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GRAND JURY BRINGS IN INDICTMENT AGAINST ELEVEN CONCERNS.JNLAWFUL COMBINE CHARGEDReturn of True Bills Follows ThreewMonths Investigation—-Armour,Swift, Morris and Others Are Named.t iChicago.—Federal investigation of thfe packing industry in Chicago on charges of violation of the anti-trust law resulted In indictments Monday yt thQ National Packing Company andits subsidiary corporations in Illinois,Michigan, Kansas, Missouri and Colo-'ado. The defendants are as follows:National Packing Company of New Jersey,G. H. Hammond Company of Michigan.Fowler Packing Company of Kansas.United Dressed Beef Company of Missouri.Hammond Packing Company of Illi* lois.Omaha Packing Company of Illinois. Anglo-American Provision Company rf Illinois.Western Packing Company of Colo-•ado.St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Company of Missouri.Colorado Packing and Prbvision Company of Colorado.New York Butchers* Dressed Meat Company of New York.Coincident with the return of the in-ilctments, a petition to dissolve the National Packing Company and its subsidiaries was filed by District At-;orney Sims in the United States cir-3uit court.While none of the packers was named in the indictment, they are mentioned in the suit in equity. Those who are made defendants to the suit in equity besides those corporations which were indicted are:Armour it Co.Swift Co.Morris Co.Edward Tilden.Louis F. Swift.Edward F. Swift.Charles H. Swift.L. A. Carton.Frank A. Fowler.J. Ogden Armour.Arthur Meeker.Thomas J. Connors.Edward Morris.Thomas E. Wilson.L. H. Heyman.Continental Packing Company.The indictment sets forth that all of the defendants except the NationalPacking Company, which, it is charged. Is merely a holding company, are en gaged in the beef-packing industry; that they buy live cattle at divers points in the United States andslaughter them at the plants of the various concerns located in Chicago. Kansas City, St. Joseph, East St Louis, Omaha, Denver and New York city; that the beef resulting from tb* slaughter of the cattle is shipped tc various markets throughout the United States.The bill charges that the necessary affect of the union of these interests a i in the management of the National i. j Packing Company is to destroy competition, not only among the con stituent companies of the National Packing Company, but also betweer those companies and the Armour Swift and Morris companies.g:wcltlLs1Hc11£1SSlt;lt;itttil--
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Monon News
Monon, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 25, 1910
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