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Show BRIEF FILED IN SUPREME COURT Appeal From Decision of Pennsylvania Court in Alleged Al-leged Anthracite Monopoly Mon-opoly Case. Washington, Sept. 19. Attorney-General Attorney-General Gregory today filed a brief In tho supreme court in his appeal from the decision of a federal district court In Pennsylvania refusing tho government's plea for dissolution under un-der the Sherman anti-trust act and the commodities clause of the railroad act of the Reading company, called the "backbone of the alleged monopoly monop-oly of anthracite." The combination, the brief says, has a history permeated with illegality and characterized by a deliberate purpose pur-pose to drivo others from the field resulting In Increased prices out of proportion to Increased production costs. The government contends in its brief that Reading holding companies control through its subsidarles, Reading Read-ing Coal company and Reading Railroad Rail-road company which controls the production, pro-duction, transportation and sale of anthracite coal from lands in tho Schuylkill region, tributary to the lines of tho Reading company and that this control was acquired and is maintained by other than normal methods of Industrial development. "At the current rate of mining," tho brief says, "the coal areas of the companies, com-panies, thus leagued and combined together, to-gether, according to the generally accepted ac-cepted calculations of geologists and mining engineers, will outlast by many years those of any competitor. In time, therefore, this combination if not dissolved will own or control every ev-ery ton of commercially available anthracite said to. exist and whilst, in almost any other branch of Industry, Indus-try, it Is at least possible for a monopoly mo-nopoly to be broken by the Influx of fresh capital attracted by high prof-Its, prof-Its, aaginst a monopoly of anthracite, the supply of which Is limited, there can be no such protection only the law can afford relief," |