The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-30
GERMAN ANILINE
DYEMAkERS FORM
GIGANTIC TRUST
Seven Concerns With an Aggre.
gate Capitalization Of $780,
100000 Are United.
FIGHT TO REGAIN MARKETS
Apparently In Position to stifle Swiss
Dye Industry by Withholding Coal
ALLIES anS keutrais sre De-
veioplnp New industries.

Berne, Switzerland.-Witha capital
New York OF $50,000.000, the seven
leading German aniline dye factories
have organized gigantic trust with
the object of regaining German su.
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 $13,.
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 $7,508, 900; the
Aniline Manufacturing company, S.
100000; Weilerter Nicer, 100000
and Kalle & Co., $1,5O0,000. The Ba-
den works reported net profits last
year of nearly $5,0OO,OO0 and the
Hoechst company of just under 3d.
100000. Each paid . dividend of 20
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
lasts another year the foreign mar
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-
tons, carried out by hundreds Of
chemists and experts, has stopped.
The chemists are now employed in
devising new gas bombs and other
deadly weapons to be used against
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.
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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 specially hither-
to made only in individual factories
shall be communicated to all the rest,
and the same applies to each new dis
coyery 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.
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 stifle
the new competition. That these
measures will cause serious injury to
the German textile trades is certain,
strong enough to stand up against the
combine, which will have the power