Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-19

made in three factories. The mold shops in
over 25 other factories will be closed. This
change will throw over 1000 moldmskers
out Of employment
COULD NOT CLOSE TWENTY-FIVE.
''The newspapers also announce that the
flint glass firm of Dovle 4 Co., of Pittsburg,
has Joined the combine 1t is claimed
that the acquisition of Doyle & Co. will
make the combination strong enough to
control production, dictate prices and freeze
out small competitors.
''Now, in regard to the above statement,
what are the facts? The whole number of
factories at present included in the United
States Glass Company isis. How, therefore,
is it possible to close the mold shops in %
concerns? The whole number of mold
makers I'm the 15 factories is about 100. How
can the combination then possibly throw
1000 mold makers out of employment?
These statements are a fair sample of what
is being misrepresented in regard to this
organization. So far from its having been
the result of high protection the fact is that
steps were taken as early as May, 1890,
which resulted in the formation of the
United States Glass Company. 1t is not
trust in any sense of the word, but it is the
consolidation of the works heretofore
separate, the new company having the actual
ownership of all the works. 1t has not
taken into the. organization any companies
or firms whose record did not show that they
had done profitable business in the past
at is not the policy of the company to re-
duce prices nor to crush out competition.
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reason of any control of the business. The
company does not control the business,
having less than one-half of the capacity of
production, and having no intention of
taking into the consolidation all or nearly
all of the parties now in the business.
ONLY SEES ONE WAY.
''The fact is that Governor Campbell has
taken his facts from such sources as the New
York EyeaiRg Post which sees nothing e1-
cept through free trade glasses.
Il thought You might be glad to be put
into possession of the facts as to answer
this particular Misrepresentation of your
opponent.
Vice President William c. King was in
tcrviewed yesterday on these charges of the
Ohio Governor He characterized them as
pure political buncombe, and as having no
bearing cn the tariff question. He said that
his company was an association of firms
brought together under one management
for the purpose of minimizing expenses and
maintaining uniformity in the price of
goods by nullitying the power of individual
firms to cut rates He said that from 6 to
13 mold makers were employed in each
plant and the company never had more
than 100 mold makers in its employment.
There were fully as many men employed by
the company in this department as before
the association was effected
A badge, the cut of which appears above,
was sent 10 THE DISPATCH office yesterday,
with the compliments of Z. Van Dusen.
Lettering on ribbon attached to the badge
saws that il was made from steel sheets
rolled by the Piqua Rolling Mill, Septem-
Der s, and coated with California tin and
Missouri lead by the Cincinnati Corrugat-
ing Company, Of Piqua, September IA, con-
tanning not an atom of foreign metal