Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-28
ACTION TO END A TRUST
ATTORNEY GENERAL MOVES
AGAINST PRINT PAPER COMBINE.
Petition Asks for Injunction-Monop'
oily in Violation Of Law Alleged
Many Publishers.

Attorney General Moody for the United
States. through United States Dlstrlct Az
torney Haupt and Frank b. Kellogg anu
lanes M. Beck special assistant attorneys
general of the United States in 81. Paui'
MINI. Yesterday afternoon filed petitlon
in the United States district court, In which
he makes the General Paper Company as
nrincipal defendant, and tWenty-1our paper
manufacturing companies parties defendah'
in a suit to enjoin them and restrain them
from doing business through the Generai
Paper Company as the sales agent IN Vio-
,ation of provisions of sections ana OF
the act of Congress approved July z, 1871,
entitled an Act to protect trade and COM
merce against unlawful restraints and mo-
nopoles."
Paper Plants Involved.
rhe narties defendant named are:
The Itasca Paper Co. of Grand Rapids,
MINI Hennepin Paper Co. of Little Falls,
MINI. Wolf River Paper and Fiber Co OF
New Richmond, Wis; Atlas Paper co. OF
Appleton, Wis; Kimberly Clark GO. OF
Neenah, Wis; Riverside Fiber ana fape per
% of Appleton Wis; Wausau Paper Mill
co. of Brokaw Wis; Centralia Pulp and
Water Power Co. of Centralia. Wis; Com
bined Locks Paper Co. of Combined Locks,
Wis. Dells Paper and Pulp co. OF Eau
Co. of Grand Rapids, Wis Menasha Pa
per Co. of Menasha, Wis; Nekoosa Paper
Go. of Nekoosa. Wis; the Falls Manufac-
turing Co. of Oconto Falls, WIS; tlampeau
Paper Co. Of Park Falls, Wis; John Ed
wards Manufacturing Co. of Port Edwards,
wis; c. w. Howard Co. of Menasha, Wis
Wolf River Paper and Fiber Co. of New
Richmond, Wis; Wisconsin River ana "a
ner Co of Plover, Wis; Tomahawk Pulp
ard Paper Co. of Park Falls, Wis: West
PAPER Co. of Cloquet. Mimi. Consolidated
Water Power and Paper Co. of Grand
Rapids Wis Of PeT So
Mich and the Rhinelander Paper Co. of
Rhinelander, Wis.
Alleged Organization OF Combine.
The petition alleges that the defendants
entered into an agreement to combine and
control the sale of the product of the diff
ferent companies through the General Pa
ner Company in that the General Paper
Company regulated prices, sales and ship
ment and territory for the sale OF the
same, and after deducting operating ex-
penses of the General Paper Company di-
vided the surplus among the members of
the corporation.
The petition recites that the General Pa
per Company was organized under the laws
of Wisconsin, May 26, 1900, with a capital
stock of 100000. divided into LOCO shares,
which were distributed among, and are
now held. by certain of the defendants
named. and that later the others We're
taken into the combination. naming them in
the order in which they entered the COM
bine, and goes on to state that the Gen
eral Paper Company became the exclusive
selling agent for the defendant. with alb
solute power to control the output of the
various mills. fix the price of all paper
sold and to whom and upon what terms and
conditions the paper should be sold, and
| into what states and places 1t shall be
| shipped and what customers and which
n ills each shall supply.
Increased Price OF Paper.
The petition alleges that In consequence