Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-05
SUITS AGAINST TRANS
ATLANTIC CARRIERS.
Thirteen Of Them, Controlling 80 Per
Cent. Of Storage Traffic, Worth
S55,00O,O00 Yearly, Charged
with Antitrust Violation.

New York. jan 4.-The federal gov
ernmeut brought suit here today, under
the terms of the Sherman antitrust
law, in the United states circuit court
of the southern district of New York,
against Is of the principal trans At
lantiC carriers estimated to control 90
per cent, Of the Storage traffic worth
| to them $a5, eau 900 IA year Twelve
officers of the defendant companies all
II sidont in America az" also named as
defendants.
These II companies the government
tliargr&. entered in an illegal contract
IN Fob ;, 1905, at London. Eng. by
which they constituted themselves the
! Atlantic conference with power to APP
portion all traffic pr"-rata impose
| heavy fines "u members of the confer
cnte for violation of any of the articles
ri agreement, and wage cut throat
eonnctitinn against all lines agtsid"
| the conference. A. Il result. it is al
| legged the Russian Volunteer fleet. ply
| ing between Now York and Libal. VA
driven out of business, ami the Rus
| sioH- American line WAS forced To make
| terms With the conference. and enter
its membership.
Suit was brought by Henry y. Wise,
United States district attorneT. acting
under instructions from George Wick
etShau. United States attorney gener-
al. and IN its petition the government
prayS tn" court to "I;nioin the defend
ants from further agreeing, combining,
conspiring to in
pure or destroy the business Of any
person or corporation engaged in the
business of carrying steerage passen-
gers between points in the United
States and Europe. Further that each.
every aud all of the defendant steam
ship lines he forbidden. either -. ent1.
or clear any of their vessels at or from
the Fnrt of New York ar any other
port # entry III the United States or
any ol It's possessions so LONG as thc5
shall continue 10 operate under tht
aforesaid alleged unlawful combine
ton. or conspiracy.
The defendant companies. their can
itali@dtion, and the ports betWc9.
winch they chiefly ply are as follows
Allan Line S. s. Co.. Ltd, Liverpoa,
Boston and Philadelphia; Glasgow
and Montreal; $3,220o00.
International Mercantile Marine Go.
"a Holding company; s120,00a $50.
International Navigation Co. q
holding company subsidiary of Inter
| national Mercantile Marine Coz
The Anchor Line Henderson Bros
Ltd. New York Glasgow: $2.S15.0lo
Canadian Pacific Railway Co; Mon
trcal- Liverpool: 500 .0oa. 006.
Cunard =. :. CO., Ltd, New Yorh
aid Boston iLverpool S1a, 090 GOO.
British ana North Atlantic steam.
Navigation Co.. Ltd, tSubsidiary %
International Mercantile Msrine>.
Hamburg Alnerican Line: Hamburg
New York, Boston. Philadelphia a:4
Baltimore. $50, 80. 600
Holland American Line; New York
Rotterdam; capitalization unavailable.
North German Llovd; New ,rk-
Bremen: capitalization unavailahie).
Red Star Line; tSutsidiary 81 IN
terraticnal Mercantile Marine): New
York Antwerp.
Whit. Star Line; Subsidiary Of In
ternational Mercantile Marine; New
y 5rk- Liverpool.
Russian Easter Asiatc Steamship
Co. Ltd. New York -Libau, tcdpltai-
ization unavailablop.
The individual defendants. all officers
of the defendant companies. but not All
of them possible to identify here tonight,
are:
Franklin. Philip a.. vice president "t
the International Mercantile Marine Go.
Boas, Emil L.. general manager III
America and director of the Hamburg
American Line and many other trans
uo,ta comDanieS
Schwab Gustav H.. general manager in
America and a director of the North
German Lloyd Dock Co.
Schwab, Gustav FL, .Jr.
Sumner, Charles p. American agent of
Cunard Steamship Co.
johnson. Alexander T.. senior member
of A. f. Johnson & CO.. passenger agents
for the Scandinavian Line.
Allen. Bryce, Jr., of Boston. Mass, a
director of the Allan Line.
Won Post, H. c.. vice president and a
director of the North German Lloyd Dock
Co.
Coverly. william. president of and a
partner in the firm of Iendersc Bros,
general agents for the Anchor Line.
Lee, John.
Clips. Adrian.
Straus. Max
The complaint charges that the de-
| fendante for some time past have
been engaged in the United States and
F., particularly in the southern district of
| New York in an unlawful combination
| to restrain a part of the commerce OF
the United states with foreign ma
| tions."
A tabulation is given which does not
| include the Russian East Asiatc
| Staa mship Co, which, it is explained.
| entered the conference recently.
| against it's will.
| The petition charges that on Feb. ).
: 1898. at London. the defendant COM
panies, with the execution of tie Rus