. In the nrst OF
the three long sheds the workmen
were on their knees putting wet
brown sand over molds for iron. At a
given signal each man sprang 70 nus
feet. Each one took up little black
ladIe and stood about a huge cupola
at the end of the room. From the
mouth Of the cupola orange metal
was flaming into black kettle
Fire metal is new TO tnefh. Eath
one has to be slowly trained, and. I'M
like an American factory. there Is no
fellow Workman to show how, ex-
planned william Jackson. formerly or
Detroit, Mich. and Birmingham. Ala,
the young engineer. under whose
tuteiage the factory hands are deVei-
oping.
Resides they are unused to our
speed. on the farm and in the few in
dustries already in Cork. men nave
been allowed to put half-hearted ef-
fort into a fifty-four or seventy-hour
week. They have been given many
religious holidays. Now they have a
quick working forty-eight-hour week
and fewer holidays. Cork laborers
want to earn the high Ford wage-it
is 25 per cent higher than the town
wage. SO the American pay is sought,
though it means American work"
"C-c-crack one of the arms of
the kettle crane improvised in the
Jealous hurry of the young engineer
to train his men for the work go long
retarded by war, snapped. The black
kettle beneath the cupola spout
swung back Sparkling red metal
fountained up and splintered along
the gray cement floor.
The Boys "Stood By"
Big-eyed the farmer boys ran back
few steps and stopped. Smoking
smoldering sparks they shook out of
their blue jeans. AS soon Is the me-
chanic in charge of the metal control
shut off the flow they restored the
crane arm, filled their ladies from
the kettle and poured the orange
stream into the mouths of the brown
molds.
They're adaptable smiled the
young engineer, returning breathless
from supervision of the shutofr.
"They stood by"
Lack Of modern training, rather
than aversion to industrialization is
held to be the cause Of the difficulty
Of introducing the Irishman into fac
tory life