Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1913 — Hard Coal Trust to Be Sued by U. S. Government. [ARTICLE]

Hard Coal Trust to Be Sued by U. S. Government.

The department of justice of the U. S. Government has begun action against the hard coal trust, to require its dissolution. The Reading Co., with its subsidiary and allied corporations is the defendant. . This combination controls at the present time 63 per cent of the anthracite output ■of the country. The trust question is one of the things which our democratic friends have promised to solve for us. So far they have solved nothing, even being afraid to finally pass their tariff measure. It is interesting to observe that the- department of justice is employing the saipe means to break up the hard coal trust that the preceding administration did the many trusts prosecuted.