The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-07-15
ABOUT HAVEMEYER'S HELLS
These Are What Congress Fur
nishes a Protective Duty.
How the Sugar Trust Treats Its
WOrkmen.
Systematic Murder Under the Guiss
OF Business Details of
Terrible Condition OF
Affairs.

In view of the extent to which the
sugar trust now figures in national poll
tics. the following abstract of an article
in the Chicago Times, concerning the
Havemeyers at their refinery in Brook
lyn (where some 125 men are annually
roasted to death) may be OF interest:
The brothers, Frederick G. and VIM.
F. Havemeysr, came to New York from
Schaunburg-L ipps, Germany, in 1902
The present Henry P. Havemeyer's faith
or and son Of the above f. G. H., was
born in Vandam street, New York. in
1867, and died in 1891. The whole fam
lily were sugar manufacturers from the
start.
When F. G. H. died no left ON estate
worth $4,000, 900 and four sons, of whom
Henry 0. H. is the present financial
head of the trust, which was formed In
1887 it has no competitor in producing
refined sugar and, as H. 0. Fl. testified
in Washington, can and does regulate
prices in the whole country at its pleas
ure, as it is protected" by the tariff OF
half cent pound OH refined sugsr, to
which must be added an eighth OF
Ccat lVi AdtQTui PIObcCbiOhs Ahuo WV
trust can raise prices fye-eights OF
cent above that OF sugar refined in for
eign countries, before the latter can
come on.
The trust was finally completed whom
Claus Spreckels' Philadelphia refinery
was brought into it and then, as today,
included what had been formerly seven-
teen distinct companies, having daily
capacity of A 300 barrels.
Three other companies, including
6preckels' California company and Hav-
emeyer & Elders American refinery in
this city, are practically in the trust,
and there are no companies outside of 1t.
The combined daily capacity of these 20
concerns is 49, 400 barrels day. We do
not know the average weight OF sugar in
each barrel. but think it will not average
less that 200 pounds. which would be
equal to 9,880,00O pounds. Call it TO-
O0U,000, and at half cent a day that
represents a possible extra profit by the
tariff OF 5000, 900; but as the refneries
are not worked to their full capacity, we
cannot definitely fix the amount of the
plumber from present data. 1t is certain,
however. that its purchasing power has
been sufficient 90 far to buy all the con-
gresham they require, including two
Populist senators.
The trust is capitalized at $50, 600 900,
being SIC, 900 900 capital stock and $l0,-
600, 900 of bonds. The actual value OF
the PLANT is about 100000, 900 The an
nual profits are stated at $50, GOO COO,
but must be much more. The Have
meyers are worth $4,000, 600, and will
probably (lf the present system is con-
tinued) run it up to round billion
within 10 or 20 years.
There are $500 employees in tne Have.
meyer redneries at Brooklyn. and their
hours are am. to pm. If the least
late in coming they are liable to be dis.
charged, and are sure to be locked half
day to day. The mon in the steel
mills work eight hours. The unloading
OF the caeks and bags is done by con-.
tract with steyedore, who pays his
men 25 cents an hour when he has work
for them. Workingmen in the refinery
are principally Germans, and are paid
ST. 40 day for the first year, and may
afterwards be raised to 10 cents day.
Insome rooms the temperature ia that
ofen oven, and the men can only stay
10 minutes at time. Nearly all the
windows in the buildings are closed, to
save the heat. AT 8 O'Clock they have
breakfast. and look more like men who
have been in a shipwreck than men who
are ready to return to some hours more
hard labor"
Last summer the men dropped like
dogs and were carried out by dozens
.s.s AS many as 62'men have been
laid out in a day. Sometimes q man is
killed, but it does not get into the news
papers unless there is some slip In the
discipline of the company. Many Of
the men who are Frustrated by the
haat die, but there are more to take
their places, and the fate Of their pre-
decessors ia not known to the newoom-
ers. Even when men are killed and
newspaper men learn of 1t. they are not
allowed to enter the buildings. One en-
terprising fellow got as far az the third
story before he was headed off. There
10 Q guard armed with a club for every
building, and his especial business is to
see that no one crcBeos the threshold
and to answer no questions strangers
putt him."
The trust sells beer tickets to the
men, % for 81; but three of these drinks
az cents) are only equal to what they
can buy at any saloon carrying pint)
for cents. But If they are discovered
buying outside OF the trust they are dis
charged. There was once labor or
ganization OF tho men, but the trust
throttled that, and now a laborer in
that refinery 'only knows that if he
works long enough, he may become an
under superintendent, at $40 a week.
and he may be roasted to death. The
chances are that he will be roasted to
DEATH"
East June, Dick Crawford brought his
12-nlonths.old child. suffering from in
fantile diarrhea, to me. 1t had been
weRned at months old, and being sickly
everything ran through it like water
through a sieve. l gave it the usual
treatment In such cases, but without
benefit. The child kept growing thinner,
until it weighed but little more than
when born. or. perhaps, 10 pounds. l
then started the father to giving Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhna
Remedy. Before one bottle of the %.
cent aize had been used, a marked i'm
ASrk sad