Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — New Sanitary Ware Trust. [ARTICLE]

New Sanitary Ware Trust.

When McKinley raised the duties on sanitary pottery ware from 55 and 60 per cent, to 65 and 70 per cent., by putting duties on packing caskes, the seven manufacturers at Trenton, with one in East Liverpool, Ohio, and one in Baltimore, practically had a trust, though each firm owned Its own factory. Since duties were increased the manufacturers, some of whom have made millions in a few years, cut wages about 15 per cent, after a long strike against a reduction of 10 to 40 per cent. The method of doing business by “understandings” oi “agreements" is e*t ea-

tirely satisfactory to the manufacturers, and on May 28, 1892, five of the big manufacturers at Ttenton incorporated In one company with a capital of $3,000,000. Those in this combine—called the "Trenton Potteries Company’—are the Empire, the Orescent, Cook & Hancock, Delaware, Oliphant & Co., the Equitable, Leuckel, Coxon & Co., and the Enterprise, Styrm, Umpleby and Bryan. This trust may confidently be expected to issue another "revised" price list similar to the one issued to April, 1891, advancing the price of their goods.