The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-07
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TRUST PEOPLE
WERE INDICTED
Are Charged With Forming
Combination to Control All
Porcelain Goods
DIVIDED COUNTRY INTO ZONES
FOR MAINTAINING the PRICES

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Refused to Sell to Jobbers Who Would
Not Maintain the Resale Prices
Fixed by the Trust For All Glasses
Of Goods.
Detroit. Mich, Dec. THE govern
ment crusade against the bath tub"
trust shifted to Detroit this week with
the result that indictments we're re-
turned by the federal grand Jury last
night against sixteen firms and thirty
two individuals alleged to have Sc
cured control Of eighty-flve per cent
of the annual output Of enamel iron
ware bath tubs, sinks and accessories.
In the United States.
The criminal proceedings grow out
of civil suit to dissolve the alleged
combination, begun by the government
In the federal court at Baltimore.
Secret hearings began here yester-
day and nothing was given out until
the indictments were returned last
night. It is charged by the federal
officials that as the result Of ten
days meeting at Mt. Clemens. Mich.
last April, fund Of $1,000 was sub
scribed to set In motion plan that
resulted in giving to the defendants
control of sixteen manufacturers and
nearly 400 jobbers. representing an
output Of approximately $10,000.000
per year.
Both the civil suit started at Balti-
more and the criminal proceedings
begun here have been instituted un-
der the Sherman antitrust law. The
defendant firms in the criminal pro-
ceedings are as follows:
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
company, Pittsburg, Pa; A. Weiskit-
tel and Sons company, Baltimore; the
Barnes Manufacturing company, Mans
field, Ohio; the Capital Iron Works,
Chattanooga, Tenn; the Day-Ward
company, Warren, Ohio; the Hum
phreys Manufacturing company,
Mansfield, Ohio; Kerner Manufacture
ing company, Pittsburg. Pa; the ]. L.
Mott Iron Works, New York city: Me-
Way and Walker; Braddock, Pa; the
McCrumHo company. New. York
city, the National Sanitary Manu-
featuring company, Salem. Ohio;
Union Sanitary Manufacturing COM
pany, Noblesville. Ind; L. Wolff Man
ufacturing company, Chicago; Wheel
ing Enameled Iron company, Wheel
ing, w. Va; United States Sanitary
Manufacturing company, Pittsburg.
The individual defendants are as
follows:
Theodore A. Ahrens, Francis J. Lor-
rance, E. l.. Dawes and w. A. Myler,
respectively president. first and sec
ond vice presidents and treasurer OF
the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
company.
c. M. Voegele and T. R. Barnes,
president and secretary OF the Barnes
Manufacturing company.
Frank H. Caldwell and j., ]. Ma
hony, president and vice president OF
the Cahill Iron Works.
Jesse T. Duryea and Burton o. TIL
den, president and secretary Of the
Colwell Lead company.
w. G. Winfield and A. G. Ward,
president and vice president Of the
Day-Ward company.
s. M. Ford and Reid Carpenter.
president and secretary of the Hum
phreys Manufacturing company.
Jordan L. Mott and Max Goebel,
president and secretary Of the j. l..
Mott Iron Works.
Thomas Walker and Alex G. Walker,
president and director Of McVay and
Walker.
Lloyd G. McCrum and Howard T.
Gates, president and secretary of Nc
Crum-Howell company.
Frank G. Borden and d. w. Davis,
president and secretary Of the Ma,
tional Sanitary Manufacturing COM
pany.
L. C. Huesman and e. v. Brigham,
president and secretary of the Union
Sanitary Manufacturing company.
Charles F. Arrot and A. H. Cline,
Jr., president and secretary Of the
United States Sanitary Manufacture
ing company.
Anton .Weiskittel, president Of A.
Weiskittel aad Sons company.
Ludwig Wolff and Herman M. Hoel-
scher, president and secretary OF L.
Wolff Manufacturing company.
]. E. Wright and George w. Franz
helm, president and secretary OF the
Wheeling Enameled Iron company.
The two indictments against each
defendant contain six and four counts
respectively and charge that the de-
PENDANTS controlling eighty-five per
cent of the annual output combined
to restrain the trade of manufactur-
ers and of jobbers Of plumbing sup
plies by refusing to sell to jobbers
handling the goods Of so-called inde-
pendents. by fixing Of resale prices.
BY the division of the United States
into eleven zones and refusing to sell
to jobbers who would not maintain
the resale prices established by the
alleged agreement Of the defendants.
It is charged that the effect Of these
resale prices is to make the price Of
the articles manufactured by the COM
bination the same throughout the
United States and to eliminate the
competition of jobbers as we'll as Of
manufacturers.
The indictments charge also that
the defendants compelled the jobbers
to enter into uniform contracts and