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Show GATES ALLEGED TO BE BACKING LAWSON BOSTON, Mass., Dec 8. It is understood under-stood hep tHat John W. Gates,-the spectacular spec-tacular iieel'. operator. Is backing the equally spectacular Thomas W. Lawson In the lattl-r's campaign against Amalgay mated and the steel Issues, the steel portion por-tion of which Is only Just begun. Lawson himself gives color to this belief by a bulletin today. In which he says: "Late afternoon break on sales of 20,000 shares for Western man, who bought at 40. He has S0.O0O left, which I will probably prob-ably sell tomorrow. Sell your Amalgamated Amalga-mated at best and don't purchase at any price until management changes under reorganisation. No possibility of completion comple-tion of Helnze settlement being sprung. I wIU personally ask court for injunction on ground of fraud." The street thinks that Lawson found Rogers and associates had sold out Amalgamated Amal-gamated and "got the jump on them." |