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Show Many Made Idle by a Trust Case in Point Shows One of the Great Evils in the Opers ation of Industrial Combinations New England Village Wiped Out. more than $175,000 a year, and when the spending of this money stopped it seemed as if the community must die. The income of the churches was cut down, a large part of the foreign for-eign congregation of the Catholic church disappearing as if swept out by a cyclone. There were fewer children for the schools. The value of real estate declined and those who One of the great evils in operation of industrial combinations, from the point of view of the wage earner, is their power to scatter a community to the four winds or starve its pec-; pec-; pie into submission to the demands of capital. It has been pointed out that perhaps one man or a small group of men, by the mere act of signing sign-ing an order to close up a plant, could exercise a power of life or death naa put tneir savings into homes found themselves unaole to get rid of them. There were too many merchants, mer-chants, too many physicians, too many barbers and, one and all, they sat down to see who would go away or go to the wall first. Gloomy forebodings forebod-ings as to the increase of the poor fund of the town arose; the bells of the mills ceased to ring; the town band, that gave a concert every week, ceased to play; a water power, estimated esti-mated as worth . from $200,000 to $300,000, lay .idle; the machinery of the mills was being shipped to the trust's mills in ' Alabama; only the four walls of three large buildings remained. The town was dead; the heavy hand of a trust seemed to have crushed it. World's Wrork. over thousands of human beings. Something akin to this happened in the beautiful New England village of New Hartford, Conn., last August and September, when the comparatively compara-tively large cotton duck mills of that place were ordered closed. Nearly 1,000 persons of the 2,300 in the place were compelled to leave the town. Nearly a hundred houses were hoarded hoard-ed up and rents were offered free to the mill hands who remained, for 6ome men who had worked thirty, forty, or even fifty years in the plant were too old to get work elsewhere. With the population cut almost in half, the merchants of the place thought they saw ruin before them. The pay rolls of the mills had been |