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Show Hard Coal Trust Attacked. Philadelphia, Attorney Cleueral Mo Ideynolds' first and moet important attack on d-he bard coal trust was begun be-gun here Tuesday with the filing ol a civil suit for the dissolution of the Reading company'a control of coal mining and coal carry lug railroad, th most potential combination In the an thnulte fields. The Heading com-anya com-anya with Its subsidiary and allied corporations, Including the Centra) Kailroad of New Jersey and certain of their officers and directors, li charged by the federal government with violating both the Sherman an tltrust law and the commodities clause of the Interstate commerce act, in ac attempt to monopolize the production and transportation of anthracite. This combination, controlling at tht present time 63 per cent of the entire unmined deposits of anthracite and marketing about 30 per cent of the annual supply will own or control In time, If not dissolved, the attorney general warns, "every ton of comrucr dally available anthracite known to exist." |