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Show 2 TELEGRAPH FIRMS FACE TRUST CHARGE WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 Iff The justice department said today it bad filed two petition In the southern south-ern federal district of New York today charging the Weatern Union Telegraph company and the Postal Telegraph and Cable corporation with violation of the Sherman antitrust anti-trust act Ths petition, signed by Attorney General Cummings and Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Jack-son, charged the defendant companies com-panies with attempting "to monopolise monop-olise Interstate trade and commerce com-merce in telegraphie communications." communica-tions." They asked the court to enjoin the companies "from continuing to carry out the conspiracy and attempt at-tempt to monopolize, and from entering into any similar combination combina-tion or attempt in the future." |