| Show SMALL METAL DEALERS protection seek to have government intervene to prevent forming combination of companies new york jan 25 at a meeting here today representatives of the smaller metal dealers in new york new jersey and new england organized the northwestern orth western metal dealers association and decided to call on united states attorney general bonaparte t bring suit to prevent the formation 0 a combination of copper mining companies alleged to be now forming the following telegram was author iced sent to the attorney general at proposed copper mine trust most harmful to us beg you to investigate this in the interests of middlemen and customers have sent particulars by mall northwestern metal dealers association the letter to attorney general bonaparte was not given out but it was stated that it called attention to the present high prices of copper and that etwas proposed by the so called trust to maintain he price or to increase it the letter asserts that a foreign coppe n combination has entered into an agreement with the metal selling agencies in this country not to compete with the american concerns or the largest of them and that a division of territory in europe has been made between them it is also alleged that this trust has stored large supplies of copper both in this country and in europe causing artificial scar city of tho metal president james norton speaking of the complaints made by the association cia tion said that 75 members in the association represented buyers df from to pounds of copper annually and that the western copper buyers were in thorough sympathy with the objects of the association president norton will go to wash ington next week to see the attorney general |
