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Show HAND LABOR IS BEING DISPLACED American Machinery Is Now Used in Europe in Enormous Enor-mous Quantities. LONDON. March 4 The use of machinery, particularly American ma chinery, in place of hand labor, is being be-ing widely discusseJ as one of the large problems to be met with after the war. Under the stress of war enormous quantities of American machinery ma-chinery have ber-n brought into Eng land, France and other countries at war. for manufacturing harness, shoes, guns, shells, and the whole range of 1 war equipments At Havre the Belgian Bel-gian government factory, employing 12.500 workmen, has 90 per cent American Amer-ican machinery. Going through these works, an Associated Press representative representa-tive noted at every hand the machinery machin-ery bearing the marks of firms at Bridgeport, Providence, Boston, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Cincinnati and many other poiuts The harness factory, for turning turn-ing out cavalry and artillery supplies, was entirely equipped with American machinery. The manager of the works said English Eng-lish machinery was good only on the huge, ponderous machines, but that American machinery was practically alone in the tield on fine automatic work replacing the dexterity of hand work. He estimated that the heavy English and French machines, chiefly in the foundries and machine shops, were under ten per cent of the plant, all the rest being American. Some of the American machines were pointed out as having an ingenuity almo.-t human. hu-man. One of them, used in polishing the discs of shells, employed a magnetic mag-netic current to hold the discs firmly while the emery wheels did the polishing. pol-ishing. To the Belgian worker this was little short, of macic, as he had always held the discs in his hand, while now the touching of a button gripped the discs until the work was ; done. There is the same influx of these labor-saving machines all over England, France and unoccupied Bel-Kium, Bel-Kium, and in fact all over allied Europe, Eu-rope, Eyes of British. Besides doinc the war work of all kinds, this new use of machinery has opened the eyes of producers as to what machinery could do for increasing increas-ing British production when normal conditions are restored. It has been argued as one of the chief weapons to combat the revival of German manufacturers manu-facturers and another "Made In Ger- many" campaign. Orip expert ha shown that most of the factories in England wcrp equipped in tho days of steam, and have taken no account of electricity as a new motive power. He figures out thai this old-time equip ment cannot possibly compete with American and German production. This view is widely held, and besides the American machrriery is already li'-n- furnishing its own argument in the war work. At the recent labor congress at Manchester Man-chester the delegates referred to this new use of machinery as one of the j chief after the-war problems, as It would limit and compete with the hand labor of men returning from the army to chil occupations. But while I recognizing it as a danger, they appeared ap-peared to accept the increased use of j machinery, particularly American machinery, ma-chinery, aa one of the assured facts brought out by the war. One of the resolutions passed called on the government gov-ernment to give special attention to the nerds oi workmen resulting from this new and enlarged competition I from machinery . rw |