Show 1 SOME how small Share shareholders shareholder holde ra are oft often t S swindled andied six thimbles and two peas in the hands hads of a ring of skilled professionals do not leave much chance for outsiders however howeler smart and wideawake they nay may ank themselves sot only do the at the tan vari ous companies and the fixing of their original capitalization which practically determines their autu future re value but says the national review they have bare the entire management of them they can decide which of the half dozen is to pay the big dividends and which are to draw blanks they have all the initiative do all the manipulating and can arrange every new scheme to suit themselves thern they might even strip a company of its assets and reduce it to an empty husk before the shareholders e could interfere to prevent them the proprietary or parent company is in that respect most at their mercy say that it starts with so many claims to develop a thousand it may be and that it divides them up among four or five working companies the usual course is to receive in payment of the claims an agreed number of I 1 the sub companas shares these pass into the treasury of the parent com p is no obligation on chedi rectors to keep them longer than they please and no guarantee to the shareholders that they will wil be kept they may be sold pawned exchanged or put in trust at the plea pleasure sum of the directors who have hate invariably proxies enough to give them complete control |