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Show I CONSPIRACY 1 18 ALLEGED 3n Magazines Arc Charged jjj With Being in a 2 it Big Trust & " jij New York, June 27. A civil suit was Sil i Iled ,n tho Un,ted States district UtfB ' c0urL todav for the dissolution of the IvSif Periodical Clearing House and about UpI " R BCOre of "ther magazine defend- lT.m y ants. The petition, filed by District itjf'Vf ji Attorney Wise, alleges unlawful com- jjyjfl ; hlnation and conspiracy to restralu in- '2j it terstato trade and foreign commerce ;3l ln maeaz,ne and other periodical pub- 9m t lications 'JjB Jf The petition charges that the dc- iS fondants, slnco July, 1909, have been f2ft i eQBaScd In an illegal combination, a "DlfllJ dissolution of which Is a3kod for. Tho nfifhy proceeding ln equity Is against tho sSw Periodical Clearing Houso, Doubleday. "? Pase & company, Crowcll Publishing WSI company, Philips Publishing company, "kJS HarDer and Brothers, Leslie-Judge i'jjj J company, Review of Reviews, Inter- Mr$S t national Magazine company. Now 24 1 Publication company, Butterlck Pub- fj lishlng company, Standard Fashion, New Ideas, Rldgeway, Americau sal " Home- Short Stories, Frank X. Double- &u day, Herbert S. Houston, Frederick L. rs H Collins, Charles D. Lanier, and Geo. MlSl V0D UtaSS' 25? 'i The Periodical Clearing Honse, in i3K the petition, is doscrlbed as organ- jvSlI V led under tho laws of t he state of j?i ?, Now York, csarrylng on business ?JJ 1 throughout tho United States and B 1 foreign nations, with its offices and ktfu Principal place of business in this ?3 1 city. Its authorized capital stock is 9 of the par value of $2000, consisting of JJi J twenty shares of the par value of il $100 each, of which fourteen are Is- ntj i- sued and outstanding. The Suburban a jf? t Press, a New York corporation, Good sj J Housekeeping, a Massachusetts cor- 1 1 "i. poratlon, and Hampton's, together tjmii j with tho defendants, are the stock- .w3l i. holders of record of the defendant M Periodical Clearing House. Double- W - day, Collins, Houston, Lanier and Von Ikivj ' Utas8y constltute-Jts board of dlrect- nftfi 'I ors, and Houston, Von Utassy and Lan- '31 i lcr are. respectively its president, vlce- 4JjjyV president and secretary and treasurer. ffcflj- The officers of the Periodical Clear- IMW Ing House arc officials also of one or eiw'1' another of the -defendant corporations Iw engaged in tho publication of inaga- iVr,Sl zincs. ') Tne petition recites that prior to 3taTfl6 July, 1909, thero were upwards of t bri i twenty thousand corporations and in- littid divlduals publishing and selling pgrl- iOi odicals ln freo competition, but, fol- miif ' lowing the organization of tho Perl- i'SfSil' odical Clearing House ln July, 1909, t?S ' notices were Bent to subscription mSk agencies and agents, notifying them :Hf ' "that they would have to sign the yjfig''- contract with tho Periodical Clearing .jifi: House If such agencies Intended to jfi: conduct further busvaess with tho fffi't 'members' of said Periodical Clearing iliiWt'' House." "tSJl Tno Pet'tion continuos: ism '"The contracts force upon agents tjKg;f and require them to sell all poriod- fS icals. not listed in the aforesaid lists, 5i at lhe reBulr publication price wlth- tfh out an' reduction whatsoeer. Tho 5a " publishers of many of the periodicals tfut listed in said lists have been and are ? wIHlns tnnt lne Qgencles Bhall sell V5 i their periodicals to the public at SllS ' prices less than those fixed by the de- ''& :- 'endants ln said price lists, but said fcijS agencies have and aro prevented from 3M I filling subscriptions at less than the jgR ' prices fixed by the defendants and i ' set forth in said liBts." ?5S It is alleged that the clearing houso 'JJjIS had a system of fines for offending Kgg, ' agents. |