PRESIDENT'S VICTORY.
/ NEW YORK, December 20. '-. President Wilson's greatest anti-Trust victory has just been 'ikjhJeved without tho necessity Jor lcgisla6,tm. This is the voluntary submission of- the so-called Wiro Trust » to the fi.ehdly intervention ctf Mr Reynolds, the .Attorney-General, ehdmg m an agreement, reached vester/day, dissolving tho. close affiliation b/4. tWeen the American - Tolephone and telegraph Company and the Wes_ern United Telegraph* Company. ,- Und<jy-the agreement the first-named -company is to dispose of its holdings and srlook m the latter company, to.uridertake.-not to acquire control over any other telephone system, and to allow independent tele- ' njiono concerns .to.' use its interstate ; Vfires...~., ' ThS ' agreement gives -to .o proposal of the Postm^ster-Generaii Mr Burleson, for the Government ownership Pf all telegraph and,' telephone- lines m! thgicohntry, VW'-;, • ...' : ..'.- -[ 1
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 10
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