The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-22

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District Attorney Sims filed bill in
equity for the dissolution Of the al.
legged trust.
The bill names not only the Ma
tional Packing company but the AT,
mour, Swift and Morris companies and
the individuals who dominate and con-
troll these concerns.
Government Attitude.
1t is apparent that the government
regards the National Packing company
the packers have been evading the
antitrust law and by means of which
they have been making their combina-
tion effective.
1t is admittedly the opinion of the
department of Justice and the grand
jury which at Judge Landis's direc.
tion has been investigating the meat
industry for the last two months, that
if the National Packing company is
combination will be remedied At any
rate the present attack of the govern
ment is focused on the National Pack
ing company as the nucleus of the so
called meat combination. The de-
PENDANTS are the National Packing
company, G. Fl. Hammond company,
Hammond Packing company, Omaha
Packing company Anglo" American
Provision company, Fowler Packing
pany, st. Louis Dressed Beef g. Pro"
vision company, Western Packing COM
papy, Colorado Packing &c Provision
company, New York Butchers Pressed
Meat company, Continental Packing
company, Armour & Co, Swift & Co,
Norris 8, CO., Edward Tilden, Lewis L.
Swift, Edward F. Swift, Charles, II.
Swift, l.. A. Carton, Frank A. Fow-
Ter, j. Ogden Armour, Arthur Meeker
Thomas j, Connors, Edward Morris,
Thomas E. Wilson and L. II. Heyman'
Detail of Charges
The bill charges prior to May q 1902,
Armour a. Co. and Swift & Co were
parties to an unlawful combination to
fix prices and restrain trade in fresh
meat; that on that day suit was
brought by the United States, under
the Sherman anti trust law, to prevent
their violations Of the law, and that as
result Judge Grosscup, on February
is, 1908. fled an opinion, stating that
he would grant an injunction in ac'
cordance with the governments bill
The final order in the case, however,
was not entered until April 4, 1908.
Meanwhile, on March IS, 1908, the Ma"
tioDal Packing company was organized,
all of the stock of which was
owned by the Armour, Swift and Nor
ris interests. the parties to the original
alleged combination.
On the date of its organization, the
bill states, there was turned over to
the National Packing company by the
Armour, Swift and Morris companies
control of number of packing con.
Germs which previous to that time had
been competitors, not only of tho Ar
mour, Swift and Morris companies, but
of each other.
These Independent competing con
Germs, which the bill alleges were
turned over to the National Packing
company, are the concerns named as de-
PENDANTS in the Indictment
Cutting Of Competition.
The bill charges that the necessary
effect of the union of these interests
in the management of the National
Packing company is to destroy competi-
tion, not only among the constituent
companies, but also between those com
panies and the Armour, Swift and Nor
ris companies,
The prayer of the bill is that the
management and control by the Ma
tional Packing company of its sub.
sidiary companies may be declared to
be in violation of the Sherman act, and
unlawful and void, and that each Of the
individual defendants and the National