FRANCE, GERMANY AND BELGIUM FORM TRUST
Luxembourg Interests Also in Great European Steel Consortium
Steel interests of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg signed an agreement in Brussels creating a steel consortium, to take effect the following day, with all of Belgium's demands met. Belgian production was fixed at 295,000 tons monthly and its quota would not be raised if the trust's total output exceeded the estimate; the British steel interests remained aloof, and the delegates also aimed at an international office to maintain remunerative prices for steel on the world market.
Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 30 (AP)— The French, German, Belgian and Luxembourg steel interests today signed an agreement creating a great steel consortium. The agreement goes into effect tomorrow. All of Belgium's demands were met, including a monthly production allotment of 295,000 tons.
Under the terms, the Belgian production will be fixed at 295,000 tons monthly, while the production of the entire trust will be in the neighborhood of 27,500,000 tons annually.
Should the total production exceed this figure, the increase will be shared by the nations other than Belgium, whose quota remains fixed.
The plan for the new European steel consortium started in Germany. Some opposition developed at the first meeting in August and subsequently, because of the difficulty of allotting equitable quotas to the member countries and within them. The plants of northern France, destroyed during the war, argued that their percentage of the French production should be larger than the French firms in the west and the center of the country, which not only did not suffer but prospered during the war.
In Belgium the situation was more delicate. First there existed a certain rivalry between the Belgian and Luxembourg plants. Belgian manufacturers were divided among themselves but united in demanding a larger attribution of the output to Belgium. This demand was finally met on condition that their quota would not be raised in event the total production of the trust exceeded 'the estimate.
The British steel interests remained aloof.
Besides fixing a maximum steel production, the delegates aimed at creating an international office for the maintenance of remunerative prices for steel in the world market.
Reproduced unchanged from New Britain Herald, September 30, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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FRANCE, GERMANY AND BELGIUM FORM TRUST
Luxembourg Interests Also in Great European Steel Consortium
Steel interests of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg signed an agreement in Brussels creating a steel consortium, to take effect the following day, with all of Belgium's demands met. Belgian production was fixed at 295,000 tons monthly and its quota would not be raised if the trust's total output exceeded the estimate; the British steel interests remained aloof, and the delegates also aimed at an international office to maintain remunerative prices for steel on the world market.
Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 30 (AP)— The French, German, Belgian and Luxembourg steel interests today signed an agreement creating a great steel consortium. The agreement goes into effect tomorrow. All of Belgium's demands were met, including a monthly production allotment of 295,000 tons.
Under the terms, the Belgian production will be fixed at 295,000 tons monthly, while the production of the entire trust will be in the neighborhood of 27,500,000 tons annually.
Should the total production exceed this figure, the increase will be shared by the nations other than Belgium, whose quota remains fixed.
The plan for the new European steel consortium started in Germany. Some opposition developed at the first meeting in August and subsequently, because of the difficulty of allotting equitable quotas to the member countries and within them. The plants of northern France, destroyed during the war, argued that their percentage of the French production should be larger than the French firms in the west and the center of the country, which not only did not suffer but prospered during the war.
In Belgium the situation was more delicate. First there existed a certain rivalry between the Belgian and Luxembourg plants. Belgian manufacturers were divided among themselves but united in demanding a larger attribution of the output to Belgium. This demand was finally met on condition that their quota would not be raised in event the total production of the trust exceeded 'the estimate.
The British steel interests remained aloof.
Besides fixing a maximum steel production, the delegates aimed at creating an international office for the maintenance of remunerative prices for steel in the world market.
Reproduced unchanged from New Britain Herald, September 30, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from New Britain Herald, September 30, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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FRANCE, GERMANY AND BELGIUM FORM TRUST
Luxembourg Interests Also in Great European Steel Consortium
Steel interests of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg signed an agreement in Brussels creating a steel consortium, to take effect the following day, with all of Belgium's demands met. Belgian production was fixed at 295,000 tons monthly and its quota would not be raised if the trust's total output exceeded the estimate; the British steel interests remained aloof, and the delegates also aimed at an international office to maintain remunerative prices for steel on the world market.
Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 30 (AP)— The French, German, Belgian and Luxembourg steel interests today signed an agreement creating a great steel consortium. The agreement goes into effect tomorrow. All of Belgium's demands were met, including a monthly production allotment of 295,000 tons.
Under the terms, the Belgian production will be fixed at 295,000 tons monthly, while the production of the entire trust will be in the neighborhood of 27,500,000 tons annually.
Should the total production exceed this figure, the increase will be shared by the nations other than Belgium, whose quota remains fixed.
The plan for the new European steel consortium started in Germany. Some opposition developed at the first meeting in August and subsequently, because of the difficulty of allotting equitable quotas to the member countries and within them. The plants of northern France, destroyed during the war, argued that their percentage of the French production should be larger than the French firms in the west and the center of the country, which not only did not suffer but prospered during the war.
In Belgium the situation was more delicate. First there existed a certain rivalry between the Belgian and Luxembourg plants. Belgian manufacturers were divided among themselves but united in demanding a larger attribution of the output to Belgium. This demand was finally met on condition that their quota would not be raised in event the total production of the trust exceeded 'the estimate.
The British steel interests remained aloof.
Besides fixing a maximum steel production, the delegates aimed at creating an international office for the maintenance of remunerative prices for steel in the world market.
Reproduced unchanged from New Britain Herald, September 30, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from New Britain Herald, September 30, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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FRANCE, GERMANY AND BELGIUM FORM TRUST
Luxembourg Interests Also in Great European Steel Consortium
Steel interests of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg signed an agreement in Brussels creating a steel consortium, to take effect the following day, with all of Belgium's demands met. Belgian production was fixed at 295,000 tons monthly and its quota would not be raised if the trust's total output exceeded the estimate; the British steel interests remained aloof, and the delegates also aimed at an international office to maintain remunerative prices for steel on the world market.
Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 30 (AP)— The French, German, Belgian and Luxembourg steel interests today signed an agreement creating a great steel consortium. The agreement goes into effect tomorrow. All of Belgium's demands were met, including a monthly production allotment of 295,000 tons.
Under the terms, the Belgian production will be fixed at 295,000 tons monthly, while the production of the entire trust will be in the neighborhood of 27,500,000 tons annually.
Should the total production exceed this figure, the increase will be shared by the nations other than Belgium, whose quota remains fixed.
The plan for the new European steel consortium started in Germany. Some opposition developed at the first meeting in August and subsequently, because of the difficulty of allotting equitable quotas to the member countries and within them. The plants of northern France, destroyed during the war, argued that their percentage of the French production should be larger than the French firms in the west and the center of the country, which not only did not suffer but prospered during the war.
In Belgium the situation was more delicate. First there existed a certain rivalry between the Belgian and Luxembourg plants. Belgian manufacturers were divided among themselves but united in demanding a larger attribution of the output to Belgium. This demand was finally met on condition that their quota would not be raised in event the total production of the trust exceeded 'the estimate.
The British steel interests remained aloof.
Besides fixing a maximum steel production, the delegates aimed at creating an international office for the maintenance of remunerative prices for steel in the world market.
Reproduced unchanged from New Britain Herald, September 30, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from New Britain Herald, September 30, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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FRANCE, GERMANY AND BELGIUM FORM TRUST
Luxembourg Interests Also in Great European Steel Consortium
Steel interests of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg signed an agreement in Brussels creating a steel consortium, to take effect the following day, with all of Belgium's demands met. Belgian production was fixed at 295,000 tons monthly and its quota would not be raised if the trust's total output exceeded the estimate; the British steel interests remained aloof, and the delegates also aimed at an international office to maintain remunerative prices for steel on the world market.
Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 30 (AP)— The French, German, Belgian and Luxembourg steel interests today signed an agreement creating a great steel consortium. The agreement goes into effect tomorrow. All of Belgium's demands were met, including a monthly production allotment of 295,000 tons.
Under the terms, the Belgian production will be fixed at 295,000 tons monthly, while the production of the entire trust will be in the neighborhood of 27,500,000 tons annually.
Should the total production exceed this figure, the increase will be shared by the nations other than Belgium, whose quota remains fixed.
The plan for the new European steel consortium started in Germany. Some opposition developed at the first meeting in August and subsequently, because of the difficulty of allotting equitable quotas to the member countries and within them. The plants of northern France, destroyed during the war, argued that their percentage of the French production should be larger than the French firms in the west and the center of the country, which not only did not suffer but prospered during the war.
In Belgium the situation was more delicate. First there existed a certain rivalry between the Belgian and Luxembourg plants. Belgian manufacturers were divided among themselves but united in demanding a larger attribution of the output to Belgium. This demand was finally met on condition that their quota would not be raised in event the total production of the trust exceeded 'the estimate.
The British steel interests remained aloof.
Besides fixing a maximum steel production, the delegates aimed at creating an international office for the maintenance of remunerative prices for steel in the world market.
Reproduced unchanged from New Britain Herald, September 30, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from New Britain Herald, September 30, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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September 30, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:New Britain Herald, Daily Kennebec Journal, Evening Star, Watauga Democrat, The Alaska Daily Empire, The Sauk Centre Herald, The Carbon County News, The Lambertville Record, The Bismarck Tribune, and Seward Daily Gateway.
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