Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-05
PACKERS CHARGED
WITH VIOLATING
ANTITRUST ACT
Trade Commission Alleges
big Five" Obtained Control
OF Thirty-0ne Corporations
So AS To Restrain Trade.
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Washington, Dec. 4.-Formal com
plants were issued today by the
federal trade commission, charging
the five big Chicago meat packers
with violations of the Clayton anti
trust act, through the alleged pur-
chase and control of thirty one
corporations handling food and other
supplies. Written answer to the
complaints must be made within
forty days and thereafter public
hearing will be had before the COM
mission.
Concerns which the packers are
accused of absorbing include meat
packers, fruit Gamers, dealers in
eggs and poultry and dealers in and
manufacturers ofpbutter, cheese, ole
omargarine, condensed milk and like
products, catsup and condiments,
and leather tanners.
The complaints, which, it was an
nounced, grew out of the inVestiga
ton of the meat packing industry
ordered by congress, also were is
sued against the United Dressed Beef
company, the Western Meat com
pany of San Francisco, and the Ne
vada Packing company
Instances cited by the complaints
of companies over which the Chi
cago packers are alleged to have
gained control during the past three
years through purchase of majority
of the stock or other means, follow:
By Swift and company: Moultrie
Packing company, Mou1trie, Ga; An
dalusia Packing company, Andalusia
Ala; England Dalton and Company
Inc, Philadelphia; including eight
subsidiaries; j. j. Harrington and
company, Inc, New York City.
BY Wilson and company: lIaulo
Reyman company, Wheeling, w. Va;
Morton Gregson company Nebraska
City, Neb.
By Cudahy Packing company: Ma
gle Packing company, Jersey City,
N. j.; d, Il. Wood Butter company
Evansville Illinois, 1t also was charg
ed that the Cudahy Packing COM
pany organized the Dow Cheese COM
pany, subsidiary corporation, un-
der the Wisconsin laws, and con-
tracted with A. G. Dow company,
Inc, that the latter company should
transfer it's business to the Dow
Cheese company. The result of this
contract, the complaint alleged. was
that Cudahy now controls the en-
tire output of over geo cheese fac
tories located in Wisconsin ana~ad-
jae7n Mt states.
BY Armour and company: Harold
i. Brown company, New York; Eau
Claire Creamery company of Wiscon-
SIN; Louden Packing company, Of
Ohio; A. S. kininmonth Produce
company, Winfield, Kans.; Pacific
Creamery company Tempe, Ariz,;
Smith, Richardson and Conroy, Jack
sonville, Florida.
Morris and company: Crescent
City Stock Yards and Slaughter
House company of Louisiana; Blue
field Produce and Provisions com
pany, Bluetield, w. Va; Holland But
terine company, Jersey City, n. j..
Providence Churning company, PROV
idence, r. L.; Eckerson company,
Jersey City, N. j.; Jacob Marty com |
pany, Broadhead, Wis; c. A. Strau-
bel company, Green Bay, Wis; Sher- |
man White and company, Fort |
Wayne, Ind.
1t was alleged also that the West
ern Meat company of San Francisco,
a meat salughtering corporation con-
trolled by joint family interests of the |
big five Chicago packers on Decem- |
ber 80, 1916, acquired all IT the |
$353,000 capital stock of the Ne |
vada Packing company of Reno, and |
'still owns and controls same" The |
Western Meat company and the Ne |
vada Packing company also were !
cited under section seven of the |
Clayton law against interlockins di-