The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-04-01
Some Trusty News.

A sardine trust is being organized.
The steel and wire trust employs
$4,000 men.
Wagon manufacturers are forming a
combination.
An umbrella trust was incorporated
in New Jersey.
The S3O,00O,0O0 cast iron and pipe
trust is a go.
Canada has recently spent $4,000, 900
in her canals.
A S5o,0OO,OO0 pipe organ trust is in
process of formation.
The livery stables of New York City
are forming a combination.
Another whiskey trust with $5,O00,-
900 capital has been launched.
Fine wooden manufacturers of the
east are being organized into trust.
One hundred concerns will go into
the $75,000,000 knit goods trust.
1t keeps 46 men busy digging graves
for the paupers Of New York City.
The American ice trust has been in
corporated Capital, S60,00O,0OO.
Nine sheet iron and roofing material
manufacturing concerns are combin-
ing.
The wire cloth manufacturers of the
country formed a powerful combine.
During the Christian era 100000
900 human beings have persisted in
war.
A lamp chimney trust, producing 80
per cent of the total output, is new
one.
The school and church furniture
trust is incorporated with $10,00O,000
capital.
>, Kanawa and New River (NVest Vir-
ginia) coal, operators formed a $4,-
100000 trust. -
The railroad companies own 221,-
100000 acres, enough to make six
states as large as Iowa. :
A s5o,ooo,o sheet steel trust is be-
ing organized. The big tin plate trust
is engineering the deal.
The two bakery trusts have just or
ganized and incorporated a $10,000,-
900 trust for the cracker business.
Details are being arranged for the
combination of the manufacture of
gas and electric light fixtures.
Another electrical trust, capitalized
at $20,O00,000, was organized in New
Jersey during the week.
A big combine of capital is forming
in New York for the purpose of utiliz-
ing the tides for power purposes.
A bicycle trust, with S5O,Ooo,O00 cap
ital, is organizing. Ten firms will be
in it, and all middlemen will be abol-
ished..
You will be pleased to learn that a
trust of all the shlp-yards on the Great
Lakes has peen formed. Capitalism
ton $3O,oOO,0o0.
The salt trust has been re-organized
and capitalized at $12,.vv, 900, and now
controls all the works in New York,
Ohio and Michigan.
It is about settled that the Rockefel-
ler-Federal steel interests, have corral
ed the lake shipbuilding concerns,
which will be trustifed at $4,000, 900.
The certificate of incorporation of
the American Ice company, capitalize
ed at $6O,O00,O00, was filed Saturday
in Jersey City by the Corporation
Trust Company.
By the manifold printing process re-
Gently invented in Germany 1000 men
are able to do the worA of the 10000
printers in the United States. The
cost is comparatively a mere trife.
Twenty-Five upper leather concerns
over one-half of the total number, are
already in the new trust, and efforts
are being made to organize the boot
and shoe industry of Massachusetts, in
to trust.
In Bedford, Va, the tobacco workers
have not received any money in five
years. The "pluck-'em'' store has all
lowed them to exist, and that is all.
Still they claim slavery has been abol-
ished.
The first Millionaire trust appears on
the horizon. 1t is international. The