Show rf I TRUST I DRIVE ASSUMES r WIDER I i iI i I- I ir r Government Takes Steps Steps Steps' to Break Up Many Al Al- le ed Illegal Combinations to Restrain Trade Trad WASHINGTON May 1 The I.-The The government is in n t the e midst of one of the most sweeping trust bustIng busting busting bust bust- ing campaigns since the days of Roosevelt Suits and complaints pending in ini inthe i the the federal courts and before the federal trade commission represent government efforts to break up al alleged alleged al- al illegal combinations In n the foreign lines Moving pictures moving picture t films sugar lumber railroads and glassware glassware the these so are only the tho major suits there are scores of small I ones ones In lines of at the governments government's f assault on alleged violations of the antitrust laws I The sugar suit now being heard r I in in New York Is an attempt by the government to apply the antitrust laws Vs to operation of the sugar r ex exchange ex- ex change In this tho the government 4 takes the position that alleged pap paper pa p per er transactions on the exchange were for the purpose of creating I. I price Increases and this the government government government gov gov- holds constitutes restraint of trade In a suit filed flIed yesterday in St. St Paul the government alleged r unfair and illegal megal practises by some BOrne of the biggest lumber Interests of the the Northwest Northwest making up the Western West West- r em ern Pine association This his promo promises prom prom- o r k to be one of the hardest of the governments government's trust busting fights The federal trade commission has taken action against an alleged mono monopoly mo- mo no poly in moving picture films Wms citing cit cit- v r ing the Eastman Kodak company and a number of ot associated firms and Individuals on charges that efforts efi ef- ef z i forts were made to deprive compete s e ing inS concerns of ot business ti Famous The Players-Lasky Players cor- cor was complained complained- against some months ago by the by-the the federal I trade commission on the ground it iti i constituted a a. combination in restraint re- re str of trade in the movie busi- busi 1 ti i ness There There There-is Is also alae pending the governments government's effort to force disso disco lution of ot the Southern Un Pacific l' l Ion Pacific Though the Interstate commerce commission has partly settled that case by authorizing the i merger the department of justice will jwill will press the Issue it was said Another antitrust suit recently Vas brought against a number of or glassware manufacturers on on- the ground that they were out price lists and in other ways attempting at attempting at- at tempting to control market conditions conditions condi condi- In violation of ot the antitrust Maws laws 4 a 1 kd |