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Show KM PACKERE lEJUHJUCUSED largcd by Trade Com mission With Violating Clayton Antitrust Act. jsorption and Control ol ood Supply Corporations Basis for Complaint. ASHINC.TON". IV--. 4. Fcrm.U rem-r.ls rem-r.ls wore IssuoJ today by tl.o fedora .0 commission k-har.slns the, five tit ;aso moat r'sers with violations ol Clayton antitrust aot t.irouith t'.io nl-d nl-d purchase and control of i!iirty-or. orations handles food and other sup-i. sup-i. Written answer to lUo oonip'.aiilt: t be made within forty .!as :uul eafter ru'olio heanns Will bo ha J K" t!ie commission. -r.oerns wltioa the packers are ac-d ac-d of aK-oroin;r Include moat packers, : c.umers. dealers ia cts and poultry dealers in and manufacturers of but-clieese. but-clieese. oleomargarine, condense.! milk like products, catsup and condiments., leather tanners. le complaints, which. It was an-iced, an-iced, crew out of the Investigation of meat packing industry ordered by con-s. con-s. also were issued airainst the United sod Beef company, the Western Meat puny o:' San ti-ancisco and the Ne-i Ne-i Packir.e: company, stances cited by the complaints of panies over which the Chicago pack-are pack-are allrsed to have gained control ns th.e past three vears throu.sri pur-e pur-e o: a majority of the stock or other ns follow: lances Are Cited. ' Swift & Co. Moultrie Packing coni-Moultrie. coni-Moultrie. Ga.; Andalusia Packing pany. Andulasia. Ala.; England Wal-& Wal-& Co.. Inc.. Philadelphia, including t subsidiaries: J. J. Harrington A: Ir.c, New York City. Wilson & Co. Haulo Reyman com-, com-, Wr.eelinc. W. 'a.: Morton Grtsr-company. Grtsr-company. Nebraska City. Neb. Cudaliy Packing: company Najrle :lr company. Jersey City. N". J.; P. rood Butter company. Evansville. 111. Iso was charged that the Cudahy ins company organized the Dowse Dow-se company, a subsidiary corpora-under corpora-under the Wisconsin laws, and coned con-ed with the A. C. Dow company, that the latter company should trans-Is trans-Is business to the Lvv.v Cheese com-The com-The result of this contract, the laint alleged, was that --Cudahy now ols the entire output of over -to e factories located ia Wisconsin and ent states. " ;r Absorptions. Armour & Co. Harold L. Brown any. New York; Eau Claire Creain-Dnipany Creain-Dnipany of Wisconsm, Louden Pack-orr.pany Pack-orr.pany of uhio, .-V S. Kininmoth ice company. Winfield, Kan.; Pa-Creamery Pa-Creamery company. Tempo, Ariz.; i, F.ichardson & Conrov, Jackson-Fla. Jackson-Fla. Morris & Co. Crescent City Stock ! & Slaughter House company of iana, Bluefield Produce ec Provisio:? iny, Bluefield, W. Va.: Holland But-company, But-company, Jersey City. N. J.; Provl-Churning Provl-Churning company. Providence, K. kerson company, Jersey City. N. J.; i Marty company, Broadhead, Wis.; t. Straubel company, Green Bav, Sherman, White & Co., Fort Wayne, ras alleged also that the Western company of San Francisco, "a meat ttering corporation, controlled by family interests of the big five go packers,-- on December 30, 1P1S. td all of the 353,000 capital stock ; Nevada Packing company of Reno, still owns and controls same." The rn Meat Packing company and the ia Packing company also were cited section 7 of the Clayton law against cking directorates. tute Statement. connection with formal complaints 5t the packers, the Institute of ican Meat Packers through its ington office, issued the following neat: the proper time the packing com-l com-l will present evidence which will they have violated no laws whatso- , present these and other companies ncer attack by the department of e in the federal courts. There is iposition on the part of any packing my to try i;s case in the newspa- due season the packers will pre-ill pre-ill the evidence in their possess:on i federal trade commission and will rate in ever- possible way and also issist in developing any pertinent e packers are confident that the ne will in no way reflect anv dis-whatsoever dis-whatsoever upon them or any of actions." ry Veeder, general counsel for Swift' D.-npany, said that in the purchase ' companies mentioned by the com- , n. Swift and company compiled with iw, and was "perfectly willing to that question to the decision of the without any anxiety as to the ment by Packers. Idson White, vice president of Ar-& Ar-& Co., tonight issued the fol-etatement fol-etatement relative to issuance of complaints by the federal trade ision charging the "Big Five-- pack-h pack-h violating the Clavton acf action of the federal trade com-l com-l in complaining against us on ac-)f ac-)f the acquisition of an interest in :ompanies is in line with their es-ed es-ed policy to strangle business and : growth and development.' Thf of these companies voluntarily us the interest which we acquired t any compulsion on our part. We .ther not in competition with them or the acquisition was a natural S.timate growth and extension o' smess as required by the law and re, our acquisition of an interest 3 did not in anv wav lessen com-, i or resuit in any restraint of trade lolation of the law in any wav er. At the time of the hearing of mplaint we will he able to con-:ven con-:ven the federal trade commission e acquisition by us of an interest ' e companies was with the best of I and does not in any wav violate -1-trust laws." 1 Suspend Judgment. rd Morris, president of Morris & ide tnis statement: irrlng to the charges of the federal ommlssion. th's is merelv a corner corn-er charge, and the public should 1 Judgment until a hearing Is held re of the full facts developed. The trade commission has full power' ne law to make any complaint of ture that it sees fit, and, unfortu-many unfortu-many people read the complaint eve It. but do not follow the tr.at-iitd tr.at-iitd get the. final disposition of the 2 of the purchases referred to. so Morns & Co. is concerned I any iaw, either In fact or hi in--ncy were made in th.e ooen. The Jas not deceived and no one has Jure.. On the contrary, many of ransactions. and particularly the ne south, have aided in stlmulat-s.ock stlmulat-s.ock products. The federal trade 3ion both makes and hears these and In other words is both nrose-nd nrose-nd judge, but we wiil fully prove roper time that there was "nothing r unfair in these transactions. |