The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-01
FILE SUIT AGAINST HARVESTER TRUST Asks That Gigantic Corpor-
 atiOn Be Dissolved MONOPOLY CHARGED
Government Charges That Company Controls 90 Per Cent of Trade in United States-Asks That
 Receiver Be Appointed

St. Paul. April S0-By filing a petition in equity in the federal district court here the government today instituted a suit against the International Harvester company under the provisions of the sher. man antitrust law.
 The government asks:
 That the $40, 900 corporation be dis solved on the ground that 1t is monop. oly in restraint of trade.
 That injunctions be issued to bar from interstate commerce the products of the International Harvester company, or oi the International Harvester company o1 America, it's selling agency
 That receivers be appointed to take charge of the property and wind up tht business of the defendant, if the court lie interest"
 Subpoenas Returnable May 6
 Assistant District Attorney J. Mark Dickey, who filed the petition before Judge Charles A. Willard announced thai the subpoenas issued for Cyrus H. Me Cormick, president of the harvester com pany and for all the rest of the IS individ- uals, and seven corporations, who are named in the petition, are returnable May 6.
 The defendants must enter their appear ance in court by June 3, but it probably will be July 1 before they will be re- quired to answer the government pe- tition. After the government files its replication, probably in August, the case in all likelihood will be at issue
 MT Dickey received word that Attorney General Wickersham would probably file a certificate of expedition. The caA by this means will be removed from the dis trict court of Minnesota to the United States circuit court of appeals for the Eighth district, thus hastening the is4 sue to the supreme court of the United States.
 Chief Charges
 The chief charges by the government agairst the Harvester company gre: :;
 That the comr z y, Aiff .noncpoitV e k ,,fle ( manufacture ana salS of harvesting faa. chinery, has advanced prices Ito the grave injury of the farmer and the gem eral public
 That the company controls at least 9C per cent of the trade in the United States in harvesters or grain binders, 75 per cent of the mowers and more than 50 per cent of the binder twine; that there are only three or four manufacturers other than the International in the United States and that as these have only small part of the business and in some sections oi the country none at all, the Internationa' has a monopolistic control.
 Unfair Trade Methods
 That the company has absorbed compet- ing companies while allowing the com panies still to advertise as being inde- pendent, Thereby misleading, deceivine and defrauding the public and more effec- tually crippling existing competitors and keeping out new opes.'
 That the defendants have resorted tc unfair trade methods by attempting tc induce agents to handle only their prod ucts.
 That they have bought up patents tc perpetuate the monopoly.
 That in organizing the International Harvester company the defendants were actuated by a determination to form a monopoly.
 That the company bound retail dealers by contract not to sell the products of any other manufacturer.
 That the Harvester company receives iron, steel and lumber from the Wisconsin Steel company, and the Wisconsin Lum- Der company subsidiaries, which are used to eliminate competition.
 That the company has used railroads which it controls, to obtain undue prefer ence from railroads connecting with them.