Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-12-13 | Page 11 | Say Shoe Machinery Company is Trust

SAY SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY IS TRUST BOSTO& Dec. vi. a suit asking for the dissolution of the United Shoe Ma j chine ry company was instituted this af-lernoon af-lernoon bv the federal government, which Bled a bill in equity in the l.'nlted Stalea Circuit court here The bill is brought against the i"nite,i shoe Machinery corporation, cor-poration, the United Shoe Machinery Company of New Jersey, eighteen subs!-diary subs!-diary corporations and twenty-three Individuals, In-dividuals, to restrain the defendants from "maintaining and engaging In unlawful combination, contracts and conspiracies in restraint of Interstate ami foreign trade and commerce in violation of thi Sherman act In the manufacture, sab-and ica;e of piacblnes, mechanisms, tools and devices used In the manufacture of boots and shoes." The court Is ashed 0 order the disso? lution of the defendant corporations into such parts that ne of tnera win con- stltute a monopoly cv can become a. monopoly mo-nopoly of the shoe inar-liliicrv business