The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-02-21
REGISTER co, IN
FEDERAL COURT
Sensational Charges Are Made
Against Corporation.
kLLEGE UNFAIR PRACTICES
Accused of Bribing Competitors EN-.
ployes and Waging Campaign to
StifIe Competition.

Cleveland, O.. Feb. 21.-Sensational
charges of violations of the Sherman
antitrust law are levelled at the Nc
Caskey Register company in a civil
suit, filed here by order of Attorney
General Wickersham.
To acquire monopoly of the inter-
state and foreign commerce in the
sale OF account registers, appliances
and systems for keeping credit &C
counts the company, it's officers and
agents, it is charged, wrongfully and
fraudulently have obstructed and sup
pressed the business of competitors,
bribed tleir employees, employed
agents to spy upon their business,
have waged an unfair campaign Of
patent suits and threatened suits and
of other unlawful methods to stife
competition.
The United States district court was
asked to restrain the following named
defendants from further monopoly
and to prohibit series of alleged un.
lawful and unfair practices:
The McCaskey Register company,
Alfred G. Ryley, Stewart S. Kurz, Sam
uel G. Zimmerman, Edward Langen-
bach and Austin Lynch, of Canton, O.;
Henry F. Pollock, Theodore c. Uran,
George c. Russell. William G. Far.
mum. Milton Bejoch and Grant Kizer,
of Alliance, O.; Josiah w. Phipps, of
Boston; Charles T. Baxter. New York
city; David c. Bower, Pittsburgh, Pa;
Harry M. Rowley. Chicago; William
P. Hughes, San Francisco; John H.
Jones, Kansas City, Mo-; Fred Schnei.
der, Seattle, Wash; George P. Hayes.
Memphis, Tenn; Leslie G. Solar, At
lanta, Ca, and Edward T. Bingham,
Washington.
The defendant company Is said to
own exclusively the Dominion Regis
ter Company, Limited, of Toronto.
Can, which also maintains an agency
in London.
A campaign Of ""f1erce and unfair
competition" has been planned or con-
sented to by officers of the company.
the government alleges. A force of
special men, sometimes called the
flying squadron. or knockout men,"
was employed, it is declared, to i'm
part to statesmen and agents instruc-
tions to destroy the business of COM
petitors. and for. the purpose Of inter
duclng Tie canctiIdtfOn, y S<z-.--.as;..al
of their contracts of sale with COM
petitors.
Agents also were employed, 1t IS
charged, to spy upon the business OF
competitors and fraudulently obtain
informtion as to their sales and ship
ments and the addresses of their Gus
toners or prospective customers. EN-
ployes of competitors were secretly
engaged, it is charged, to furnish off,
GERS of the defendant company with
confidential information concerning
the business of competitors.
Defendants are declared to have in
structed agents to procure informa-
ton from employees of railroads, ex-
press companies and hotel companies
and others as to plans and shipments
of competitors. The government asks
for an injunction to prohibit the brib-
ing of employees of railroads and ex-
press companies to obtain such data.
Some of the defendants are alleged
to have studiously copied and simu-
lated advantageous features of COM
petitors' products and attached them
to the McCaskey account register
They are declared to have built regis
ters, known as 'knockouts." resem-
bling the machines of competitors, and
sold them without regard to cost to
ruin rivals.
Defendants are charged with having
maintained display room known as
the graveyard" or BONFIRE" at its
factory in Alliance, Ohio.