CONDITIONS IN PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES. 25%
Rhein.-Westfilische Baumwollspinner, E.-V., M.-Gladbach,” has 70
members!
» Weaving.—Several well-organized cartels exist in the weaving industry.
 The ‘Verband Sichsisch-Thiiringischer Webereien, E.-V.,”
Leipzig, hes 297 members. It was organized in 1904 by six associations
 of manufacturers. The cartel maintains uniform, minimumprice
 schedules and regulates conditions of sale and shipping. It
also has agreements with several wholesale dealers’ associations and
with the Association of Hamburg Exporters and the ‘‘Associated
Exporters of Saxony and Thuringia.””? The South German and
Alsatian cotton weavers are organized and control about 85,000 looms.
In order to stabilize market conditions, the members of this combine
agreed to shut down their factories for one day each week during the
first quarter of 1914.3
Embroidery and lace industry.—Germany’s export of linen lace coods
and laces in 1913 was valued at 3,884,000 marks ($970,000), of which
the bulk, valued at 2,036,000 marks ($500,000) went to the United
States. The total export of cotton lace goods and laces was valued
at 48,329,000 marks ($12,000,000). The value of the embroidered
cotton, woolen, and linen goods exported was valued at 33,726,000
mar’ = ($8,400,000). These goods come mostly from Saxony, where
the wanufacturers are combined in the “Fabrikantenverein der
Sichsischen Stickerei-und Spitzenindustrie,” Plauen i. V., which has
274 members. This cartel purposes, among other things, to promote
the common interests of the embroidery and lace industry of Saxony
by joint agreement and action among the manufacturers in practical
matters of trade and business. Violations of the cartel provisions
and resolutions, which include also regulation of selling conditions,
are subject to fines of from 50 to 1,000 marks.
Zanella and serge—The manufacture of zanella (a mixed twilled
fabric for umbrellas and lining) and of serge has become an important
branch of the German textile industry. It is centered mainly in the
Wupper Valley, in Elberfeld and Barmen, and in Saxony and Alsace.
Cotton goods are manufactured mostly in Alsace, woolen in Saxony,
and half woolen in the Wupper Valley. In the latter district 25 firms,
combining 44 plants and about 10,000 looms, are engaged in this
industry.
In 1894 a well-organized cartel, the ‘‘ Allgemeine deutsche Zanellakonvention,”
 Elberfeld, was formed by 26 firms engaged in the
“iw. Lochmiiller, Zur Entwicklung der Baumwollindustrie in Deutschland, Jena, 1908, p. 66; 1 Hand.
such wirtschaftl. Vereine u. Verbinde d. Deutschen Reichs, herausgeg. v. Hansa-Bund, 1913, p. 302.
: Handbuch wirtschaftl. Vereine u. Verbinde d. Deutschen Reichs, p. 304.
t Berliner Jahrbuch fitr Handel u. Industrie, 1913, vol. II, p. 391.
Statistisches Jahrbuch f. d. Deutsche Reich, 1914, p. 216.
/Handbuch wirtschaftl. Vereine u. Verbinde 4. Deutschen Reichs, p. 311.
iLeon Mirus, Die Futterstofiweberei in Elberfeld und Barmen (Leipsic), 1909, p. 29 fol.
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