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and renewed in 1909 till August 17, 1914. It included all European
plate-glass works, with the exception of an English concern, a plant
owned by the latter in Maubeuge, France, and the Russian plateglass
 factories, Altogether 25 plate-glass works in Belgium, Germany,
 Austria, France, Holland, and Italy belonged to the syndicate.
 Together they represented about one-half of the world’s production,
 of which, again, about one-fourth was controlled by' the
eight Belgian works. ’
The main purpose of the international convention was regulation
of the production and sale of plate glass of all grades and strength.
The organs of the convention were:
(1) A central committee, which regulated the production in all
countries concerned and sought to harmonize it continuously with
the demand.
(2) A selling committee, which regulated the selling price in the
world’s markets with the exception of Germany and France, where
prices were regulated by the two national organizations, the French
Comptoir and the German Verein.
(3) A bureau which supplied the central and the selling committees
with the statistics necessary for their work, and supervised the execution
 of the convention’s resolutions.
During a certain number of days in each month all grinding machines
 of the syndicate were shut down.
The glass factories also organized an export selling organization,
which was to cooperate with similar organizations already existing
in several countries.
A new organization, the Union Continentale Commérciale des Glacaries,
 a stock company, was formed December 28, 1912, with a central
office in Brussels. The capital stock of the company was 2,000,000
francs. The 4,000 shares of the concern, at 500 francs each, were
held as follows: !

Bhares.
5 plate-glass factories in Belgium. . 2,436
8 plate-glass factories in Germany 240
3 plate-glass factories in France. 970
1 plate-glass factory in Holland.. 314
| plate-glass factory in Bohemia. 40
BorTLEs.—In 1907 an international bottle-makers’ syndicate was
organized, which controlled the production of 1,428,500,000 bottles.
The apportionment of production was as follows: Belgium, 1,250,-000,000
 bottles; Germany, 53,000,000; England, 30,500,000; France,
29,500,000; Austria, 16,000,000; Holland, 7,000,000; Sweden and Norway,
 3,200,000; and Denmark, 2,400,000. It was agreed that .the
sale of bottles should remain as formerly in the bands of the pro-—_—
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