The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-09
GOVERNMENT
 TO DISSOLVE
 KODAK TRUST
Anti Trust Suit Filed
 at Buffalo Today
Monopoly Charged Against East man Companies in Stirling
 Competition Here and Abroad

Buffalo, June 9.-DissoIution of the so-called Eastman Kodak trust was asked in a civil antitrust suit filed here, today, by order of United States Attorney General McReynolds The government seeks the dissolution by receivership if necessary of the East man Kodak Company of New Jersey and the Eastman Kodak Company of New York. which are charged with nonoplozing the trade in photogra phic supplies in violation of the Sherman law
 T. is the aim of the government to obtain a division of the assets and business of the two companies control ling 72 per cent of the business in the United States into such parts as will snectually destroy the alleged mono poly and restore full and free compe- tition.
 The petition in equity asks for in junction forbidding the fixing of re- sale prices Of cameras, films and other patented photographic supplies. This marks the attorney generals first ap- pIlcation of the recent decision of the United States supreme court denying patentees the right to fix resale prices of retailers.
 Following are named as defendants: Eastman Kodak Co. of New Jersey; Eastman Kodak Company of New
 A. Strong, Walter s. Hubbel1 and Frank S. Noble, all Of Rochester, N '.
 The bill, filed by United States Dis trict Attorney OBrian. is the result of an extensive investigation of the
 trust by James A. Fowler. assistant to the attorney general, and Clark McKercher, special assistant attorney general
 MT. AIcKercher Is in immediate charge of the suit. The alleged mono -T~ T-- ton declared. by the Eastman Com panfes absorbing or acquiring control Of a great number of competitors in the United States and foreign coun- tries The bill cites the numerous photographic manufacturing and mar keting companies venich with their patents have been acquired by the Eastman companies.
 Restraints, the government declares, have been imposed upon the business of competing dealers by the combina- lions terms of sale under which Eastman made goods were handled ex- clusively by so-called Eastman dealers who were compelled to handle the goods.
 Injunctfons are asked for against those practices Complaint also is made that certain large retail houses owned by the Eastman companies are conducting business under the names of the original owners as a competitor Of the trust
 Unfair competition is charged through the alleged practice of the Eastman companies in marketing through one of it's competitors, the De- fender Company (Rcchester), a certain film as If 1t were the product of an independent. suppressing the fact that # Is made by the combinat tion.
 It is alleged that the General Paper Company. of Germany. the worlds greatest producer of raw photographic paper, sells raw paper to the Eastman companies and refuses to supply any other manufacture dealer in this country
 The Eastman Kodak Company, of New Jersey. a holding company, has an authorized capital of $35, GOO. 900: of which $2e. .ooo. 900 has been issued. The Eastman Kodak Company of New York, the operating company of the combination, is a, S50OO.OGO corporation manufacturing and marketing photo graphic supplies.