Spanish Fork Press | 1910-12-08 | Page 1 | Campaign Against Combines

I CAMPAIGN AGAINST COMBINES Indictments Against Sixteen Firms and Thirtytwo Individuals In the Bath Tub Trust Detroit Tho antitrust campaign of Attorney General Wickersham shifted to Detroit this weok with tho result that Indictments wore returned by tho federal grand jury against sixteen Inns and thirtytwo individuals alleged leged to have secured control of 85 percent per-cent of tho annual output of enamel Ironware bath tubs sinks lavatories etc In tho United States Tho criminal proceedings grow out of a civil suit to dissolve tho alleged combination begun by the government In tho federal court at Baltimore HearIngs wore held In Chicago Pitts burg and Now York within tho last forty days Both tho civil suit started at Baltimore Balti-more and tho criminal proccdtngs hero have been Instituted under the Sherman antitrust law