Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-20
NEAT PACKING
COMPANIES SUED
,,,v Gen. E. W. Major Of Missouri
B. Brings Quo warrantO Pro-
oeedInus Against Five.
FIXING PRICES THE CHARGE
c,ns,lrac, to Restrain Trade ana
~" -, connection In Buying and
selling Meat Products

,.r.,.on CITY. Mo- June 2o.-A''y-
rulou W Major began custer
o'" alnos against five meat packing
pssnles today by Ming quo warranto
n,s,,ons In the supreme court Ihe
n,snies attacked are Armour PACK
,ssrompany. Morris & Company sW'it
cannsny Hammond Packing COM
a,d ~ Louis Dressed Beef q
pryislon company
Tss Armour. swift and Morris com
.'ries are charged with violating the
s,..yust law end conspiracy ana the
,,.,,,,ond and - Louis Dressed Beef
a p,ovlslon companies, subsidiary com
.,.Ies Of the National Packing com
,,ry with conspiracy to control the
business in Missouri
The Ave companies are named in two
,..,,,,ons which ask that the corpora
,,,rs he excluded from all corporate
,,sb,s that their licenses be forfeited
,1d tnat all or such portions OF their
,.,o,ertv as the court may deem
,.,,no, be connscated or in leu there
81 A Ane be- imposed.
.rmour swift and Morris are
,hsrsed with having entered into
cousnir4cv I'm 1908 to control the prices
naid nv dealers in live stock,
,a,,,,,.y butter. eggs. dairy and agri-
,i,,,r,i uroducts. To control the prices
y, ~ naid nv retail and wholesale deal
srs Tor dressed meats and to control the
,'riees 10 be paid By all wholesale ana
rstau dealers for poultry, butter. eggs
dairy and agricultural products ana py-
nroducts from the business of slaugh-
tering live stock
CHARGES.
Those companies" the petition
saws. entered INTO trust to uniaw-
fniv regulate, TX and control prices
AT xhlch dealers should sell and offer
"a s.u 10 the consumer and others all
dressed meats and eggs, poultry ana
other products and TO control the prices
IA b. paid for such articles, when so
regulated. and unlawfully to limit the
trade in all products with view TO les-
sea. restrict, limit and destroy trade
and iun competition in the purchase
and sale OF meat products, poultry, nut
tei and eggs.
That In pursuance Of an unlawful
agreed upon and fixed from week to
week and day TO day an agreed price
rad aad to be paid by all persons Tor
live stock and products which should be
purchased or offered for sale in Nj is
souri, that prices at which the products
we're 10 be sold, were unlaWfuly nXed
b. means Of which competition In the
purchase and sale of meat products has
been lessened, restricted and de-
suoyed"
The second count OF the petition
charges that the three packing COM
panies couspired 20 restrain trade and
destroy competition in the purchase
and sale Of meat products live stock,
poultry butter and eggs by fixing a
price 70 be paid by all members OF
tho alleged agreement and oonspiring
10 control the business Of buying, SELL
ing and dealing In packinghouse prod
ucts.
REASON FOR FILING SUIT.
Atty Gen Major, after he Med the
suit said
The suits we're filed as a result of
the examination conducted recently
before former Judge Daniel w Dill
Ion who was named by the supreme
court TO preside at the hearings. The
Hammond Packing company and the
~. Louis Dressed Reef a. Provision
company are owned and controlled In
every matter and detail both In the
purchase OF live stock and In the sale
Of dressed and finished products by
ne National Packing company OF
New Jersey.
The National Packing company. the
nearing developed, Is owned by three
ng packers. swift owns SEVENTH
,eehths, Armour siN-nfteenths and
morris two-ffteenths. While the Ma
uohal owns the supposedly indepen-
ueht corporations, ~ has been holding
mem out TO the public as separate
.nltles ana Independent corporations
nha competitors in business.
IN ms way these corporations have
ussh and are used In controlling pur-
chase and selling prices
nave not instituted suit against
~ Cudahy Packing company and
evh"arzschile and Sulsberger be.
s use me examination which | con-
uSeIed led Into a field Of inquiry
Nhoh did not disclose whether they
laws" "t th'
me packers must make return 10
az az suits hv June 30 II demurrers are
~ lhey viii not be passed upon b,
court until tho October term. II
antNefs are filed the court NAV an.
I'm commissioner TO take owl.
summer. io' INV