Show I tl d i I 1 r WAR AGAINST TRUST 1 1 I try VIOLATION OF SHERMAN LAW 5 rl THE CHARGE MADE AGAINST THIRTY COMPANIES R Y 4 D Rocnlled Sugar Trust Which It Is Charged Is Able to Fix Prices Arbitrarily Ar-bitrarily Should be Dissolved ti1 Says District Attorney rtv n Now York The fodernl government en i von Monday began ono of Us most Important s Im-portant actions against the great cor I 1 jwratlons which arc said to havo violated vio-lated tho Sherman antitrust law Henry Wise United States district attorney 1 1 at-torney filed In tho United States district dis-trict court for tho southern district of Now York a petition asking for tho t dissolution of tho American Sugar Ho i l finIng ocmpany and twentynine other corporations which compose tho so called sugar trust Tho petition I charges an Illegal combination In restraint re-straint of trade and asks for court relict re-lict In whatever form may bo neces 1 nary Including a receivership If deemed F deem-ed advisable li Tho thirty companies composing tho i migar combine have an aggregate capitalization cap-italization of 230000000 and control n largo percentage of tho output of sugar in this country This combine Is ply also tho government alleges able tot to-t I fix prices arbitrarily Tho petition charges that for years tho companies I have violated tho law and have suppressed sup-pressed competition and ground com potltors out of existence Hallroad rebates i re-bates and customs frauds are mentioned men-tioned as devices which were employ Cd to raise the combine to tho commanding com-manding position which it occupies i today |