The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-27
STEEL TRUST
 UNDER FIRE
GOVERNMENT FILES SURPRISE SUIT TO DISSOLVE GREAT.
 EST TRUST OF ALL.
Cooperation and Thirty-Six suhsidi. ary Companies and Many lndivid- uals Are Made the
 Defendants.

Thenton, N J., Oct 2G.-The gov Iernmeuts iong planned suit to break .up the so-called steel trust'' was be-
 gun here today in the United States Circuit Court, It is the most sweeping antitrust action ever brought by the department of jus- tice.
 The government asks not onIs Tor the dissolution O. the United States Steel corporatioB but for the dis solution Of all constituent or subsI diary companies which are alleged to have combined in violation of the sherman law to maintain. or at tempt to maintain monopoly Of the steel business
 Taeir are thirty-six subsidiary cor poratons named as defendants.
 J Piernont Morgan, John Rock efeller, Andrew Carnegie, Charles M sehNab, tieorge Perkins, E. Ii Gary John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Secretary C Prick and Charles Steel. James J. C. Gayley. William II Moore, ] :. iH oMore. Edmund Converse, Perci- val Roberts, Jr, Daniel c Reid, N. Bream. P E. A. widener and Will .iam Palmer. are name individually as attendants
 The United States Steel Corpora ton, Carnegie Steel Company, Carn- egie Company of New Jersey Ted eral Steel Company. National Steel Company American Steel and Wire Company of New Jersey, National Tabe Company. shelby Steel Tube Company. American Tin Plate Com pang. American Sheet aud Tin i'iage Company Aneriean Sheet Steel Company, Ameriegn Steel Hoop Com paay American Bridge Company. Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, all of which were organized under Inc New Jersey laws, and the II. C. Prick Coke Company, Ten nossee Coal Iron and Railroad Com pany and the Great Western Mining Company are named as corporate defendants,
 Louis w Hill, James N. Hill, Wal ter J. Nichels, E l.. Nichols, and J. ' Gruber are named as trustees in connection with ore companies
 The steel corporations lease of Inc Great Northern Railways ore properties is alleged to be illegal. The steel directors cancelled the lease but a few hours before the fil- iug of the bill The government ask uowledses that it was advised Of the steel corporations intention in this ros9ect but states that under the terms of the lease, no cancellation would bc effective until January |, 1915. and there is no limit on the amount cf ere than can be taken out iD tue meantime.
 Sensational allegations fairly top- ple over each other in the govern uents petition, which is an equity proceeding praying for injunctions to estop continuance of the alleged mon sroiy and such other relief as the court may grant
 The steel corporations acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, during the panic of 1908, is declared iHesal and scathingly criticised. The petition declares that E. Fl Gary and Henry c. Prick misled former President Roosevelt when they told hlm that but little benefit VIII come to the steel corDor- alton in the purchase
 The president II says WAS hOe made fully acquainted with the state of affairs in New York relevant to the transaction as they existed. If he had been fully advised he would have known that q desire 10 stop the panic was not the sole moving cause, but that there was also a de- sired purpose to acquire the control of company that had recently as- sumed position of potential com petition of great significance.
 Tt is certain that the corporation avafed itself of the embarrassment of Moore and schley fNew York brokers who had large holdings ol Tennessee stocl@ at most critical neriod and the hammering of the Tennessee Stock and the threatening
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