A THREATENED BREAD TRUST.
NEW AMERICAN CORPORATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association Copyrieht) New York, March 14. Mr. John Gates, the well-known capitalist, is behind a big corporation to control the bread market, In December last the United States Attorney-General reported undjmished ncflvity against fho.'e corporations guilty of practices in restraint of trado or of otherwise violating tho laws. Actions are now proceeding or pending against tho Tobacco, Sugar, Standard Oil, bunpowder Hard Coal, Beef, Brick, Bathtub, Butter and Eggs, and tho Wholesale Grocers' Trusts, tho Towing Trust on tho Great Lakes, against Mr. Patten and others for n cotton "corner," and against the Terminal Railway Association of St. Louis and the Harriman railroad system. Lust year was tho most active in tho history of the Department of Justice, but 1911. it is said promises to surpass it. .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 5
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136A THREATENED BREAD TRUST. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 5
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