Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-04 | Page 7 | Complaint Filed Against Sec. Burleson

FRED AGAINST SEC. BURLESON NEW YORK, Dec. 4 Complaint in an injunction suit against Postmaster-General Postmaster-General Burleson was filed by the Commercial Cable company here today seeking to prevent the postmaster-general postmaster-general from assuming control of the company's marine cable system. The complaint alleges that if the Postmaster-general is not enjoined from carrying out his purpose the company will sustain irreparable damage. dam-age. It was filed by Charles E. Hughes and William W. Cook as counsel coun-sel for the company. The amalgamation was announced in the following letter from Mr. Buleson to Claronce H, Mackay, president of tho Commercial Cable company at ; New York: "The interests of tho public service during the present emergency necessitates neces-sitates the unification in operation to the fullest extent possible the cable systems from this country to Europe so that the full capacity of all the cables may be made available to tho public and the press. It is manifest that this only can be accomplished by two separate systems under one management. man-agement. I have made a survey of the situation and am satisfied that the object sought can best be accomplished by placing the cables with the operating operat-ing head of the Commercial company. "I therefore direct, so far as I am authorized by the joinl resolution of congress under which tho cable systems sys-tems are now controlled by tho government gov-ernment of the United States, that Mr. George G. Ward, vice-president of tho Commercial Cablo company and who I understand now has direct charge of your cablo system, assume the management man-agement and operation of both tho Commercial cable system and the cable system operated by the Western Union Un-ion Telegraph company. "I trust that I will have the hearty co-operation of the officials of both cable systems in carrying out these directions. "I am sending a copy of this letter to Mr. Ward, also to Mr. Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union Un-ion Telegraph company."