Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-10
Seven Concerns With an Aggre-
gate Capitalization of $780,
100000 Are United.
Fight TO REGAIN MARKETS
Apparently in Position to StifIe Swiss
Dye Industry by Withholding Coal
Allies and Neutrals Are De-
Veloping New Industries.

lSauluS herman anime aye factories
have organized gigantic trust with
the object of regaining German SUI
premacy in the world markets after
the war. Their plans, long and care
fully prepared, include gaining event
ual control of the Swiss and Dutch
chemical industries, which would give
Germany 80 per cent OF the total out
put Of the world
Three of the manufactures in the
new trust have capital each of $751;
100000, namely, the Baden Aniline
and Soda works, the Elberfeld Color
works and the Hoechst Color works.
The other four members are: Leo
pold Cassella, capital $500, 600; the
Aniline Manufacturing company, S.
100000; Weilerter Nicer, 100000
and Kalle & Co., $1,500,000. The Ba-
den works reported net profits last
year of nearly 100000 and the
Hoechst company of just under s4,-
100000. Each paid dividend Of 30
per cent besides adding very large
sums to their reserves.
German Apprehension.
The endeavors Of the allies gov
ernments, especially England, and of
the chemical industries in neutral
lands, particularly Switzerland, to
capture German foreign markets have
aroused considerable apprehension in
Germany. 1t is feared that if the war
Tapfc
kets will have learned to get along
without German products; the more
so as since the beginning of the war
Germany has brought out no new col
ors. All her highly organized and
comprehensive experimental and re-
search work in synthetical combina-
tions, carried out by hundreds of
chemists and experts, has stopped.
The chemists are now employed in
devising new gas bombs and other
the enemy.
On the other hand, the allies and
neutrals have been developing their
new industries, and have not only
sought to discover new combinations
but have also succeeded in modify
ing international fashions to meet
their temporarily restricted capacity
of production.
Keenly alive to these dangers, the
German manufacturers have long
been preparing the organization of
the combine, which includes some new
features. 1t has been arranged that
full details of every speciality hither-
to made only in individual factories
shall be communicated to all the rest,
and the same applies to each new dis
covery as soon as it is made. Then
too every dyestuff will be produced
simultaneously in at least two works.
And naturally all the other trust de-
tails, such as selling prices at home
and abroad and questions of distribu-
ton and profits and dividends, will be
arranged too. ~NS's",s aAr+4-~ 's--.ssasss.r-
-@s- High Tariff Wall.
Protected by very high tariffs, Ger
man manufacturers will be able to
charge such prices at home as will
Offset their losses in dumping goods
abroad, by which they hope to stife
the new competition. That these
measures will cause serious injury to
the German textile trades is certain,
but the textile manufacturers are not
strong enough to stand up against the
combine, which will have the power
full support Of the Imperial govern
ment
At present Germany's most serious
competitor is the Swiss chemical in
dustry, very highly developed or
ganization doing 80 per cent of the
worlds trade. Since the war this
Swiss business has increased consid-
erably; hence the German manufac-
turers feel the necessity of taking
steps to gain control of this industry.
In the meantime, however, they have
been doing their best to cripple their
Swiss rivals by preventing them from
getting COAL for which Switzerland is
entirely dependent upon Germany.
| Through a coal monopoly sales cen
| ter in Basel, the Germans blacklist
competitors who are trying to make
trouble for them in foreign markets.
They are planning too to get control
of the Dutch chemical industry, al.
though this is much smaller than the
Swiss. If they succeed in getting the
Swiss alone they will control nine
tenths of the whole chemical and dye
trade Of the world.
A $5o,ooo,ooo Fund Here.
When the war broke out the Ger
man dye manufacturers owned i'm
mense stocks of goods abroad, espe-
cially in America and China. These
they have since sold at Enthusiastically
high prices and deposited the pro
ceeds chiefly in New York banks
Well-informed Swiss bankers esti
mate that the total of these sales,
which are now consolidated In the
hondc ne tho frnat amounts IN &E0 600 :.