Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1913 — Trusts In Asia Minor. [ARTICLE]

Trusts In Asia Minor.

About the year 100 B. C. Thyatira came under the power of Rome, and though in the days of the republic it suffered much from oppression and extortion great commercial prosperity came to it with the inauguration of the empire. About the time that St. John wrote tiie Revelation it was at the height of its wealth and prosperity as a business city. It is known that there were more trade guilds in Thyatira than in any other city of Asia, for inscriptions tell us that there were guilds of linen workers, wool workers, dyers, bronzesmiths, potters, bankers, tanners and slave dealers. The selling of ready-made garments was an important business of Thyatira, but whether there were the accompaniments of sweatshops, long hours and scanty pay, we are not told. — Correspondence of the Christian Herald.