ITEMS OF INTEREST October 28, 1911 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Judge Killits of the United States district court has rendered a decree in favor of the government in the case brought by the United States attorney-general in Cleveland against the General Electric Company and about forty subsidiary companies controlled by the General Electric Company. The decree, in effect, orders the General Electric Company to conduct all its business under its own name, and the dissolution of the National Electric Lamp Company and about thirty-five subsidiary corporations.

In a "consent decree" handed down by the circuit court for the northern district of Alabama the Southern Wholesale Grocers Association, prosecuted under the Sherman law, is forbidden from coercing manufacturers to sell only to association members or those whom it recognizes as wholesalers, and is proscribed against conspiracy to maintain or to coerce manufacturers to fix limited selling prices.

In the United States circuit court at Baltimore, Md., Judge John C. Rose rendered a decision in favor of the government in its dissolution suit against the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company and others, the so-called bathtub trust. The action was brought under the Sherman antitrust law. While this decision is in a separate case from the criminal action against the alleged trust at Detroit, the proceedings concern the same subject-matter and are against the same defendants. The criminal cases, which concern more than a score of firms and individuals alleged to be in the bathtub trust, probably will come up at the November term of the federal court at Detroit. All the defendants have pleaded not guilty.

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