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Show IT FILFO 10 I wernment Alleges That the Knerican Company Con-Jirols Con-Jirols a Large Percentage m of Business in U. S. 1ny concerns in It ALLEGED COMBINE merican Sheet and Tin Plate lompany Made Defendant Because of Agreement il With Tin People. jjjAijUHMOEE, Nov. 29. Suit waa Sphere today in the United States "Kjof court to dissolve the Amorlcan (Kf eompanj, the so-called tin can IK yiiich the department of justice Bes controls a largo percentage of 'Hess of the United States in tin CJjjBicontalners and packages of tin. 'Wimerican Sheet and Tin Plate 'Hny was mndo a dofondant be- A of an agreement It i alleged to Rj-with the American company to Kit tin for cans at a preferential .Wty government's "bill declares that 'Ktyeged conspiracy and combination ;Rfctraint of trado was entered into PHL Koi. J. Ilobart Moore, Daniel G.. .Wi- Fred S. Wheeler, Henry W. Wet, "William T. Graham and George fBtcMurty, are namod as active in Hprmatlon. Tho American Can com-I com-I Wr, tlio principal defendant, waB in-IBprated in-IBprated in Novr Jersey with a capi-l"HKf capi-l"HKf $88,000,000, and within a tew I I llBflSi tbeVeoverninont charges, ob-vlVKd ob-vlVKd control of about 100 can manu-' manu-' Siring plans which formerly had ft independent. he government hopes to prove that Esome time after organization, the jSIJyjKlcan company controlled about S5 per cent of tha trade. While that quantity is admitted to hav diminished,' j8 Bu1( nw to aloB0 t0' 50 I?or oeut and tho American company ia docJarod to be the dominating factor in the business. busi-ness. In agreements mudo with the American company by tho concerns it absorbed, they were not to engage in tin can manulacture within a radius of 3000 uiUgb of Chicago for fifteen years subsequent to their acquisition,. Tho government alleges" tha,t" tho combination com-bination has at timos increased tho price of cons and that itB domination of the market is 60 absolute that such independents as havo come into being havo been forced to follow its prices. It has compelled customers, the government gov-ernment charges, to make long-term contracts to purchase cans exclusively from it and iisod other methods of got' ting trado familiar to Bach combinations. combina-tions. Twenty Days to Answer. Under the new rulcB of the court, the defendants must appear and answer within twenty days after tho servico of the subpenaa and bill of complaint. ' The documents will be issued next Monday. Mon-day. In addition to tho American Can company and the American Sheet and Tin Plato company, the Sanitary Can company, tho Missouri Can company. Martin Wacrnor company, Boston "Wharf company, Max Ams Machine company, Freeman Duncan Transfer and Realty company, tho Hawaiian Pineapple company, com-pany, Ltd., are concerns named as defendants. de-fendants. Somo of the western plants acquired by tho American company in 1901 wero: W. H. Smyth, San Francisco; Charles JoHoelyn ana Axel Johnson, San F'rnn-cibco F'rnn-cibco Pacific Sheet Metal "Works, San Francisco and Los Augolo9, F. A. Rob-bins Rob-bins Pre33 Yorks, San Francisco; Great Western Can company, and Sau Joso Fruit Pocking company, San Jose, Cal.; Eaton Ritchell Manufacturing company, Donver, Colo.; Oeorgo K. Tay, San Francisco; Davenport Canning arid Manufacturing company, Davenport, Iowa; American Lubricator company, Des Moines, Iowa; Tri-Stato Can com pany, Keokuk, Iowa; Hunt Stamping Works, Kansas City, Mo.; J. N. Pecock Can company, Frederick, Westerbeck and A. Gciscl Manufacturing company, com-pany, St. Louis; Pacific Sheet Metal Workb, Astoria, Ore., and Pacific Sheet Metul Works, Fairhaven, Wash. |
