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I TRUST SUED I I I r Monopolize th the Pr Production du tio I f r Manufacture of f fc I c ft h That t Metal eta t l. l OWNS OWNS 90 PER C CENT NT NTy p I y OF KNOWN DEPOSITS o Combines With a Foreign 1 Co Company p nY to Control Contro the e 3 J Worlds World's Business i iI I i 0 C j r. r May ay 16 The The federal 1 I filed flied a civil antitrust antitrust'S S suit St t Against the tho Aluminum Company of t America America- which will siU bo tho tIle basis for foran foru an u agreed decree designed to restrain th the tho so so called aluminum ium trust from mo monopolizing moi tho manufacture of r aluminum puns num and Us products its products including cook cook- 1 t i utensils In a. a petition In equity ty to the United 1 States court COUtt for the western district of ot oti i i Pennsylvania the company Is 18 charged d with being a 3 monopoly restraining interstate in in- i and aid fo foreign clin commerce in vio- vio I t latton or of the e Sherman erman law 1 It is declared de do- lared to have acquired a substantial control of the tho aluminum authority in the United States and to have charged unreasonably high prices and profits on n its p products i Tl The e dissolution of the tho corporation is IS i ilOt sought but th the tha court is asked to nino nine broad injunctions u against 1 alleged unlawful Jul contracts contract t. t 1 ions conspiracies and practices 1 Has Has Bas rr Monopoly of of v I j i Tup concede that the i company's ownership o of moro more t than an j I noc cent ent of oC the tho known deposits s o of I i State i b base of aluminum in the 1 1 I united States and anti Canada suitable for fori forthe i i the ma manufacture rc r of th the rn metal tal is not within itself unlawful Jt It is charged i however with practical monopoly in in h and the tho manufacture of alum alum- I which the company legally en en en- I i iovE-I on the expiration n of it its patents l 3 j j for making int aluminum in 1909 1109 has lias been T T maintained by liy unlawful a agreements 1 n md n unfair methods tow towards competitors L tOt tors tori J The Thc t of oth other r be d deposits Jn In th the United States Slates Is I not known at thin this time but It Is hI pointed out that there are Inexhaustible Q quantities abroad which could b be placed at the at-the tile disposal of j competitors for aluminum manufacture If Er i the restraints on the trade were ere re re- re moved moed The lt bh or of the cooking utensil Industry In th tilt the United States an tho Is a a. hie 00 of ship ship- I v Wrecks o cock caused chien Chiefly oV I- I to by Df the Arbitrary discriminatory and unfair dealings of the defendant Th The agreed decree e. which which will bo lie cn- cn 1 J t rod d a CL few days will wm follow tollow the tho 4 prayer pra for Restraints onI on ont I th tho company arl This nf ob t I a a long battle baHl In the courts was the thc re result ro- ro H sult tl between be be- 1 of ot several e weeks of negotiations tw tween ert the department o of justice and anU the Great Creat Growth of Business s. s W William lII m T. T Chantland assistant tant to the y y genera general Is In charge tie the which he developed for the tho govern govern- The bill also Is Is signed b by Attorn n Tue ney General Wickersham assistant to toA A Attorney General Fowler and United States tate Attorney Jordan of or Pittsburgh Pittsburg The Aluminum Company Compan of America Incorporated Incorporated In ip Pennsylvania Pennsyl originally as the Reduction company has luul Iown It Is pointed d out from a in tn until its assets now lire di estimated at A A. stock dividend 0 ot of per cent or w was s declared d in l 1009 Ott In Tn addition to Its extensive e raw mat nun ma ma material t l' l holdings they the government go declares that the company produces practically SO per cent and consumes substantially sub sub- tanUa l JOO pec pel cent nt of f the thc in tn making aluminum manufactures per cent the crude and und lIen aluminum for tor the United States and ad Can Canada ado more than 7 p per r cent of the aluminum cooking u utensils ln In in the United States controls th the ht manufacture and sale salo of ov over r 50 p pr r for foI this cent of th castings country u used cd primarily in the thin automobile automo bile Indu ti and more than 70 per cent of all till aluminum goods and novelties novelties' of general make In iii this country The defendant company Is I is' is charged with entering entering- into Illegal agre agreements with the following corporations or individuals indi With Ith the General Chemical company n Norton company compan and the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing company forbidding these throe three e potential cotTI competitors competitors' from engaging In the manufacture of num ann and from selling to anyone except the defendant With Ith the so called caned Swiss or or- company of or Europe the largest European aluminum corporation preventing Im Importations Im mm and and nd dividing territory and trade so that the American I I company controlled the th business on this side of or the Atlantic and the European I corporation on the the- other I With Gustav A A. and James JameR C. C Coleman both of or Newark NJ NJ N. N I J J. wha are alleged to have ha agreed not notto notto notto to manufacture or sell sen aluminum castor east cost of or Denver for a period of or twenty years from No November 16 1910 The Tho company compan Is alleged to have havo threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened impeded and und discriminated mated against Independents and to have attempted to suppress competitors so completely complete that the they were at the tha mercy of ot the defendant for or their supplies of raw ma material i |