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Show INDEPENDENTS MAY JOIN WITH TRUST N1CW YORK. Oct 23.Oharlcs M. Schwab's negotiations for the control of tho Cramp sbip yards at Philadelphia, arc said In Wall street rumors to be part of a plan for fratlicrlng togutlior tho independent in-dependent steel companies of tho country coun-try into ono combination, which will work In harmony with the United States Steel corporation. The plan Is said to be contingent upon a decision of the supremo court In tho Standard Oil company and American Tobacco To-bacco company cases that would bo sufficiently suf-ficiently constructive to allow the bljc Industries In-dustries of tho country to reform their methods In conformity with the Sherman anti-truBt law, If such a thing la possible. pos-sible. Mr. Schwab will make the Bcthlchom Steel corporation, of -which he Is the founder, another which I.s supposed to have , tho financial backing of Andrew Carnegie, the nucleus of the big combination. combi-nation. Continuation of the story could not bo obtained In Wall street today. At "Mr. Schwab's office. It was said that he was In Uethlchem, Pa..and would not return until Krlday. At the office' of the United States Steel corporation it was said that In tho absence of 10. If. Gary, there was no one J who could speak with authority. It Is said that J. A. Topping, chairman of tho Republic Iron and Steel company's board, and 1C. C. Jfellon. of the American I Iron and Steel company, arc in accord j with Mr. Schwab's plans. |