364 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE.

AvomiNum.—Close relations exist between the ‘‘Merton concern’
and the aluminum industry, especially the French Aluminum Syndicate,
 and through the latter with the International Aluminum Cartel
formed in 1912. The Metallgesellschaft of Frankfurt, a. M., was
instrumental in organizing the French Aluminum Syndicate in
November, 19:0, and since then it has served in the capacity of its
common selling agency, which handles the entire export of the
French Aluminum Syndicate. The following companies are members
 of the French syndicate: Société Electro-Métallurgique frantaise
 (“Froges’”), Compagnie des Produits Chimiques d'Alais et de
la Camargne (‘““Salindres’’), Société des Forces Motrices et Usines
de 1'Arve, Société des Produits Electro-Chimiques et Métallurgiques
des Pyrénées, Société Electro-Métallurgique du Sud Est, and the
Société d’Electrochimie.!
Several aluminum factories also manufacture calcium carbide,
and in 1900 the Deutsche Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt organized
and managed a syndicate of calcium-carbide producers, which was
dissolved in the following year. An international carbide syndicate
was formed in 1910 for a period of 10 years, of which all of the 58
carbide factories of Europe (in France, Switzerland, Germany,
England, Austria, Norway, and Sweden) became members.
The electrical industry has for many years been closely connected
with the manufacture of calcium carbide, especially the Schuckert
interests?
[n October, 1910, the following German producers organized the
German Aluminum Purchasing Association (Deutsche Aluminium
Einkaufsvereinigung):
Fried. Krupp-Grusonwerk, A. G.
Julius &amp; August Erbsloh,
Karl Berg in Eveking.
Vereinigte Deutsche Nickelwerke in Schwerte.
Th. Goldschmidt in Essen.
Basse &amp; Selve, Liidenscheid.
Through this purchasing combine the metal industry was connected
 with the Krupp concern, the great steel, shipbuilding, ordnance,
and munition manufacturers, on the one hand, and with the copper
and brass industry on the other. Basse is one of the directors of the
Liidenscheider Metallwerk, A. G., Vormals Jul. Fischer und Basse,
a large consumer of metals and a producer of fine machinery and
various articles from copper, brass, and new silver. American metal

1C. Dux, Die Aluminium-Industrie A.-G. Neuhausen, p. 32; W. Kossmann, Ueber d. wirt. Entw. der
\luminiumindustrie, 1911, pp. 30, 52, 117; Kartell-Rundschau, 1911, p. 60.
2 Kartell-Jahrbuch, 1910, 3, p. 83.
¢P, Wangemana, Die Calciumearbidindustris (Dresden), 1904, pp. 75 fol.
+L. Silberberg, Kartell-Jahrbuch, 1010, V. I, pt. 4, p. 37,
Vy Handbuch der Bdrsen-Werte. 1912-14, V. IT, p. 2353,