Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-02
grasp upon the industries of the ma

glass factories OF the United States
Before it began operations it's trus,
predecessor in the glass industry had
put up prices to extortionate figures
which the present trust main tains
These prices are about double what
they were four years ago. Although
the capital stock of this trust is $17,.
100000, the actual value of it's plant
has been estimated by one of the or.
ganizers of the corporation, as &c..
100000.
The prices of WINDOW glass in the
United States are twice what they are
in Belgium and England, the chief for.
elgn producers of glass. The effect
OF the trusts control of the American
market is strongly brought out by 8
trade journal, the Commoner and Glass
Worker, which in its issue of October
FL, 1899, said:
From an average price of about
$1.5oper box for single and two dollars
per box for double-strength in 1898,
the value of glass has quite doubled, If
not more than doubled.
Since the existence of the American
Glass company, the greatest advance
in price has taken place. This company
has managed its affairs without change
practically since its formation. and has
done it so well as to not only control
the product, but to fix the price at the
highest possible notch.
The profits during the last three
years have been enormous. The pool
Is said. have made $4,000 in 1895.
a,75o.ooo in 1897, $4,000 900 in 1898, and
still larger profits are anticipated for
1899. ~ is'Ns
AS the tariff on foreign glass aver.
ages about 100 per cent, the American
Glass company has a secure monopoly
dxing Its prices at about the cost Of
foreign glass with the duty added, or
little less, 50 as to discourage foreign
competition. It adjusts its prices so
slosely on THE basis that it has one
scale for Pittsburgh and another for
Boston, foreign glass costing more in
the interior cities than at Atlantic sea-
ports, because OF the additional
freights. The factories of the trust are
at Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh buyers
must pay IL cents box more thar
those OF Boston. because foreign glass
Is that much cheaper in Boston.
It 10 said that the United States is
divided by this glass trust into six diff.
fersnt districts, in each of which diff.
ferent scale of prices exists, accord.
Ing to the cost of laying downimported
glass.
The consumption Of window glass in
this country amounts to about 5,ooo,.
600 boxes yearly, and all but about II
per cent. of this is supplied by the
American factories. The trust has free
natural gas at Pittsburgh, and other ia.
oihttes for cheap production that are
unrivaled abroad, and yet it is exacting
from American consumers twice the
price that 10 charged for the same
GLASS OF goods made in foreign factories
You cannot look out Of the window
without indirectly paying tribute to 9
trust.
with oon mn 1s ct. h Rs'fRts is elas9
in plate i1isss also. rssss. kReXpsr Is
thesF 9ttsburgh Plate Glass company
with a capital stock of $1o,O0O,oo0
Il controls two-thirds of the plat
glass production Of the United State
and has ian understanding" with tn
factories outside the trust. Thi
concern has doubled prices in tn
past two years. Although it bleed
consumers it Expresses its worker
/ paying them low wages and forbit
ding them to join or organize an
union. And yet it profits by high d,
ties, which are pretended to be &c
the purpose OF protecting America
labor" but in reality for the mean
Of robbing the American consume
and expressing the American glas
worker.
1 There are number of the trust
in the various branches Of the gla,
industry, such as the National Mi
ror Manufacturers association, whic
met last September and arbitraril
raised prices from ten to fifteen pt
cent.
The system of plumber and exto
ton practiced by the American Gla
company and the Pittsburgh Pla,
Glass company is not exceptional, b.
merely illustrative. All the gre,
trusts follow the same methods. F
the consolidation Of many plants son
, economies are effected, but these a
moro than offset by the vatering
stock. requiring dividends far in e
cess Of fair return on the actu
I, cost of plants is wrung from co
! sumers through extorhonats prices.
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