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Show SUIT HAS BEEN FILED TO DISSOLVE THE CAN TRUST Practices in Restraint of Trade Are Alleged in Suit Begun by the Government. Baltimore. Suit was filed here Saturday Sat-urday in the United States district court to dissolve the American Can trust, which the department of justice alleges controls a large percentage ot business of the United States in tin cans, containers and packages of tin. The American Sheet & Tin Plate company com-pany was made a defendant because of an agreement it is alleged to have with -the American Can company to sell it tin for cans at a preferential rate. In its complaint the goverment alleges al-leges practices in restraint of trade, agreements by other concerns "not to enter the field, contracts by consumers consum-ers to buy from the trust" exclusively, exclusive-ly, and arbitrary iff.xing of prices. Attorney General McReynolds asked in the bill for a dissolution other than on a pro-rata basis by asking for a separation into units of different ownership own-ership to insure the restoration of competition. |