The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-20
MERGERS GROWING POPULARP
Even Trust Busters Merging as Public
Learns Dement'S OF big Business.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN--Sir. Is
big business becoming popular and bet
ter understood? Even the Bureau of
Corporations at Washington Is PREPAY
ing to merge with the new Interstate
Trade Commission. The bureau has
completed a card index of interlocking
directors. Being card indeged 10 . mild
punishment, and boiling oil or the ap-
plication of German culture might have
been used had not the voters this month
declared for business sanity.
Current events have shown the ne
cessity for production on a large scale,
especially In getting and keeping for
eign markets and preventing Americans
now engaged in making goods for ex-
port from losing their places and be-
coming competitors OF those working to
supply home markets.
In the suit TO dissolve the 1nterna-
tional Harvester Company that corpo-
rations claims that II benefited It's en-
ployees and customers and the pubic
and was conducted in an exemplary
manner were fully admitted by all the
Judges One OF them filed an opinion
against dissolution, and the two others
pronounced for Il solely on the ground
OF the large proportion OF farm machine
good prospect when the case goes to the
Supreme Court. which recently declared
that mere size Is rot q valid reason for
prosecution under the Sherman law
The report OF the annual meeting OF
the United States steel Corporation for
1914 contains food for thought for GER
rain statesmen should they ever De abe
20 overcome their evid nj aversion for
thought. More than 10000 employees Of
the corporation own stock in Z and
some Of them were present.
The chairman said page 81 Very
much has been said by public speakers
concerning the twelve hour day labor.
Our twelve hour men are not employed
continuously The employees themselves
objected 10 the reduction Of hours be-
cause necessarily Il would result in a
reduction OF their wages They dec de
Tor themselves largely how many hours
they wish TO work"
7 Evidently the public speakers" did
not take the trouo.e 10 ascertain the
wishes OF the workers
Samuel Wilkinson, an EN- ployee-stoc
holder from E,wood City, Ind, holding
the proxies OF e21 others, said page
( 10Y: They 1.-THE co-porationl are doing
al they can for US"
/ Edwin r. Smith. employed at Canal
Dover, OHIO, thinks the twelve hour
man az a rul. "is not hard WORKING
man 81 all" and there IL one-third Of
the time as a rule that tho twelve hour
man does not work" He adds (pa ge
pa The employer never esta blished the
Twelve hour day helped to establish
Il and every wo-k,ngmaa who helped
70 build Up the iron business helped to
establish H. And the refusa! In many
cases 70 grant the twelve hour day
would Rave been A sufficient cause for
valkout many time
Hugh J Mccormack. an eight hour
, man from Cleveland said image 2e)
! Il DO more work thar those men in the
blast furnaces do n tw,lv hours. You
see our work Is continuous ana they
/ have st.ll periods"
The twelve hour day is being dis
continued In many cases
Thus van!shes the twelve hour bogie
assa 81 even ny Colorel Roosevelt. who
a,Nars >,ass q Tined states s;ea as /.
good corporation" Pu5l 9 Enforcement
q his class fcatior IS indicated nv the
cact that among the few States ne car
r!e1 IN 1912 we're Pennsylvania. M!chi-
gan and Minnesota. while ne almost
carried Illinois and ian vel IN Ohio and
Indiana. In thsse States the corpora
ton has most % is plants On the
other hand a Kentucky Concrcssrlar
"aose fame rested N an alleged invest.-
ra-ion u this corporation has just been
defeated rather easily for a Senate nom
nation BY his rival IN his own party.
SMALL SrocKHoLnEs.
WASHINGTON, p. c. November 10