Show PACKING PACKINGhOUSES hOUSES DOUSES fiNED Convicted of Violating Antitrust Law Lav in Missouri Mis Mis- Missouri Must Pay 25 Each or Leave I JEFFERSON CITY Mo Feb 9 Tho packing firms of Armour Co Swift i Co the St. St Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Pro company compan the Hammond Packing company and Morris Co were ere found guilty of violating the tho state antitrust law Jan by the tho Missouri supreme court torla today I An Ait order of ouster wo i l. l hut but the companies arc are allowed to remain n i in u the tile state ou on payment of ot fins s. Each Kach company was linen 2 Tho The on was written by Judge R. R F. F Walker and was iii ut by aUtho all aU tho other juiles except Judge Blair who was vas assistant attorney general when the ouster suit was filed and consequently con con- did not sit in this case cac Must Pay Jay Quickly To stay in ID the tho state each erch company pau must t pD ja pay its fine by March 11 11 1915 The ouster r suit against the NO so o called beef trust was TVS t filed by r Governor Major when ho bo was Wl attorney general Daniel Dillon of St. St Louis was wa appointed ap apt pointed commissioner to take t testimony in III tho the cn case e- e and ho h. to premo court that the tho companies had h-ad violated vio vie vie- the antitrust law The ease case was as asar argued ar in tho the supreme court more moro than thana a year ago The supreme court ruled that tho the antitrust antitrust antitrust anti anti- trust i law w was violated h by hy the acquirement by the National Packing company of the Hammond Packing company and the St. St Louis rouls Dressed Dres s ir Beef Bet t n end nd Pr Provision com corn pan pany The National Pac Packing company compau was organized b by tho the Armour Swift and Marna Morris Mor Mar rIB ris na companies Tho The opinion says as a's that the National Packing company became a holding holding- compan company com corn pan pany for or the ho packing companies named and directed them thereby destroyIng destroy destroy- ing competition lon and CI hUng In the price for dressed Say Pool Was Fo Formed ed Tho The suits Hults against tho the packing companIes companies com corn panics were tere filed filc-d in June 1910 It was as charged that tho the c companies had formed n B pool to regulate to prices t paid for tor or beef and beet beef products to regulate the amount of ot beef bet and beef beet products sol sold or of offered terM for tor sale to limit the trad and to limit com com- nm the purchase e and sale of or beef beet and beet beef products It was 6 charged that Armour Morris and Swift had organized ora the National Packing company and 14 through it and a Rub subsidIary nubs nubs- l- l diary concern had regulated prices and obtained a monopoly The supreme court todo today hel held 1 that the constitutionality of ot the Missouri antitrust law had been up upheld up- up held In previous decisions lons |