Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-07-06
PACKERS INDICTED
CHICAGO CONCERNS ACCUSED OF
VIOLATING LAWS.
Some OF the Indictments Are Against
Individual Members of CORPORA.
lions and Some Against the Cor.
pOratiOnS ThemSelveS-ArmO
Swift and Norris on the List.

ChlcagO, July 3.-The federal grand
jury Saturday handed in a report in
dieting seventeen men prominent in the
packing industries of the country for
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law, and four officials of the Schwarz-
child & Sulzberger Company for al
legged rebating with the railroads. Be-
sides these individual indictments bills
were voted against five corporations,
A rmour & Co., Swift & Co., Nelson
Morris & Co., the Cudahy Packing
Company and the Fairbanks Canning
Company.
The Men Indicted.
The men indicted for alleged con.
spiracy in restraint of trade, which
constitutes violation of the Sherman
act, are:
j. Ogden Armour, president of Ar
mour & Co.
Charles Armour, Arthur Meeker, T.
j. Corners, p. A. Valentine and Sam
uel McRoberts, all officials of Armour
& Co.
Louis F. Swift, president of Swift &
Co.
Charles Swift. Lawrence A. Carton,
Arthur F. Evans, r. G. McManus, A.
H. Veeder, D. E. Hartwell Edward
Swift, officials of Swift & Co., Edward
Cudahy, Of Cudahy Packing Company,
Edward Morris and Ira W. Morris, of
Nelson Morris & Co.
The four employees of Schwarzchild
& Sulzbergebr, who were indicted for
alleged rebating with the railroads, are
all connected with the traffic depart
ment Of the corporation. Their names
are Samuel We'll, B. S. Cusey. G. E.
Toodd, V. D. Skipworth.
Contain Ten Counts.
The indictments voted for alleged
violation of the antitrust law were
identical in each instance. The indict-
Ill ents contained each ten counts.
The first and second counts of the
indictments pertained only to beef sold
in domestic trade. The third charges
conspiracy in restraint of trade and
commerce among the states and with
foreign nations in fresh, smoked, dried,
cured canned and picked meats and
in certain by products Of the packing
industry.
The fourth count charges that the
same matters mentioned in the third
count as being in restraint of trade
and commerce constituted an offense
on the part of the packers to monopo-
lie such trade and commerce.
The fifth count specifically covers
the handling of by-products, and de-
scribes a conspiracy in restraint of
trade to be effective in the same way
as set forth in the third count with
reference to all the products mentioned.
The sixth count charges the castings
conspiracy to be an attempt to monop-
olize trade and commerce in that COM
modify in the United States and in
foreign countries.
The seventh count sets forth the par
ticulars concerning the organization of
the National Packing company and
charges that the object and effect of
that organisation was to destroy COM
petition not only between the packers
who were interested in the National
Packing Company, but between the
ten other small packing companies
which were consolidated by the device
of organizing the National Packing
Company, and this is described as
conspiracy in restraint of trade and
commerce.
The eighth count makes out the or
ganiaztion of the National Packing
Company to be an attempt to monop.
olize the same trade and commerce.
The tenth count relates to similar &C
lions in connection with meats and by
products.