The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-30
OTHER SPECIFIC CHARGES

Other specific charges included.
 That the United States Steel corpora ton has complete control. supervision and direction over the business conduct ed by the subsidiaries named, transpor- tation materials used in the manufac- ture of iron and steel and products made therefrom in interstate commerce.
 That the United States Steel corpora tion, through certain of It's respondent subsidiaries owns and control over 7o per cent of the total iron ore deposits in the Lake Superior district, where is To- eated the greater part of the iron ore deposits in the United States
 That 1t owns and controls the greater part of the iron ore deposits in Ala hama, where production is second only to that of the Lake Superior district.
 That 1t owns and controls the major number of railroads and lake transpor- tation systems which carry iron ore from mines to manufacturing plants of the respondent subsidiaries and their compe- titors.
 That it likewise owns and controls coal mines and limestone quarries necessary in the manufacture of steel.
 That of the total production in the United States of the following items re spondents manufacture and sell approx. imatelv 47 per cent of the crude steel in the form of ingots; approximately 45 PA'NNS N" plate bars rails plates and sheets struc- tnral fabrics, bars and the like, and ap- proximately 60 per cent of other steel products
 CONTROL 145 PLANTS
 That the Steel corporation, through us controls and utilizes l45 plants. principally in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York New Jersey Delaware, Mary land. Massachusetts. Connecticut, Ala mi TllinAiS Indiana. Wisconsin, Michigan, kansas California and Washington,
 The complaint also sets out that the Steel corporation has capital stock out standing of the par value Of SStS, os5 ooo with a book value exceeding Sl,ooo.- GOO 0o0 and that it has through it's re- spondent subsidiaries gross assets .aggre- gating considerably more than s2,Wo'oo''- GOO, It is claimed that the Steel cor does an annual business amount ing approximately to S S500,00O.
 BIRMINGHAM EXCEPTED
 Taking up the Pittsburg-plus price In detail, the complaint says this price is that which Pittsburg manufacturers must nav respondents for rolled steel al Pittsburg and that purchasers in other cities except Birmingham must pay th's price plus the freight rate to the city of manufacture from Pittsburg, irrespec- five Of where the Slttl iS NNA'
 The price at Birmingham, the
 complaint says. Is *5 ton more
 than the Pittsburg price. and this
 is arbitrnriIy arrived at, notwith-
 standing that steel Is manufae-
 tured mt Birmingham at much less
 cost than at Pittsburg.
 If is,atleged in the complaint that use of the Pittsburg plus price enables pittsburg steel manufacturers 10 se> cure substantially 50 per cent of the steel manufacturing business in the southern states; that in order to, re- tain such percentage 1t retards as much as necessary the natural steel manufacturing growth of other sec tions of the country; that the price enables the steel manufacturers to maintain substantial uniform prices which they could not do otherwise; enables the high cost of steel nanu- plants at Pittsburg to .nain- tain sufficiently high prices for their product to operate at profit without having their business jeopardized by the lower cost of steel manufacture in other sections: enables the lower cost steel manufacturing plants outside of to secure not only the profit which the high cost Pittsburg steel plants secure, but un- duly large additional profits because they manufacture at much lower cost and that the Pittsburg plus price en- ables the steel manufacturers outside of Pittsburg to increase their profits each time the railroad transportation charges dn steel are increased.
 SUBSIDIARIES NAMED
 The subsidiaries named in the com plaint are the American Bridge com pany: the American Sheet and Tin Plate company; the Carnegie Steel the National Tube company, and the American Steel and Wire com, pany, New Jersey corporations; the H. linois Steel Corporation; the Minneso- ta Steel company; the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. and the Clairton Steel company; the Union Steel com pany. and the Lorraine Steel company. corporations.
 The complaints against the Steel corporation have been before the com mission for several years, and a de- cision as to whether the commission had jurisdiction was delayed pending hearings and discussions by members