Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — Trust Conference at Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Trust Conference at Chicago.

The executive council of the National Civic Federation has decided to hold the national conference on combinations and trusts nt Chicago, May 28 to 31, inclusive. Governors and presidents of the important commercial, manufacturing, agricultural, labor, economic, financial and law associations will be asked to appoint delegates. The purpose of the conference is to consider the trust and combination problem, especially the question of State nnd federal regulation of corporations, and the question of what amendment, if any, should be made to the Sherman anti-trust act. The subjects more particularly indicated for discussion nre: Governmental power over corporations engaged in interstate commerce; the construction, capitalization and contvoi of corporations,; nnd the just and practicable restriction and regulation, federal and State, of combinations in transportation, production, distribution nnd labor.