VIOLATION ALLEGED
UNITED STATES ANTI-TRUST LAW. action against film companies By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 6.45 p.m. Washington, Jan. 11. A Federal grand jury at St. Louis indicted 12 motion picture corporations, including Warner Brothers, Paramount, Vitaphone, First National Pictures,, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and their various distributing subsidiaries, for violation of the anti-trust laws by an alleged refusal to supply a St. Louis exhibitor with films. The action is viewed with considerable interest in Governmental circles, as it marks the first important effort of the administration to enforce the antimonopoly laws since he National Recovery Act became operative in other circles. . ~ , . , The scope of the suit, which involves every major Hollywood producer, is interpreted as a move in something of a punitive campaign by the Government for alleged abuses within the industry.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1935, Page 5
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