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Show MONOPOLY' BLASTSHURLED By International New Th Rooaevelt administration sounded three sharp and almost simultaneous si-multaneous warnings today to busi-ness busi-ness that further federal regulation ' is in prospect unless business demonstrates dem-onstrates its ability to efficiently manage Itself for the public food. The developments: 1. Assistant Attorney General Bnhert H Jackson. In a speech in. Philadelphia, asserted that the real causes of the current business slump have been the monopolistic practices a of great corporations, and profiteer- ' ing which has caused such an upswing up-swing in prices as to discourage buying. He charged also that "big business" is trying to "liquidat the ( new deal." even to the extent of a strike of capital against political action which it fears and dislikes " 2. Attorney General Cummingi declared in Washington that he , hopes the convening congress will enact new antitrust legislation. He said he was not committed either for or against the proposed plan to put corporations engaged in interstate in-terstate commerce under a federal licensing system, but that it was a matter which should be carefully studied. Congress, he said, should make a most painstaking investigation investiga-tion of the whole antitrust problem. , S. Secretary of Commerce Rop? r said that business '"abuses" and "the evil of monopoly" inevitably will bring further federal regulation. The government is not out to prose-cuta prose-cuta mere bigness, he declared, but ' it is alert to prevent abuses. "The true measure of business success." he said, "is the social and economic services rendered." |