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Show paaassNMSfc'eaiia'aaawaasiaaaaaatiaaiaaaaeaaaaMaiiMi aw WAR AGAINST TRUST VIOLATION OF 6HERMAN LAW THE CHARGE MADE AGAINST THIRTY COMPANIES. So-eaibid Sugar Trust. Which, It Is Chsrged. Is Abls to Fix Pricrj Ar. bltrarlly. Should be D.aoolvc, 1 Says District Attorney. ! New- Yotk-The federal government 1 on Miniilav began one of Its most Im ' portunt action ornliial the great cop 1 isirallona which are said to have violated vio-lated the HhiTinnii null trn:.t law. ; Henry Wise. I'nlted K.iatta district nt-1 nt-1 toriu-y. filed In tho I nltt-d btiuca ill trli-t court for the southern dlatrli t ol ! New York, a petition asking for tho ! dissolution of the American Sugar It 'fining ormpnny and twenty nil"' other I coriK. rations which compoac tho ro-' ro-' called sugar trust. The petition ! charges an Illegal combination IB re-i re-i stralnt of trndo nnd naks for court re lief In whatever form may bo neceav lary, Including a receivership. It deemed deem-ed advisable. " The thirty companies composing ths sugar combine hnve nn aggregate cap Itallratlon of :':ui.lMiu.(K)0 and control a Inrge percentage of the output ol sugar In this country. This romblno It alao, the government ollegea, nble to fix prices arbitrarily. Tho pctlllo charges that for years the compunlei have violated tho law and hove sup pressed comitetltlon and ground com pctltore out of exlatence. Ilullroad ro bates and customa frauds are men-1 men-1 tloned ns devices which wcro employ ; ed to mine tho combine to tho coin-' coin-' miindlng position which It occuplei ' today. |