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Show Maintained Monopoly by Murder. The glass-makers of Vonic" used to guard their secrets by nmrdoring all renegades who tried to esr-apo to other countries with their trade skiil and thereby threaten the monopoly of Venice. Emissaries used to he srtu by the state to .assassinate worl,'n-:i who took the glass-craft abroad. Two men from Murano, the little island at Venice, where glass makers slilt liv. were Induced by the Emperor Loo. pold of Belgium to migrate to his dominions, do-minions, but they were killed by order or-der of the Council of Ten. Any artisan caught ullempling to go to foreign parts was sent to the galleys. A state policy of prevent-ing prevent-ing unemployment was given as cuse for the murderous polh jrs hy the Venetian government. li w ,n claimed that workmen hud b'-m thrown out of work for I wo and a half months by spread of glu-s I'ai lori.-s In Spain. |