[Moria-CVS] commerce and

[Mangione <fl...@ca...>]

Obtaining their raw material. Six spinners joined the Board of Directors
of the "Bremen Cotton Exchange". The German Spinners Unions were now
united with the Bremen Cotton Exchange, but, in the course of time,
Swiss and Austria-Hungarian spinners followed suit. Through this fusion,
"The Bremen Cotton Exchange" gained greatly in importance, influence and
business activity, so that it stood on equal terms with the great
foreign Exchanges. At many meetings, spinners and merchants have
peacefully sat at the same Board table, although the interests of both
groups are frequently opposed to each other. Now and then, this has been
apparent, but on the principle that good reasons must give way to better
ones, differences of opinion