The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-10-13
STARR COUNTY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1899

machinery and other manufactured
products into tn .sts.
The Foundry trust, the Stove trust,
the Hardware trust, the Nail trust,
these are all important combinations,
which together employ 10000 per-
sons. There is Rolling Mill trust,
Tube trust, a Scissors trust, Jewelry
trust. Hardly anything has been over
,1oked.
The manufacturers and tanners of
leather have had among them for sew
eral years leather trust, called the
United States Leather company, but
1t is only at the present time that the
leather interests have virtually com
bined. There are employed in the
tanneries and factories thus united
100000 persons.
Charles r, Flint has finally succeed
ed In forming Rubber trust that will
stick. There are 10000 persons en-
ployed by the Rubber trust. One-half
Of the factories, it is reported, have
been closed by consent, at che time or
another, since the first Flint combine
was formed.
The Glass trust has been made into
a very close monopoly. There was al
ways an agreement between the chin
ney glass makers of Pittsburg, but
within month the manufacturers of
plate glass, windowglass, bottles and
every kind of blown glass have en-
tered into combinations, involving 5O,-
900 employees.
Traction Trusts.
The American Tin Plate company,
capital $50000,000, is the tin plate
trust, which employs $4,000 persons.
The Flour trust and the Cracker
trust may well be dealt with together.
Together they employ 113O persons.
The Flower-Whitncy Traction syn
dicates are now commonly considered
as industrial trusts, but in reality they
are ideal trusts, because they ap-
proach so close to the model of a true
monopoly. The Whitney syndicate
controls every surface system in Man
haitian, with one exception, and the
same Is true of the Flower syndicate
in Brooklyn. In addition, the Whit
ney- -Elkins syndicate controls all the
electric streetcar lines in Philadel-
phia, and all in Jersey City, Hoboken,
Newark and that part of New Jersey.
The Flower syndicate Is about to take
over the Yerkes elevated and surface
systems in Chicago. Thus these two
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the largest Of their kind In the world,
and grow into great transportation
trusts, which do not give either the
public or their employees any choice
in the matters of fare and wages.
This is all that any trust can do.
The Pullman and Wagner car trusts
are ON a par with the ordinary indus
trial trusts. Together they employ
$4,000 persons.
The Copper trust illustrates a curl
Gus fact about trusts, which Is that
the capitalization of trust bears no
definite relation to the number of en-
ployes. Although there are $400, ,000,-
900 of capital, the total number of en-
ployes, miners, smelters, etc., is only
ABOUT 10000.
The Dressed Beef combine employs
directly $4,000 persons, and it controls
the entire business of raising cattle
for food. 1t has followed in the tracks
of the Standard Oil trust, and makes
every residuary product Of slaughtered
animals, even the calves foot jelly
and beef extract. There are 10000
butchers who must buy it's meats.
There are 1000 stockraisers, herders
and drovers who depend upon it for
their occupation.
In this way there are 100000 per-
sons who are directly tributary to the
Dressed Beef combine, and indirectly,
In the making Of lard, cleaning mix
lures, cotton-seed oil, jelly, glue, beef
extract, and in the curing of ham and
bacon and in the making of canned
meats, there are 10000 more persons
employed by manufacturers, Gamers
and packers who are in the east or
are not affiliated with the Chicago and
Kansas City Dressed Beef combine,
Thus there is to be credited to the
beef combine the control of over 2S0,-
900 workingmen.
Lumber Syndicates.
The Lumber trust Is in reality part
ly trust and partly a general trade
agreement whereby by common con-
sent there Is general scale of wages
and Of prices for the different kinds of
wood. There are 100000 persons en-
ployed in the lumber and timber in
dustries. Almost without exception
the cutting Of timber and the hand
| ling of lumber has passed out OF pri-
vate hands and into large trusts or
| syndicates.
The change in this industry has
been a radical one. Every month al
most sees some new combination, and
one vast region after another goes
into the control % lumber trust or
q timber trust.